Caregiver Support Cohort

Within the workplace, but also outside the workplace, delegation is key to preserving your energy.

This session centers around the concept of H.A.B.U - Highest And Best Use. We explore what you should delegate and then strategies to engage and delegate constructively to partners, peers, colleagues, and - yes - even family members.

Outcomes from this workshop include:

• Avoiding common delegation mistakes

• Focusing time on the highest and best use of one’s time.

• Determining the “just right” amount of time to stay involved in order to boost engagement agency; and

• Debriefing delegated tasks to highlight mutual learning and feedback.

Conflict is one of the most important markers of a strong and effective relationship, whether at work or in your personal life. But the HOW behind that conflict is key.

Replace power struggles, false harmony, behind-the-back conversations, and other forms of unproductive conflict with real skills in constructive conflict, which we’ll practice in real-time.

Outcomes from this workshop include:

• Clarity on what makes conflict productive and how to create psychologically safe spaces for conflict to occur.

• Perspective-taking on your own destructive responses as a means to reframe them.

• Utilizing inquiry to support your reframing of negative automatic thoughts.

How are you feeling?

Caregivers are often asked this question but, for many of us, it can be difficult depending on how honest we want to be (with ourselves and with others) and also how aware we are of our feelings.

In this session, we focus on understanding our emotions so that we can better regulate them - leading to improved relationships and the ability to weather the inevitable ups and downs of life (in and out of the workplace).

Who are you besides a caregiver? What do you stand for?

This circle experience provides you the opportunity to more clearly define how you operate and what matters as a first step to what’s next in your career and life.

Equally important, we create a safe space to build vulnerability-based trust for cohort participants.

Caregiving is rewarding, exhausting, isolating, grounding - and many, many other descriptors - all rolled into one.

In this circle, we talk about the transition from “me” to “we” and the feelings that can accompany this transition, and how to re-orient ourselves to our purpose and goals for work, for life, and for work-life balance.

We say it often, and we say it loud: caregiving doesn’t stop after the (often not available and seldom fully funded) 12 weeks of family and/or medical leave.

This circle is intended to identify support and to create a plan of action for the months (and years) that follow.

Because remember - you have to put your oxygen mask on first before you help others with theirs.