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
