Become a trained teacher in Natural Fertility Education with a three day APNA endorsed program by leading academic and specialist in natural fertility education, Dr Kerry Hampton.

Our programs equip health practitioners with skills to assist couples achieve and avoid pregnancy naturally. Learn more about each program below.

  • (Introductory) Comprehensive Course in Natural Fertility Education©
  • (Advanced) Advanced Practice in Natural Fertility Education©

Developed for health and allied health practitioners and students, successful completion of a program* allows registered practitioners to advertise themselves as Trained Teachers in Natural Fertility Education.

  • Program participants come from a diversity of primary care, sexual health and health education fields, including:
  • Family planning
  • Well women’s health
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Assisted reproductive services
  • Midwifery
  • Maternal and child health
  • Physiotherapy
  • School health, youth work
  • Reflexology
  • Massage therapy
  • Intellectual disability
  • Childbirth education
  • Intellectual disability
  • General practice
  • Pharmacy
  • Naturopathy
  • Homeopathy
  • Acupuncture
  • Chiropractics
  • Nutrition
  • Lactation consultancy
(INTRODUCTORY) COMPREHENSIVE COURSE IN NATURAL FERTILITY EDUCATION

Assisting people to achieve and avoid pregnancy across reproductive life through enhanced fertility literacy

This activity has been endorsed by APNA according to approved quality standards criteria. Completion of this educational activity entitles eligible participants to claim 18 CPD hours.

Dates July 12 – 14 (Friday – Sunday) 2019. The 2020 course dates will be announced shortly.
Times 9.00 – 4.30
Where Nurses Memorial Centre,
Suite 11, 431 St Kilda Road,
Melbourne, VIC 3004.
Cost $725.00 (students and first-year graduates $705.00).

COURSE OUTLINE

Poor fertility literacy is a known risk factor for infertility and unplanned pregnancy.
In Australia, 1 in 6 couples have trouble conceiving and 1 in 2 pregnancies are unplanned. In this comprehensive, evidence-based introductory course, you will learn how to structure fertility awareness consultations to help couples achieve and avoid pregnancy throughout reproductive life through enhanced fertility knowledge.

Part 1 comprises the course content outlined below, delivered across 3 days of lectures and activities. Part 2 is a take-home assignment based on the course content in Part 1. A Certificate of Completion will be awarded upon achievement of Parts 1 and 2 allowing registered health practitioners to advertise themselves as a Trained Teacher in Natural Fertility Education.

COURSE CONTENT
  • The principles of fertility-awareness education
  • Special teaching situations: stress, PCOS, peri-menopause, being
  • overweight or underweight, endometriosis and breastfeeding
  • Preconception care
  • Overcoming infertility through fertility-awareness
  • Male and female fertility investigations
  • Infertility and sub-fertility
  • Fertility-awareness as contraception
  • Barrier contraceptive methods
  • Risk factors for unintended pregnancy
  • Home-use fertility tests
  • When a medical referral should be given
  • Case studies

What participants have said

This was the best workshop I’ve ever done.

Great to have such exposure to up-to-date research on how lifestyles and can impact fertility.

Thoroughly enjoyable. The content was excellent, detailed, and perfectly aimed for my needs.

So helpful. Loved the way the information was presented.

Great workshop – has given me a lot of direction on how to structure fertility consultations.

I particularly loved learning about motivational interviewing so patients can take more responsibility for their decisions.