With Kate Codrington
As there is a rapid demand for professional support for perimenopause and menopause, your particular skills are needed more than ever. You already have the knowledge, qualifications, the protocols and understanding. What is seldom named is that your capacity to make a difference relates directly to your relationship with menopause and how accepting you are of your own vulnerabilities.
Wherever you are in your life, and even if you never mention a word about your experience, your relationship to perimenopause and menopause will be present and speak to clients powerfully. Working towards integrating your vulnerabilities will be a gift for your clients and for yourself. Whether or not you’re in perimenopause, you’re being asked to:
Be responsive to your sensitivities
Give yourself enough nourishment through rest, food and support
Reduce the toxicity around you in food, people, addictive patterns and mindset
Set loving boundaries for yourself and your clients
Respect your current capacity, and work within that
Honour your ethics and integrity, especially when money is tight
Be kind to yourself when things are at their darkest
Reduce your expectations of yourself
In a world rife with free of competition and comparison we desperately need spaces to drop our burdens, let go and connect with people who get us, get our dilemmas and problems.
Our clients need us to show up in all our gloriously nerdy glory—because when we embrace our own weirdness, our life gets easier and we model what real, whole-istic wellbeing looks like.
You don’t have to do it alone, come and join us.
What’s on offer?
We’ll come together to land, greet each other and establish a ‘safe-enough’ place to be present in. We’ll take an embodied journey through perimenopause to postmenopause to feel the growthful opportunities of the transition from the inside with a Medicine Circle process. This will enable you to bring relief, insight and compassion for your own Autumns and Winters (if not menopausal then from mental or physical ill-health, bereavement for example), creating more ease and capacity for when you are with clients.
We’ll take a look at the issues that keep us from a congruent, easeful way of running our practice/business. We will identify and move towards integrating the voices that keep us small and conforming to conventional tropes and away from our nerdy, unique brilliance.
All practices and sharing are entirely optional, you can say no to it all and the day would still be well spent if you snoozed through it all, wrapped up in blankets: rest is the first requirement for working with perimenopause!
My intention is for you to understand and embody the growthful possibilities of menopause process from the inside, release the critical voices that hold you back, and bring compassion for your Autumnal and Wintery parts.
The day will be spacious with an emphasis on time for integration through movement, quiet and sharing.
What this day is not
A day for you to learn the physiology of perimenopause
For you to ‘qualify’ as a menopause professional
An intellectualised process with predictable learning outcomes
It is much more interesting than that:
It’s an invitation to evolve your professional identity
To find compassion and maybe integrate some trickier parts of yourself
To validate your struggles
To allow your body and your intuitive wisdom to guide the process
To be surprised by the depth and nuance possible in a day retreat
See how a more easeful way of being could inform your practice
Access the power of sharing with a brilliant bunch of inspirational people.
And perhaps find that the things you thought were weaknesses or failings may hold the path for your journey towards wholeness
Who is it for?
This is a day of retreat for wellbeing professionals who either work with perimenopausal clients or who are perimenopausal themselves. All modalities are welcomed, including coaches, therapists, bodyworkers, yoga teachers and other wellbeing practitioners, neurodiverse and neurotypical, who are looking for a safe, reflective day to nourish their working life. All genders welcome.
Included: lunch, snacks and tea for the breaks.
Investment
Early bird available until July 27th – £115
Full price from July 28th - £130