Mindfulness Practice Time: 15-minutes Kate invites you to practice self-compassion when exploring coping with more challenging emotions as a caregiver. This practice today builds on the webinar, Coping with Challenging Emotions as a Caregiver.
Conquer Your Fears at Every Stage of the Caregiving Journey
Handout Are you prepared for what is to come along your caregiving journey? When you provide care for a sick, disabled or elderly loved one you will face a number of challenges throughout the many stages of caregiving. This learning event will examine the journey caregiving takes us on – no matter when it may […]
Anger, Guilt and the Family Caregiver
Handout Do you ever feel anger toward your life situation and irritated about being the only one to care for your loved one? Do you feel angry about your loved one’s health condition? Do you feel guilty about your anger? Do you feel guilty about living a healthy life when your loved one is ill? […]
Who Decides What and Other Touchy Caregiving Topics
Handout Mediate BC and Family Caregivers of BC are pleased to bring you this webinar that touches on a variety of caregiving topics. Mediate BC is committed to providing people with practical, accessible, and affordable choices to prevent, manage and resolve disputes. Mediators on its roster mediate a variety of family-related matters, including financial support […]
Where to Draw the Line: Boundary Setting for Caregivers
Sometimes we have to take the time and ask ourselves “where do I draw the line” when it comes to caregiving. It is important to take a step back and evaluate where our caregiving boundaries lie. This learning event is designed to help caregivers understand how to respect and set boundaries when it comes to […]
Communicating in Difficult Discussions
Family Caregivers of BC Presents: Coach Caregiver: Communicating in Difficult Discussions. This webinar is facilitated by Jodie McDonald, a Registered Social Worker is trained in the Non-Violent Communication (NVC) technique will illustrate how to apply the NVC technique to caregiver situations. Non-Violent Communication is a tool that allows us to speak from the point of […]
Add a Pharmacist to Your Care Team
Handout Family caregivers are often those most involved in overseeing the medications of the person they are caring for. The work involved can be daunting – including keeping track of medications, doses and changes that may occur due to specialist involvement, stays in acute care, etc. It is important to keep good records to make […]
Acute Care for Caregivers
Handout In today’s world we hear a lot about disaster planning and preparing for events we hope will never happen. A visit to Acute Care can feel like a disaster but with a bit of a road map and groundwork, it doesn’t have to. This webinar will help you think about a possible visit to […]
The IAA (Intention, Attention, Attitude) Model of Mindfulness
Kate Landreth explains the IAA Model of Mindfulness (Intention, Attention, and Attitude) by Dr. Shauna Shapiro – we like this approach to mindfulness because the model depicts a process incorporating intention, awareness and attitude, with each element reinforcing the other two. Our mind wanders 46.9% of the time, with 12-50,000 thoughts per day. With so […]
Setting Intentions
Setting an intention helps clarify what is most important for the day or in a moment. We hear and validate the stories of caregivers all across BC. Caregiving offers many rewards, however, at times and currently, it can feel and be really challenging. It asks a lot of you. Find out why setting intentions can […]