Supporting Our Clients on Their Journey toward Parenthood: A Workshop for Mental Health Practitioners:

An Introduction to the Fertile Heart OVUM Program

with Joe Bavonese, PhD & Author Julia Indichova

Wednesday February 22nd, 2023

3:00 to 4:00PM EST

“It’s nice to read a medical story with a happy ending. It’s even nicer when we learn something useful from it for our own lives. So it is with Julia Indichova’s mindful journey described in Inconceivable.”

—Ellen Langer, PhD, Professor of Psychology Harvard Medical School, author of Mindfulness.

Delayed pregnancy (aka infertility) is one of the most heart wrenching challenges a woman or couple can face. For the last two decades the Fertile Heart OVUM Program has inspired clients to engage fully in their own healing, reduce the need for unnecessary treatments and seize the singular opportunity for healing that comes with this life crisis.

“Cultures change, evolve, and heal because of the courage of individuals. Julia Indichova is one of those individuals. Let her be an inspiration for you for how to trust yourself, heal yourself, and reconnect with the wonder of your body and all of its possibilities.”

—Christiane Northrup, M.D.,NYT bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

The Supporting Our Clients on their Fertility Journey Zoom Event intends to –

Offer mental health practitioners an overview of the philosophy, the language and carefully crafted tools of the FertileHeart OVUM Process

Present case histories of women and couples that validate the immense value of mental health support to facilitate the likelihood of spontaneous pregnancy or affect treatment outcome when using assisted reproductive technologies
Explore the effect of the misleading notion of “stress reduction” in the context of delayed pregnancy

Provide the growing global Fertile Heart community of women and couples with a network of mental health practitioners who are familiar with the language and philosophy of the Fertile Heart program.

“I want to thank you for introducing this language and new thought process to me. I learned through Fertile Heart that this journey is part of my medical training…I’ve become reminded over the past few weeks that my role as a healer is to listen, provide support and reassurance… I lost this somewhere along the way. I’ve forgotten how my deep love for children led me to become a pediatrician in the first place.” – Ranjini Srinivasan M.D., Pediatric Cardiologist & Fertile Heart Mom

Couple with Health Care Professioinal Supporting Our Clients on Their Fertility Journey Workshop

Joe Bavonese, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a leader in therapist coaching, having helped hundreds of therapists build more solid organizational structures in both individual and group practice settings. As the CEO of The Relationship Institute he has presented on Private Practice and Group Practice success at the American Psychological Association; the California Psychological Association and Psychotherapy Networker.

Julia Indichova is the author of Inconceivable (20th Anniversary Edition by Harmony Books 2017) and The Fertile Female (Adell Press 2007). Julia’s work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR’s 51%, Good Morning America, Huffington Post, Discovery Health Tablet Magazine, WAMC Listener-Essay and more. After 9/11 she initiated the 9/11 Bowing Project, documented in The One-Heart Revolution (Adell Press 2019)