Trigger warning: Please note that this Zoom session will discuss maternal mental health, which may include topics that are sensitive or triggering for some people. If you are currently experiencing difficult circumstances related to maternal mental health, please be aware that this session may contain content that is challenging to process. You are welcome to join us and remain silent, turn off your camera, or reach out for support if needed.

In this session, we will welcome Jessie Hunt from Action on Postpartum Psychosis and Lucy Maxwell from the Film and TV Charity, to discuss maternal mental health and postpartum depression.

Maternal mental health with Lucy Maxwell

As the Film and TV Charity’s Community Development Manager, Lucy manages initiatives that build social connections and peer support for industry freelancers. This work also involves research into the common experiences of loneliness in film and TV to help inform the charity’s wellbeing support offer. 

Lucy has over 15 years’ experience in the Film and TV industry, primarily in film distribution with roles at Momentum Pictures, STUDIOCANAL and Netflix. She has also worked as a consultant for the community and peer support initiative RED January, in partnership with the UK’s leading mental health charity Mind.  

Lucy is mum to Freddie (18 months old) and went back to work in April this year. Like many parents she is still navigating the challenges of working full time and raising a family. 'After becoming a parent I've had to learn how to reconcile my old life with my new one, rebuild my confidence and redefine who I am! Needless to say its been pretty overwhelming at times. I think I've learned a lot over the last 18 months and I hope by sharing some of those experiences I can help others.'

We look forward to welcoming you to this session! Click the link to sign up.

Feeling overwhelmed? Take a lunchtime moment to actively lower your anxiety, stress and worry.  Join Denise Hanrahan for an EFT tapping circle.  

Denise Hanrahan is an Film/HETV Production professional with many years in the industry, working across the Production office, Construction dept and in-house at Twickenham Studios.  Having worked on films across a range of budgets, countries and sizes, Denise has experienced first hand the pressures on crew and the burn out that is nearly guaranteed. 

Denise is now a qualified EFT Practitioner and excited to bring the power of tapping to crew.  

The parent/carer juggle is real and work/life balance often feels like some magical land other people visit! What can we do to actively feel better at this moment in time in the industry. There is worry about being present for family if you’re working, worry if you’re not working. And the summer holidays are about to hit! EFT tapping is proven to lower cortisol, calm that nervous system fire and help to dissolve blocks in our thinking.

Let’s take 45 minutes and tune into how we feel right here, right now. Denise will guide you through a group tapping session, where we will tap on acupoints on the head and upper body, working through our stress and overwhelm.  If you’re new to Tapping, it’s a lovely introduction to this amazing somatic modality. 

Join us on Friday 05th July at 12pm for an interactive talk with two coaches and the audience about what happens to us in change, how we meet it, how we get pragmatic with it. This talk will cover understanding around change and human response, reflective pair work in break out room around skills, coaching reflections on that pair work, and Q&A. 

Sam Jukes-Adams is the founder of SJA Associates. She is a Tavistock Consulting trained, senior practitioner accredited Coach (EMCC) and Hogan Level 1 certified. She works with individuals and organisations to understand and address the underlying, systemic dynamics that influence effectiveness. 

She has experience working one-on-one and in group settings across diverse sectors and levels of seniority - from the founders of tech start-ups to senior leaders in industry. She regularly collaborates with a network of coaches and works as an associate with other coaching bodies.

She draws on 20 years experience in broadcasting and television production, including in senior executive roles, to support leaders, managers and their teams during periods of organisational growth and change. 

Sam has always been a passionate advocate for the development of talent and teams. She is a mentor on the Women In Film and TV annual mentoring programme and a visiting Lecturer at MetFilm London on the Producer’s MA. Sam also served as Chair of the High-End TV Levy Council and on the board of Creative Skillset (now Screen Skills) from 2016-18. She is currently a governor at a North London independent school. 

Sue Payne is a qualified business coach with over 20 years experience in senior leadership roles. Sue has worked across a wide range of industries, from marketing and design to financial and professional services, in both the UK and across Europe. She has held the position of Managing Director for a UK based direct and digital agency as well as the role of Chief Marketing Officer for a multi-national insurance company in Europe.

Throughout her career Sue has always used coaching as her preferred leadership style, so after 30 years in industry it felt like a natural transition to qualify as a coach and focus on what really matters to her; supporting women in the work place at key life stages. Whether that’s returning to work as a mother, or a woman going through the perimenopause and then the menopause at work. Key times in a woman’s life when coaching and mentoring can make such a difference.

Now, more than ever, it is important to know what practical steps you can take to improve your finances. We must keep thinking ahead and making sure that we can keep any current turmoil in the world in perspective. Whether you are going through a change in your circumstances or just want to ‘do it better’ - I want to help you if I can.

How can Emily help?

To ensure that you know what best action to take to look after yourself I will give you insights into: Protection; Pensions; ISAs; Wills; Lasting Power of Attorneys and Tax. I want to galvanise you and start you on the road to your financial future.

The seminar will give you a deeper understanding and help with questions such as:

• What is the most important step for me to take right now?

• What kind of life do I want my children to have?

• How can I start to save (even if it feels like that is impossible)?

• What happens if I get ill and my income stops?

• Am I reaping all the benefits I can from my work?

Money is often tight and there never seems to be enough time, but you cannot put your head in the sand. Here’s why:

• No one else is going to look after you in your old age

• It is possible to grow your money without understanding the intricacies of the
  stock market (and putting it in to a high street cash ISA just won’t do the job)

You will have the opportunity to book a 121 slot with Emily to discuss your personal finances and any questions that may come up during the session using this QR or using the link provided.

Emily’s website

Emiliy Man’s Linkedin

We can safely say that the virtual world has made its own space in all of our homes. Living digitally is here to stay, exhaust us and, yes-ok, help us out with work-from-home environments. Our Cinemamas HQ resides in our bedrooms , kitchens and living rooms.

In this session, accredited Executive coach and a certified Mental Health First Aider, Sam Jukes-Adams will talk to us about how to navigate living life digitally, from setting the frame so we feel present with people, to managing expectations around how much time we can sustain, and using different platforms for different experiences, so we get to also feel like ‘we’re going somewhere’ for work, friends, family etc…

As we start thinking about what life will look like after lockdown we realise that many have totally blurred the lines between work life and home life.

Everyone has transitioned to working virtually and remotely but are we really the most out of zoom? Are there ways of using zoom better?

Sam talks to us about redefining work-life boundaries but also looking at how to set boundaries and recognise when you’ve had enough. We explore this from a personal and professional perspective.

Imposter syndrome can act as a major obstacle to career progression, especially for women. That loss of self-confidence that makes us feel like a ‘fraud’. We often fail to recognise our success and think it’s more a stroke of luck or good timing that has gotten us there.

Leadership and Career Coach Sue Belton will discuss Imposter syndrome and ways to overcome it but also how and why it affects women more than men. Join us for this incredible webinar on the 22nd October at 11am

Sue Belton is an accredited Leadership & Career Coach and best selling author. She has helped hundreds of people get unstuck, back on track and make meaningful changes to their lives.

Sue trained with the prestigious Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and has been practicing for over 12 years.

As we slowly start to hear that cameras will soon be rolling again, many of us have started thinking about raising our profile and visibility. So how do we network in a virtual world?

Sara Putt is the founder and Managing Director of SARA PUTT ASSOCIATES, the leading independent UK agency for film and television heads of department. Providing personal management and representation within feature films, TV drama, documentaries and entertainment for 30 years.

Sara will be joining us to discuss CVs, negotiating and how we might navigate our way back into the industry post COVID. 

Sara Putt established the Agency in 1989 and has been working as Managing Director and Agent here ever since. As well as the day job, Sara has produced several award winning short film including ‘Tattoo’ which was BAFTA nominated in 2002.  Sara is a BAFTA Trustee & sits on the main board.  In addition to this Sara is Deputy Chair of the TV Committee & Chair of the Learning and New Talent Committee. She is also a Trustee of the Film and TV Charity and Deputy Chair of WFTV.

PORTFOLIO CAREER  & CAREER TRANSITION

As the future of our work feels increasingly uncertain, fragmented and demanding, many of us are considering a career transition. 

So do we just walk away from the career we have spent years building? 

Are you jaded and yearn to do something new?

We speak with Certified Professional Coach and WFTV Mentoring Scheme Producer Tracy Forsyth about understanding your worth and letting go of convention. Tracy will tell us about her portfolio career and how having one can enable us to capitalise on our varied skillset. We will also look at how a second career can satisfy our need for new challenges and greater fulfilment. 

Tracy Forsyth High Impact Executive coach & media consultant.
As a professionally trained Co-Active Executive Coach, Tracy works with CEOs, Women in Leadership and talented individuals empowering them to attain a fulfilled, successful career and holistic work life balance. Confidence, direction and impact are her specialities as well as bringing underrepresented voices to the fore.  She is also a professional yoga teacher and creator of Yoga in the Boardroom.  

For more details on Tracy, please visit walterwootze.com

NEGOTIATING TIME & SPACE FOR YOURSELF

CineMamas is happy to announce our first lecture with Executive Coach Sam Jukes-Adams, whose work and wisdom has inspired many in our industry.

Is your partner working and you are not - do you find yourself being responsible for cooking, cleaning, child care and no time to think? Has it become difficult to carve out some time for yourself? Even when we’re freelance we still have the business of being freelance - getting work, training, developing, admin etc.

During this webinar we speak with senior practitioner level Coach, Sam Jukes-Adams about how to approach those conversations with our partners. We also talk about how important it is to make time for yourself during COVID but also during non-COVID times.

Sam runs a Women and Work group coaching which explores trying to find the right balance between your home and work life ambition

Sam Jukes-Adams is a senior practitioner accredited (EMCC) Executive Coach in Leadership, trained in the Tavistock Consulting systems psychodynamic model and Hogan Level 1 certified.  Sam works with leaders and organisations to gain insight into, and address, the personal and organisational dynamics that contribute to professional effectiveness and success, working one to one, in groups, and workshops.  

Sam works across all sectors, from Charity, Finance, Creative Industries, Property, Start Ups, Entrepreneurs and Tech, with individuals at Director, Heads of Department, C-Suite, Board level and Business owners, here in the UK and abroad.

Prior to Coaching, Sam spent 20+yrs in TV Production at the BBC, independent and International Productions Houses. Her final role was as SVP Scripted Production, NBCU International Studios, working with and across a global network of production companies across development, financing, production and delivery of award winning content for both domestic and international networks.  Sam is also a Non Exec Director of Emergence Films.

Alongside Sam’s commercial practice, she is an annual Mentor for Women In Film and TV, and Media Parents Back to Work scheme. She has served as Chair of the High End TV Levy Council (£3m annual fund), and on the board of Creative Skillset from 2016-2018, been a visiting Lecturer on the Producer’s MA at MefFilm, London, and is a Governor in both state and private schools.

Sam brings this wealth of professional and commercial experience to her coaching, and is constantly reflecting and developing her practice through supervision and CPD.  SJA Associate’s female focussed group coaching practice www.womenandwork.co launches in 2020, alongside the task focussed group coaching practice www.peopleandpurpose.co.uk

CineMamas first-ever online event will host Director Laura Scrivano who will sit with us for an hour to talk about motherhood and directing and how to juggle both.

Laura Scrivano is a director of film, TV and commercials. Her credits include McDonald & Dodds (ITV/ Mammoth Screen), starring Jason Watkins (The Crown), Tala Gouveia, Joanna Scanlan (No Offence) and Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), second unit director on HANNA (Amazon/Working Title/NBCU) and award-winning short film Alice starring Sarah Snook (Succession). Commercial spots include work for the FA, Budweiser, Scouts UK and Instagram.

She is an alumni of the Women in Film and TV mentorship program, Raising Films' Making it Possible scheme, and a recipient of a UK Screenskills grant for high-end TV.

Her debut feature, Ring Road, is currently in development with Silver Salt Films and has been awarded early development funding from BFI Network. She is also in development on sci-fi series Sundowners, funded by Screen Australia.

Parents and carers return to work – Career coach tips on how to find your way back into the working world. Also presenting will be the women behind Share My Telly Job will be sharing top tips on how to approach flexible working. 

** Parents are welcome to bring their children !!

https://wftv.org.uk/calendar/wftv-event-parents-carers-returning-to-work-mince-pies-mingle/

FLEXIBLE WORKING ACROSS THE CREATIVE SCREEN INDUSTRIES

A key area that has emerged over the past few years is the increasing need for skilled people to service and support the demand for content across all the screen industries. However, many people, for a variety reasons, have left the industry due to the demands of their lives. Until fairly recently, there does appear to have been a lack of constructive thinking about how it might be addressed, but that is changing. This cross-industry panel discussion will look at what is being done to create a flexible working offer in order to attract more professionals back into the industries..

Moderator: Michelle James Speakers: Louise Patel – Producer/Director Valeria Bullo – Production Consultant Simon Devereux – Head of Learning & Development, The Mill Jonathan Stadlen – MD Knickerbockerglory Sarah Hoeksma – Marketing Director, Sold Out

***Anyone with small children is welcome to bring them**

Focus is a free event but you need to register online to attend. 

https://www.tlgfocus.com/session/flexible-working-across-the-creative-screen-industries/