What Can We Do to Build an Inclusive Clinic?

It is fair to say, building an Inclusive environment within a busy and diverse multidisciplinary fertility team, is filled with daily challenges. It requires commitment to a vision, a strategic plan, ongoing training, and the practice of many soft skills. And for many small to medium resourced clinics, this can feel a little like trying to feed a whole family on $25 a day - a lot of effort and resources required. In this joint presentation, Helen and Debbie investigate the meaning of inclusion, and share the enthusiasm they developed along their clinic’s journey, of rising to this challenge. It will include sources of inspiration, examples of action, and affordable budget-minded tools available to clinics of all sizes. At the heart of this undertaking, this counsellor and scientific collab, contend the notion that team success, is based on building the concept of “Whakapapa”, or a sense of belonging.