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. 

 

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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.

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It doesn’t have to be this way

Just imagine if you could:

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.

I’m Ready to Start!

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!

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tell me, are you…

  • Tired of feeling stuck and excited to break through to the next level?
  • Ready to attract clients who align with your vision and elevate your work?
  • Willing to embrace change and step outside your comfort zone?
  • Eager to learn, grow, and build a business you can be proud of?
  • Determined to stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real, lasting results?
  • Prepared to finally invest in yourself and your business?
Yes! I’m In

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

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Select the level of commitment you seek. Partner or Forum Member.

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Participate in your program, 1:1 Mentorship, and reach out for create care and support.

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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

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Pay in full

$3,000

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Meet your Faculty

Hi! I’m Kate

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The REsults

At the conclusion you will be able to…

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Better recognize how to communicate with residents living with dementia and their family members.

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Identify the purpose, desires, and needs of each resident.

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Engage in moments of joy and challenges as if second nature and not another item on your task list.

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Work together as one unified Care Team instead of siloed department and roles within the care structure.

Take the first step today

Select A plan that works for you

Connect and Create Partnership

Every 3 Months

$199

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Connect and Create Forum

Pay in full

$3,000

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FAQ

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One-on-One Mentorship: Bi-weekly calls to help you develop and

grow as a professional care partner through a sharing of knowledge,

skills, and/or experience, accompanied by tangible resources, and

the development of actionable plans.

Creative Brainstorming Calls: With fellow dementia professionals, to

network, share ideas, and create new programs together for your

community or organization.

Monthly Professional Support Group: Coming together as care

professionals to share experiences and struggles of life in dementia

care.

Exclusive Digital Content: Videos and Podcast episodes created by

myself (and hopefully you one day) that are designed to fit in busy

schedules with ideas and actionable steps.

A Private Community: Currently hosted on Facebook (but taking

suggestions for your favorite platform) we can come together to

share in triumphs and trials between digital gatherings.

Early Access: Get first notice on anything new with Dementia Letters

Project, including any services or products with a chance to give

feedback before it hits the public.

Discounts on Services: Work for a community or organization? You

can get discounted training and program fees.

Access to the Annual Connect and Create Digital Conference for

FREE

Of course! No contracts or monthly minimums are set and you are

free to cancel anytime. Upon cancellation, you will be immediately

removed from the digital community and may rejoin at any time. Not,

however, that you may not be able to rejoin at the same rate you

initially had.

Because of the nature of a digital community, the general policy is no

refunds will be granted for online content. However, if after the first

mentorship call with Kate, you both decided that your styles of

working are not a good fit, you may receive a full refund within 24

hours of that call. Other special circumstances may grant a refund,

please email Kate@dementialettersproject.com with questions.

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We Believe In

The Connect and Create Institute started as a small online conference for Life Enrichment Specialists back in 2018 in hopes that every type of care partner
could be supported in networking with others in similar roles, and grow in knowledge and skills to navigate the day-to-day of senior living programming.
Today, I am re-launching the Connect and Create Institute to better address the trials and uplift the triumphs of non-medical care partners and support new
care partners as they enter their professional life.

Are you ready to break free from overwhelm and step into your full potential?

Let’s do this!