Complementary therapies
At Breast Cancer Connections, we offer programs and workshops that can help in your healing process as an adjunct to your medical treatment. If you are interested in exploring other ways to reinvigorate your mind, body, and spirit, see our calendar or call the BCC Helpline for exact dates and locations.
We also invite you to visit our Workshops page, which has information about upcoming workshops and presentations.
Ongoing programs
Healing and guided imagery
First and third (and fifth) Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
In these popular sessions, medical hypnotherapist Mary Horngren, CMHt, guides you through deep relaxation techniques for mind and body, helping you to tap into your own healing powers and lower your stress level. Mary’s calming voice leads you to a quiet place within, fostering meditation and facilitating healing. Audio recordings of each session are available for checkout in our library. For more information, visit Mary’s website at www.maryhorngren.com.
Individual life coaching
Second Saturday of the month, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (30-minute sessions)
Or by phone appointment
Breast cancer doesn’t just disrupt your physical health. Perhaps you’ve realized that you’re taking care of everyone but yourself, or pretending that nothing has changed, or even feeling as though you’ve lost your very identity. With the support of a life coach who understands the breast cancer experience, you can learn to make subtle shifts that empower you and help you reclaim your authentic self. Through BCC, you can receive free introductory life coaching sessions with Joanne Sperans, MBA, ACC, cancer survivor, and proprietor of Volo Coaching.
By appointment only. Please RSVP to the BCC Helpline at (650) 326-6686.
Group life coaching
Second Saturday of the month, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
These workshops are ideal for those new to coaching as well as those who have completed Individual Life Coaching sessions but are open to everyone. They will give you the opportunity to focus on a core issue or exercise each month, such as learning how you create ‘structures of knowing’ or self-limiting beliefs that stand in the way of your own success; how to make subtle shifts in your thoughts and behaviors to move forward; learning to identify your core intentions and live your life based on those intentions; and how to take control – if only briefly – over your thoughts and emotions to make changes in your lives. Possible topics or exercises include, “Take It or Leave It: Determining What to Keep and What to Release from your Life;” “Making Great Decisions Based on Your Intentions;” “Identifying Your Standards of Integrity;” or “Making Successful Transitions.” Workshops are facilitated by breast cancer survivor and Certified Life Coach Joanne Sperans, MBA, ACC. Please see our calendar for class topics.
Annual complementary therapies fair
June 2012
One of our annual events held each year in June, the Complementary Therapies Fair is designed to inform, inspire and connect those touched by breast cancer to different therapies which can aid in the treatment or healing process.
> View photos from previous years