Being childless we can find ourselves focused on the end of something, be it our fertility window or finding Mr or Mrs Right. So when we take that emotionally charged step of crossing the mental line of hoping to become a parent to knowing our dreams have gone we can feel stuck in a void.

Please come and join Rianna Hijlkema, Helen Gallagher and Karin Enfield-de Vries, for a one-hour long live Webinar in which we talk about how we moved forwards (and sometimes fell backwards) in our childless journey.

In this online discussion, five involuntarily childless researchers explore what it means to do research with and about the childless-not-by-choice community. 

How The Connection Between Childlessness And These Transformative Times Ushers In A New Age For Women Despite the grief that comes with childlessness, women are being set free to come into their power in a way impossible in the past.

Living without kids still carries taboo, stigma and negative stereotypes. These societal beliefs are often ingrained in us, from messaging we hear both as children and as we navigate our own experience of being childless.

Acceptance is an often misunderstood concept as it relates to grief and childlessness. Practicing acceptance doesn't mean that you feel good about being childless.

Speaking up and living our childless lives, in the face of pronatalist assumptions and cultural stereotypes, can be empowering and strengthen our sense of self. Yet, it can take courage to speak up, or live full, when judgment and hurt may make us want to withdraw.

The NomoCrones will be gathering for a 'Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen' session for World Childless Week. We are going to explore whether that perceived 'luck' holds true for those of us ageing without children too.

Why do people jump to conclusions and assume we didn’t want kids, or that despite our dreams of parenthood we’re happily living it up every day, without a single care in the world?

From fairy tales through to modern fiction, childless women are often portrayed as damaged, deranged and deviant. Whether it's Snow White's evil stepmother, the psychopathic puppy-killer Cruela de Vil, Glenn Close's bunny boiler in 'Fatal Attraction' or the unreliable and half-cut narrator of 'Girl on a Train', we never seem to come out well! 

If mentioned at all, childless people can be portrayed in the media as pitiable, grief-stricken loners or heroes living independent and inspired lives liberated from the shackles of parenthood. This can diminish or lionize us, and often doesn’t reflect the complexity of our lived experiences.

When we think about the cathartic power of writing we often associate that with authors sharing their stories, but how else can we use words?

Three writers sit down together over coffee to talk trauma, tactlessness and the therapeutic power of writing to the person who hurt us the most. To send or not to send that is the question! 

Join us for an insightful and empowering webinar, where we explore the unique experiences and challenges faced by childless stepparents. Being a stepparent can be a rewarding and fulfilling role, but when you're childless, it can also bring about its own set of complexities and emotions.

Join this tribe of compassionate and courageous women who are childless not by choice as we share honestly the experience navigating life as a step parent alongside our own childless journey. 

During this ceremony, no one will offer advice, no one will try to “fix us”.  Instead, we will harness the profound healing power of being truly heard and witnessed within a loving and supportive community.

Everyone knows about the elephant in the room which are topics / issues we are aware of but choose to avoid talking about. However, we have found that when it comes to male childlessness there are many thoughts, feelings, & behaviours that are packed away in a suitcase and hidden

Ever thought of participating as a panellist or leading a webinar for World Childless Week?

Acceptance is an awkward word because we don’t want to accept we will not be a parent or that our life is not how we dreamt.

There are some amazing people out there (colleagues, friends, partners and family) who want to support us the Childless Not By Choice but don’t know how, and are afraid to say or do the wrong thing.

We can’t escape the noise of pronatalism as it surrounds us each day on social media, at work, in advertising, within films and even politics.

We know how important pets can be, yet many people without children also feel shame or judgment by others for the significance that animals can play in their lives.

Most of us stay away from hot topics like religion and politics in polite conversation, but some people don’t seem to know when they’ve crossed the line.

How do we best navigate the workplace to bring greater visibility to our childless experiences? In this webinar we will discuss how as a diverse community, we can take action toward creating real change in the workplace.

Finding a path and making meaningful connections. A webinar for professional childless people and inclusive business groups.

Work environments have become so "woke" to the working parent that it is increasingly becoming a divisive issue to anyone without children, especially those who are childless not by choice.

Jody Day, World Childless Week Ambassador, invites you to join her and a group of childless elderwomen around the zoom fireside for a conversation full of wisdom and reflection.

How do we navigate life as childless singles? With mainstream expectations that we ultimately become both parents and partners, it can be challenging when we’re neither.

When life doesn’t go quite as you thought and suddenly you’re in your late 30’s single without kids.

Finding a therapist who understand the grief of childlessness because they having lived through the experience themselves, can be a relief.