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Be Empowered – Winchcombe – Day Time
March 12 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Session One – Looking after yourself as a Carer, including in a crisis
The session explores how you can look after yourself in your caring role. We explore how to look after yourself in a period of stress or crisis, and help you develop a plan as to what you should consider to help you cope in these situations.
Session Two – Developing Healthy Boundaries and Building Resilience
We explore different techniques to help you cope under difficult situations. The session looks at ways to improve the clarity of roles establishing and maintaining health boundaries to give everyone a sense of safety and control.
Session Three – Dealing with Carer Guilt & Compassion Fatigue &Feeling of Loss
The session looks at how compassion fatigue develops and what it looks like as a Carer that you may not be aware of. We explore how you can feel loss and grief for the changes felt due to your caring role.
Session Four – Communication with professionals, building confidence& knowing your rights.
This Session looks at types of communication that you can use and how to successfully put it into practice. The session includes hints and tips to communicate confidently with services. The session covers some of your Rights as a Carer.
Session Five – Contingency Planning
Explore what to put in place to help reduce panic and ensure the right information is shared at the right time.
Session Six – Planning hospital care and discharge including technology & services to support at home.
Looks at planning hospital and healthcare to promote you, as a Carer being involved as either a patient or a visitor to the person you support.
Joining is simple.
For Face to Face events – You can just come along or book your place for bookings only by completing your details below, further information will be sent to you prior to the event taking place – all links and locations will be send out the Friday prior to the event.
For Online Zoom/ Teams sessions – We will email you the links for each week, if you click on the session link at the relevant time and date (you might need to check your spam and junk mail folder). All you need is access to the internet, a phone, laptop, tablet or computer with a camera (optional) and microphone (most laptops and phones have this built-in now)
Please be aware that these sessions are only available to Carers who are currently registered with us. If you haven’t already registered with us and are a Carer please click here to register and then come back to this page to book onto the event.