Roles, Routines & Identity – Occupational focus for perinatal peer support

Roles, Routines & Identity – An occupational perspective on perinatal mental health support

Welcome to the next in our series of lunch time seminars from Lifeboat Perinatal Mental Health CIC. As a peer support worker you will be familiar with the huge changes parents experience during pregnancy, birth and beyond. Those activities which are truly meaningful to parents are often lost among the demands of every-day life. It is common for parents to feel they have lost their identity and creating helpful routines can feel daunting. This in turn can lead to feelings of anxiety and depression. Occupational therapy tackles these issues by enabling people to balance their meaningful activities to support their physical and mental wellbeing. This lunchtime seminar is not designed to turn you into an occupational therapist but we do examine occupation and the lessons that can be drawn from holding an occupational frame of mind when supporting parents.

Lifeboat’s series of lunchtime seminars are ideal for peer support workers and other practitioners supporting parents with their mental health during pregnancy, birth or beyond. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your understanding of perinatal mental health support and share your own thoughts and experiences!

Lunchtime seminar series

Lifeboat offers a series of lunchtime seminars which are ideal for peer support workers and other practitioners supporting parents with their mental health during pregnancy, birth and beyond. Follow us for more information on future seminars.

We will be running these short seminars once a month and have a variety of topics lined up. However, if you have a particular topic you would like to discuss around perinatal mental health then we would love to hear from you. Just contact us on info@lifeboatpmh.com.

Designed by parents, peer supporters and clinicians, each thought-provoking seminar offers a chance to explore a particular topic and share thoughts and ideas. Topics are evidence based and have been tried and tested over many years, so you can confidently put knowledge into practice.

Please note that places are limited as we prefer to run small groups so that there is time to share your thoughts, questions and experiences.