Rachel Weiss | Rowan Consultancy and Menopause Café charity
Rachel enjoys exploring what it means to become an older, wiser woman, and helping people lead more satisfying lives. She does this through her day job at Rowan Consultancy and her voluntary work with the Menopause Café charity
Rachel founded Rowan Consultancy in her front room Perth in 1997. Rowan now has consultants throughout the UK helping people lead more satisfying lives, through employee counselling services, workplace mediation, coaching and in-house training in emotional intelligence topics. Rowan provides the student counselling service at Fife College and a school counselling service in Inverness. Rowan offers counselling online and in person for self-funded individual, couples, families and young people.
Rachel founded the Menopause Cafe charity in 2017, to increase awareness of the impact that menopause has on
those experiencing it, their colleagues and families, so that they can make conscious choices about this third stage of life. The Menopause Café charity does this through two types of activity:
Menopause Cafés, which are pop-up events where people, old and young, male and female, meet to drink tea, eat cake and talk menopause, either online or in person. These discussion groups are hosted by volunteers, worldwide, with no speakers and no experts, just people with a common interest in menopause sharing experiences, questions, tips and stories.
#FlushFest, an annual Menopause Festival, providing information about menopause and celebrating it through the creative arts. At #FlushFest22, Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, talked menopause with Kirsty Wark, the charity’s patron. You can watch this on the Menopause Charity YouTube channel.
In her 50s, Rachel has taken up learning Spanish and reluctantly running, to keep her brain and body in good shape, rather than to achieve any performance standard. She enjoys walking, knitting and sleeping.
Contact information
rachelweiss@rowanconsult.co.uk
chairperson@menopausecafe.net
