Arts-Based Experiential Learning for Caregivers

For caregivers, the difference between high-performance and average involves more than technical proficiency. Most caregivers must receive training and formally demonstrate competence in the tasks and duties required for their job. Often considered the core of caregiver work, we treat technical skills as the foundation upon which to build next-level caregiver performance.

The ART of High Performance Caregiving develops an interconnected set of soft and hard skills for whole-person caregiving. This is accomplished by immersing participants in advanced leadership training activities, powerful neuroarts exercises, and training in simple, high-impact personal routines. We guide caregivers as they challenge limiting beliefs, learn to see differently, adapt creatively, and strengthen resilience. By fostering engagement, curiosity, and teamwork, our program helps caregivers shift from merely performing tasks to actively engaging with their work. This results in enhanced team dynamics, proactive collaboration, and improved creativity when solving problems. Equipped with a transformed mindset and new skills to match, caregivers leave ready to go beyond expectations and contribute to a culture of innovation and care that will set any organization apart.

Remember the Karate Kid Movie? When Mr. Miyagi agreed to mentor Daniel after he rescued him from a bully, he put him to work doing things that seemed unrelated to becoming a karate expert, but in the process strengthened Daniel in ways he didn't realize. 

We take a similar approach. We teach through unfamiliar (yet fun) experiences that support high level skill development and facilitate a shift in perspective. 

We aren't just teaching caregivers techniques and approaches that serve them for the moment. We are teaching them how to understand, see, assess and innovate in the moment on behalf of those they care for. Ours is an approach developed through 10 years of National Science Foundation funded research, and additionally enriched by activities leveraging brain science, health science and innovation education. The focus of our training is to help meet the cognitive needs, emotional needs, physical needs, professional growth and spiritual need for purpose, in a job that is as impactful as it is important...Caregiving.