Sustainable Caregiving for Care Partners of People with Cancer
Wednesdays, March 13, 2024 - May 1, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific
This 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
