Conference Programme

One of the most common, and most frustrating, things people trying to get pregnant will hear is “you just need to relax”. While relaxing may sound easy in reality it can be a huge challenge for stressed minds and bodies (like those managing the roller coaster of fertility treatment) to find relaxation and ease. This talk with break down how the nervous system can affect fertility and ways to actually balance it to foster relaxation and feel more at ease.

Mental Health During Fertility Treatments: Coping Mechanisms and Support Systems

• Fertility treatments, including surrogacy, are emotionally and mentally taxing. Addressing the psychological challenges faced by individuals and couples, such as anxiety, grief, and stress, could resonate with attendees. This session could also explore support systems, such as therapy, support groups, and couples counseling, to help manage the emotional toll.

Building Resilience: Navigating the Ups and Downs of the Fertility Journey

• Focus on how intended parents, especially those pursuing surrogacy, can build resilience. This could include practical advice on staying positive and managing expectations while navigating the often unpredictable outcomes of fertility treatments.

The Role of Partners: Support for Intended Parents Throughout the Surrogacy Journey

• It’s not just about the intended mother or father; surrogacy often involves partners, and the experience can deeply affect everyone involved. This session could discuss the unique emotional needs of partners and how they can support each other through the fertility and surrogacy journey.

Navigating Relationships with Donors and Surrogates: Building Trust and Communication

• Surrogacy often involves creating complex, long-term relationships between intended parents, surrogates, and donors. This topic could focus on best practices for fostering trust, setting expectations, and ensuring clear and compassionate communication throughout the process

Surrogacy is a process charged with serious emotional ups and downs. This rollercoaster of emotions is something hardly ever dealt with or even discussed. Learn how to deal with it and how to prepare physically, financially and mentally to have the best experience possible. Whether you are a single future dad or a couple, you need to be prepared to manage the unexpected and undesired in this wonderful and complex process that is surrogacy. 

Starting fertility treatment abroad can feel complicated. Our team at Tree of Life Fertility Center explains how the process works for international patients. We cover IVF, egg donation, surrogacy and all key steps needed to plan your care and make informed decisions with confidence.

In the fertility journey, one of the most painful challenges often comes from outside: the well-meant but hurtful questions from friends, family, or colleagues – “When is it your turn?”, “Don’t wait too long!”, or “Why don’t you just adopt?”

These moments can leave you feeling exposed, helpless, or emotionally drained.

In this session, we will explore how you can respond in a way that protects your boundaries while staying true to yourself. I’ll share a simple communication tool from my client toolbox that helps you handle such situations with confidence and calm.

Following the tool, I’ll offer a live coaching sequence with a volunteer from the audience. This will give you a glimpse into how coaching can gently support you in finding your grounding, your voice, your strength, and a bit more ease in moments that often feel too much.

• Nir will speak about the key factors when choosing a surrogacy destination that Intended Parents must consider. These include legal frameworks, timeframes, budgets, and potential hybrid options.

Summer 2021. Guy T'Sjoen and Milan Vansevenant are reminiscing about their future together.

The conversation moves from their busy jobs as doctors to the trips they still want to make and the family they dream of.

They both desperately want children. Their own children.

Once the honeymoon is over, they really want to start planning. This begins an unusual and sometimes bumpy journey that will take them all the way to Los Angeles. With the help of a surrogate and an egg donor, a baby boy is born there on March 19, 2023: son of two dads, child in a very normal family.

He is joint 19 months later by his little sister.

Discussion ouverte sur les programmes de reproduction à Chypre et en Albanie pour différents types de familles et parents célibataires. Guide pour les futurs parents à chaque étape du parcours : aspects psychologiques, juridiques et médicaux. Histoires touchantes de parents français ayant vécu l’aventure des programmes de reproduction à Chypre et en Albanie.

Choosing an egg donor is not only about medical history or genetic screening. Emotional readiness, psychological health, and personal expectations all play a role in this decision. The team at Tree of Life Fertility Center in California will share practical insights on how to navigate this process and what intended parents should carefully consider before making their choice.

This talk will address how Dreamstork's surrogacy programs are evolving toward a more humanized approach, where not only legal and medical aspects matter, but also emotional care, empathy, and the building of meaningful bonds between intended parents, surrogates, and medical teams. Best practices and challenges to ensure ethical, respectful, and people-centered processes will be highlighted.