Living With Cancer
With Anne van LeeuwenLiving with cancer - My experiences from teaching at a Cancer Support Community Center This course aims to create an awareness for the healing processes that a cancer survivor or a person dealing with cancer is going through. The journey post treatment is very individual and returning to 'normal live' and work can present some very confronting issues. I hope to create more love, understanding and empathy for this audience, to create more acceptance for them when they are ready to re-integrate into their families and their workplaces. This course is meant for cancer patients, survivors, care givers, family, friends and others who seek to develop an understanding of the anguish and emotional suffering cancer patients typically endure, and how to provide the required mental support. By sharing my experiences from working with cancer survivors and people who are facing cancer, I felt the need to speak up for this group and also help them process this usually very painful, intense and emotional process. This course aims to bring a broader recognition of the unique needs that cancer survivors have after completing treatment.
My experiences from teaching at a Cancer Support Community Center
About this course
Living with cancer - My experiences from teaching at a Cancer Support Community Center This course aims to create an awareness for the healing processes that a cancer survivor or a person dealing with cancer is going through. The journey post treatment is very individual and returning to 'normal live' and work can present some very confronting issues. I hope to create more love, understanding and empathy for this audience, to create more acceptance for them when they are ready to re-integrate into their families and their workplaces. This course is meant for cancer patients, survivors, care givers, family, friends and others who seek to develop an understanding of the anguish and emotional suffering cancer patients typically endure, and how to provide the required mental support. By sharing my experiences from working with cancer survivors and people who are facing cancer, I felt the need to speak up for this group and also help them process this usually very painful, intense and emotional process. This course aims to bring a broader recognition of the unique needs that cancer survivors have after completing treatment.
Meet your Teacher
Anne van Leeuwen is a Yoga and Meditation teacher. She teaches yoga and meditation, and creates her meditations and courses in the beautiful city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She has been teaching yoga and meditation for more than a decade and hosts sharing circles for patients and survivors at a Cancer Support Community Center. Cancer Support Community Centers have been founded because the psychological healing processes usually start only after the physical recovery - that is once the medical interventions have been completed. In this course Anne not only shares the stories of her support groups, she also shares her spiritual views and support mechanism many people thus far have benefited from. Her strength is helping people who face cancer find meaning and purpose in life again.