4 Lessons0h 32m

Workplace Guide to Fertility: For Colleagues

This workplace guide is meant for colleagues to better understand what their co-workers or employees are going through when they need to undergo fertility treatments. Includes sensitivity training on what to say and not to say when a co-worker is going through infertility or needs fertility treatments to build their family

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Workplace Guide to Fertility: For Colleagues
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Experts you'll learn from

Dr. Torie Comeaux Plowden

Assistant Division Director
Walter Reed Medical Center

Alice Domar, PhD

Associate Professor, OB/GYN
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Samuel dos Santos Ribeiro

Professor Auxiliar da Universidade de Lisboa
Coordenador Científico, IVIRMA Lisboa

Assistant Professor, University of Lisbon
Scientific Coordinator, IVIRMA Lisbon

Dr. Christian M. Becker

Co-Director, Oxford BSGE Endometriosis Centre
Associate Professor, Oxford University
United Kingdom

Beth Jaeger-Skigen

Licensed Therapist & LCSW
RESOLVE Committee Member

Michelle Peate, PhD

Program Leader
Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research Unit
University of Melbourne
Australia

Jeffrey Levin

Family Planning Coordinator
The L.G.B.T. Community Center

Dr. Promise Segofah

Senior Lecturer, OB/GYN
University of Ghana

Verena Ehrbar, PhD

Psychotherapist
University Hospital Basel
Switzerland

Course syllabus

  1. 4 min
    Done
    1. This Is A Hard Period
  2. 5 min
    Done
    1. Overview of Treatments
    2. Natural Conception or Medication
    3. IUI or Intrauterine Insemination
    4. IVF or In Vitro Fertilization
    5. IVF with 3rd Party
  3. 12 min
    Done
    1. Why Patients Need Their Jobs
    2. Loyalty and Return To Work
    3. Schedules
  4. 12 min
    Done
    1. What to Say
    2. What You Shouldn’t Say

What you'll learn

Fertility treatments are incredibly stressful and, mixed with the stress of work, things can boil over. This is a guide for co-workers to understand what their colleagues are going through, so that they can help create a supportive workplace environment. We cover everything from the things you should say & the things you should avoid saying to your co-workers, to the ways that fertility treatments will concretely impact work schedules.