Your First Month Back to You
The focus: Identity · Self-trust · Confidence · Direction · Emotional readiness
Returning to work after a career break can feel bigger than expected.
You can be ready to return to work and still feel unsure about where you fit now.
Perhaps your career break lasted a year. Perhaps it lasted ten. You may have stepped away to raise a family, relocate, care for someone, or simply because life took you in another direction.
And now you’re thinking about returning. The practical questions often come first.
Yet underneath those questions, there is often something else happening. Your relationship with work has changed. Your confidence may feel different. The professional identity you once knew may no longer fit quite as comfortably.
THE RETURN was created for this part of the return-to-work journey.
It gives you the space, structure and support to understand where you are now, rebuild trust in what you bring, and prepare for what comes next — before moving into the practical tools and expert guidance that help you move forward.
What do I put on my CV? How do I explain the gap? Where do I even start?
Before you start thinking about how to present yourself to the working world, we begin with understanding the woman who is returning to it.
Over four weeks, you’ll explore the identity shift that can happen during a career break, reconnect with your strengths and experience, rebuild self-trust, and begin defining what you want this next chapter of work to look like.
What month one looks like
Four weeks to unpack and reconnect
Four weeks to explore the questions that often get skipped:
- Who am I professionally now?
- What do I actually want?
- What am I carrying from my career break?
- What’s getting in my way?
- What could my next chapter look like?
Through guided reflection, online learning, an in-person session, a panel discussion with experts and a supportive environment with women in your co-hort.
Not to give you all the answers.
To help you find your starting point.
WEEK 1
Where Are You Now?
We begin with you.
Through guided daily reflection, you’ll explore what has changed during your career break, what you’ve carried with you, and how you see yourself now.
Identity · Reflection · Self-awareness
WEEK 2
Rebuilding Self-Trust
An interactive session exploring confidence after a career break.
Recognising what may have shifted, reconnecting with your strengths and beginning to trust what you bring again.
Confidence · Strengths · Self-trust
WEEK 3
Who Are You Becoming?
A speaker-led conversation that opens up new perspectives on work, identity and what comes next. With space to listen, question, reflect and learn from other women’s experiences.
Perspective · Possibility · Connection
WEEK 4
Your Return Circle
We bring the first month together.
A facilitated space to reflect on what you’ve uncovered, recognise what has shifted and begin defining what you want to carry forward.
Reflection · Direction · Moving forward
The next cohort of THE RETURN begins in January 2027.