Your managers are holding things they were never trained for.
Grief. Loss. Family crisis. Illness. Conversations with no script and no easy ending. Holding the Holders is the training that helps them carry it, without it costing them.
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When a member of staff experiences something devastating, they often come to their manager first. Not HR. Not a helpline. Their manager.
That manager absorbs the weight, finds words in real time, navigates what the organisation requires, and then gets on with their own work. With very little to draw on, and very little coming back.
This is a capability gap. It is also a wellbeing risk. And it is solvable.
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Your people are navigating something organisations weren't built for.
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One in four pregnancies ends in loss. Most of those people return to work within days. Most managers have no idea what to say, what they're legally required to do, or how to carry that conversation without it costing something, for them and for the person in front of them.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces new provisions on pregnancy loss bereavement leave. The consultation has closed. The clock is moving. Organisations that wait for commencement are already behind.
The gap between having a policy and having an organisation that can actually use it, that is where I work.
And alongside that: your managers are holding more than pregnancy loss. Bereavement. Serious illness. Hidden fertility treatment. Family crisis. They are absorbing it, carrying it, and getting very little back. That is a capability gap and a wellbeing risk. It is also solvable.
The Pregnancy Loss Workplace Implementation Programme
Not a policy template. Not a training day. A structured, end-to-end implementation of genuine organisational capability, built around your people, your culture, and your legal obligations.
Five stages. Delivered over an agreed timeframe. Led by me.
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Policy & language - legally sound, humane, and actually usable
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Manager capability - not just awareness, but the skills and frameworks to respond well
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Communication & culture - so people know what exists before they need it
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Return-to-work design - structured, sensitive, and person-led
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Ongoing learning - embedding this as practice, not a one-off project
The framework is mine. The application is specific to your organisation.
Holding the Holders
Your managers are being asked to hold things they were never trained for. Grief. Loss. Distress. Conversations with no script and no easy ending.
Holding the Holders is manager training for the moments that matter most — the ones nobody prepared them for. Developed from 20 years of organisational practice, a somatic evidence base, and the lived reality of what managers actually face.
Available as a standalone workshop, a full programme, or embedded within the Implementation Programme.
Working with me
Workplace Audit - Contact for price
A structured diagnostic of where your organisation is now: policy, practice, culture, and capability. Clare-led, 40 questions across four pillars. Delivered as a written report with prioritised recommendations.
Implementation Programme - Contact for price
End-to-end pregnancy loss workplace support. Full five-phase framework. Tailored to your organisation, sector, and team.
Holding the Holders - Contact for price
Manager training for difficult conversations. Half-day, full-day, or embedded programme format.
Individual Coaching - Contact for rates
One-to-one leadership and professional coaching. GIOC Senior Registered Professional Coach.
Trusted partners: The Worst Girl Gang Ever Foundation, Fertility Action.
I go where the awkward conversations are.
I'm Clare Campion, founder of Campion Coaching & Consultancy and the developer of the Campion Workplace Pregnancy Loss Implementation Framework™.
Twenty years at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-chairing a 250-member Parents and Carers staff network, and a career spent at the intersection of organisational development and the things nobody wants to talk about. That is where this work comes from.
I hold Senior Registered Professional Coach accreditation (GIOC), ILM Level 5, DISC accreditation, and somatic practitioner training. I work with universities, NHS trusts, housing associations, and employers across sectors who want to get this right, not just comply with it.
Ready to talk?
Whether you're responding to legislative change, supporting a specific person, or building long-term capability, the right starting point is a conversation.