Live Workshops
Live Workshops to Support Your Fertility Journey
Infertility can be a challenging and isolating experience, but with the right support and guidance, you can navigate your path with clarity and confidence. Our on demand workshops are designed to empower individuals and couples by providing practical tools, expert insights, and compassionate understanding. Whether you're at the beginning of your journey or navigating specific aspects of fertility, our workshops offer tailored resources to meet your needs.
Option 1
This workshop provides a safe, supportive space to address the emotional, physical, and financial challenges of infertility.
Learn how to foster positive relationships with donors or surrogates, and have communication about origins.
Designed for parents raising children through donor conception or surrogacy.
Option 2
This workshop will help participants assess the overall impact of their fertility journey. It will allow attendees to learn from and draw on the strength of others as it explores the bio-psycho-social impact, from diagnosis to delivery.
In this workshop, we will explore:
The physical, emotional, and financial impact of accessing care and how to navigate through your fertility journey
Coping strategies
Understanding thoughts
Explorations of feelings that include anxiety, stress, grief
Self-care and empowerment
Structure of routines
Relationships
Communication
Assisting attendees in understanding the impact their fertility journey is having on them,
their partner (if they have one), and their support system while recognizing they are not alone
These themes will be explored via:
Practitioner led inputs
Worksheets, exercises, and resources
Questions and answers
Group work and facilitated conversations between participant
For more information, please email Lori at LoriMetz@ymail.com
Would you like to learn more about Trying to Conceive?
The physical and emotional impact of a fertility journey can elicit feelings that range from joy and optimism, to being overwhelmed, isolated and confused. A fertility journey can evoke many emotions, and in some instances change every part of your daily routine. It can become a 24/7 priority and focus, which for some can feel all consuming.
Option 2
This workshop allows the intended parent(s) to come together to explore the current and future impact associated with this special relationship.
Topics discussed include:
Exploration of the journey to donor, surrogacy, and adoption
Navigating the physical, emotional, and financial impact of building your family through third-party reproduction
Acknowledgement and significance of emotional impact anxiety, stress, grief
Coping strategies, self-care and empowerment
Exploration of the impact associated with third-party reproduction in all areas of your life
The workshop will also cover:
What to consider when choosing an egg donor, a gestational carrier, and a surrogacy agency
How to make thoughtful, confident decisions along the way
Relationships and support systems
Communication
These themes will be explored via:
Worksheets
Exercise and resources
Breakout sessions
Questions and answer
For more information, please email Lori at LoriMetz@ymail.com
Would you like to learn more about Donor Conception & Surrogacy?
For some, the thought of donor conception, surrogacy, and adoption to build their family was one that was anticipated, and for others, it was not. Regardless, there is a complexity of thoughts and emotions that deserve to be discussed to help the intended parent(s) cope and feel better equipped for this path to parenthood.
Option 2
This workshop allows the participant to know they are ‘not alone’ and will provide a safe place to share and gain a greater understanding of themselves, their child, and their own need.
Topics covered during the workshop include:
Accessing support emotionally, legally, and financially
Processing your family-building journey
Short-term and long-term considerations as you raise your child
Empowering yourself for questions and concerns that may arise
When to tell your child their story and how relationships and support systems
Acknowledgement and significance of emotional impact anxiety, stress, grief
Coping strategies
Self-care and empowerment
These themes will be explored via:
Worksheets
Exercise and resources
Breakout sessions
Questions and answer
For more information, please email Lori at LoriMetz@ymail.com
Would you like to learn more about Recipient Parents?
Having your child through the assistance of 3rd party reproduction can include contemplation, excitement, “cautious” optimism, and concerns. After the child is born, there is no denying the love. While each parent knows their child would not be here without them, concerns and insecurities can build over the lack of genetic connection. Parents often report feelings of anxiety at the prospects of future conversations about how the child came into the world.