ONLY IN MARCH 2024
About The Bloody Time
Female Hormonal Journey in the Workplace
Helping you to support your female colleagues in their life transitions
We are helping organisations create diverse and inclusive workplaces, by supporting your female colleagues and employees during key life transitions. Services include assisting a smooth and enriching transition back into the workplace following maternity leave and offering structured support to women going through the menopause and perimenopause, empowering them to stay in full time employment during this time, and ensuring they feel fully supported throughout.
Only 15% of women return to full time work five years after birth.
10% of women leave their job and 15% reduce their hours due to menopause.
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We offer bespoke consultancy packages; awareness training workshops for the organisation; and personalised therapy and coaching sessions for women to ensure that your workplace policies, and practices are fully in line with your values, creating a working environment where everyone will thrive.
International Women’s day is coming up next week. In honour and support of all the women that are working so bloody hard despite their biology sometimes working against them in the current system, which has been built for the male biology, we decided to run our new 60min interactive workshop.
Tickets are available to anyone, from all professions and walks of life. All genders are welcome and will without doubt benefit.
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We cover the most common issues women encounter at work as well as in life due to their biology
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We’ll share few ways to bring up the conversation about female health in the workplace
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We’ll give you a simple Solutions overview as well as the 1st step we can all take towards our common goal of living in an equitable world
Here are the links to Eventbrite and the available dates for March.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/about-the-bloody-time-female-hormonal-journey-in-the-workplace-tickets-852969042367 Wednesday 13.3.24 12pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/about-the-bloody-time-female-hormonal-journey-in-the-workplace-tickets-852969152697 Thursday 21.3.24 10am
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/about-the-bloody-time-female-hormonal-journey-in-the-workplace-tickets-852969232937 Thursday 28.3.24 10am
This event is held on Zoom for a maximum of 100 participants.
This event is aimed at professionals in various positions within their organisations.
If you’d like to book a workshop just for your organisation or buy a pre-recorded version, get in touch on info@kmmstconsultancyservices.com or through the contact form.
We are looking forward to seeing you in our workshops soon.
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ABOUT
At KMM Serenity Therapies Consultancy Services, we care very deeply about equity, equality and justice for everyone. We are focusing on women and their life transitions, because these are issues that are not being currently addressed the way they should in our society. These are also issues we have lived, witnessed first hand and feel passionate about.
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We feel that the current systems were not set up with female biology in mind. We cannot change the female biology, but we can make changes to the system to make it equitable for everyone.
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We strongly believe that it is possible to use the various tools that technology provides to bring solutions to your organisations that will make you a competitive and ethical employer while having a positive impact on your profitability.
Services
We offer variety of services that will be arranged into a bespoke package best suited for your business. Prices vary according to content, so please contact us for quotes.
Policy Consultation
This service is for the organisation
The consultancy service is aimed at the company as an employer. Through in person and online discussions, research and evidence based advice, we will assist you in creating truly inclusive working environment by helping you adjust your working policies to be supportive of all people in your employment, with the focus being on supporting women that are returning from their maternity leave and women going through peri-menopause. This will ensure greater profitability of your business, raised profile as an ethical employer and retention of skilled workers.
Awareness Training
This service is for all employees and senior management
AT is an in person or online workshop raising awareness of all employees and senior management of the challenges women face when returning to work after a maternity leave or when going through menopause. AT is aiming to improve the culture in the workplace to ease the burden on employee's mental health, which helps with lowering the number of days of absence and raising employee retention.
Therapy and Practical Support
This service is for the affected women in your employment
TPS consist of ten one to one online therapy/coaching sessions designed to assist women with the challenges of their transition, restoring their confidence and resolving identity crises.
We will also address anxiety, depression and stress management issues if appropriate.
Women receiving this service will also be offered practical help with accessing any additional services or medication they might need, which will include letters to GPs and lists of available resources.
What's in it for your Business?
In short...more profit, great reputation as an ethical employer, loyal employees, skill and experience retention and inclusive work place culture
Research is showing time and time again that companies that invest into their employees' well being have greater long term financial successes. Additionally, those employees work harder and are less likely to leave, saving money on the rehiring and training process.
It is clear that an employee that feels appreciated, valued and trusted is much more effective, productive and loyal, even if the financial reward is equal or smaller than that offered by a competitor.
Creating an inclusive culture in the workplace, one where everyone is welcome no matter their background, circumstance or a protected characteristic, is another way how to ensure you retain those employees that bring value to your business.
Stress have many symptoms and even more causes, most of which are not preventable, however they are manageable provided the immediate environment is optimised, which is where we come in.
What we offer is a unique and bespoke package that supports the mental health care of the individual employees that need it, which will increase their overall wellbeing and effectiveness at work. Alongside this, we also offer consultancy to address wider policy changes needed at grass root level and awareness workshops that will improve the workplace culture.
All of these services contribute to making your business an ethical and enjoyable place to work, as well as giving it a competitive edge over other employers. And since happy, balanced and rested employees so often lead to effective, productive and focused employees, increased profit margins naturally follow.
RESOURCES
Please, check out our LinkedIn page, Instagram, Facebook or X for regular posts with information and resources covering all aspects of female hormonal health, which includes our new podcast Female Health 101. The icons for all our social media will take you directly to our profiles on the respective websites/apps.
Flex Appeal on Mother Pukka has great resources on the topic of flexible working. If you are not sure whether flexible working would work for your company, the Flex Appeal has the research, the reports and the articles to help you see how beneficial it can be to your employees, to your company and your profits.
This report on the Gov.org.uk site recounts in detail and statistics the issues menopausal women encounter in their careers and what support looks like that would enable them to stay in full time employment and remain fully productive despite having to manage symptoms of various severity.
Here are the direct links to the websites above as well as links to other interesting surveys and articles, including the sites that we source our data from.
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https://www.motherpukka.co.uk/flex/
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Survey showing the number of women quitting their jobs due to menopause
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Article showing how maternity affects women's career
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/10/22/how-womens-employment-changes-after-having-a-child
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NY Times article about Menopause
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Blogs about all things Motherhood on Kristina Matej's Private Therapy website
https://www.kmmserenitytherapies.co.uk/blog/
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Organisation Pregnant then screwed focuses on research, surveys and solutions when it comes to supporting women returning from maternity
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Report on how business get affected by women having to leave or reduce their hours due to menopause
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Article exploring why one in three women are looking to downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely and what employers can do about it
Statistics overview
Maternity
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Fewer than one-in-five of all new mothers, and 29 per cent of first-time mothers, return to full-time work in the first three years after maternity leave. This falls to 15 per cent after five years.
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17 per cent of women leave employment completely in the five years following childbirth, compared to four per cent of men.
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A woman’s likelihood of returning to work in the years after birth is independent of the number of children she has; what matters to her likelihood of working is her employment status the year before her child is born.
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In the year before birth, the man was the main earner in 54 per cent of couples. This increases to 69 per cent three years after birth.
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Mothers who leave employment completely are three times more likely to return to a lower-paid or lower-responsibility role than those who do not take a break.
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For new mothers – but not fathers – staying with the same employer is associated with a lower risk of downward occupational mobility but also with lower chances of progression.
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Menopause
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10 per cent of women 44-55 years of age had left their job because of symptoms of the menopause.
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14 per cent of women in the age group 45-55 years had reduced their hours and 8 per cent had not applied for a promotion because of symptoms.
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More than two in five (44 per cent) of women said their ability to work had been affected due to the menopause, including 18 per cent who reported that their symptoms were currently affecting them, and more than a quarter (26 per cent) who said they had been affected in the past.
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This lost workforce is having a devastating effect on UK employers who are already struggling to recruit, it is predicted that the number of women feeling forced to leave jobs could double to more than 2 million by 2027.
The UK industries that would be the most impacted by a depleted workforce from this demographic include health and social work (accounting for 21% of all jobs held by women as of September 2021), the wholesale and retail trade (13%) and education (12%). However, every business employing women might be affected to some degree.
Few businesses currently have specific policies in place to ensure that these staff are adequately supported – and not discriminated against in the workplace, which could leave those firms exposed to costly legal action in future. Fortunately, we are here to help.