The Mindful Parents and Caregivers Training focuses on Social Service workers, nurses, case managers, school councelors, parents, and foster parents. The work focuses on emotional awareness and regulation, self-care, stress reduction, and practical mindful communication techniques.

The training can be adapted to either a 4, 8, or 16 hour format and we work closely prior to the training to tailor the content to best suit your school, agency or organization's needs.

Key skills areas include:

• optimizing caregiver-client communication
• reducing both caregiver and client stress and anxiety
• incorporating mindfulness practices into the caregiver-client relationships
• developing ongoing self-care and mindfulness skills.

This training will focus on serving mental health specialists and direct services social workers, and will include hands-on practices for increasing present-time awareness as a caregiver, as well as practices which can be shared directly with clients, even those with no self-care or mindfulness skills of their own.

Yoga and Mindfulness have been shown, through extensive clinical research, to reduce chronic stress and to counter negative neurological effects of secondary trauma. Such training accentuates skills in present-time awareness, allowing greater facility in handling difficult situations. Therapists' increased capacity to care for themselves directly correlates to enhanced ability to care for clients.

Benefits

The robust practice and tools taught in this training can be applied any time, in diverse work or family situations, empowering caregivers and helping clients with:

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• Enhanced Effectiveness as Caregiver
• Greater Personal Wellbeing
• Stronger Emotional Capacity
• Reduced Stress and Anxiety
• More Effective Communication
• Greater Ability to Meet Core Needs

Instructor Bio

Mark Lilly is a medical communication educator, author, yoga therapist, the founder of Portland non-profit Street Yoga and parent. His work brings practical mindfulness tools to critical situations for parents, health care providers, social workers, teachers and families and youth at-risk.

Please contact us for more information on this program.