Events:: SOS

Starting Over Show - Brighton 15 March 2009

Our sister organisation Breakup Angels launched at the SOS show in Brighton on 15 March 2009 and ran the Financial and Debt surgery. Read more here.

The Starting Over Show was the first UK event to help people bounce back from relationship break ups and life crises. We created a safe haven in which soon-to-be singletons can take professional advice to build the confidence and skills they need to go it alone.

Over 140,000 UK couples divorce each year, not to mention the thousands of co-habiting couples who need to extricate themselves from shared mortgages and lives. Some civil partnerships are now breaking down too. Since south coast towns suffer from some of the UK’s highest divorce rates, Brighton was a fitting setting for this first event.

The Starting Over Show was the first event of its kind in the UK and has been designed to provide useful information, expert advice, resources and support to anyone who has experienced a relationship break up or significant life crisis or change, all under one roof. 

About SOS

With the credit crunch starting to hit, quality professional advice and a vision of a better future are more important than ever.  That’s why we have counsellors and coaches as well as lawyers attending the show. We want the show to demonstrate how to seek the right support and the benefits of taking positive action, rather than succumbing to a negative or resentful feelings or feeling constantly overwhelmed at the thought of ‘what do I do now?’ The show will give people access to all the resources that can help them to really start over, all under one roof.”  Suzy Miller: Creator and Producer of the Starting Over Show, Dec 2008

Who Exhibited?

The Information Zone offered practical advice and access to experts including:

• Specialist legal advice around marriage, divorce, separation, family law and estates and wills.
• Family specialists that can help with issues around children and child care.
• Financial professionals who can offer specific guidance and recommendations.
• Business Advisors.
• Public and Independent Advice and Support agencies.
• Practical marriage makeover experts for those who want to turn their relationship around.

The Inspirational Zone provided a range of people, services, techniques, experiences and ideas to improve mental and emotional wellbeing:

• Therapists, counselors and life coaches.
• Health, fitness and wellbeing professionals: personal trainers, makeover & style coaches, hypnotherapists, reflexologists and acupuncturists.
• Business and career guidance.
• Holidays and overseas opportunities.
• Fun stuff to help you enjoy and celebrate life!

Who Attended?

• Anyone who has experienced or maybe experiencing a relationship break up or divorce.
• Anyone who has experienced loss of a partner, child, family member or friend.
• Anyone who is entering or has entered retirement or redundancy and feels at  a loss as to what to do next.
• Anyone who has been affected by serious injury, illness, abusive or damaging situations and needs help to move forward.

The show is for anyone who wants to start over in their life and needs a bit of help!

Other Attractions

• Key speaker was Daily Mail columnist and author of Daisy Dooley Does Divorce, Anna Pasternak
• Channel 5’s ‘Wright Stuff’ Divorce Doctor Francine Kaye provided a free workshop during the event.
• Free Financial  and Debt Surgery run by our sister organisation BreakupAngels.com in association with Financial Expert Bill Smith and Debt Advisor Judith Morgan.
• Free Legal Surgeryrun by wikivorce.com

Read more here: www.startingovershow.co.uk