The short video above introduces our Juggling Care and Catching the Smiles online course
Part One: How to Enjoy More 'You Time' as a Carer
Would you like to find ways to regularly relax and use your time well? Part One shows you how to increase your energy and share with others the tasks that need doing. With the help of these short videos and easy exercises you can soon have more time to use how you’d like.
Part Two: How to Reduce Stress and Relax whilst Caring
How different would your life be if you could reduce the stress you experience? Your everyday life will become more enjoyable as you work through Part Two’s guide for handling stress better.
Part Three: How to Build Better Caring Relationships
Are there improvements you’d like to make in how people get on together in your caring situation? Part Three explores different aspects of people’s personalities and their preferences and this helps you find new ways to enrich the relationships around you.
Part Four: Using CARER to Plan for Success
How useful would it be to have a framework of questions that helps you develop plans for all sorts of things of your choosing? Part Four builds on the abilities you’ve developed in the earlier three parts and introduces the CARER Plan for you to use going forward.
Course Schedule
- Introducing How to Enjoy More 'You Time' as a Carer (4:19)
- Session 1A: Getting Started (6:16)
- Session 1B: Gaining a Good Overview (4:20)
- Session 1C: Valuing Time and Creating More of it (10:16)
- Session 1D: Reducing Indecision (5:59)
- Session 1E: Using Your Energy Well (9:59)
- Session 1F: Promoting Being Well (6:26)
- Session 1G: Increasing Delegation (8:53)
- Session 1 H: Review of Part One
- Introducing Part Two: How to Reduce Stress and Relax whilst Caring (3:16)
- Session 2A: Values (6:37)
- Session 2B: Growing Resilience (5:30)
- Session 2C: Causes of Stress (4:36)
- Session 2D: Handling Stress Well (7:10)
- Session 2E: Preparing to Learn New Things (10:54)
- Session 2F: Improving Communication (12:10)
- Session 2G: Gaining New Insights (9:39)
- Session 2H: Possible Responses (2:53)
- Session 2I: Building Responses You Enjoy (5:52)
- Session 2J: Ways of Coping with Remaining Stress (7:18)
- Session 2K: Review of Part Two
- Introducing Part Three: Strengthening Caring Relationships (5:45)
- Session 3A: Learning Preferences (6:29)
- Session 3B: Spotting Abilities (3:35)
- Session 3C: Reviewing Roles and Responsibilities (2:32)
- Session 3D: Preferences about Receiving Care (5:14)
- Session 3E: Keeping Balanced (8:23)
- Session 3F: Preparing for Change (5:36)
- Session 3G: Things that Motivate Different People (7:06)
- Session 3H: Things that Convince Different People (3:27)
- Session 3I: Undertaking Changes (2:41)
- Session 3J: Possible Reasons for Resistance to Necessary Changes (4:42)
- Review of Part Three
- Introducing Part Four - Using CARER to Plan for Success (5:19)
- Session 4A: The C Stage - Creating Choice (9:07)
- Session 4B: The A Stage - Assessing What's Missing (4:38)
- Session 4C: The R Stage - Reaching out to all the Options (7:38)
- Session 4D: The ‘E’ Stage - Engaging for Action (4:48)
- Session 4E: The Second ‘R’ Stage - Reviewing Progress (4:08)
- Session 4F: Applying CARER to your Situation
- Session 4G: Going Forward (4:14)
- Session 4H: Your Feedback please
Course Presenter
Annette Merrick has looked after relatives with serious medical conditions for over 25 years whilst bringing up her family and juggling a busy workload. Having worked in large companies and small start-up businesses, now as a professional Caregiving Coach she uses this experience to help people who provide care for their family and friends, so that they can build themselves a better quality of life – whether they're combining caring with employment or have caring as a full-time commitment.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does Juggling Care and Catching the Smiles start?
- As soon as you've enrolled, you’ll be able to start the course. You'll then have access to it via the internet for three years. It's totally up to you where and when you complete each short session. And in this way it's easy to fit the course around the other calls on your time.
What do I need for the course?
- Apart from needing to have access to the internet, there are no pre-requisites for this course.
- There are no requirements as to how long you've been looking after someone. As you'll see from our Testimonials, it benefits people who've been carers for many years. And it also helps people who have caring on the horizon.
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It’s useful to have a notebook or pad of paper to hand as you go through the course and you may wish to print off the downloads that are at the end of each session.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
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Our aim is to help you make your caring situation the best you can and we hope your experience will be as positive as the comments on our Testimonials page. However, if you are unhappy with the course content, we offer a money back refund - all we ask is that you give us a fair chance to resolve any issues by contacting us within 21 days of having enrolled, using our website’s link to contact us.