Sensiplan is a scientific method of fertility awareness, where we learn to observe body signals of female fertility, which clearly change during the cycle.
These signs make it possible to determine with great accuracy fertile and infertile days throughout the cycle, and they may also alert of possible hormonal diseases.
Therefore Sensiplan is suitable:
It belongs to the family of Natural Family Planning (NFP) or Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABM), specifically, it is a symptothermal method.
Sensiplan teaches women how to monitor two body signals (also called bio-markers):
The training is divided into 4 sessions over 3 months. Each session lasts 2,5 hours. It can be held online or in person (in Berlin).
Session 1 (you can start anytime):
Session 2 (after two weeks):
Session 3 (one month after session 2):
Session 4 (one month after session 3):
Sensiplan offers the same efficacy as the Pill. It is the most studied and effective FABM available. Out of 100 people who apply the method correctly, 0.4 will get unintentionally pregnant (method-efficacy, or perfect-method). No single birth control method is 100% reliable, that’s right: even tube-ligation or vasectomy still present slim chances of unintended pregnancy.
The efficacy of the method is influenced by the user’s compliance to the rules, and this is true for any form of birth control. For instance, you need to take the Pill every day at the same time, to have maximum efficacy (which is equal to 0.3). If you start skipping pills, or changing the time you take it, the efficacy decreases. According to the World Health Organisation, 9 out 100 people who are on the pill will get unintentionally pregnant over one year (user-efficacy or typical-use). For Sensiplan, user-efficacy is 1.8, making Sensiplan more reliable than oral hormonal contraception and more reliable than any other fertility awareness method, as the most extensive systematic review ever carried out confirmed in August 2018.
Source: BMJ 2019;366:l4245
Sensiplan is totally free of any health side-effect. It is a monitoring method that makes the people aware of what happens with their own fertility, a form of literacy that increases your self-esteem, sovereignty and self-determination. It is a form of lasting emancipation.
Sensiplan preserves ovulation, which is a pillar of mental and physical health, while hormonal contraception suppresses ovulation and has been linked to breast cancer, loss of bone density, loss of nutrients, loss of libido, depression, blood clots, and dozens of other side effects.
You need to buy:
We offer payment plans where you can pay the cost of the training in installments, the first upon registration to secure your spot, the others are due before each session.
Contraceptive apps have not been scientifically tested and are extremely unreliable. Moreover, they do not teach you body literacy, aka how to use the cycle as the fifth vital sign.
Medical devices like the Daysy and Natural Cycles are not symptothermal methods, but rhythm methods with a little bit of temperature-taking, and their efficacy has been disputed. Better-quality research is needed. Similarly, they do not teach you body literacy. Daysy costs 299 euros (in total), and Natural Cycles 65 euros a year. Hormonal contraception costs varies, e.g. Nuvaring costs 252 euros a year in Germany.
All in all, Sensiplan offers more benefits, expert support and scientific evidence at a competitive price.
Sensiplan is the German improvement of the so-called “symptothermal method”. It has been studied since 1981 by the German Working Group (Arbeitsgruppe NFP) at University of Düsseldorf and Heidelberg. Over the years there have been a lot of innovations in the field of natural contraception. This inevitably led to a certain degree of confusion with regard to the quality of the information available. To distinguish itself, the method of the Arbeitsgruppe was branded in October 2010: Sensiplan.
Medulla can offer certified training in Sensiplan from 2018.
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