Your Story & Advocacy: The Caregiver Story Lab-Reframing Your Story

Reframing Your Story is an interactive workshop that helps caregivers explore how difficult experiences can become sources of insight, education, and change. Through guided exercises, conversation, and real-world examples, participants will move beyond simply recounting what happened to consider what their experiences can teach, create, and contribute.

Special guest Vanessa Hayden, author and founder of Partly Whimsical, will share how she transformed personal tragedy and professional experience into a story of healing, a children’s book, and a company dedicated to helping families and businesses create safer, sensory-tailored spaces.

Participants will gain a firsthand look at how lived experience, professional insight, and a desire to help others can inspire meaningful change—and help people feel more comfortable, understood, and supported.