Arts-Based Experiential Learning for Caregivers

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.

This training has given us the privilege of serving the caregiving community including: caregivers in independent living, assisted living, memory care and nursing homes. We also serve activity directors, nurses, therapists, doctors and leaders of caregiving institutions, including hospitals. We also serve decision makers for aging and long-term care in government. We provide a professional certificate to graduates of The ART of High-Performance Caregiving, as well as additional training opportunities that will be coming soon to expand professional growth 

and skill development. 

We do it because we care. Once you've had an experience with high-performance caregiving you can settle for nothing less for your loved ones. Once we realized we had a key to helping caregivers grow and become, happier, better caregivers... we had to make our strategy available. 

‘There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.’ 

Rosalyn Carter

Rosalyn Carter Institute for Caregivers

We train when you need it. The ART of High Performance Caregiving is a total of 12 hours of training. 

We currently train anywhere in the United States of America. 

Our organization is based in New Mexico, USA