This hands-on, interactive workshop is for both care partners and the person they are supporting who has dementia or cognitive change. The overarching goal is for the care partner and person with dementia or cognitive change to, together, be more relaxed and grounded at the end of the workshop.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognizing the mental health impact of dementia
• Exploring how relaxation and meditation techniques can help reduce stress
• Practicing some helpful relaxation and meditation techniques that you can continue to do on your own after the workshop

Please note that mindfulness practices incorporate reflective and abstract concepts that may be complex for an individual in later stages of dementia, therefore, this workshop is only suitable for those who are in early stages of dementia, or who have mild cognitive change. To ensure an appropriate fit of program to participant, there is a short screening process that needs to be completed during registration.