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Syncing your Google Calendar

See Kindred sessions in Google Calendar, show your Google busy times in Kindred, choose which calendars count, or remove the connection.

Syncing Kindred sessions to Google Calendar

View your Kindred sessions in Google Calendar.

Subscribe to your Kindred calendar to keep track of your supervision sessions alongside your other appointments.

To sync your Kindred sessions to Google Calendar:

  1. Go to Calendar.
  2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
  3. Under Add Kindred sessions to your calendar, select Google Calendar.
  4. In Google Calendar, click Add in the confirmation window.

Note: Google controls how often subscribed calendars refresh. Updates may take 12–24 hours to appear.

Connecting your Google Calendar to Kindred

Show your Google Calendar busy times in Kindred.

Connecting your Google Calendar helps you identify scheduling conflicts. Kindred flags any overlaps between your external appointments and Kindred sessions.

To connect your Google Calendar:

  1. Go to Calendar.
  2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
  3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, click Connect Google.
  4. Select the Google account you want to connect, or sign in to another account.
  5. Select the requested calendar permissions, then click Continue.
  6. Return to Kindred to view your connected Google Calendar.

Note: Kindred only reads your busy times. Your appointment details remain private.

Selecting your Google calendars

Choose which Google calendars contribute busy times to Kindred.

If your connected Google account contains multiple calendars, you can select which ones Kindred uses to identify scheduling conflicts.

To select your Google calendars:

  1. Go to Calendar.
  2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
  3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, find your Google Calendar connection and click Calendars.
  4. In the Calendars to count window, select the calendars you want to include.
  5. Click Save.

Note: Kindred only imports events marked as Busy. Events marked as Free will not appear as conflicts.

Removing your Google Calendar

Disconnect your Google Calendar from Kindred.

You can remove your connected calendar at any time and reconnect it later.

To remove your Google Calendar:

  1. Go to Calendar.
  2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
  3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, find your Google Calendar.
  4. Click the bin icon beside the calendar.
  5. Click Remove in the confirmation window.

Note: Removing your Google Calendar immediately removes its busy times from your Kindred calendar.