Stepping into a caregiving role often feels overwhelming. You may be helping with daily tasks, managing emotions, or navigating medical and ethical decisions. Our Essentials of Mindful Caregiving is designed to equip you with foundational skills, emotional awareness, and mindfulness tools so you feel more confident, less alone, and better able to care for yourself as much as your loved one.
At Zen Caregiving Project, we believe excellent caregiving isn’t just about what you do; it’s how you show up. Mindfulness, compassion, and support are woven into everything we teach so that caregivers can sustain their own well-being even when caring demands are high.
Essentials of Mindful Caregiving: Building Resilience Through Mindfulness
The Essentials of Mindful Caregiving is a four-part online course designed to equip caregivers with the mindfulness tools and approaches needed to strengthen emotional resilience while maintaining compassionate, high-quality care. The course covers:
- Cultivating Mindfulness for Engaged Care
- Sustainable Compassion in Caregiving
- Loss and Its Influence on the Caregiving Experience
- Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
Each two-hour session focuses on one topic and includes educational presentations, guided meditations, small group activities, and discussions, with handouts provided for every class.
Caregivers often take on complex responsibilities, medical tasks, emotional support, decision-making without formal training, which can lead to stress and burnout. This course addresses these challenges by offering practical care skills, emotional tools for managing stress, grief, and relational change, and mindfulness practices that promote presence and resilience.
How the Course Works
Here’s what you can expect when you enroll in the Essentials of Mindful Caregiving course:
- Format: Live online sessions mixed with recorded content for flexibility.
- Duration: Four sessions over four weeks, each focusing on a topic in depth.
- Interactive components: Guided meditations, small-group discussions, reflective exercises, and practical handouts.
- Community support: A cohort of fellow caregivers so you feel connected and understood.
These support structures are designed to make learning practical, not just theoretical, and to integrate mindfulness not as an add-on but as part of daily caregiving.
Course Details
Essentials of Mindful Caregiving is a four-part online course designed to support caregivers in building emotional resilience while maintaining compassionate care. Each two-hour session focuses on a single topic:
- Cultivating Mindfulness for Engaged Care
- Sustainable Compassion in Caregiving
- Loss and Its Influence on the Caregiving Experience
- Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
Details:
- Dates: Four consecutive Thursdays — October 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th
- Time: 7:30–9:30 am PT (Live online via Zoom)
- Class Size: Limited to 20 participants
- Duration: 8 hours total (2-hour sessions)
Who Is the Essentials of Mindful Caregiving Course For?
This course is ideal for caregivers who want structured learning and community support while exploring the challenges and demands of caregiving. Zen Caregiving Project’s programs provide tools and approaches aimed at helping caregivers reduce stress, navigate grief, and maintain balance in their caregiving roles. This class is for you if you’re:
- A personal caregiver (family member, friend, partner) stepping into caregiving duties with a desire for support and training
- A first-time caregiver seeking foundational knowledge and emotional resilience
- A seasoned caregiver looking for refreshment in present-moment practices and better self-care
- A professional caregiver looking to expand their mindfulness knowledge and practice
- Anyone wanting to integrate mindfulness, emotional awareness, and compassionate boundaries into caregiving
When you join the Essentials of Caregiving course, you will gain:
- Greater confidence in daily care tasks
- Tools for emotional regulation when caregiving feels overwhelming
- Better ability to communicate with loved ones and professionals
- A stronger foundation of self-care and boundaries
- Enhanced presence and connection in your caregiving role
Build Your Foundations Today
If you are ready to step into caregiving with more clarity, less overwhelm, and deeper compassion, the Essentials of Caregiving course is here for you. In addition to supporting your loved one with practical tasks or medical training, you can transform your inner landscape through mindfulness and emotional tools.Register for the Essentials of Caregiving Course by Zen Caregiving Project to learn foundational caregiving skills, mindfulness practices, boundary setting, and emotional resilience. These are the core tools that sustain both your well-being and the quality of care you offer.