CAREgiving, live & online
CAREgiving, live & online
Discover the profound techniques and tools that redefine caregiving.
Equip yourself with the emotional strength and resilience needed to care for your loved ones with mindfulness and compassion.
Join experienced instructors in this live, online CAREgiving course which is open to anyone interested or involved in caregiving in any capacity.
upcoming courses:
CAREgiving is an online course grounded in mindfulness that introduces accessible tools and approaches that support caregivers in building emotional resilience and sustaining high quality care with wisdom and compassion. Class sessions directly address the emotional complexities and unique rewards that come with the important role of being a caregiver.
course highlights:
Empowerment through Mindfulness: Learn to harness mindfulness strategies to build your emotional resilience.
Stress Management: Acquire practical techniques for effective stress management, boosting your well-being in all aspects of life.
Comprehensive Learning: Benefit from a well-structured program spanning six detailed modules, each addressing key facets of caregiving.
Ongoing Support: Upon completion of any of our MCE courses, participants are invited to join our Caregiver Support Circles, an offering that supports caregivers in continuing the skills learned while connecting with others in a relaxed format. These weekly one hour sessions are lightly facilitated and include meditation, check in, and discussion.
course overview:
Week One:
Self-Care – Using mindfulness to prevent burnout
Navigating Big Emotions – Working skillfully with intense feelings
Week Two:
Compassion in Caregiving – Caring for yourself and others
Embracing Change and Loss – A mindful approach
Week Three:
Healthy Boundaries – Establishing emotional balance
Deepening Connection – A fresh perspective on listening and sharing
Join our CAREgiving course today and embark on a journey to transform your caregiving experience with mindfulness at its heart. Empower yourself to navigate the complexities of caregiving with emotional resilience and mindfulness-based strategies.
Each week, we incorporate teaching, guided meditations, small group activities, and conversation. Handouts are provided for the course.
who is it for?
CAREgiving is open to anyone interested or involved in caregiving in any capacity, and we especially welcome and encourage family caregivers to join this course. Whether you are a clinician, a professional caregiver, an informal caregiver, or someone who wants to learn more about our approach, the topics and teachings covered will be relevant and of lasting value.
Led by experienced instructors, our courses provide the opportunity to learn methods that reduce stress and burnout, and tools that support you in providing quality care and authentic connection in any care environment.
“I learned to care for myself in addition to caring for others, and I learned to be compassionate toward myself. What a gift this class was. ”
– Course Participant
meet our instructors
Cassandra Palmer
Cassandra, a Zen Caregiving Project Facilitator, has served as a volunteer caregiver at the Zen Hospice Project Guest House for five years and is committed to providing mindful support to families and residents experiencing the end of life process. Cassandra is an active facilitator in the Mindful Caregiver Education and Open Death Conversation programs and is passionate about providing opportunities for people from all walks of life to explore their relationship with death and compassionate care. Cassandra is also trained in being an End of Life Doula and has an academic background in Holistic Psychology and Counseling.
Loretta Lowrey
Loretta Lowrey is a volunteer caregiver with Zen Caregiving Project. She served on Laguna Honda Hospital’s AIDS and Palliative Care wards from 1992 – 1995, and returned to serve there in 2013. She has been a facilitator for ZCP’s biannual New Volunteer Training since 2017. During her career in non-profit management, she held leadership positions in development and community programming at SFMOMA, Hospice by The Bay, George Mark Children’s House, and OMCA.
Loretta is an alumnus of the Metta Institute’s End-of-Life Practitioner Program, which focuses on mindful and compassionate caregiving, and a certified facilitator for the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ Conscious Aging Program.
Teresa Bouza
Teresa Bouza is a journalist, a writer, a caregiver, and a Zen practitioner. She was born in Latin America, grew up in Spain, and has spent most of her professional career in the US over the last two decades. She has worked for The Wall Street Journal as well as Spain’s global news agency EFE, the Spanish business daily Cinco Dias and Hispanic TV station Univision. Teresa graduated from Columbia University and is a recipient of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford. A longtime meditation practitioner, she is an active member of Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View (California). Teresa is the co-author of “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley.” She is currently taking care of her mother, who has Alzheimer’s. She loves spending time outdoors.
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Teresa Bouza es periodista, escritora, cuidadora y practicante de meditación Zen. Nació en Latinoamérica, creció en España y ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera profesional en Estados Unidos. Ha trabajado para el diario The Wall Street Journal, la agencia global de noticias EFE, el diario financiero español Cinco Días y la cadena de televisión Univision. Cursó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Columbia y obtuvo una Beca John S. Knight de Periodismo en la Universidad de Stanford en el año 2012. Teresa practica meditación zen desde hace dos décadas y tiene una participación activa en el Centro Zen Kannon Do de Mountain View (California). Es coautora, junto con su maestro Zen, Les Kaye, del libro “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley.” (“Sentir que hay algo más grande: Zen y la búsqueda de una vida equilibrada en Silicon Valley.”). En la actualidad cuida a su madre que tiene Alzheimer. Le encanta pasar tiempo en la Naturaleza.
Roy Remer
Roy, Zen Caregiving Project’s Executive Director, has been an end-of-life caregiver and educator since 1997. He trained with Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) to become a volunteer and served at the bedside for six years at the Guest House facility before serving for seven years on San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital’s Palliative Care Ward. Roy served on the ZHP board of directors from 2002 until 2008. In 2008, he completed a yearlong end-of-life caregiver training at the Metta Institute in Sausalito, CA.
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Teresa Bouza es periodista, escritora, cuidadora y practicante de meditación Zen. Nació en Latinoamérica, creció en España y ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera profesional en Estados Unidos. Ha trabajado para el diario The Wall Street Journal, la agencia global de noticias EFE, el diario financiero español Cinco Días y la cadena de televisión Univision. Cursó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Columbia y obtuvo una Beca John S. Knight de Periodismo en la Universidad de Stanford en el año 2012. Teresa practica meditación zen desde hace dos décadas y tiene una participación activa en el Centro Zen Kannon Do de Mountain View (California). Es coautora, junto con su maestro Zen, Les Kaye, del libro “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley.” (“Sentir que hay algo más grande: Zen y la búsqueda de una vida equilibrada en Silicon Valley.”). En la actualidad cuida a su madre que tiene Alzheimer. Le encanta pasar tiempo en la Naturaleza.
Mary Doane
As Supervising Instructor of Education Programs, Mary leads all Zen Caregiving Project’s (ZCP) course offerings. She is responsible for delivering teacher training, and she mentors emerging instructors and develops ZCP’s custom curricula.
Since starting with the organization as a volunteer bedside caregiver in 2005, Mary has also facilitated New Volunteer Trainings and served as Volunteer Program Coordinator.
Mary’s decades of mindfulness and compassion practices, along with personal experiences as a family caregiver, are the groundwaters of her teaching. Mary has also completed Buddhist Chaplaincy Training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and was trained at Stanford University to teach Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™). She has dual CCT Instructor certification from Stanford University School of Medicine, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and Compassion Institute (CI).
Embrace a journey of mindfulness and compassion.
Join our CAREgiving Live & Online program today.
