10am – 5pm Sunday 28th September 2025
The Oak House Studios, Hatfield House
As there is a rapid demand for professional support for perimenopause and menopause, your particular skills are needed more than ever. You already have the knowledge, qualifications, the protocols and understanding. What is seldom named is that your capacity to make a difference relates directly to your relationship with menopause and how accepting you are of your own vulnerabilities.
Wherever you are in your life, and even if you never mention a word about your experience, your relationship to perimenopause and menopause will be present and speak to clients powerfully. Working towards integrating your vulnerabilities will be a gift for your clients and for yourself. Whether or not you’re in perimenopause, you’re being asked to:
- Be responsive to your sensitivities
- Give yourself enough nourishment through rest, food and support
- Reduce the toxicity around you in food, people, addictive patterns and mindset
- Set loving boundaries for yourself and your clients
- Respect your current capacity, and work within that
- Honour your ethics and integrity, especially when money is tight
- Be kind to yourself when things are at their darkest
- Reduce your expectations of yourself
In a world rife with competition and comparison, we desperately need spaces to drop our burdens, let go and connect with people who get us, get our dilemmas and problems.
Our clients need us to show up in all our gloriously nerdy glory—because when we embrace our own weirdness, our life gets easier and we model what real, whole-istic wellbeing looks like.
You don’t have to do it alone; come and join us.
The venue
Our venue is the wonderful Oak House Studios, set in the beautiful grounds of Hatfield House, in what was an old church hall. The Oak House has its own on site, free parking, and you can also use the main Hatfield House car park free of charge.
For those who don’t drive, Oak House Studios is on the doorstep of Hatfield train station, just a 5 minute walk away.
A delicious lunch of vegan and gluten-free Buddha bowls, a fresh fruit platter and pudding is included in the price. Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided.
About Kate
All my vulnerability and patterns show up in running my business and they can be even more tender than those in my personal life! I cannot do my work alone, so I have many circles of support in place for my professional life. This includes Listening Partnerships, a listening circle, paid supervision as well as my ongoing CPD which you can read about here. I also regard my personal therapy, yoga and mindfulness practice as professional self-care. If you choose to join me for this retreat day you will be held by many arms!
After more than thirty years in complementary therapy, I have also had many difficult experiences of supervision and professional support over the years, and have learned a great deal from not being met. As a result I create confidential, ‘safe-enough’, responsive spaces where through compassionately embracing the messiness of our seasons and phases as we grow, we can use our skills and gifts to best serve our communities in a sustainable way.
All my offerings come from the understanding that you are not broken and don’t need fixing, and that given a safe-enough environment you can readily access your own wisdom or intuition. I take great care to set up a clear container with my personal practices along with guidelines and agreements with the group. I am always responsive to serving the energy and needs of the group and encourage everyone to take responsibility for their process, as far as possible. When things go wonky, I do my best to meet you and remedy the issue as best I can.
I am a mentor, author, speaker, facilitator, artist and podcaster. My first book Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause, is part of the ‘menopause cannon’ according to the New York Times. I mentor people in perimenopause and beyond, and professionals 1-2-1 and in groups, I’m a nature-based Yoga Nidra meditation guide, host Life – An Inside Job podcast, have been a therapist for more than 30 years and create multi-level art textile projects. When I’m not doing these things you’ll find me playing in my compost heaps. My second book, The Perimenopause Journal, was published September 2024.
Please feel free to email me with questions if you’re tempted, but not sure if this day will suit you.