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COMMUNITY CIRCLE
Support for the people who spend so much time supporting others.
CARE is a free Community Circle for adults providing ongoing, meaningful care or support to someone else.
Meetings create space for connection, reflection, practical education, shared experience, and conversation about the emotional and everyday realities of caregiving.
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Caregiving can be meaningful, loving, and deeply important.
It can also bring fatigue, stress, changing roles, difficult decisions, financial or logistical demands, grief, and less time for your own needs.
CARE offers a welcoming place to connect with others who understand some of those experiences and to explore practical ways to support yourself while continuing to care for others.
CARE welcomes adults providing sustained care, support, or advocacy for another person.
For people supporting a spouse, partner, parent, child, sibling, or other family member.
For people providing meaningful ongoing support outside a traditional family relationship.
For those helping someone navigate chronic illness, disability, aging, recovery, or changing health needs.
For adults whose caregiving role has become a significant part of everyday life.
CARE is designed as an open Community Circle.
You do not need to attend every meeting or begin at a particular point.
Participants may join when a topic, conversation, or opportunity for connection feels useful and return as often as they choose.
There is no expectation that everyone share. Listening and simply being present are welcome ways to participate.
CARE combines peer connection, guided reflection, general education, and practical conversation about caregiving.
Spend time with others who understand the responsibilities, uncertainty, and emotional weight of caregiving.
Explore changing roles, expectations, boundaries, relationships, and your own needs and values.
Discuss practical topics related to caregiving, communication, resources, stress, and wellbeing.
Share encouragement and perspective without pressure to solve another caregiver's situation.
Meeting themes may change based on participant interests, community needs, and available guest speakers or resources.
Explore the impact of ongoing responsibility, limited time, sleep disruption, and emotional load.
Discuss what is yours to carry, what support you may need, and how boundaries can change over time.
Explore unrealistic expectations, self-judgment, and ways to respond to yourself with greater compassion.
Talk about how caregiving can change partnerships, family roles, independence, and identity.
Make space for grief that may occur alongside caregiving, including changes that happen before a death.
Discuss communication, appointments, care coordination, resources, and navigating complex systems.
Explore small, realistic ways to support rest, recovery, connection, and personal wellbeing.
Talk about delegating, accepting support, communicating needs, and building a wider circle of care.
Reconnect with relationships, interests, roles, and parts of yourself outside the caregiving role.
The exact flow may vary, but meetings often include a combination of reflection, education, conversation, and resource sharing.
Settle in, review group expectations, and connect with the circle.
Discuss a caregiving theme through brief education, reflection, a guest speaker, or facilitated conversation.
Share experiences if you choose, exchange resources, and identify ideas or supports that may be useful after the meeting.
CARE recognizes that every caregiving situation is different.
Participants are invited to share their own experiences without assuming that another person should make the same decisions.
You may talk, listen, pass on a discussion, or step out when needed.
The goal is not to judge how someone cares for another person. It is to create space for understanding, connection, and practical support.
CARE is intended to be welcoming, respectful, and supportive.
Participants are encouraged to respect the privacy of others and not share personal stories or identifying information outside the group without permission.
Because CARE is a community gathering rather than a private clinical encounter, share only what you are comfortable discussing in a group setting.
When talking about someone you care for, consider protecting their privacy as well as your own.
CARE is a community wellness, education, and peer-support offering.
It is not psychotherapy, behavioral health treatment, case management, legal advice, medical care, or an individualized caregiving consultation.
Meetings may include general information about resources or navigating care, but individual medical, legal, financial, or behavioral health questions should be addressed with the appropriate professional.
CARE is offered periodically throughout the year.
When an upcoming meeting is scheduled, available dates will appear below.
Use the Mindbody listing to register directly for the meeting you would like to attend.
Don't see a meeting listed? A future date may not yet be scheduled. Join the contact list below and we can keep you informed about upcoming meetings.
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Interested in future meetings but don't see a scheduled date that works for you?
Join the contact list to receive information about upcoming CARE meetings, special topics, guest speakers, and related Elevate opportunities.
You can join whether or not you are ready to attend a current meeting.
Joining the contact list does not register you for a specific meeting.
CARE is offered free of charge to community members.
If you would like to support Elevate programming, you may consider making a gift through the Mammoth Hospital Foundation.
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CARE meetings are typically held at:
Elevate Wellness & Performance121 College ParkwayMammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Meetings may use the second-floor study or another quiet Elevate gathering space.
Check the current Mindbody listing for meeting-specific location information.
CARE is designed primarily for adults and discussions may include stress, grief, relationships, healthcare decisions, changing family roles, and other complex caregiving experiences.
Participants may engage as much or as little as they choose. There is no requirement to tell your whole story or share private information.
If you are unsure whether CARE is the right fit for your situation, contact Elevate before attending.
If you are unsure whether CARE is the right fit or would like help with registration, contact Elevate.
760-924-4301
elevate@mammothhospital.com
CARE stands for Compassion, Advocacy, Resilience & Empowerment.
It is a free Caregiver Community Circle for adults providing ongoing, meaningful care or support to someone else.
No. Caregivers may include spouses, partners, family members, friends, chosen family, or others providing sustained support.
No. CARE is not organized around one diagnosis or condition.
Participants may be supporting someone with chronic illness, disability, aging-related needs, recovery, or another significant health situation.
No. CARE is an open Community Circle and regular attendance is not required.
Participants may attend when a meeting or topic feels useful.
No. Participants may share as much or as little as they choose.
Listening and simply being present are welcome ways to participate.
Topics may include caregiver stress, fatigue, boundaries, guilt, grief, changing roles, communication, advocacy, asking for help, resilience, and community resources.
Themes may change from one meeting to another.
No. CARE is a community wellness, education, and peer-support gathering.
It is not psychotherapy or behavioral health treatment.
CARE may provide general education, peer perspective, and information about community resources, but it does not provide individual medical, legal, financial, or case-management advice.
Those decisions should be discussed with the appropriate qualified professional.
CARE is offered free of charge.
Meetings are offered periodically throughout the year.
Current scheduled meetings will appear in the Mindbody registration section above.
If no meeting is currently listed, join the contact list to receive information about future dates.
Registering through Mindbody reserves your place for a specific scheduled meeting.
Joining the contact list allows Elevate to keep you informed about future meetings and related opportunities, but it does not register you for a specific date.
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Come to a scheduled CARE meeting or join the contact list so we can keep you informed about future opportunities to connect, learn, and support one another.
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