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Programme

The Connection Pathway™

A structured development experience helping women reconnect, build confidence and create positive change.

Women of mixed ages, cultures and abilities taking part in a Connection Pathway session led by a woman facilitator

Twelve weeks. Six modules. One supportive group.

Delivered in small cohorts by trained facilitators, the Connection Pathway combines group coaching, wellbeing practice and peer support. Every cohort is measured at entry, midpoint and completion using validated wellbeing scales, so outcomes are evidenced rather than assumed.

12
weekly sessions
10–14
women per cohort
3
outcome measure points

The modules

What we work through together.

Module 1

Understanding Yourself

Values, strengths and personal story. Women map where they are now and what matters most to them.

Module 2

Building Confidence

Practical tools to quiet self-doubt, speak up and take up space in rooms that once felt closed.

Module 3

Emotional Resilience

Regulating stress, setting boundaries and building the steadiness to keep going through setbacks.

Module 4

Overcoming Barriers

Naming the practical and internal barriers — childcare, cost, transport, fear — and planning around them.

Module 5

Creating Positive Habits

Small, sustainable routines for wellbeing, energy and follow-through that survive real life.

Module 6

Building Your Future

Goals, next steps and warm introductions into work, training, enterprise or volunteering.

Enquire

Join a cohort, or commission delivery.

Women can register their interest for the next cohort. Councils, housing providers and employers can commission the Connection Pathway for a specific community or workforce.

“By week six I said something in a group of strangers without my hands shaking. By week twelve I was applying for jobs.”
Programme graduate · Cohort 7

Connection Pathway enquiry

Tell us whether you're enquiring for yourself or on behalf of an organisation and we'll send full programme details.

Trust & governance

Accountable, safeguarded and evidence led.

We work alongside funders, councils, employers and community organisations — with published policies, trained facilitators and outcomes measured at every stage of delivery.

Delivery partners

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Funders & grant providers

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Awards & recognition

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Community supporters

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With Women Academy delivers what it promises and reports on it properly. That combination is rare in grassroots delivery.
Grants Manager — Regional funding body
Our employee volunteering days with the Academy are the most requested CSR activity we run.
Head of Social Value — Corporate partner
I came for a coffee morning and stayed for the whole pathway. It genuinely changed the direction of my year.
Community member — Connection Pathway graduate

Policies & safeguarding

Our full policy suite is available to partners, funders and community members on request and published in summary here.