Supporting Your People Through Divorce & Seperation
What you get:
A workforce that feels supported through one of life's hardest transitions, not just told to "leave it at home"
Reduced absence and improved focus and retention among affected employees
A tangible, differentiating addition to your wellbeing or benefits offering
Specialist expertise on tap, without the overhead of an in-house resource
Before founding Family Flow, Liz spent ten years working in HR across the retail, public, investment and insurance sectors, managing sickness, absence and employee wellbeing, and delivering training, development and leadership coaching for managers and directors. That experience is exactly why Family Flow's workplace offering isn't generic wellbeing content, it's built by someone who's sat on both sides of the desk, and who knows what actually moves the needle on absence, retention and performance.
Divorce and separation are among the most disruptive life events a person can go through, and the impact doesn't stay at home. Roughly half of your workforce will go through a separation or divorce at some point in their working life, once you count both formal divorces and unmarried separations, so this isn't a rare event you can afford to leave uncovered. It's also not something a generic Employee Assistance Programme is built to handle: EAPs typically offer general counselling, not specialised divorce coaching, and divorce brings a specific tangle of legal, financial and co-parenting decisions that generic counselling was never designed to untangle.
A 2023 survey of UK workers by the Positive Parenting Alliance, backed by the President of the Family Division of the High Court, found that the vast majority of people going through divorce said it affected their work performance, and almost all said their mental health at work suffered. Nearly four in ten needed time off to cope, and roughly one in ten left their job altogether. Yet fewer than one in ten employers had any specific policy in place to help.
For a workforce, that translates directly into absence, reduced focus, strained working relationships, and the cost of losing good people at exactly the moment they need stability most.
We work with organisations on a retained basis, as part of an employee benefits package, or on an ad-hoc basis when you need us, giving your people access to genuinely expert, trauma-informed support without you having to build that expertise in-house.
What your people get:
Real, expert, trauma-informed support, not generic wellbeing platitudes
Practical tools they can use immediately, both at work and at home
A safe space to be seen, heard, and equipped, without judgment
Workshops
Smart Finances, Safe Relationships
Build financial confidence and balance money, relationships and risk.
Perfect for younger employees, as a valuable addition to a graduate or training programme, or for anyone who simply wants to strengthen their team’s financial empowerment and independence. Especially relevant for employees beginning to co-habit and/or marry.
Liz created this workshop out of her own passion for empowering individuals and couples with the skills to communicate effectively with their partners around money and work, so they can avoid the problems we see time and time again further down the line. It's about creating real change early enough to prevent crisis, and ultimately, to save marriages and protect people from a future of financial dependency where their needs never quite get met.
Money and relationships are deeply connected, and when they become unbalanced, the impact often spills into the workplace. This workshop helps employees explore the emotional side of money, build healthier financial habits, and recognise power dynamics that can lead to financial stress or insecurity.
We'll cover how to discuss and communicate around finances so they can be managed fairly, address issues like gender inequities and the motherhood penalty, and put strategies in place for long-term security, from legal protections to confident self-advocacy.
Employees leave with tools to create safer, more balanced relationships around money, and employers benefit from a workforce that feels more secure, less stressed, and better able to focus at work.
This isn't what a financial advisor would deliver, but we do speak to the importance of building wealth through the services and benefits many companies already offer, such as company pensions. We can also bring in a trusted financial advisor to broaden the session further, making it even more valuable.
Bespoke Workshops
We also run bespoke one-off sessions or workshop series around divorce and managing change, such as how to support team members navigating divorce, managing family stress at home, or parenting through change.
Please get in touch to discuss your organisation's specific needs.