About the event
🌿 The Cost of Caring: Community Healing for Helpers & Healers
Monthly Gathering | Last Thursdays at 6:30 PM📍 Boise Military Reserve💙 FREE to all community carers, activists, clinicians, organizers, educators, and service workers
What is The Cost of Caring?
The Cost of Caring is a monthly outdoor gathering designed for community carers: helpers, healers, and holders of grief who need space to pause, process, and reconnect. In a world that often demands more than it gives back, this space offers intentional restoration for those navigating the invisible emotional and physiological toll of their labor.
This gathering is for you if you are:
A therapist, case manager, nurse, or healthcare provider
A community organizer, activist, educator, or public service worker
A caregiver in any role, paid or unpaid
Feeling emotionally worn down by capitalism, injustice, or the grief of holding others
Ready to reclaim connection to your own nervous system, body, and joy
✨ What to Expect
Each session blends psychoeducation, somatic tools, and community ritual with a focus on connection to nature and nervous system repair.
🌀 Dopamine Reset ActivitiesStructured practices to regulate overstimulation and cultivate embodied presence.
💔 Processing Second-hand Trauma and BurnoutGrief and compassion fatigue don't always belong to our own stories. This space helps you integrate and metabolize what you carry.
🌿 Community ReconnectionGentle movement, storytelling, rest, and breathwork to help you reconnect physiologically and emotionally to yourself and your values.
📚 Experiential and Educational ComponentsLearn tools rooted in trauma-informed care, somatic psychology, and social justice healing.
🌕 Monthly Themes May Include:
The Myth of Selflessness and how capitalism co-opts our care
Repairing the Nervous System in Nature
Grieving What We Cannot Fix
Boundaries as Love, Not Shame
Pleasure and Play as Protest
Each month has a unique focus, all rooted in spaciousness, accessibility, and restorative gathering.
🌄 Logistical Info
🗓 When: Last Thursday of every month🕡 Time: 6:30 PM to approximately 8:00 PM📍 Where: Boise Military Reserve (exact location details provided upon RSVP)💸 Cost: Free to attend. Donations are welcome but not required.🎒 What to Bring:
Water
Something to sit or lie on (blanket or camp chair)
Layered clothing for comfort
Optional journal or art materials
🌈 Accessibility and Inclusion
All gender identities, races, abilities, and spiritual frameworks are welcome
Physical access includes uneven ground. Please let us know in advance if accommodations would support your participation
This group operates from a trauma-informed, consent-based, anti-oppression lens
💌 RSVP and Learn More
We appreciate RSVPs so we can prepare materials and space👉 RSVP Hereor visit: www.boiseexperientialtherapy.com
Questions? Email us at
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🫀 This is a heart space.
This is where the invisible cost of caring is witnessed, honored, and tended to in community.
We hope to see you there.
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