I believe practitioner burn out remains poorly understood and that by coming together in collaborative discussion about unmet needs and professional challenges, we can create a supportive framework in which to flourish together. Following my own experience of burn out, I learnt firstly how to recognise my own unmet needs and then how to prioritise them. We can’t just keep on giving without knowing how to replenish, how to address what holds us up and how to arrive to our work with a sustainability and nourishment that not only benefits our patients, but also sustains us.

That is why I am offering this facilitated forum. This is a place to meet and to explore how we, as health professionals, carry the grief from the work that we do - be it infertility, miscarriage, termination support, birth trauma, neonatal death, mental illness, or unexpected events during the perinatal period.

What have you noticed about yourself in this work? What are your own support needs and how do you identify when you need to reach out?

This 4 week Fertility Forum is designed for all health professionals, in particular those counsellors, psychologists, birth workers, naturopaths, acupuncturists, herbalists, nurses, doctors, pastoral care workers, social workers and any supporting practitioners who are integral to the team supporting clients with grief stories from reproductive losses.

In these weekly forums, you will explore themes that arose from my recently presented Seminar Series - Responding to Reproductive Loss & Grief. Prior attendance to this seminar series is certainly beneficial, but not a prerequisite for joining this forum.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Warmly,

Suzanne Hurley

Perinatal and Fertility Counsellor, Supervisor and Dance/Movement Therapist Suzanne Hurley, is highly regarded for her professional expertise. She believes that the most exceptional levels of care are born out of constant curiosity - a drive to continuously enhance deep understanding of what clients and practitioners are going through and how to improve support for all parties to achieve the best outcomes.

Find out if collaborative support is for you:

• Do you want to expand your knowledge around common themes of reproductive loss and grief with a group of health professionals who value collaborative care?

• Do you want to learn what may be helpful, harmful, or impactful to the wellbeing of yourself and your clients in this context?

• Do you want to be able to better distinguish between grief and depression and identify unique ways to hold space for grief needs even when personal grief collides with client grief?

• Do you want to deepen your skills in responding to the multi-layered themes that arise with this client group?

• Do you want to identify where your own grief resides and what you might need?

Explore the above, and more, in this unique online cross modality Fertility Forum with Fertile Ground Health Group Perinatal & Fertility Counsellor, Suzanne Hurley.

In this 4 week Fertility Forum, Suzanne deepens the discussion and exploration of the weekly themes for collaborative learning. Suzanne will share clinical insights from her decades as a Perinatal & Fertility Counsellor to help you learn how to better attend to yourself and your clients on multiple levels.

Active learning

In these forums you will have the opportunity to participate and share your experiences, insights and leverage the collective wisdom of the professional group.

You may choose to engage by bringing a case study to share, sitting in to connect to your own reflections, recognising what you are holding by listening to others or contributing your observations to facilitate learning. This forum is designed to help you uncover more understanding about what you may need to sustain yourself in this work. Although active participation is encouraged, all levels of participation are welcome in this group. You choose what feels right for you.

If you are interested to take this work further or are seeking a mentor in this space, individualised supervision with Suzanne may be of interest.

On completion of the 4 week Fertility Forum, you will emerge with more clarity around your own needs when working in this space, how to create a sustainable practice, and an array of insights to help you improve your professional practice when working with clients facing grief.

All sessions will be recorded on Zoom and will become available for you to access on demand in your Digital Package post-event.

This 4 week Fertility Forum is PACFA CPD eligible. Check with your registration body for specifics for your situation.