Partners in Care
 
A Collective Creation

Can your profession or worldview give insight for caregiving?  Conversely, can concepts of your profession be learned though caregiving?  For example, in our homes it seemed: "Despite inputs of energies, the system always collapses back to the equilibrium."  Seeking to escape that gravitational pull to a new orbit where any falling away falls back up to a higher dynamic equilibrium, we applied ideas of ecological succession, economic development, musical composition and improvisation, various health care models and more.  If you are an auto mechanic, can you describe creating healthy homes in terms of returning a car to "health"?  Does that add an element of play and creativity to your caregiving?  Does it improve the quality of care?

We experienced home as a play/ a garden/ a business/ music/ a dance which we create with our family.  The process transformed interpersonal dynamics from conflict to collaboration.  Playing CEO, we developed business skills.  Playing engineer, healer, MC, chef, journalist, historian, clown and scientist, signs of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity emerged for everyone involved.

What do you think?

Before reading this page, would you have put "Caregiver" on your resume?   

Would you now put "Caregiver" on your resume, showing employers that you're ready for anything?   

This is not a rhetorical question.  I'm not sure adding Caregiver to a resume is a good idea, but I am curious if you think this 're-framing' helps you experience caregiving in a heightened/deepened/broader way.   Comments?:

Can Caregiving be:  a Creative Workout?       No
                                  a Heart Meditation?        

To what extent can the "healthy care-giver" / "sick care-receiver" dichotomy dissolve, subverting the hierarchies of both healthy/sick and give/receive?  What should professionals call the person receiving care? the "family member"? "loved one"?

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.  Just find the fun and snap! the job's a game."
To what degree is Mary Poppins right?

Would you like to say or ask something else?