This working group is a highly exclusive cohort program for busy working adults who find themselves taking on (or in the middle of) caregiving for a loved one.
At the end of this six-month program, you’ll feel confident, capable, and prepared to face any challenge. Not just in caregiving, but in all aspects of your life. Because if you can flourish through caregiving (and you can), then you can take on anything life throws at you.
Why this program
After watching people quit jobs, lose family relationships, and suffer poor health due to caregiving responsibilities, we knew there had to be a better way. So for the last four years, we’ve been studying what differentiates successful caregivers from the ones who end up sacrificing themselves along the way.
We observed several common themes, and we’ve been refining our approach through workshops over the past 18 months. By integrating recent neuroscience reporting with advanced coaching methodologies, we’ve developed our own models that provide a pathway for caregivers to not just survive caregiving, but to flourish through it and beyond.
We’ve taught these models in venues from local nonprofits to Stanford Health, and from informal lunch-n-learn settings to accredited continuing education classes for coaches and mental health professionals. Through one-on-one and group sessions, we’ve taught more than 100 professionals and coached more than 250 individuals.
We’ve also informed this work with our own lived experience as caregivers in cancer, dementia, depression, Parkinson’s, parenting, elder care, emotional trauma, and more.
What you get
Over the course of the six-month cohort, participants will get:
- One three-hour in-person group coaching and problem-solving session each month, consisting of both a guided curriculum and a free-form solutioning discussion
- One hour-long, one-on-one coaching session each month with either Peter or Antoinette
- An optional “office hours” style virtual group check-in each month
- Ongoing access to Peter and Antoinette by text or phone for quick questions or support
- A blank Gray Bear journal in which to track your progress
- A copy of RELIT: How to Rekindle Yourself in the Darkness of Compassion Fatigue
- A highly vetted and highly committed cohort to help ideate solutions and integrate the lessons
The guided curriculum is focused on the personal growth of each participant. The techniques, skills, and mindset transformation will serve you far beyond this cohort and will have resonating effects in career, family, and health for years to come. Among other things, we’ll cover the Three Cs of Caregiving and the 11 Paths to Personal Resilience. We’ll help you understand relationship polarities, give you tools to keep from drowning, and give you simple techniques to get the most out of the assets available to you.
At the end, you’ll feel confident, capable, and ready for anything.
Who should inquire
This program is designed for busy professionals (executives, business owners, primary breadwinners) who can’t afford to lose their job, their health, or their relationships simply because they became responsible for caregiving a loved one. But you don’t have to be actively employed to participate. We are looking for people who are committed to making the most of this journey and who are committed to showing up for each other.
Take this next step
Sign up for a no-obligation, no-cost conversation to see if this group is right for you. We’ll also be looking to confirm that you’re right for this group.
How is this different from other types of support?
This is not support. It’s coaching, instruction, and activation. Existing support for caregivers tends to come in one of three packages:
- Products you can buy – apps, advice, books, and trainings that tell you how to tackle easily defined, small-scope, easily solved problems
- Professional services – help focused on a specific aspect of caregiving such as legal advice, financial planning, or specific care services (e.g. transportation, in-home care support, etc.)
- Support groups – often volunteer-led, many support groups turn into commiseration circles where participants can feel seen, heard, and less alone
Most support for caregivers is designed to ease the pain, suffering, and sadness of caregiving.
Did you know that in the case of Alzheimer’s, 40% of caregivers will suffer depression and two out of five caregivers will die before the person they’re caring for dies? That’s what most support services will tell you.
We prefer to look at those same numbers and design our program on the fact that 60% of caregivers won’t express depression, and three out of five will go on to have a life after the person they’re caring for is gone.
Which group would you rather be in? You get to decide. If you’d like to flourish on this journey and have a fulfilling life on the other side, this program is for you.
