Fall 2008 WORKSHOPS

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Cancer Connection will offer several Saturday and evening workshops this

year.  Please call 586-1642 if you are interested in attending.

Sat., Sept. 20:

“Catching Some Rays:  Hand-Painted Silk Suncatchers” Pat Hayes will

teach the resist method to participants who will create a silk hoop

suncatcher of their own unique design using colored washes and ombres,

POSTPONED: New Date to be Announced

Couples Nurturing Each Other through Cancer led by Mary Ann Kelly,

reflexologist, and Nancy Carter-Price, Reiki Master.  Couples will learn

how to reduce stress, nurture and soothe themselves and each other

emotionally and physically in non-sexual ways, using such techniques as

Reiki, massage and reflexology.

POSTPONED: New Date to be Announced

Teaming with your Doctors led by Paula Murphy, oncology social worker

at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Linda Karpman, cancer survivor, and

Lynette Buley, RN, OCN, oncology nurse at D’Amour Center for Cancer

Care at Baystate Medical Center.  Patients in today’s health system are

expected to collaborate on medical decisions.  This workshop will

empower you to find a doctor you can feel comfortable working with, and

to collaborate effectively with your medical team in choosing treatments,

understanding test results, side effects and medical lingo and in 

advocating for care that fits you as an individual.  

Sat., Nov. 15, 9 to 1:

Cancer Wisdom & Experience:  A Seminar   for Cancer Connection

Participants, Board Members, Facilitators & Prospective Volunteers

led by Betsy Neisner, Exec. Dir. of Cancer Connection, Katherine Walsh,

Ph.D., MSW, professor at the Springfield College School of Social Work,

and Lindsay Rockwell, D.O., CC Board Member and oncologist at Cooley

Dickinson Hospital.

Date To Be Announced:

Teens Whose Parents have Cancer led by Vivien Weiss, LMHC and Paula

Murphy, MSW.  An all-day workshop (with lunch) for teens coping with a

parent facing cancer, and for their parents.