IICO Statement about Psychosocial Counselling and Professional Support related to involuntary childlessness, including Implications over the life-course, September 2024
The current context of professional psychosocial support in relation to the use of Assisted Reproduction Treatments (ARTs) and their lifelong implications IICO is the international infertility counselling organisation, the umbrella organisation for national bodies...
IICO symposium “How the internet, digilization and DNA changes the field of counseling
Dear colleagues, You are warmly invited to join us on the 6th July 2024 (prior to the ESHRE Annual meeting) for the IICO symposium “How the internet, digilization and DNA changes the field of counseling” that will take place in Amsterdam. Together with POINT, the...
Free Webinar on “Curious Connections – The social life of egg and sperm donation”
You are invited to the following event: CURIOUS CONNECTIONS: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF EGG AND SPERM DONATION Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Thursday, 2 July 2020 from 13:00 to 16:00 (BST) online via Zoom Manchester United Kingdom Attend Event...
Last Presentation of our Vienna Workshop added!
I have just added the last presentation of our Vienna Workshop as a PDF to the IICO website, you can access it here. Petra Thorn
Workhop in Vienna 2019
Just prior to ESHRE, IICO together with the Austrian Organisation for Psychology offered a workshop on the new legislation in Austria. You can read some of the presentations here.
New contact person for counselling in India
Puja Raja has been in touch with IICO. She is an infertility counsellor in India, and we have just added her to our list of colleagues world-wide.
Symposium in Vienna
Challenges for Counselling after the Amendment ofReproductive Medicine Law 2015 with Legalization ofEgg-Donation in Austria - Symposium22.6.2019, 12:00 – 18.00 Together with the Austrian Federation of Psychologist, the International Infertility Counselling...
IICO Workshop in Vienna, June 22nd, 2019
On June, 22nd, from 10.00 to 17.00 (times are tentative), IICO together with the Austrian Psychology Organisation will hold the workshop “Legal Changes in Austria – Developments since 2016” Once the programme has been...
No workshop in Barcelona this year, but …
Unfortunately, there will not be a workshop in Barcelona this year. But: EHSRE will take place in Vienna next year, and the Austrian colleagues have already started to think about a workshop on the Saturday prior to the ESHRE conference.
Presentations from the Geneva Workshop are online
Dear colleagues, the presentations from the Geneva workshop "Sexual Health in the Context of Infertility" are online and can be downloaded as PDF documents. This link takes you to the presentations.
Workshop for Infertility Counsellors in Geneva
Just prior to the ESHRE conference, the Swiss Fertiforum together with IICO will hold the following workshop: WORKSHOP IN GENEVA Saturday, 1 July, 2017 13:30 - 18:00 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF GENEVA SWITZERLAND here you can download the PDF ...
Next presentation of Helsinki Workshop
Dear colleagues, the next presentation from our Helsinki workshop, presented by Claudia Lampic, is online. You can look at and download all presentations from this page: http://www.iico-infertilitycounseling.org/past-events/
Carpe Fucking Diem
Carpe Fucking Diem This was the strong and emotional title of one presentation we had at our annual Workhop in Helsinki. Eline Brotherus, a Finnish photographer, published an autobiographic documentary on her journey through infertility. The photos are very powerful...
Workshop on infertility counseling in Helsinki
Workshop on infertility counseling in Helsinki On the Saturday prior to the ESHRE conference in Helsinki, we had a very successful and well attended workshop focusing on third party family reproduction. There were approx. 40 participants from all over the world,...
Infertility Counseling in Hong Kong – new contact possibilities
Dear colleagues, I have just updated the IICO website and included information on infertility counseling in Hong Kong. You can contact Celia Chan for any information about counseling in Hong Kong and read more here.
Workshop in Helsinki for Infertility Counsellors
Workshop in Helsinki
2.7.2016
12:00 – 18.00
IICO Workshop in Helsinki – Finland on July 2nd, 2016
IICO together with the Finnish Infertility Counseling group will organize a half-day workshop in Helsinki, just prior to EHSRE The workshop will take place on July, 2nd, 2016 from approx. 12.00 to 18.00 and will focus on third party reproduction. We will post the...
New counseling organization in South Africa
New counseling organization in South Africa The SASREG Psychology and Counselling Special Interest Group was formed on the 31 October 2015. The main task of the group is to set up goals for psychologists involved in field of ART. Our current goals are to share best...
Argentina:Children Born by Assisted Fertilization: Information on the Procreative Origin
Here is a link to a recent article by Silvia Jadur and colleages: Children Born by Assisted Fertilization: Information on the Procreative Origin The present paper briefly reviews some aspects that affect people with infertility problems and children born...
Canada: International Conference
On September 7th 2015, will be held Infertility Without Borders, the first international conference on infertility awareness. The event will bring together representatives of patient groups from across the globe, healthcare professionals and local policy-makers. The...