Description

Our Course for Carers provides carers with the tools to: understand the disease, support their loved ones, and help look after themselves.

The pack includes:

• Digital Download of the Carers Course (this will be emailed)
• 4 hours of online training
• One printed copy (delivered within the UK)
• Support from Caraway for the first course you run

Before making your purchase – we would recommend you show interest by emailing caraway@caraway.uk.com

You will then receive a telephone call from Dr Ros Simpson or Chaplain for Dementia – Karen Kingston. 

Course Overview

The Caraway Course for Carers has been specifically designed for carers of someone with a new diagnosis (within the last 2 years) of a dementia.  Running alongside Caraway Memory Cafés, the course introduces how you can live well with dementia and what support networks are available throughout Southampton. Participants come to understand what it is like for the person with dementia, and to care appropriately for their needs, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sharing with other carers is invaluable, and making new friends to help you is massive. 

Course aims:  

• To enable carers to meet other carers, make new friends, and gain communal support from each other. 
• Help carers to understand the emotional responses that are a multiple loss situation, and give focused advice on how to cope, and how to look after yourself emotionally and spiritually. 
• Help carers to understand dementias of various causes, and so learn best management of the person with dementia. 
• Explain what help is available and when to ask for it. 

Who is this course for?

• This course is for carers of someone living with dementia. 
• Dementia causes a huge interruption in our lives – the lives we had, the lives we have and the lives we expected and wanted to have.
• This course is for you, the carer, to learn more about living well with dementia. 

Programme:

Session 1: Getting to know each other

Session 2: Noticing feelings and safe places

Session 3: Coping with anger, guilt and persistent unhelpful thoughts!

Session 4: Good friends and bad days: self-compassion 

Session 5: Communication aspects

Session 6: Living positively

Session 7: Wrapping up: being kind to yourself and moving forward hopefully

Developing a Wellness Tool bag

This course is all about looking after yourself!  

Emotional Logic

We have teamed up with Emotional Logic to develop this course.

You can develop at least 1 other team member, and train them in Emotional logic for £10 , their introductory course.

We also recommend the lead facilitator learns about Emotional Logic as a main facilitator, by completing the Emotional Logic Foundation course.