Corporate Grief Workshop: What you need to know:
Date for your diary: Baby Loss Awareness Week is 9-15 October annually.
15 October is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
Compassionate guidance, practical tools & psychological safety for sensitive times
At least 1 in 4 pregnancies in the UK ends in loss during pregnancy or birth. With many of these losses affecting people of working age, this is undeniably a workplace concern. Research shows that 24% of employees considered leaving their job due to their experience at work after a loss. Clearly, workplaces play a vital role in supporting those affected.
Our Pregnancy and Baby Loss at Work workshop, facilitated by a Clinical Psychologist who shares her own personal experiences and insights alongside evidence-based information, equips your team to respond with care and confidence. Engaging, informative, and designed to move people from “I don’t know what to say” to genuinely useful support.
How we support organisations
We support organisations to build confidence in how pregnancy and baby loss is handled at work — not just awareness. This includes:
- Awareness sessions that help teams understand the impact of loss
- Manager training focused on communication, language and real scenarios
- Guidance on creating consistent, practical support approaches across the organisation
Our focus is on ensuring that when these situations arise, people know what to do — and feel able to do it well.
What this Pregnancy and Baby Loss workshop covers
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Facilitated by a Clinical Psychologist who shares her own personal experiences and insights of loss alongside evidence-based information, this engaging and informative session will increase your understanding of pregnancy and baby loss, its impact, and provide practical actions that you can take forward.
In this 60-minute workshop, attendees will explore:
- How to look after yourself when looking after other people
- Defining pregnancy and baby loss: What do we mean, and what’s often missed?
- The impact of loss physically and emotionally (including on partners)
- Why loss matters in the workplace — and the cost of not addressing it
- The support and understanding that people need
- What we can all do to make a difference
Facilitated by a Clinical Psychologist
with personal experience of loss alongside evidence-based practice
Sensitively designed — clinical care, not scripts that fall flat
10% of sales donated to Tommy’s
— the UK pregnancy and baby loss charity
Workshop outcomes
After the session, your team leaves with:
- Genuine understanding of what pregnancy and baby loss means — and the different forms it takes
- Specific language and approaches — what to say, what to avoid, when to check back
- A practical framework for supporting a colleague’s safe and supported return to work
- A reframed view of the workplace’s role — from “we don’t know how to help” to “we know what to do”
- An understanding of self-care for those supporting others through loss
When this workshop is the right fit:
- Following a colleague’s loss: This is the most common reason organisations book the workshop. We work with you to schedule sensitively.
- Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 October): Strong moment for organisation-wide awareness.
- Mother’s Day or Father’s Day: Sometimes used as a moment to acknowledge loss alongside celebration.
- Building inclusive bereavement policies: Pairs naturally with policy development work, particularly as the Employment Rights Bill changes take effect.
- Following a Pregnancy Loss Review consultation or culture survey: Often surfaces this as an unmet need.
- Particularly valuable for: Healthcare and frontline teams who encounter pregnancy loss in their work; professional services and financial services with established families ERGs; tech and creative industries building inclusive family-friendly cultures.
About your facilitator
This workshop is facilitated by a Clinical Psychologist who brings deep clinical expertise alongside her own personal experiences of pregnancy and baby loss. The combination of professional knowledge and lived insight is what makes this workshop different — and what makes it land with attendees who often expect a clinical session and instead experience something genuinely human.
What clients say
The Pregnancy & Baby Loss at Work workshop was very helpful. We have already had good feedback from some attendees who have let us know the value it holds for them and it has also raised some really good things that we could do to provide further support to colleagues. Overall, really worth the time and cost!
It was an excellent session, Dr M was a fantastic speaker with great practical advice offered as well as the right tone for a difficult subject.
How this workshop pairs with others
Pregnancy and Baby Loss sits inside our sensitive-topics cluster. It pairs naturally with:
Pair with Mental Health Training for Managers: Builds the broader manager skill in mental health response, of which sensitive bereavement conversation is one component.
Pair with the Corporate Grief Workshop: Addresses the broader picture of grief at work — bereavement, change, organisational loss. Frequently booked alongside Pregnancy and Baby Loss for organisations building a complete grief-support capability.
Pair with the Suicide Awareness Workshop: The other sensitive-conversations workshop in the catalogue. Often booked together when organisations are building a comprehensive sensitive-conversation infrastructure.
Pair with Wellbeing for Working Parents: Adds the broader families-at-work context. Strong pairing for Families ERG programming.
A frequently booked configuration for organisations building inclusive bereavement infrastructure: Pregnancy and Baby Loss + Corporate Grief + Manager Training as a complete sensitive-support programme. Tell us your context on the discovery call.
A Significant Shift in Workplace Support
Recent changes to the UK’s Employment Rights Bill mark an important step forward in recognising pregnancy loss at work.
For the first time, employees who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks will be entitled to protected bereavement leave — creating a clear legal baseline for support.
This reflects a wider shift: acknowledging pregnancy loss not just as a medical event, but as a bereavement that requires time, space and appropriate support.
Pregnancy & Baby Loss in the Workplace FAQs
Why would we want to think about something so sad and upsetting?
We completely understand this concern. Yet a 2023 YouGov Survey found 50% of UK adults have been directly impacted by pregnancy and baby loss, either through their own experiences or family and friends. Not talking about this topic doesn’t make it go away — what it does is make people who are going through it feel more isolated. People who don’t feel supported following loss return sooner than they would like (presenteeism), are more likely to reduce their working hours, and are more likely to consider leaving their role. Organisations can prevent this by creating a culture that’s safe and supportive for anyone impacted by loss.
How can a session like this help?
Knowledge and understanding is the first step. Often people don’t know what to say or do, and so they say nothing to someone grieving the loss of a baby — but this has a detrimental impact. The session equips you with: A basic understanding of “pregnancy and baby loss”; how it impacts people; what helps someone going through loss; and what you can do — including what to say (and what to avoid saying), plus practical strategies for helping people navigate a safe and supported return to work.
Will the session be too upsetting or distressing for our staff?
Our facilitators are qualified healthcare professionals with years of experience facilitating sensitively. We start with the importance of self-care, encouraging people to step away if needed, and end with signposting to support. The aim is engaging, thought-provoking but also hopeful. People come away with knowledge of the essential role workplaces play — moving from hopelessness to empathic motivation.
What if it triggers people who have experienced loss in the past?
We cannot guarantee that thinking about loss won’t elicit emotion — particularly for those who have experienced their own losses. However, these feelings are likely triggered in the workplace all the time (pregnancy announcements, anniversaries, baby showers). We’re careful to highlight this at the start by discussing self-care and signposting to help. Attendees often report feeling grateful that their workplace is putting this firmly on the agenda.
What about people yet to have children, trying to conceive, or currently pregnant?
We’re careful to think about this at the start and end of the session, and people are welcome to miss it if finding it too difficult. How the session is advertised can help — explaining why your organisation is committed to the topic, giving a content overview, and discussing the session’s aim. People can then make an informed choice about whether they feel okay to attend.
How quickly can you deliver this workshop?
Faster than most. We understand many bookings are sensitive and time-pressing. Get in touch and we’ll be honest about what’s possible.
What does it cost?
Tailored pricing based on duration, format and audience size. 10% of all workshop sales are donated to Tommy’s. Book a discovery call and we’ll send a clear quote within 48 hours.
BOOK PREGNANCY & BABY LOSS IN THE WORKPLACE
For urgent enquiries — following a colleague’s loss or a recent organisational situation — please book a discovery call directly. We’ll respond as quickly as possible.
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