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Letting Go & Coming to Terms...
A workshop for anyone facing fertility losses
In association with MoreToLife
September 11th & 12th, 2004
Saturday & Sunday 10am-6pm
Cost: £100
(some bursaries available)
Venue: London (exact locale TBA)
This workshop is for anyone who has experienced infertility, failed fertility treatment, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature menopause, secondary infertility, stillbirth, neonatal death, sperm problems or unwanted childlessness--whatever the cause. Women, men and couples are welcome.
Much lip service is paid to the need to come to terms with fertility losses. But how to do it? In this workshop, we begin by breaking the silence--telling our stories, naming and honouring our losses. Great care is taken to create a safe, compassionate atmosphere. Some Œways in¹ include visualisation, art therapy and movement--which help uncover buried feelings and provide safe means to express them. The exercises also help us reconnect to our inner wisdom.
Participants finish with a calmer heart and more clarity about the future.
Comments from those who attended in April 2001:
I feel significantly more positive & self confident....People are relating to me differently too--probably because I¹ve become less prickly & inward looking. I no longer feel isolated & I am beginning to look forward instead of dwelling on the past....--Katie
An important experience for me--I feel I moved on...--Lindsay
I feel like I¹ve undergone a rite of passage...--Julia
FACILITATOR: Meredith Wheeler: I'm a transpersonal psychotherapist who has facilitated fertility groups for 14 years. Based on that experience I wrote a Practice Guide for the British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA) on therapeutic group work for fertility problems-A Creative Approach to Group Work for Women with Fertility Problems. I specialised in this field as a result of my own experience of infertility.
Before moving to France, I served on the Executive Committee of BICA. For many years I was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fertility Counselling, BICA's professional journal. I'm originally from the United States (near Chicago), a graduate of Stanford University.
To book on-line, email for a registration form. Some bursaries are available to people who are unemployed or on low incomes. Otherwise please pay in advance.
To find out more about the workshop, contact:
Meredith Wheeler
St. Martin de Dauzats
Lautrec, 81440 France
Tel: (00 33) 563 59 11 32
Fax: (00 33) 563 59 11 31
email: [email protected]
I have many articles written by men and women who have taken part which I can email, as well as my own writing about the fertility support groups.
A workshop for anyone facing fertility losses
In association with MoreToLife
September 11th & 12th, 2004
Saturday & Sunday 10am-6pm
Cost: £100
(some bursaries available)
Venue: London (exact locale TBA)
This workshop is for anyone who has experienced infertility, failed fertility treatment, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature menopause, secondary infertility, stillbirth, neonatal death, sperm problems or unwanted childlessness--whatever the cause. Women, men and couples are welcome.
Much lip service is paid to the need to come to terms with fertility losses. But how to do it? In this workshop, we begin by breaking the silence--telling our stories, naming and honouring our losses. Great care is taken to create a safe, compassionate atmosphere. Some Œways in¹ include visualisation, art therapy and movement--which help uncover buried feelings and provide safe means to express them. The exercises also help us reconnect to our inner wisdom.
Participants finish with a calmer heart and more clarity about the future.
Comments from those who attended in April 2001:
I feel significantly more positive & self confident....People are relating to me differently too--probably because I¹ve become less prickly & inward looking. I no longer feel isolated & I am beginning to look forward instead of dwelling on the past....--Katie
An important experience for me--I feel I moved on...--Lindsay
I feel like I¹ve undergone a rite of passage...--Julia
FACILITATOR: Meredith Wheeler: I'm a transpersonal psychotherapist who has facilitated fertility groups for 14 years. Based on that experience I wrote a Practice Guide for the British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA) on therapeutic group work for fertility problems-A Creative Approach to Group Work for Women with Fertility Problems. I specialised in this field as a result of my own experience of infertility.
Before moving to France, I served on the Executive Committee of BICA. For many years I was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fertility Counselling, BICA's professional journal. I'm originally from the United States (near Chicago), a graduate of Stanford University.
To book on-line, email for a registration form. Some bursaries are available to people who are unemployed or on low incomes. Otherwise please pay in advance.
To find out more about the workshop, contact:
Meredith Wheeler
St. Martin de Dauzats
Lautrec, 81440 France
Tel: (00 33) 563 59 11 32
Fax: (00 33) 563 59 11 31
email: [email protected]
I have many articles written by men and women who have taken part which I can email, as well as my own writing about the fertility support groups.