Register for our Free Yoga Series, Mindfulness Mondays! 

MONDAY, JUNE 27 | 5PM MST
MONDAY, JULY 25 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, AUGUST 29 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 5PM MST​​​​​​

Join us for our upcoming yoga series, Mindfulness Mondays, in collaboration with LOV Yoga. On Monday, June 27 we're kicking off the series with our first live Zoom class at 5pm MST. Mindfulness Mondays will be hosted on the last Monday of each month through September so mark your calendars to join us for the entire series! Whether you're brand new to yoga or have a routine practice, these classes are accessible to all levels and open to the entire First Descents community. 

Mindfulness Mondays are completely free so join us to jumpstart your week with a dose of community, mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation. 

To register, click the button below! Attendees will receive the Zoom link at registration and a reminder email before the class begins.  

Cactus Cancer Society and Bright Spot Network  collaboration, “Family Art Time”!

Join us for our first-ever parent and child art project, where we’ll be making a pair of elephant paper mosaics! You’ll be joining 15 other kids, and their young adult parent patient, survivor, and or caregiver (Cactus Cancer Society defines young adult as 18-45 years old) while we chat and work on some creative and meditative art together.

Together, with Bright Spot Network, we’ll be sending you all the supplies you need to participate. We’ll provide the stuff, you and your kiddo provide the conversation!

It’s all happening on Sunday, September 25th, for 90 minutes, at 8:00 am PT / 10:00 am CT / 11:00 am ET!**

We’ll send you everything you need to participate ahead of time!

Who: 15-20 children and young adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregiver patients.

When: Sunday, September 25th from 8:00-9:30am PT / 10:00-11:30am CT / 11:00am-12:30pm ET via Zoom.

Questions? Contact aerial@cactuscancer.org or haley@brightspotnetwork.org for more information!

**We know kids’ attention spans range! Our “official” program will last for 90 minutes but that may not work for all families. You are encouraged to stay on for as long as you and your kiddo can! We’ll be hanging out and doing art until 8:30 am PST / 11:30 am CT / 12:30 pm EST.” **

Parenting With Cancer: Personal Narrative, Prompt Style Writing Workshop (Free)

Tuesday, September 20, 1:30p PT / 4:30p ET (90 min)
Live (Zoom), 90-min Meet Up

The Parenting with Cancer Pop-Up Writing Workshop is dedicated to all those who have dealt with not only the trials of a breast cancer diagnosis but have done it while also wearing the “mom” hat. Neither job is easy — patient or care provider — and doing both at the same time can be overwhelming on a good day. So many decisions, so much to do when all you really want is to crawl under the covers.

Writing gives you the space to work through and make sense of what you are facing. Doing so in a group of others who understand can be life-changing. Join our September free workshop to write alongside other moms who get the daily struggles. It will give you a light to follow in a dark tunnel.

Click here to REGISTER for the Zoom link now. 

Register for our Free Yoga Series, Mindfulness Mondays! 

MONDAY, JUNE 27 | 5PM MST
MONDAY, JULY 25 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, AUGUST 29 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 5PM MST​​​​​​

Join us for our upcoming yoga series, Mindfulness Mondays, in collaboration with LOV Yoga. On Monday, June 27 we're kicking off the series with our first live Zoom class at 5pm MST. Mindfulness Mondays will be hosted on the last Monday of each month through September so mark your calendars to join us for the entire series! Whether you're brand new to yoga or have a routine practice, these classes are accessible to all levels and open to the entire First Descents community. 

Mindfulness Mondays are completely free so join us to jumpstart your week with a dose of community, mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation. 

To register, click the button below! Attendees will receive the Zoom link at registration and a reminder email before the class begins.  

FP Conversations - Cancer Hacks: Beauty Edition
Wednesday, 8/17 at 5:30PM PT - virtual
Join our brand ambassadors as we chat about beauty hacks to try while battling cancer! RSVP

Register for our Free Yoga Series, Mindfulness Mondays! 

MONDAY, JUNE 27 | 5PM MST
MONDAY, JULY 25 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, AUGUST 29 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 5PM MST​​​​​​

Join us for our upcoming yoga series, Mindfulness Mondays, in collaboration with LOV Yoga. On Monday, June 27 we're kicking off the series with our first live Zoom class at 5pm MST. Mindfulness Mondays will be hosted on the last Monday of each month through September so mark your calendars to join us for the entire series! Whether you're brand new to yoga or have a routine practice, these classes are accessible to all levels and open to the entire First Descents community. 

Mindfulness Mondays are completely free so join us to jumpstart your week with a dose of community, mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation. 

To register, click the button below! Attendees will receive the Zoom link at registration and a reminder email before the class begins.  

Register for our Free Yoga Series, Mindfulness Mondays! 

MONDAY, JUNE 27 | 5PM MST
MONDAY, JULY 25 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, AUGUST 29 | 5PM MST​​​​​​
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 5PM MST​​​​​​

Join us for our upcoming yoga series, Mindfulness Mondays, in collaboration with LOV Yoga. On Monday, June 27 we're kicking off the series with our first live Zoom class at 5pm MST. Mindfulness Mondays will be hosted on the last Monday of each month through September so mark your calendars to join us for the entire series! Whether you're brand new to yoga or have a routine practice, these classes are accessible to all levels and open to the entire First Descents community. 

Mindfulness Mondays are completely free so join us to jumpstart your week with a dose of community, mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation. 

To register, click the button below! Attendees will receive the Zoom link at registration and a reminder email before the class begins.  

Start the New Year off right with the first session* of our Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar Series, Managing Long-Term Stress, on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT.

Whether you're a patient, survivor, caregiver, friend/family member, healthcare/HR professional or advocate, we hope you'll join us!

Discussion includes: 

• How to recognize your stress triggers

• Tips for staying in control of your work and your life

• Tools to help you maintain your best performance at work

• ...and more!

Register Here!

Save the Date

Young Survival Coalition Summit

May 21 - 23, 2021

Did you know the launch of Summit 2021 is right around the corner? This means you will be able to register for the YSC Summit and apply for fee waivers and travel grants very soon.

YSC’s needs-based travel grants are an incredible opportunity to receive help with the cost of your trip. Plus you get to have an amazing three-day experience with survivors, thrivers and co-survivors alike.

When you save your spot, you will have first access to the official launch of YSC’s 2021 Summit. If you already saved your spot- wonderful!- go ahead and share the information with a co-survivor or breastie to join you.
 

SAVE YOUR SPOT

While the agenda is subject to change, check out what was on the docket in 2020. Many of these sessions and speakers are returning for 2021! You can expect everything from a special legacy retreat just for those living with metastatic breast cancer to discussing the ins and outs of medical marijuana with Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino.

Ask the Experts Featuring Katy Fung, MS, RD, CDN, CSO, Oncology Nutritionist 

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 At 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
Duration 1 hour

Our Ask the Experts series is an open, interactive online forum designed to provide our community with knowledge and insights to their work-related concerns during the COVID-19 crisis. Each session will focus on a work and cancer related topic, guided by an expert in that field. It’s a special opportunity to hear their thoughts, get guidance and have your questions answered live!

During this session, Katy Fung, an oncology nutritionist will answer your questions on planning healthy and affordable meals, boosting immunity, managing weight, minimizing side effects, and developing strategies for eating well at work and beyond. What strategies can help people stay within a set budget for groceries, but also prepare nutritious meals? What are some food-related choices you can make at work (and home) to help them manage treatment side effects? What are some foods that can help promote a sense of calmness and boost immunity during this time? Katy will address these issues and so much more!

Location:

Online
Phone & webinar options available
Login and dial-in info will be emailed to registrants

Speaker:

Katy Fung, MS, RD, CDN, CSO

Redefined Courage 2nd Annual Gala Tickets

September 18, 2020

6-9:00PM

The Sutherland, Wake Forest, NC

In need of a night out this Fall? Looking to make a difference for women in the community? Join Redefined Courage for its 2nd annual Gala on Friday September 18th at The Sutherland.
We have all known someone or have ourselves been personally affected by breast cancer. Redefined Courage, a non-profit based in Wake Forest, NC, was started in loving memory of Virginia Jablanski to preserve her legacy and build feelings of faith, hope, courage, and beauty for the women and families in our community and across the country battling breast cancer. Redefined Courage gifts clothing for breast cancer survivors and previvors, designed to help heal, comfort, and restore confidence in women who’ve had mastectomies.

From 6 – 9 p.m. on September 18th, attendees (ages 13 and up) contributing $100 toward our mission will enjoy a plated dinner, great music, a cash bar, and have the opportunity to bid on amazing auction items, participate in a 50/50 raffle, and listen to inspiring stories of women who wore “HOPE”

Sponsor opportunities are available here

How to turn your YA cancer story into advocacy - WEBINAR

Thursday, September 17th.

6:30-8:30 pm PT / 8:30-10:30 pm CT / 9:30-11:30 pm ET

In a 90 minute, online workshop at Lacuna Loft, we’ll delve into how you can turn your young adult cancer story into advocacy. Advocacy comes in many different shapes and sizes so we’ll talk about what it might mean to you and how to go about shaping your own narrative into the change you want to see around you. The workshop will be interactive and equip you with the skills you need to turn your story into advocacy.

Who: young adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.

How does it work? When you sign up for the workshop, you’ll get a confirmation from the system that you’ve been confirmed into the workshop. Then a few days before the workshop occurs, you’ll get an email from Lacuna Loft explaining how to join the video chat. ***You’ll need the link that we’ll provide you, a headset with a microphone, and a webcam.*** The webcam is very important. The workshop will be interactive so the other participants need to be able to see your face!

You can sign up here and learn more

Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar: Setting Boundaries

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 1:00 PM ET/ 10:00 AM PT

 The ability to say no and practice self-care in the workplace can be a real challenge for cancer patients and survivors. This session examines boundary-setting at work by focusing on the benefits of employing boundaries as well as the negative impact of a lack of clear boundaries. This session provides tips and tools for implementing and maintaining boundaries that will empower patients and survivors at work.

The discussion will:

• Explain the importance of boundary-setting at work

• Help to identify where and how to implement boundaries

• Empower patients and survivors to set appropriate and necessary boundaries for themselves

Speaker

Ali Schaffer, LCSW

REGISTER HERE

. 

LaCuna Loft: Creative Art Workshop making Felt Rosette Wreaths 

Do you like to make things? Are you a young adult cancer patient or survivor facing metastatic breast cancer?

Join Lacuna Loft for our next Creative Art Workshop making Felt Rosette Wreaths and #LetsMakeStuff together!  Craft and meet others while creating a pretty wreath made out of felt roses all while hanging out with other young adult cancer patients and survivors facing metastatic breast cancer. We’ll send you what you need and you join from home!

Unlike most of our creative art workshop experiences, this specific workshop is ONLY for young adult cancer patients and survivors facing metastatic breast cancer.  (If you are a young adult cancer patient or survivor facing a different diagnosis, we invite you to wait for the next workshop experience).

Who: 25 young adult cancer patients and survivors **facing metastatic breast cancer**

When: Friday, August 21st @ 2-4 pm PT / 4-6 pm CT / 5-7 pm ET* via video chat. (*US time zones…please double check when to participate where you live!)

How does it work? We’ll send you all of the materials you need to participate! Lacuna Loft will send you an email about a week before the workshop with information on how to join the video chat. ***You’ll need the link that we’ll provide you, a headset with a microphone, and a webcam.***

Supported by a grant from Seattle Genetics.

Balancing Work & Career Webinar:

Body Confidence, Self-Confidence, In the Workplace.

Wednesday, August 5th at 12:00pm CST. 

Virtual

Click here for more information

Cheers to you!

7:00pm EST | A Virtual Caregiver Event

Aug 1st
7:00pm

Register Here

Know a caregiver who needs some love? 
Save the date for Aug 1 - and register for the CHEERS to YOU exclusive virtual event for caregivers. Every caregiver who attends will receive a special gift in the mail to open live during our virtual call.