Events
Our community meet regularly online for casual chats and free, industry-specific webinars. These webinars focus on topics that matter, featuring inspiring women from diverse sectors who share a passion for empowering each other.
Explore our What’s On page for a calendar packed with events tailored to you.
The WIF Current
Looking for some light-hearted conversations with our community?
Find out more about our regular friendly virtual meet-up, The WIF Current.
Have questions about our events, or suggestions for future events? Reach out to us at: hello@women-fisheries.com
Moving Through Stress -Beam Training
This one hour workshop is designed to help you to understand the psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science behind stress and how it impacts our behaviour. Learning the difference between our primitive stress responses and how stress impacts us today.
Overview
Understanding the stressed out brain
Recognise three key parts of the brain and how they can affect our thoughts and behaviour
Know how the '5 F's of stress' change our behaviour
Recognise what is in your stress bucket and how to have healthier coping mechanisms
Learn why it is important to know how to complete the stress cycle
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
Know why we become emotionally hijacked and how to manage that
Know how to identify if others are emotionally hijacked and how to manage that Identify your own stress responses
Be able to manage their inner chimp better
Know how stress can gather and overwhelm us
Have proven ways to complete the stress cycle
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
Beyond Burnout - Beam Training
Burnout is more than feeling tired after a busy period. It can happen when pressure is prolonged, recovery is limited, and people begin to feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected or less effective. Building on Moving Through Stress, this session helps you to recognise the deeper signs of burnout, understand what drains and restores their energy, and leave with a simple personal plan to support sustainable wellbeing.
Overview
Understand what burnout is and how it differs from everyday stress.
Recognise the key signs of burnout, including exhaustion, disconnection and reduced effectiveness.
Identify personal burnout warning signs using a simple traffic light model.
Explore how prolonged pressure and limited recovery can lead to depletion.
Learn practical tools to protect energy, build recovery and create healthier working habits.
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
Understand the difference between stress, depletion and burnout.
Recognise the three key dimensions of burnout: emotional exhaustion, disconnection and reduced sense of accomplishment.
Identify personal burnout warning signs using a simple traffic light model.
Understand how the demand/recovery gap can increase burnout risk.
Explore practical tools to reduce pressure, restore energy and reconnect with what matters
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
Creating a Confident Mindset - Beam Training
An interactive and thought provoking one hour workshop that recognises the importance of mindset in relationship to our confidence levels. The workshop looks the importance of intrinsic confidence over extrinsic confidence, exploring the etymology of confidence, why we lose confidence and offering 5 key tools to create an unstoppable (confident!) mindset.
Overview
The etymology of confidence
Why trust is crucial and how we build trust
Barriers to our confidence Parents / Family Society Education System Media
5 Key Tools to create an unstoppable mindset.
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
Know why they need to "do what they say they will do".
Recognise how all of us can be impacted by shame and a lack of confidence.
Understand why we have lost confidence.
Have proven tools to help them to feel more confident and create an unstoppable mindset
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
Interrupting Anxiety - Beam Training
This workshop will help you understand anxiety better, learning the symptoms of anxiety and the different types of classified anxiety disorders. It will then give you tools and techniques to manage your own anxiety and also help others struggling with anxiety, plus look at panic attacks and how to help yourself or someone else manage them.
Overview
What is anxiety
The symptoms of anxiety
How to manage your anxiety
How to help someone with anxiety
Panic Attacks
Further Help & Support
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
Understand what anxiety is and how to recognise if it has become an issue
Know that anxiety presents differently in us causing a whole host of different symptoms
Recognise the different anxiety disorders as highlighted by MIND and know how to get further help and support with them
Have five everyday tools to help manage their own anxiety
Have ways to help support someone with anxiety
Understand the impact of panic attacks and know how to help
Know where to get further help and support
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
Emotional Regulation in Action - Beam Training
Strong emotions are a normal response to pressure, uncertainty, conflict and risk. Emotional regulation is not about suppressing those emotions or pretending everything is fine. It is about recognising what is happening, creating enough space to think clearly and choosing a response that supports the outcome we need. This practical session explores the neuroscience behind emotional reactions and introduces simple tools to help you to communicate more effectively, manage difficult moments and remain heard when situations become challenging.
Overview
Understanding Emotional Regulation.
Understanding why strong emotions can trigger automatic reactions and affect judgement, communication and behaviour.
Recognising Personal Triggers – Identifying the situations, thoughts and physical warning signs that signal an emotional response is building.
Checking the Story – Exploring how assumptions, interpretations and past experiences can intensify emotions and influence how we respond.
Creating the Response Gap.
Communicating Under Pressure – Applying emotional regulation to disagreement, difficult conversations, safety concerns and challenging situations at work and home.
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
Explain what happens in the brain and body during an emotional reaction.
Recognise your own triggers and early warning signs.
Understand the difference between regulating and suppressing emotions.
Use a practical tool to interrupt unhelpful reactions.
Communicate more clearly and effectively during challenging situations.
Take responsibility for your response without judging yourself for the emotion
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
The Science of Kindness - Beam Training
Kindness is often confused with being agreeable, avoiding difficult conversations or trying to keep everyone happy. In reality, kindness can involve honesty, clear boundaries, accountability and saying what needs to be said in a respectful way. Drawing upon positive psychology and behavioural science, this practical session explores why humans are wired for kindness, how it influences wellbeing and relationships, and how it can strengthen communication. Participants will consider how everyday behaviour can help create safer, more supportive and more professional working cultures.
Overview
What kindness really means
The science behind kindness
Kindness versus niceness
Boundaries and accountability
Giving kind and clear feedback
Creating a ripple effect
Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Explain the psychological and wellbeing benefits associated with kindness.
Recognise the difference between kindness, niceness and people-pleasing.
Understand how clarity and accountability can be expressions of kindness.
Use a practical framework for giving respectful, kind and constructive feedback.
Identify everyday behaviours that strengthen trust, inclusion and connection.
Choose one action that could create a positive ripple effect within their community
Free.
Open to all.
Booking necessary. BOOK YOUR SPACE HERE
All Womens Sea Survival
After the success of 2025’s first ever all-women Sea Survival, Seafood Cornwall Training are organising another!
Newquay, Cornwall, UK
Contact Seafood Cornwall Training https://www.seafoodcornwalltraining.co.uk/
Tel: 01736 364324
Dealing with SASH, Finding Your Voice and Claiming Your Share - with EJB Coaching
Members-only. A space to talk honestly about sexual assault, sexual harassment and economic abuse in fishing and coastal communities, how to recognise it when it’s happening to you, and what you can safely do next – including backing each other up and thinking about your own role and “share” in the business.
Led by Emma Mark (EJB Coaching), a former maritime COO who now specialises in culture, safety and SASH in the
Your Rights in UK Fisheries: Law, Pay and Protection from Harassment - with EJB Coaching
A straightforward session on what fair treatment should look like in this industry, what counts as harassment and discrimination, and what realistic options you have if things cross the line – including around pay, “partner” roles and bullying in small crews and family businesses.
Periods at Sea & Isolated Environments
Dates Times, Speakers and Joining info TBC
This webinar celebrates and explores the journeys of women leaders in fisheries. Featuring stories from trailblazing professionals, this session will highlight strategies for overcoming barriers, building leadership skills, and advancing in the industry.
Funding Opportunities and Grants for Women in Fisheries
Dates Times, Speakers and Joining info TBC
This webinar will focus on identifying and applying for grants and funding resources for women in the fisheries sector. Attendees will gain insights into available funding, learn practical steps for successful grant applications, and hear real-life experiences from women who’ve navigated the funding process.
Partners of Commercial Fishermen
This webinar celebrates and explores the journeys of women leaders in fisheries. Featuring stories from trailblazing professionals, this session will highlight strategies for overcoming barriers, building leadership skills, and advancing in the industry.
Risk Assessments & How they keep us safe
Join our Guest Host Charles Blyth (CEng) for a Training Webinar that will unpack the basic principles of a Risk Assessment and how they serve to keep us safe.
We will cover What they are, why we need them, how we create them and how we use them. Whether you work at sea, in the processing sector, in an office or anything in between this Training Webinar is for you, we will cover the creation of these vital documents and best practice for keeping you and your teams safe.
This event is being Live Streamed on our YouTube channel and is open to all - follow the link below to sign up and for an opportunity to ask questions :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zVhoJjj_57_V9v8wuEqxAV_-3uRO0y1t93tfh456PU4/edit
With thanks to Charles Blyth & the NFFO for making this event possible
Navigating Gender Challenges in Male-Dominated Industries
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This webinar will explore the unique experiences, challenges, and strategies for women working in male-dominated fields, including fisheries, engineering, mining and farming. Featuring representatives from diverse sectors, the discussion will focus on overcoming barriers, building a community, navigating bias and sharing successful initiatives from each industry.
Inspiring careers for women in the fishing industry
Join us for an exciting online event celebrating women in the fishing industry!
Our speakers will highlight different career paths while sharing their own experiences, challenges and ambitions. Whether you're already in the industry or just curious, please come and join us!
AGENDA
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM: Welcome and Introduction from Hannah Fennell, Co-Director, UK
- Hannah began working in the fishing sector as a researcher with Orkney Fisheries Association in 2017, before becoming CEO of Orkney Fisheries Association in 2020.
12:10 PM - 12:20: Emma Plotnek, Fishing into the Future
- Emma will share her career trajectory and offer useful tips on how to network and make connections - bringing in her experience of juggling childcare alongside full-time work.
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM: Elizabeth Atia, Fisherman
- Elizabeth Atia is part of the fishing crew working on an 8-meter inshore fishing boat (among many other hats including food and adventure blogging!). She's been fishing for a year now around the wild and remote Shetland Islands.
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM: PM: Kara Brydson, FIS
- Kara is the Executive Director of Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS), helping to make positive change for the seafood industry and the people driving it. Kara will share her experience and mention bursary opportunities for travel or study that might help you test the waters in your career!
12:40 PM - 12:50 PM: tbc
12:50 PM - 1:15 PM: Q&A
Fishing in 2024: Safety, medicals and training opportunities
Join us for our New Year Fishing Update
We’ll share a round-up of everything you need to know about safety, medicals and training opportunities for the 2024 fishing season.
Seafood Retail: Adapt, Survive, Thrive
Join Sue MacKenzie, from Passionate About Fish, as she shares her tips to help seafood retailers navigate these challenging times.
Register for the event here.
Funding projects in the UK Fisheries and Seafood Sectors
This informal and friendly webinar will focus on explaining how you can apply for Government fisheries funding schemes across the UK
Speakers
Lynn Fardon, Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) Policy Lead, Defra
Victoria (Vicky) Bendall, Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) Policy Advisor, Defra
Abby Johns, UK Seafood Fund Policy Advisor, Defra
Imogen Smith-Devey, Fishing Animateur
Freya Cohen, Fishing Animateur
Vessel Safety Expert Webinar - hear the experts talk through the new Vessel Safety code and what it means for you
UK Women in Fisheries are bringing the experts in, to explain the new Under 15m Vessel Safety Code, and an opportunity to ask questions, and hear what other are doing in response.
Hear Clive Palfrey, Safety Adviser, and Charles Blyth, NFFO Risk & Safety Adviser, talk through what it means for you and your vessel
Don’t worry if you miss it, all webinars are recorded, and available via the private Facebook group.
Please noteMembers only event - join up for free here: https://www.women-fisheries.com/join
Welcome webinar – save the date!
Save the date for our kick off webinar, welcoming everyone to the new network.