Designed by Barefoot Coaching, this online programme draws on all our experience, expertise and knowledge to help parents get the knowledge and understanding they need to be the kind of parent they dream of being.

We have taken coaching principles and psychological theories and applied them to the role of a working parent. Our aim is to help parents recognise and enjoy the responsibility they have, and the difference they can make. There is no role more important than that of being a parent, and no role more challenging!

For organisations, offering your working parents access to this programme can support your diversity and inclusion agenda by acknowledging that your employees have other responsibilities and identities (and therefore feel able to bring their whole self to work) and signals your support for working parents. We have found that participants bring the coaching skills they learn to use at home into the workplace and that happy parents = happy employees.

The programme can be delivered as a whole programme or as stand-alone workshops. Each session lasts for 2 hours (including breaks) and run virtually for up to 8 participants via Zoom. Each session costs £1750 (£8750 for the whole programme):

A line management briefing session provides managers with the opportunity to consider the importance of managing employees through the different stages of parental breaks.

The important role of the line manager in managing their employees through maternity leave should not be under-estimated. Line managers have a real opportunity to support their direct reports as they experience this transition, across three key stages; pre-leave, during-leave and post-leave.

Many women experience stress and anxiety in the run up to their leave as they try to finish their work and prepare for the baby’s arrival. They then feel isolated and invisible during their maternity leave, and can benefit hugely from being connected with their colleagues during ‘Keeping In Touch’ days. And their return to work needs to be sensitively handled in order to ensure you get the best out of them.

This line management briefing sessions provides managers with the opportunity to consider the importance of managing employees through these different stages of maternity leave. The session focuses on practicalities such as managing the transition, getting the best out of ‘Keeping In Touch’ days, providing meaningful work on return to the workplace and increasing understanding of the experience of the new parent-employee. Managers themselves can also benefit from sharing their experiences at this time.

BACK TO WORK

Do you want to get clear on what really matters to you both at work and at home now that you have become a working mum?

You have worked hard to get your career to the point it is at now. Your drive and determination to achieve your professional status is a key part of what makes you, you. You have also just discovered a whole new part of your identity – that of becoming a mother. And, now you are facing the reality of juggling your career ambitions with the desire to be the best mum you can be.

You might be a recent, soon-to-be-returning Mum. Or you could have been back in work a while and are wrestling with the competing demands of your life. Either way you are probably feeling overwhelmed, disconnected with your career, lacking in confidence and unsure how you can make it all work.

Know that you are not alone. Come and find the support and understanding you need in our practical and encouraging online coaching programme with other women feeling just like you!

What is the Back to Work course?

This is a 6-month online coaching programme that will deliver real clarity on what really matters to you, enable you to thrive both at home and at work and confidently embrace your new normal as a professional working mum.

What’s inside the course?

We will create an intimate safe space where you can all get to know each other and actively support each other through the programme and your own individual journeys. No programme will have any more than 8 participants working with Sarah Turner – your maternity coach.

BACK TO WORK

Do you want to get clear on what really matters to you both at work and at home now that you have become a working mum?

You have worked hard to get your career to the point it is at now. Your drive and determination to achieve your professional status is a key part of what makes you, you. You have also just discovered a whole new part of your identity – that of becoming a mother. And, now you are facing the reality of juggling your career ambitions with the desire to be the best mum you can be.

You might be a recent, soon-to-be-returning Mum. Or you could have been back in work a while and are wrestling with the competing demands of your life. Either way you are probably feeling overwhelmed, disconnected with your career, lacking in confidence and unsure how you can make it all work.

Know that you are not alone. Come and find the support and understanding you need in our practical and encouraging online coaching programme with other women feeling just like you!

What is the Back to Work course?

This is a 6-month online coaching programme that will deliver real clarity on what really matters to you, enable you to thrive both at home and at work and confidently embrace your new normal as a professional working mum.

What’s inside the course?

We will create an intimate safe space where you can all get to know each other and actively support each other through the programme and your own individual journeys. No programme will have any more than 8 participants working with Sarah Turner – your maternity coach.