All are welcome as the space is to destigmatise the conversation around menopause and menstruation and raise awareness.

I’d love to welcome you along and hope that, if you’re unsure what is involved, it’ll be a lot clearer by the end of this description...

Key info:

• The event will run from 3-4:30 on Wednesday 4^th September
• We’ll meet at the Wellness Centre at Waterloo 
• We’ll be finishing up with a mindfulness exercise facilitated by one of the King’s Sport coaches which you’re all welcome to participate in (or leave at this point should you choose!).
• Cake. Biscuits. If you would like to bring along a bake to accompany the tea and coffee we’ll be providing, please do! Hopefully it will aid the conversation.
• Format: discussion groups encouraged to move around (if you wish to do so) every 15mins at my prompting.
• Please feel able to drop in even if you can’t stay for the whole time.

King’s has Menopause and Menstruation toolkits which you may find useful to be aware of – intended to support and be read alongside our Menopause and Menstruation policies.

I’m taking the guiding principles, below, for this initial meeting from https://www.menopausecafe.net/. First and foremost: You don’t need to know anything about menopause.

What a Menopause Café™ is:

• A discussion group. We don’t set agendas – discussion topics emerge and are shaped by participants.
• Open to everyone. The menopause impacts everyone and all are welcome at a Café. This includes all ages and genders.
• Impartial to the way ahead. Everyone’s menopause is a unique, so our Cafes are supportive spaces to help people to learn, to make sense of their own journey or to consider options. They never promote a particular product or course of action.
• Not for profit. Cafes are not about selling things, they are about participants supporting each other. We don’t charge people to come and have a chat.
• Accessible, respectful and confidential space: online or in person. All journeys and related choices are different –we listen to each other with curiosity, aiming to understand not necessarily to agree.

Keeping to these principles helps to ensure that Menopause Cafes remain inclusive and empowering.

What a Menopause Café isn’t:

• A support group, only open to perimenopausal or menopausal people.
• An information event or talk
• About doing community engagement, research or consultation – look back
  to our pure and simple principles.

https://www.menopausecafe.net/hold-a-menopause-cafe/

This event is open to all genders (or none).

Looking forward to welcoming you all at the door on Wednesday 8^th