Workshops
In addition to the activities listed below, a variety of workshops are being held in the Maryland, Virgina, D.C. and Delaware area. Please contact us for current dates, times and locations.
Upcoming Workshops:
Monday, August 25, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
HopeWell Cancer Support
10628 Falls Road
Lutherville, Maryland 21093
Saturday, September 6, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church
9601 Cedar Lane
Lower Level, Rooms 30 - 31
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 28 & 29, 2008
Camp Bluebird
Missions Hospitals Cancer Services
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
Please contact us if you need further information on this workshop and site.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
5:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Suburban Hospital
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
Specific location and room details will be added at a later date.
Overview:
All of our workshops are informal, supportive and friendly usually including between 6 – 12 individuals. Our goal is to create an environment where you feel welcome, relaxed and completely supported as you create your unique and personal collage.
Most of our workshops require a one time, 4-hour time commitment at the end of which you will take your collage home with you. All of our workshops are free to participants. Each workshop has both a process facilitator and a therapist to help the group move through the emotions that may come from sharing and creating. Our workshops are therapeutic, offering participants an alternative to traditional therapy or journaling by working through their thoughts, hopes, fears, and dreams with pictures, words and embellishments and using them to illustrate those feelings in their 3-D collage.
Workshops may be open to patients and survivors of all types of cancer, or they may be cancer specific. All workshops are open to both genders unless there is an exception noted in the registration process. We do offer customized workshops to current, stand alone, support groups; or for a specific type of cancer patient or survivor. We also offer workshops for families to create a collage together when one of the parents is a cancer patient or survivor. Finally, we have specialty workshops for children who are dealing with cancer where their parents and siblings may also attend.
More information on what happens during our workshop can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section of this webpage.
Upcoming workshops are listed above on this website or you may contact us to develop a workshop customized to your group or to find out about additional dates and locations.