This working group is a small, intimate cohort program for busy working adults who find themselves taking on (or in the middle of) caregiving for a loved one.
It’s 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.
Most caregivers get stuck in survival mode. This program helps you move forward. 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 we know you can because we have), then you can take on anything life throws at you.
How is this different from other types of support?
This working group is much more than support. It’s coaching, instruction, personal growth, and activation. Most support for caregivers is designed to help people endure the pain, suffering, and sadness that caregiving can bring. But enduring isn’t nearly enough. It’s just holding on. At the end you’re depleted, exhausted, and broken.
What if you could have tools, techniques, and mindset shifts that not only get you through this journey but also empower you to make the most of it? To feel whole and confident and proud of how you handled it? This group will do that while also giving you tools, techniques, solutions, and mindset shifts to reduce and maybe even eliminate those things.
Existing support for caregivers tends to come in one of three packages:
- Support groups – often volunteer-led, many support groups help participants feel seen, heard, and less aloneWhy this program
- Products you can buy – apps, books, and trainings that tell you how to tackle well defined, small-scope, easily solved problems
- Professional services – help focused on a specific aspect of caregiving such as legal advice, financial planning, transportation, or in-home care
Each of those provides a specific type of value, and most caregivers will use all of them at some point. Our goal is not to replace them, but to help you make the best use of everything available to you, at the right time, and in the right order.
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This program
Flourishing Through Caregiving
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Support groups | Apps & books | Professional services | |
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| You feel seen and less alone | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
| Practical tools and techniques you can use immediately | ✓ | – | some | narrow |
| One-on-one coaching personalized to your situation | ✓ | – | – | some |
| Helps you make the most of the other services you’re using | ✓ | varies | – | some |
| Ongoing access to expert coaches between sessions | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Curriculum grounded in neuroscience and coaching research | ✓ | – | varies | some |
| A vetted, committed peer cohort who problem-solves with you | ✓ | varies | – | – |
| Designed to help you flourish, not just endure | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Skills that serve you beyond caregiving | ✓ | – | some | – |
✓ = included | – = not included | some / varies / narrow = partial or limited
What will you get?
Six months from now, you’ll be a different person—not just a better caregiver.
Over the course of the six-month cohort, participants will get:
- A monthly three-hour in-person group coaching and problem-solving session with a guided curriculum
- Six one-on-one coaching sessions (one per month) with either Peter or Antoinette
- Monthly “office hours” group check-in over Zoom
- Ongoing access to Peter and Antoinette by text or phone for 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. These techniques, skills, and mindset transformations 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.
By the end, you’ll feel confident, capable, and ready for anything.
Why did we create 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 delivering 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.
Take this next step:
The first step is a conversation. We’ll talk about your situation specifically and what success would mean to you. We’ll also explore whether this is the right fit—for you, and for the cohort. We won’t hard-sell you because the right fit will be far more powerful for everyone than just one more participant.
In advance of this call, consider the questions below.
- What’s one important caregiving decision you haven’t yet made?
- Who in your care team or inner circle are you struggling to engage?
- How is the stress of caregiving getting in the way of your work?
- If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your situation, what would it be? More important, how would life be different after this change?
At the end of this call, we should both know whether this is the right fit for you.
What future will you choose for yourself?
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 you’ll hear most of the time—that caregiving is hard, sad, and a tremendous personal sacrifice.
But look at those same numbers another way: 60% of caregivers won’t experience depression, and three out of five will go on to have a life after the person they’re caring for is gone. Caregiving is hard. It is often sad, and it can force you into what seem like impossible decisions. But that doesn’t have to define your experience. There is a better way.
Which future will you choose for yourself?
