A Series of Short Videos – Interactive Webinars & Experiences – Useful Coping Tips & Tools

for HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS & THEIR FAMILIES

A Care Package for the Caretakers: Securing Your own Mask

Led by Jacqueline Germain, MS, ND; Anna Tansi, MS Org Psych; and Theresa Walsh Velendzas, MS

Join these 30-minute sessions and access the many subsequent tools that will be made available to explore various challenges of the caregiver experience during this crisis. The purpose of the initial offering will be to reflect and connect as peers in caregiving.

You are invited to recharge and take care of yourself so you can effectively help others…You will be inspired and given resources to incorporate self-care practices during the busy-ness of the extended crisis.

A Caretakers Supply Kit will accompany you on your journey through this and other crises. May you find it of value to you.

This program is tailored for essential workers in critical roles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We are caregivers, managers, collaborators, and family members on the front lines doing our best to shine a light for others in their time of need. During our time together, we will honor the caregiver experience and offer a package with supportive, restorative self-care supplies that can be accessed any time and integrated into the journey ahead.

Together, we will:

A. Speak to some of the unique challenges of practitioners and their families who are on the frontline.

B. Acknowledge our activated parts: caregiver, collaborate, manager, and other parts that may be echoing from afar.

C. Bolster and enrich our self-care practices.

SCHEDULE
May & June 2020 | All Sessions & Experience Open & Free | Registration is Expected

PROGRAM LEADERS

Jacqueline Germain, MS, ND, is a co-founder of The Connecticut Center for Health and has practiced natural family medicine since 1983. Prior to medical school, she studied Botany, Religious Studies and Environmental Science. She recently completed Internal Family Systems levels 1 and 2 at Central CT State University and completed a certificate program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She is passionate about overall well-being integrating these modalities with individuals and groups as well as organizations.

Anna Tansi, MS Org. Psych, began her career as a Registered Dietitian, focused on the whole health of human beings. After she got her MS in Org Psychology, she re-tooled her focus to supporting the health of human systems as people collaborate to get work done. She provides facilitation, coaching and consulting expertise to organizations of all kinds, as they explore how to care for and optimize the work environment while also attending to/caring for their own inner systems.

Theresa Velendzas, MS, is the founder of Altraform where she helps clients with wellness self-advocacy, a core life principle that she learned from the beloved elderly she worked with in various long-term care settings. In addition to her studies in Psychology and Health Care Management, Theresa holds certifications in Fitness and Internal Family Systems (IFS). A mom and spouse to an ER Physician on the frontlines of COVID-19, she offers tools for grounding ourselves so that we can help others.