Introduction to Conscious Care and Support 8-week course

Name: Introduction to Conscious Care and Support 8-week course
Start: 2025-11-18T18:00:00-0500
End: 2025-11-18T23:30:00-0500

Tue, 18 Nov, 6pm - 11:30pm EST

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Consicous Care and Support

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Where: Online

When: Sydney Australia – 19 November 10am, Chicago USA – 18 November 5pm, Toronto Canada – 18 November 6pm

Cost: Free

Discover a transformative approach to support work with Adriana McVicker, Michaela Kennedy and Peter Leidy, who will provide an overview of the 8-week program starting in January 2026.

The big piece is that makes this is such a unique training, is that it looks at both the person that's being supported along with a supporter. Supporters go to so many trainings that are all about how we help others, in the way of fixing others. We hear so much about compassion fatigue and taking care of ourselves, but this is the compartmentalisation of the person with disabilities and their supporters. What makes CCS so unique, is that you can't have one without the other. Someone's wellness is dependent on the wellness of others as well; you must bring it together. That is what is makes CCS model different. We support the wellness of the person being supported as well as the supporters.

Key Topics Covered:

• Mindful Emotional Maturity – Developing self-awareness, empathy, and emotional regulation.

• Evidence-Based Support Strategies – Sensory integration, GI health, trauma recovery, and brain coherence techniques.

• Unconditional Compassion – Cultivating resilience and authentic care, even in challenging moments.

• Preventing Burnout – Addressing the “4 Outs” (burnout, tuning out, spacing out, freaking out) to Sustain Passion and Patience.

• Holistic Wellbeing – Integrating mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and nutrition for optimal support.

Why Attend?

• Improve quality of life for those you support through non-behavioural, trauma-informed approaches.

• Boost job satisfaction & resilience – Learn tools to stay grounded, compassionate, and practical.

• Learn from real-world expertise – Combines decades of leadership with cutting-edge neuroscience and mindful care practices.

“True care begins with conscious presence, for ourselves and those we support.”

Register now to deepen your impact as a caregiver and leader!

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Adriana McVicker

RP (Qualifying)

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario. Adriana has over 20 years of experience working with children, adults, and their families and for over 17 years.

She has worked with Community Living Windsor in various roles including direct support and in positions of management including support services staff development, communications, community relations, and project management.

Adriana has facilitated in-class and online educational and experiential practices of B-FIT Mindfulness for 5 years and is an instructor with University of Toronto’s Continuing Studies Program- Conscious Care and Support Course.

Adriana deeply values using a comprehensive approach while providing quality supports for people and families and is a true believer that all of us are interdependent and carry a responsibility to help one another be the best we can.

Peter Leidy

Peter has been learning from people with disabilities since 1983. Peter is a consultant, facilitator, listener, learner, improviser, and speaker who focuses on personalized supports and community membership for people with disabilities.

He also writes and sings songs about human serviceland and those who find themselves connected to it.

Peter conducts workshops, develops training materials, writes songs, speaks and sings at conferences, and works with organizations, government agencies, families, and paid supporters to promote positive support, inclusion, building healthy relationships, and thinking differently about people who are called “challenging.”

Michaela Kennedy

Michaela has worked at many levels within organisations, leading the cultural change. At Inclusion Tree as the Managing Director ensuring Person Centredness and Inclusion are the foundational principles that underpin the organisation’s culture and practices.

Michaela is a skilled practitioner and trainer of Person Centred Thinking and Planning including Maps, Paths and Lifestyle Planning, Person Centred Active Support, Supported Decision Making, Community Connecting, Person Centred Coaching and Mentoring, Team Building and Strategic Planning, Participatory Leadership and Self-Management Practices.

She has worked in the disability sector in Australia for over 30 years; has presented at various State, National and International Conferences, facilitated training for organisations and groups of families. She is passionate about people and families having choice and control in life and for all people to consciously live the journey that makes most sense to them.

Tue, 18 Nov, 6pm - 11:30pm EST

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