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Enhancing the experience
of caregiving by teaching
mindfulness and compassion

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Caregivers

Caregivers

We train family, professional, and clinical caregivers to develop and apply mindfulness for engaged care.
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Volunteers

Volunteers

We offer an opportunity to cultivate awareness and compassion by caring for those with chronic and terminal illness.
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Partners

Partners

We pursue better caregiving through partnering with networks of inspired people and organizations.
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Our Offerings

We teach mindfulness and compassion to improve well-being and care.

Our work, drawing from over 30 years of experience in hospice and end of life care, is grounded in the expression
of the universal values of compassion and service. We teach caregivers to use mindfulness-based tools to improve
well-being, and through conversation, we inspire each other to live fully in the face of the universal experience of loss.

Mindful Caregiving Education

Our courses improve care by helping caregivers build emotional resilience and work skillfully with stress and loss.
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Volunteer Caregiving Program

We train volunteers in skills grounded in mindfulness and compassion to serve people who are chronically ill or dying.
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Exploring Loss

We create and participate in workshops, events and conferences to bring the topics of loss and death into the open.
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Statement of Action

Our Commitment to Racial Equity


Zen Caregiving Project has always believed and taught that all beings are interconnected and interdependent, that the pain and suffering of another is the pain and suffering of us all. We condemn the violence against BIPOC and unjust structures of systemic racism that continue to marginalize and harm people of color.

Our team has been reflecting on our own actions, as individuals and as part of the larger organization, and we have developed an organization-wide commitment to Racial Equity which you can read by clicking the button below.

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Resources

Check out our library of free, online resources

At Zen Caregiving Project we want to share our approach and teaching with as many people as possible. That’s why, over the last few years, we have been recording our live sessions and posting them on our resources page. We have videos on topics such as Self Compassion, Working with Grief, Building Resilience and Managing Difficult Emotions. You can also find blogs about our work, and lists of further resources you may find helpful.

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News from the Field

On Caregiving

Rite of Passage

Family Caregiving is a Rite of Passage

What unites most people who join our courses is the struggle caregiving presents in their already busy lives.
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A Good Death Memorialized: Mom had a beautiful death. Now what?

A story of grieving and memorializing during the pandemic
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A List to Reduce Work for Your Next-of-Kin

Donna Woodward, a hospice and dementia-care volunteer, shares some useful information and templates to help your next-of-kin.
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How Zen Caregiving Project sessions have helped me in my work

Joan shares her story as to how ZCP sessions have helped her in her work as a licensed professional counselor.
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How we’re reaching Chinese-speaking family caregivers

We partnered with CACCC to translate our Mindful Family Caregiving course into Chinese and trained Chinese-speaking volunteers to deliver the course.
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Staying close from afar: Palliative care volunteering during the pandemic

Bethany Becker speaks about her experience volunteering during the pandemic.
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Testimonials

What People Are Saying

We want to improve the care experience for everyone. Our greatest reward is knowing that our training improves the well being of those we serve.
I feel more connected to the person I am caring for because of this class, and I feel more connected to myself.
Course participant
Mindful Family Caregiving Course Participant (Online)
Volunteering at Zen Hospice Project has had a profound influence on my life. It brings joy to my life and I always receive much more than I give.
Laurent de Bord
Volunteer Caregiver at Laguna Honda Hospital
Your workshop was a highlight of the weekend. It felt incredibly gratifying.
Mindy Relyea
Everpresence Symposium Founder, and Director
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Partners

We believe that better caregiving happens through networks of
inspired people and organizations working together.

We work with a range of different partners to share our mindfulness-based approach to caregiving.
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