Who am I?

After 20 years as an executive assistant, I trained as a life coach and doula. In this new role, I help parents to ‘become parents’ through informative and emotional support sessions, haptonomy to help them connect better with their baby, during childbirth and afterwards. This can take the form of individual workshops or group sessions (in companies).

My motto is: « The better you take care of yourself, the better you can take care of others ». Whether in our family environment or at work.

Hence my desire to set up parenting workshops in companies to support parents returning to work after the birth of their baby.

How can we create a working environment where parents feel listened to and supported when they return to work after the birth of their baby? And achieve greater fulfilment in their professional (team, productivity, creativity) and personal lives.

You’ll have fewer long-term absences, less absenteeism and better business performance. 

I am also co-founder of the ASBL « Les Câlineurs de Bébés » in Belgium. The mission of this voluntary association is to cuddle and offer moments of tenderness to toddlers in hospitals.

Numerous studies have shown that a baby who is given early emotional care through cuddles, soft words, kindness and attention will develop better and more safely.

 Parenting workshops

How to approach maternity leave in the world of work? How to communicate with the returning employee? Are you a manager, HR, coach and are you wondering about how to approach reintegration into work after a few months of absence? Do you want to find a solution to staff turnover within your company, demotivation, burn out or parental bore out and avoid the annual cost of disengagement of an employee?

 

How can we create a working environment where parents feel listened to and supported when they return to work after the birth of their baby? And achieve greater fulfilment in their professional (team, productivity, creativity) and personal lives.

 

If you want to offer them practical workshops to help them in their organization in their new parent life following return to work such as :
 
► to support the emotional side with discussions on what the person’s experiences (active listening), to lighten the stress and bring up the person’s energy to help them in this big change in their life;
 
► to propose sessions in different fields in order to manage a good work/private life conciliation (self-confidence and skills, better understanding of the baby’s needs, …).
 
My wish is to stimulate more confidence and serenity for parents so that they can better prepare for the return to work after several months of life, often alone (during the day) with their baby.

 

 
Different possibilities are available to you, according to the needs of your employees:
 

– general info sessions (two per year depending on the need) on how to prepare to become parents;

– workshops (the organization/motivation at work, manage his private/pro life, what are the signs of post-partum, the balance of the couple, how to organize my time otherwise, the syndrome of the perfect parent, manage the stress and the mental load, …).

 
These workshops can be face-to-face and/or virtual.  
Organizing them in virtual could allow your employees of other subsidiaries to take advantage of those sessions.
 
In that way, you will have employees who will feel supported and motivated to work for your company, feeling your investment and your empathy after the birth of their baby. 
 

In addition, I also created a « gift box » to offer to your employees for the birth of the baby in which you can choose between an info session or a workshop (emotional support for baby by play (portage)), a session for a bath wrapped to untie the tensions following birth; a relaxing session of rebozo (tightening in 7 points of the body with a Mexican shawl, …)).

 

Testimony
We received helpful tips on how to soothe, play and communicate with the baby by creating a safe and comfortable environment.
Pamela & Maarten

 

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