Upcoming Events
Free upcoming events offered by Stanford Palliative Care Health Education, Engagement, and Promotion program
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 - May 1st, 2024 9:00 – 10:30 AM PDT
Sustainable Caregiving for Care Partners of People Living with Cancer
UCSF MERI CENTER presents 8-week course for caregivers/care partners of people living with cancer and who are looking for ways to maintain their sanity during this physically and emotionally draining journey. Facilitated by Judy Long, MDiv, BCC, MA, this course will help care partners reframe their stress and show them practices that may help them be resilient in their caregiving.
Sustainable Caregiving for Care Partners of People with Cancer is a live-online program of eight weekly 90-minute classes. In each class, you will learn evidence-based skills to help make your caregiving sustainable.
Teaching methods include brief lecture periods mixed with experiential exercises. You will also have opportunities to speak with others in structured break-out groups (pairs or triads) as well as in the larger group. Each week you will receive a summary of the session and related resources.
Each class will have its own theme and the opportunity to practice new skills in a safe place, so that they’re more available during the days ahead. Themes include:
· Attentional balance and grounding
· Repertoire of stress responses and meeting difficult emotions
· Positive intention setting
· Mindful self-compassion
· Challenging relationships and patients’ concerns around “being a burden”
· Re-framing chronic sorrow
· Balance and growth in adversity
· ‘What works for me?’ -- wellness practice -journals to cultivate a positive mindset