Winter Pregnancy Retreat for Couples

Understanding each other's experience, staying connected through change, and preparing for the family you are becoming. ✨ Radiant Mama Community Day Retreat for Expectant Couples ✨ Kind note: this is a sliding-scale donation-based event. Please read all options at the bottom of this page to choose the donation level that genuinely fits your circumstances. Navigating the pregnancy journey as a couple You are having the same baby. But you are not having the same experience. Pregnancy is a profound transition for both parents - but it is experienced very differently. For the pregnant woman, the journey is happening within her body. Her body, brain, emotions, identity and relationship with her baby are already changing. Her partner is becoming a parent too, but from a different place - experiencing the pregnancy through their relationship with her and the baby, while navigating their own changing identity, feelings, hopes, fears and responsibilities. These differences can be difficult to understand from the other side. Navigating the pregnancy journey as a couple is a day to slow down and become curious about what is happening for each of you. Through gentle teaching, individual reflection, conversations as a couple, sharing with other expectant parents and experiential practices including Havening, we'll explore: • How pregnancy and becoming a parent may be affecting each of you • The difference between experiencing pregnancy from inside and outside the pregnant body • What may be changing in your sense of self, your relationship and your connection with your baby • How stress and different nervous-system responses can affect the way you relate to one another • What helps each of you feel safe, supported and understood • How you can meet and support one another without expecting your experiences to be the same This isn't about teaching you the "right" way to be a couple or preparing for every aspect of life with a baby. It's an opportunity to understand each other more deeply at a time when you are both changing. You'll leave with some simple practices to continue together and conversations that can accompany you through pregnancy, birth and the transition into parenthood. Before we work out how we're going to do this together, we can begin by understanding what each of us is going through. Agenda for the day: 10:00–10:45 - Arrival, introductions, settling/Havening 10:45–12.45 - Matrescence/Patrescence: same pregnancy different experiences (inc tea break) 12:45–2pm- Lunch 2:pm to 3:30 - Nervous systems expression, self and co-regulation 3:30–3:45 - Break 3:45–4:15- What we’re taking forward + couple practice/Havening— 4.15 - Closing 4.30. - 4.45pm - Clearing the space together. 🍽 Lunch Jacket potatoes & green leaves will be provided. Please bring your own toppings and anything you’d love to share. 💚 Pay What You Can – Green Bottle System We’re committed to making our events financially accessible, whilst also keeping Radiant Mama sustainable. Thanks to Lottery funding, we offer a sliding scale. Please read all options and choose what genuinely fits you: • Bottle 1: £60–£80 • Bottle 2: £40–£60 • Bottle 3: £20–£40 • Bottle 4: £5–£20