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Sustainable Journaling
Sustainable Journaling
Create a sustainable and fulfilling journaling practice. Learn the benefits, adaptations and a range of diverse strategies to best suit your needs.
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Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
A safe and accepting space for Muslim sisters living with cancer to meet, share their stories, and heal together.
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Loss of a Parent to Cancer Support Group
Loss of a Parent to Cancer Support Group
The loss of a parent from cancer brings with it many complex feelings. Sadness, anger, and regret are just a few of the feelings you may experience.
5 events,
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LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit. Hosted by IMCW.
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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
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Leukemia and Lymphoma Support Group
Leukemia and Lymphoma Support Group
This monthly support group is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with Leukemia or Lymphoma. The group will incorporate education lectures coupled with emotional support.
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Crafting Your Legacy
Crafting Your Legacy
This series is an opportunity to approach living and dying with a bit of playful curiosity.
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Gentle PM Yoga
Gentle PM Yoga
Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.
3 events,
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Knitting on the Couch
Knitting on the Couch
Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.
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2Unstoppable Total Strength with Paola (in English/Spanish)
2Unstoppable Total Strength with Paola (in English/Spanish)
En esta clase Paola te guiará a través de una serie de ejercicios diseñados para ayudarte a aumentar la fuerza y resistencia de tus músculos, así como la fortaleza de tus huesos con el uso de pesas, bandas de resistencia y tu propio cuerpo.
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Info Session – Transform Cancer: A Healing Retreat
Info Session – Transform Cancer: A Healing Retreat
Join and learn about our upcoming in-person retreat: Transform Cancer Healing Retreat.
2 events,
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Energy Balancing
Energy Balancing
Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
In this 4 week educational program you will learn various DBT-based skills that can help you cope with emotional challenges of cancer treatment and survivorship.
3 events,
Spiritual Companioning
Regardless of your personal beliefs or faith system, working with a spiritual companion offers you an opportunity to reflect with another on what is going on for you spiritually, and explore how to integrate your cancer experience with your personal beliefs.
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2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
Pink Ribbon Pilates is designed to specifically address the needs and challenges facing everyone recovering from cancer-related surgery.
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Being Together Mindfulness
Being Together Mindfulness
Specifically, mindfulness helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present and aware. Join a slightly different guided meditation each week based in mindfulness.
6 events,
A Request for Stories: Integrative Healing & Cancer Care
Hello there, My name is Cherie Sampson. I am a survivor of hereditary breast cancer. During my cancer experience I underwent conventional treatment and surgery along with complementary mind-body healing modalities, representative of the growing field of “integrative oncology.” I attribute the integrative approach as fundamental to my survivorship. I am also an artist and … Continue reading A Request for Stories: Integrative Healing & Cancer Care
Spiritual Companioning
Regardless of your personal beliefs or faith system, working with a spiritual companion offers you an opportunity to reflect with another on what is going on for you spiritually, and explore how to integrate your cancer experience with your personal beliefs.
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Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
En Smith Center, Nueva Vida tendrá grupos de apoyo que se enfocan en el apoyo al trauma asociado con el diagnóstico de cáncer.
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2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
Join Cori Price, Cancer Exercise Specialist and Zumba Instructor, for a fun 6-week series class where we will move and dance 2Ugether to fun and upbeat music!
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Painting for Life
Painting for Life
By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.
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2Unstoppable Yoga for Cancer 6-Week Series
2Unstoppable Yoga for Cancer 6-Week Series
Yoga 6-week series for anyone touched by cancer, including caregivers, family & friends.
1 event,
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DC Young Adult Cancer Meet Up and Support Group
DC Young Adult Cancer Meet Up and Support Group
This monthly gathering is an opportunity to meet other young adult cancer survivors and their caregivers in their 20s, 30s and early 40s.
3 events,
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Nutrition Club
Nutrition Club
An opportunity for cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and providers to learn about the role of nutrition in cancer prevention, treatment & survivorship.
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Cancer Support Group
Cancer Support Group
Our cancer support group provides opportunity to explore your cancer experience in a safe group setting and to connect with others facing similar challenges.
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Caregiver Support Group
Caregiver Support Group
This group, led by a licensed psychologist, is designed to provide cancer caregivers with the opportunity to meet other caregivers, learn about useful tools for self-care, and explore ways to thrive in the caregiving role.
5 events,
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LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit.
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Grieving Together: A 6-Week Series
Grieving Together: A 6-Week Series
If you have lost a loved one, this is an opportunity to share what is on your heart and mind right now, to listen and be listened to deeply and generously.
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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
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Gynecologic Cancer Support Group
Gynecologic Cancer Support Group
This monthly support group is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with gynecologic cancers and their caregivers.
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Crafting Your Legacy
Crafting Your Legacy
This series is an opportunity to approach living and dying with a bit of playful curiosity.
2 events,
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Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
If you’ve lost a loved one, a healing circle for those in grief is an opportunity to share what’s on your heart and mind, to listen, and be listened to deeply and generously.
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Meditation and Mindfulness
Meditation and Mindfulness
Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join for regular sessions to help you better understand your mind.
3 events,
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Energy Balancing
Energy Balancing
Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
In this 4 week educational program you will learn various DBT-based skills that can help you cope with emotional challenges of cancer treatment and survivorship.
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Slow Looking and Mindful Poetry
Slow Looking and Mindful Poetry
In this workshop, you will be guided in a slow looking activity around a single work of art from the Joan Hisaoka gallery as a technique for accessing inner wisdom and sparking creative flow.
2 events,
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2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
Pink Ribbon Pilates is designed to specifically address the needs and challenges facing everyone recovering from cancer-related surgery.
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Being Together Mindfulness
Being Together Mindfulness
Specifically, mindfulness helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present and aware. Join a slightly different guided meditation each week based in mindfulness.
2 events,
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2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
Join Cori Price, Cancer Exercise Specialist and Zumba Instructor, for a fun 6-week series class where we will move and dance 2Ugether to fun and upbeat music!
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Painting for Life
Painting for Life
By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.
0 events,
3 events,
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Healing Circle for Moms with Cancer
Healing Circle for Moms with Cancer
This ongoing healing circle will focus on the unique needs of mothers, with children of any age, who are living with cancer.
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CANCELLED – Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
CANCELLED – Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
A safe and accepting space for Muslim sisters living with cancer to meet, share their stories, and heal together.
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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Survivors
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Survivors
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy aims to teach cancer survivors how to focus on creating, experiencing & keeping a sense of meaning in life.
7 events,
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LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit.
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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
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Prostate Cancer Support Group
Prostate Cancer Support Group
This monthly support group, in partnership with the GW Cancer Center, is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with Prostate cancer.
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Breast Cancer Support Group
Breast Cancer Support Group
This monthly virtual group is for Stage 1 - 3 Breast Cancer patients and survivors and is open to those newly diagnosed, in treatment, or in survivorship.
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Gentle PM Yoga
Gentle PM Yoga
Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.
7 events,
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Outside the Lines: Social Hour
Outside the Lines: Social Hour
Catch up with one another as we reclaim art-making as a healing tool. Participants are welcome to work on their own creative projects as we socialize.
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Yoga Nidra Mid-Day Reset
Yoga Nidra Mid-Day Reset
You are invited to rest while being guided into a state of deep relaxation, the aim of which is to quiet the mind, relieve mental and physical stress, and to guide you to come home to yourself.
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Knitting on the Couch
Knitting on the Couch
Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.
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Loss of a Loved One to Cancer Support Group
Loss of a Loved One to Cancer Support Group
This monthly support group, facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker, is for anyone who has lost a loved one to cancer.
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2Unstoppable Barre with Paola (in English/Spanish)
2Unstoppable Barre with Paola (in English/Spanish)
Únete a Paola en su clase Bilingüe (Inglés/Español) de entrenamiento de cuerpo completo donde se combinan calentamientos aeróbicos con movimientos de bajo impacto modificados para sobrevivientes de cáncer
3 events,
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Energy Balancing
Energy Balancing
Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills Group
In this 4 week educational program you will learn various DBT-based skills that can help you cope with emotional challenges of cancer treatment and survivorship.
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Previvor Support Group
Previvor Support Group
This group is for previvors who have an elevated predisposition for a cancer diagnosis or those who have tested positive to cancer genetic markers.
2 events,
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2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
2Unstoppable Pink Ribbon Pilates Series
Pink Ribbon Pilates is designed to specifically address the needs and challenges facing everyone recovering from cancer-related surgery.
-
Being Together Mindfulness
Being Together Mindfulness
Specifically, mindfulness helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present and aware. Join a slightly different guided meditation each week based in mindfulness.
4 events,
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Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
En Smith Center, Nueva Vida tendrá grupos de apoyo que se enfocan en el apoyo al trauma asociado con el diagnóstico de cáncer.
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2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
Join Cori Price, Cancer Exercise Specialist and Zumba Instructor, for a fun 6-week series class where we will move and dance 2Ugether to fun and upbeat music!
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Stitched Together
Stitched Together
Gathering in community as many have done for centuries, share ideas for using needle and thread to bring joy and creativity to our everyday lives.
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Painting for Life
Painting for Life
By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.
0 events,
3 events,
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Cancer Support Group
Cancer Support Group
Our cancer support group provides opportunity to explore your cancer experience in a safe group setting and to connect with others facing similar challenges.
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Caregiver Support Group
Caregiver Support Group
This group, led by a licensed psychologist, is designed to provide cancer caregivers with the opportunity to meet other caregivers, learn about useful tools for self-care, and explore ways to thrive in the caregiving role.
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Effective Communication with Your Healthcare Team: What You Need to Know
Effective Communication with Your Healthcare Team: What You Need to Know
Join to learn how to approach difficult conversations with your cancer care team, self-advocacy, and health literacy issues.
4 events,
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LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit.
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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
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Multiple Myeloma Cancer Support Group
Multiple Myeloma Cancer Support Group
This monthly support group, in partnership with GW Cancer Center, is for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma and their caregivers.
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Gentle PM Yoga
Gentle PM Yoga
Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.
5 events,
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Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
If you’ve lost a loved one, a healing circle for those in grief is an opportunity to share what’s on your heart and mind, to listen, and be listened to deeply and generously.
-
Meditation and Mindfulness
Meditation and Mindfulness
Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join for regular sessions to help you better understand your mind.
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Knitting on the Couch
Knitting on the Couch
Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.
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Healing Circle for Metastatic Breast Cancer Thrivers 45+
Healing Circle for Metastatic Breast Cancer Thrivers 45+
This peer-led healing circle, for people who are 45+ living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, will provide a safe place to connect and share in community.
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YAC Hot Topics: ADA Accommodations and Adjusting to Work/School Post-Diagnosis
YAC Hot Topics: ADA Accommodations and Adjusting to Work/School Post-Diagnosis
This webinar will discuss the practical and legal tools that exist to minimize challenges and cope with side effects of cancer at work and in school.
1 event,
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Energy Balancing
Energy Balancing
Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.
2 events,
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Radical Writing Space
Radical Writing Space
Join us for inspiring writing prompts and time to write and share your experience of putting your most radical emotions, feelings, and experiences on paper.
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CANCELED – Being Together Mindfulness
CANCELED – Being Together Mindfulness
Specifically, mindfulness helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present and aware. Join a slightly different guided meditation each week based in mindfulness.
4 events,
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Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
En Smith Center, Nueva Vida tendrá grupos de apoyo que se enfocan en el apoyo al trauma asociado con el diagnóstico de cáncer.
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Young Adult Cancer Survivors Hiking in the City
Young Adult Cancer Survivors Hiking in the City
Join other young adult cancer survivors for a morning of hiking at Theodore Roosevelt Island.
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2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
2Unstoppable Zumba 6-Week Series
Join Cori Price, Cancer Exercise Specialist and Zumba Instructor, for a fun 6-week series class where we will move and dance 2Ugether to fun and upbeat music!
-
Painting for Life
Painting for Life
By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.
0 events,
3 events,
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CANCELLED – Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
CANCELLED – Strengthening Each Other: A Healing Circle for Muslim Sisters Living with Cancer
A safe and accepting space for Muslim sisters living with cancer to meet, share their stories, and heal together.
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Coming Home to Our Senses Meditation
Coming Home to Our Senses Meditation
Evidence-based meditation techniques to help us focus and be more fully present. Learn mindfulness practices to enhance awareness and joy in everyday life.
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Loss of a Parent to Cancer Support Group
Loss of a Parent to Cancer Support Group
The loss of a parent from cancer brings with it many complex feelings. Sadness, anger, and regret are just a few of the feelings you may experience.
4 events,
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LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit. Hosted by IMCW.
-
Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
-
Leukemia and Lymphoma Support Group
Leukemia and Lymphoma Support Group
This monthly support group is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with Leukemia or Lymphoma. The group will incorporate education lectures coupled with emotional support.
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Gentle PM Yoga
Gentle PM Yoga
Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.
7 events,
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Outside the Lines
Outside the Lines
Outside the Lines: A Creative Art Studio will help you reclaim art-making as a healing tool through guided creative projects.
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Knitting on the Couch
Knitting on the Couch
Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.
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Mind Over Matter
Mind Over Matter
Cancer survivors and caregivers: learn evidence-based mind-body strategies to help decrease feelings of anxiety and depression and increase a sense of well-being.
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Coffee House with Lungevity
Coffee House with Lungevity
This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, register by clicking the RSVP button above or by emailing olivia@smithcenter.org. *Please note that by registering, you consent to have your information shared with LUNGevity. with Kiersten Gallagher from Smith Center and Lauren Humphries from LUNGevity Join LUNGevity … Continue reading Coffee House with Lungevity
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2Unstoppable Total Strength with Paola (in English/Spanish)
2Unstoppable Total Strength with Paola (in English/Spanish)
En esta clase Paola te guiará a través de una serie de ejercicios diseñados para ayudarte a aumentar la fuerza y resistencia de tus músculos, así como la fortaleza de tus huesos con el uso de pesas, bandas de resistencia y tu propio cuerpo.
3 events,
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Energy Balancing
Energy Balancing
Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.
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CANCELED – Art Lab: Celebrating the Creative Spirit
CANCELED – Art Lab: Celebrating the Creative Spirit
Integrate movement and playful sharing into your art making experience while sharing insights, joys and concerns.
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A Healing Circle – Support Group for Gay Men with Prostate Cancer
A Healing Circle – Support Group for Gay Men with Prostate Cancer
We are a group of gay men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer or who are recovering from treatment that offer support to each other.
1 event,
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Being Together Mindfulness
Being Together Mindfulness
Specifically, mindfulness helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present and aware. Join a slightly different guided meditation each week based in mindfulness.
3 events,
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Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
Nueva Vida Grupo de Apoyo (en Español)
En Smith Center, Nueva Vida tendrá grupos de apoyo que se enfocan en el apoyo al trauma asociado con el diagnóstico de cáncer.
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Writing Through the Seasons: Breathe In All That’s Blooming
Writing Through the Seasons: Breathe In All That’s Blooming
Writing Through the Seasons will guide us in poetry and writing practices that explore seasonal changes as opportunities for healing and creativity.
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Painting for Life
Painting for Life
By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.
1 event,
Spiritual Companioning
Regardless of your personal beliefs or faith system, working with a spiritual companion offers you an opportunity to reflect with another on what is going on for you spiritually, and explore how to integrate your cancer experience with your personal beliefs.
4 events,
Spiritual Companioning
Regardless of your personal beliefs or faith system, working with a spiritual companion offers you an opportunity to reflect with another on what is going on for you spiritually, and explore how to integrate your cancer experience with your personal beliefs.
-
Nutrition Club
Nutrition Club
An opportunity for cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and providers to learn about the role of nutrition in cancer prevention, treatment & survivorship.
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Cancer Support Group
Cancer Support Group
Our cancer support group provides opportunity to explore your cancer experience in a safe group setting and to connect with others facing similar challenges.
-
Caregiver Support Group
Caregiver Support Group
This group, led by a licensed psychologist, is designed to provide cancer caregivers with the opportunity to meet other caregivers, learn about useful tools for self-care, and explore ways to thrive in the caregiving role.
5 events,
-
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
LGBTQIA+ Morning Meditation
Come together as an LGBTQIA+ community for a weekly morning meditation sit. Hosted by IMCW.
-
Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga
Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.
-
Gynecologic Cancer Support Group
Gynecologic Cancer Support Group
This monthly support group is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with gynecologic cancers and their caregivers.
-
Breast Cancer Support Group
Breast Cancer Support Group
This monthly virtual group is for Stage 1 - 3 Breast Cancer patients and survivors and is open to those newly diagnosed, in treatment, or in survivorship.
-
Gentle PM Yoga
Gentle PM Yoga
Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.
5 events,
-
Outside the Lines: Social Hour
Outside the Lines: Social Hour
Catch up with one another as we reclaim art-making as a healing tool. Participants are welcome to work on their own creative projects as we socialize.
-
Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
Grieving Together: An Ongoing Circle
If you’ve lost a loved one, a healing circle for those in grief is an opportunity to share what’s on your heart and mind, to listen, and be listened to deeply and generously.
-
Meditation and Mindfulness
Meditation and Mindfulness
Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join for regular sessions to help you better understand your mind.
-
Knitting on the Couch
Knitting on the Couch
Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.
-
Talking with Kids about Cancer: An Educational Program for Adults
Talking with Kids about Cancer: An Educational Program for Adults
This talk is for parents/grandparents/adults who have a child in their life under the age of 13. We will discuss talking about cancer with kids, handling complex topics, and more.
