Finding Your Balance

Family, Friends and Parents

This in-person course is currently postponed.

Discover ways to empower yourself and your loved one.

This course is for people supporting a loved one with a mental health or substance use challenge. Topics include maintaining your own wellness, moving from fixing to supporting and strengthening our relationships through boundaries, awareness and reflection.

This course was co-produced by Experts By Experience and Topic Experts, with course content contributions from Calgary Recovery College, Foundry Kelowna and CMHA Kelowna.

Registration is required.

What to expect:

• Classroom based
• Maximum of 14 students
• Closed course, so only those registered at the start of the course can attend
• Class discussions
• Group Work
• 3 sessions, each 2 hours long
• No required learning outside of course

Learning Opportunities:

• Recognise your journey of self-discovery and wellness as separate from your loved one’s.
• Identify distorted thinking patterns and healthy ways to respond.
• Discover how to cope with grief, loss and disappointment experienced in caregiving.
• Uncover ways to empower your loved one through supporting rather than fixing.
• Practice communication skills to be direct, clear, validating and empathetic.
• Understand boundaries and setting limits.
• Identify your personal strengths and those of your loved one.
• Learn ways to manage expectations.