Not sure what to say when people ask what support you need? Want to make a care plan but don’t know where to start? Use How To Create a Care Tree to care plan for a transition or significant event and explore and what support would be useful to you!

a zine for those looking to:

explore what they need and what support could look like

make a care plan

plan for an upcoming transition or significant event (birth, death, moving)

reconnect to a care practice

have ideas to offer when someone asks what they need

Table Of Contents

  • Part 1: Trunk | The Focus

    The event, transition, or period of time you are care planning around

  • Part 2: Roots | The Context

    The history, beliefs, values and desires you are holding around the situation/event you are care planning for

  • Part 3: Branches | The What and Where

    The specific experiences you need support with, the support categories and needs that apply to you, and the avenues of support that are available to you

  • Part 4: The How

    The specific support ideas that you can share with others and use to create a formal care plan (if applicable)

  • Part 5: Clouds | Bonuses

    Things that would not be supportive on your care journey, and how to make a formal care plan

The Care Tree

A visual tool that can be printed and used to document your responses to the prompts presented in this zine. This will give you a birds eye view of what you’re needing support with and what support could look like. You can also draw your own on any piece of paper; it’s a mind map in the general shape of a tree!

Use this zine to care plan for any of the following:

Current or upcoming significant event or life transition (pregnancy, birth, postpartum, death, moving, relationship changes, diagnosis)

Specific ways of being you experience (neurodiversity, conditions, disabilities)

Your internal (emotional, mental, spiritual) experience broadly or for a specific internal state you experience (anxiety, shame, rage, grief, numbness)

On a regular schedule to continuously review and assess where you need support (weekly, monthly, yearly)

 

Care Resources

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Looking for specific care tree templates around a specific event or transition? Stay tuned for releases of the following specific care tree creation guides: death, labor/birth, postpartum, and grief.