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Sustainable Caregiving for Care Partners of People with Primary Brain Tumors

Wednesday, September 16 at 9:30 am - 11:00 am Add to Calendar 2026-09-16 09:30:00 2026-09-16 11:00:00 Sustainable Caregiving for Care Partners of People with Primary Brain Tumors An 8-week Online Course Learn evidence-based skills to help make your caregiving sustainable. Each class has its own theme and the opportunity to practice new skills in a safe place, so they’re more available during the days ahead. Themes include: • Attentional balance and grounding • Stress responses and meeting difficult emotions • Positive intention setting • Self-compassion • Challenging relationships and patients’ concerns around “being a burden” • Re-framing chronic sorrow and ambiguous loss • Finding balance and growth in adversity • ‘What works for me?’ -- wellness practice - journals to cultivate a positive mindset Wednesdays, 9/16/26 - 11/4/26 9:30 – 11:00 AM PST Cost: Free - Registration required by 9/19 Limited to 23 participants, minimum of 5 To Register: https://scno2026.eventbrite.com Or contact: [email protected] | 415.509.8645 About the Facilitator Judy Long is a palliative care chaplain and  educator at UCSF with a deep commitment to care  for caregivers, both family members and clinicians,  based on her experience in hospital and hospice  chaplaincy and facilitating grief and family caregiver  support groups.  The UCSF Neuro-Oncology Gordon Murray Caregiver Program in partnership with the UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care. Brain Tumor Center [email protected] America/Los_Angeles public

An 8-week Online Course Learn evidence-based skills to help make your caregiving sustainable. Each class has its own theme and the opportunity to practice new skills in a safe place, so they’re more available during the days ahead. Themes include:
• Attentional balance and grounding
• Stress responses and meeting difficult emotions
• Positive intention setting
• Self-compassion
• Challenging relationships and patients’ concerns around “being a burden”
• Re-framing chronic sorrow and ambiguous loss
• Finding balance and growth in adversity
• ‘What works for me?’ -- wellness practice - journals to cultivate a positive mindset

Wednesdays, 9/16/26 - 11/4/26
9:30 – 11:00 AM PST
Cost: Free - Registration required by 9/19
Limited to 23 participants, minimum of 5

To Register: https://scno2026.eventbrite.com
Or contact: [email protected] | 415.509.8645

About the Facilitator
Judy Long is a palliative care chaplain and 
educator at UCSF with a deep commitment to care 
for caregivers, both family members and clinicians, 
based on her experience in hospital and hospice 
chaplaincy and facilitating grief and family caregiver 
support groups. 

The UCSF Neuro-Oncology Gordon Murray Caregiver Program in partnership with the UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care.