Education | Mentorship | Community
We Need You To Live Fully Alive as Professional Care Providers!
It’s a method for dignified and joy-filled life in Elder Care.
Welcome to The Connect and Create Institute
Creative Engagement is more than a Life Enrichment Approach. It is a model for the full picture of care. If you leave it up to the Activities team to understand and use Creative Engagement, you are missing a big piece of the pie!
Designed for the elder care professional to discover more about how to best serve and support those living with dementia and their families. Offered live twice a year, this institute has year round offerings and 1:1 Mentorship. You will learn how to use Creative Engagement to magnify one’s purpose and navigate the challenges of caring for someone living with dementia. In this institute, Creative Engagement is not just a marketing term to bring warm fuzzies, but a way of care.
And, as an added bonus, it is an evidence-based model and growing methodology of care.
New Cohort starting April 2025. Join the Monthly Newsletter to learn when registration goes live and to receive a special offer.

Does this sound familiar?
The Roadblocks We All Face
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Are you burnt out and finding yourself staying, “I am only staying for the residents.”
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Do you want to start your career in Senior Living and Dementia Care?
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Are you stuck in a rut professionally and creatively?
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Here’s the thing…
I’ve been there, too. I know what it’s like to feel lost, burnt out, and overwhelmed. You don’t have to carry this on your own.
Each and every one of you has talents, skills, and experiences that bring life and joy to the lives of those you serve. You come to dementia care and senior living through degrees, personal experience, and passion. But, in a sometimes lackluster industry where many still live in doom and gloom, we need a community to help us recognize and magnify our unique purpose in this industry. Let us amplify each other and create a community wealthy in creativity.
The Connect and Create Institute is a place where you can gain information, meet other professionals and students in dementia care, and join mentorship and creative brainstorming calls so you can level up your ability to serve those living with dementia. Often times certifications, conferences, and even attending local networking meetings are out of reach for activities professionals, nurses, and others not in the executive administration of an organization. Missing out on that energy and rejuvenation that comes from living in meeting and learning from others in our field has a much larger impact than we might first realize. So, for less than a cost of a conference and many certifications, and with deeper conversations and connection than a networking meeting, the Connect and Create Institute is here to help you become wealthy in creativity as you journey with those you care for each day.

It doesn’t have to be this way
Just imagine if you could:
Find freedom from the daily grind
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Wake up feeling excited to get to work
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Attract clients you enjoy working with
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Feel confident scaling your business
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Create more time for what truly matters
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Reach your goals without burning out
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Join a Live COhort!
The Connect and Create Institute
An immersive 4 week program, with small groups, and 1:1 mentorship and partnership. Created for Administrators, Social Services Staff, Nursing, Admissions, and Activities Directors.

It’s time to dream and create a better life for our residents.
What’s Inside
In this space, talk about what they can expect from your program and all of the awesome features that are included inside!

Course Feature 1
Small Groups – Exploring themes of curiosity and compassion, and entering into research while resting in humanity.
Course Feature 2
1:1 Mentorship and Support
Focusing on topics important to your daily role as it relates to Creative Engagement, Arts and Health, and understanding Dementia.


Course Feature 3
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HURRY! Enrollment closes in:
The Connect and Create Forum
A 3 year Partnership – Launching with a 4-week Course

The Art of Accompaniment
Module 1
Exploring ways to communicate with those living with dementia and uncover one’s purpose and how to work as an interdisciplinary team. Understanding one’s story and inviting the family into care.
Engagement: Not Just for Activities Staff
Module 2
Learning the difference between activities and engagement and how all staff are part of the Life Enrichment Team. We will walk through the layers of Activity to Engagement to Enrichment, finding ways to make one’s purpose and preferences the focus of our care.


Transforming CHallenges
Module 3
Uncovering Evidence-Based approaches to care to help you navigate challenges when providing care to someone living with dementia and working with their families. We will learn to start looking at behaviors as an invitation not a problem.
Working Together
Module 4
Finding ways to create a community of purpose by creating our own care teams as care professionals, magnifying and examining the gifts and talents each person brings to our roles, and how we can weave our new findings into an interdepartmental model of care.

Tell me, are you…
Connect Meet others in Elder Care
Learn how to Improve what you already offer
Create a new Approach that is Person-Centered for both Staff and Residents
Become a leader in the Senior LIving INdustry and Dementia Care

You’ll thrive in this program if:
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You’re not ready for this if:
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How it works
Select the level of commitment you seek. Partner or Forum Member.
Participate in your program, 1:1 Mentorship, and reach out for create care and support.
Enjoy your lifetime membership in the Connect and Create Institute. Even after your program ends, you will have access to resources and annual updates.
Ready to get started?
Select A plan that works for you
Connect and Create Partnership
Every 3 Months
$199
Connect and Create Forum
Pay in full
$3,000
Meet your Faculty
Hi! I’m Kate
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