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Fertility Awareness Method Essentials
A 12-week training in body literacy, cycle charting, and the science of fertility awareness
EVIDENCE-BASED METHOD · LEARN OVER 3 CYCLES · SELF-PACED
LEARN MOREWHAT THE METHOD IS
A science-based way to read your body's signals.
The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a body literacy practice built on tracking three physical signs, cervical fluid, basal body temperature, and bleeding, to identify the fertile and non-fertile phases of your cycle.
The specific approach taught in this training is the symptothermal double-check method, the same method used in the most robust long-term research on fertility awareness to date.
This is not a calendar method, a rhythm method, or an app making predictions. It's based on reading your own real-time data, cycle by cycle.
EFFECTIVENESS, SOURCED
Up to 99.6% effective, with perfect use.
This figure comes from a 20-year prospective study of 900 women across more than 17,600 menstrual cycles, using the Sensiplan symptothermal method (Frank-Herrmann et al., Human Reproduction, 2007).
With perfect use and abstinence during the fertile window, the method was up to 99.6% effective at avoiding pregnancy. For couples who used condoms during the fertile window instead of abstaining, effectiveness was 99.4%. Typical use, where the method isn't followed exactly every cycle, brings the real-world number down, the same pattern seen with any contraceptive method, hormonal or otherwise.
Source: Frank-Herrmann P, Heil J, Gnoth C, et al. "The effectiveness of a fertility awareness based method to avoid pregnancy in relation to a couple's sexual behaviour during the fertile time." Human Reproduction, 22(5), 1310–1319 (2007). PMID: 17314078.
WHAT CHANGES
From guesswork to real-time data.
Before learning this method, many women rely on apps, predictions, or hope, without a clear picture of where they are in their cycle. After learning it, you're reading your own body's signals directly, cycle by cycle, rather than estimating from an average.
"Thanks to this course, I now feel confident using this method. Every cycle before, my partner and I were waiting, uncertain, until my period came. Now there's no more guessing." — Thea
INSIDE THE 12-WEEK TRAINING
MODULE ONE
Body Literacy & Charting Basics
✦ Choosing the right app and thermometer for accurate tracking
◯ Understanding your hormones, cycle phases and body signals
✦ Tracking cervical fluid, your primary fertility sign
◯ Charting basal body temperature correctly
MODULE TWO
Principles & Identifying Ovulation
✦ Reading cervical fluid changes with confidence
◯ Basal body temperature principles and common mistakes
✦ Identifying the fertile window using both signs together
◯ Confirming ovulation has occurred
MODULE THREE
Embodying The Method
✦ Reading your own charts with confidence, now and in future cycles
◯ Two additional body signs to observe for extra confirmation
✦ Recognising what a typical cycle looks like for you, and when to seek support for changes
◯ Practice reviewing real charts to check your understanding
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✦ 15 step-by-step video lessons, over 6 hours of teaching
◯ Lifetime access to revisit anytime
✦ A 50+ page reference guide
◯ Printable charting materials and app recommendations
✦ Bonus: over 2 hours of additional menstrual cycle education
IS THIS FOR YOU?
This is a good fit if:
✦ You want to understand your fertility using your own body's signals
◯ You're ready to track daily and commit to learning the method properly
✦ You're working toward the Menstrual Cycle Educator certification and want the fuller depth beyond the certification's introduction to FAM
This isn't the right fit if:
◯ You want a method that requires no daily tracking
✦ You're not able to commit to observing and charting consistently
INSIDE THE 12-WEEK TRAINING
"This course helped me move past a lot of my anxiety around the method. I feel far more informed and every menstruating woman would benefit from understanding their cycle at this level."
KACY
"The videos were clear and well structured. I enrolled with my two teenage daughters and it gave all of us a much better understanding of our bodies."
AMBER, ERIN AND ORLA
"This goes well beyond contraception. I understand my body and my cycle so much more now, and feel more in control and more connected."
TYNEIL
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About Your Educator
Qualified FAM Instructor since 2019
I learned this method myself after years of relying on hormonal birth control and the pull-out method, neither of which felt right for me. I was skeptical at first, but learning to read my own body's signals changed how I understood myself completely.
Since qualifying as a FAM instructor in 2019, I've taught this method to hundreds of women, alongside the deeper menstrual cycle education that sits behind it.
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