The Commonweal Cancer Help Program (CCHP) is an intensive week-long residential retreat for people with cancer and their significant others. The intention is to help you discover how to live as well as possible for as long as possible.

During the retreat, you will explore the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of living with cancer. There are six retreats per year, each limited to eight participants.

Each retreat offers a balanced exploration of choices in healing, including choices in conventional therapies, integrative therapies, pain and suffering and death and dying. The primary focus of the retreat is on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of deep, intentional healing.

Retreats offer:

Six group support sessions with a gifted psychotherapist
Three-hour long massage sessions
Daily yoga or qi gong, meditation and deep relaxation
Sandtray (an experience in symbolic learning)
Healing arts, music and poetry
Exploration of the healing power of sacred space
Gourmet, primarily vegetarian meals

Michael Lerner and Rachel Naomi Remen, founded of the Commonweal with a vision of healing ourselves and healing the earth, understood that each of us has the capacity for “intentional healing” at physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.

The Commonweal Cancer Help Program is one of over 25 programmes offered by the Commonweal organisation. Other programmes include

CancerChoices
Center for Healing and Liberation
Collaborative for Health & Environment
Commonweal Retreat Center
Healing Circles Global
Omega Resilience Awards
OMEGA
Power of Hope
Partners for Youth Empowerment
Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine
The Resilience Project
Visual Thinking Strategies
GoCompassion
The New School
Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center
California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice
Center for Ethical Land Transition
The American Public Trust
Healing Circles Houston
Humane Prison Hospice Project
Healing Circles Langley
Healing Circles Healthcare
Commonweal History Project
Integrative Law Institute
Kids and Caregivers
Octavia Fund
Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship
Somos El Poder
Retreat Center Collaboration
Taproot Gathering
West Marin Climate Action
Regenerative Design Institute
Center for Dying and Living
Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California
project SOUL
Healing Yoga Foundation
Foundation for Embodied Medicine
Juvenile Justice Program
Movement Liberation Fund
SafetyNEST Science
West Marin Review
Kinship Blooms