Cultivating Your Spiritual Garden       

Workshop Series Fall 2025

 This creative and experiential workshop series has been designed for patients who are wishing to explore and develop their own spirituality. Led by BC Cancer’s Multi-Faith Spiritual Health Practitioner, each participant will be guided through a cultivation process that will give them a deeper awareness and assessment of their own spirituality, meaning and purpose, and give participants tools to grow inner resources and develop practices to maintain a healthy spiritual garden.  The workshop is open to people of all communities, cultural backgrounds, faiths, religious and non-religious traditions.

The workshop, facilitated via Zoom, will have four sessions, each two hours in length, that will have a mix of education and discussion, as well as creative and spiritual exercises that are accessible to a wide variety of participants.  There will be some light home practice, where participants will be asked to reflect on certain questions prior to class. 

Sept 11th     2pm-4pm    Session 1: Spirituality & Spiritual Distress, The Gifted Self & Self-Compassion

Sept 18th     2pm-4pm    Session 2: Values, Beliefs, Meaning Making, Individuals & Communities

Sept 25th     2pm-4pm    Session 3: Spiritual Practices, Sacred Texts, Sacred Spaces, Rituals

Oct 2nd        2pm-4pm    Session 4: Spiritual Experiences, Leap of Faith, Mortality, Beyond Life

Please register here: https://redcap.link/cultivateFALL25

Only 10 spots are available for this series and we ask that those who register aim to attend all 4 sessions. Please register by September 4th 2025

The Sacred Work of Dying

A 4-week online group 

In the transformative process of dying there can be healing, releasing of burdens, and opening to a greater sense of our wholeness and interconnectedness. This group supports intentional participation in dying as sacred work. 

Groups are offered as a series of 4 weekly, 75-minute Zoom video calls (same day and time each week). Each meeting will be supported by facilitators from PHSA's spiritual health team, and will include short, guided practices, themes for exploration, and participant sharing.

The Sacred Work of Dying is intended to be welcoming and inclusive of people from diverse spiritual, cultural and religious traditions, as well as those who are not connected with any tradition. Registration is open to any resident of BC or The Yukon; those who have the least access to other supports will be prioritized. Ability to use Zoom video call and email are needed, and participation for the full series (4 weeks) is requested, as possible.  There is no cost for participation. A second series of 4 weeks with branching themes will be available for those interested.   

Group focuses will include:   

• Exploring what has shaped our understanding of dying and death (e.g. spiritual and cultural teachings, science, social taboos): what about us ends, what continues, and how do we want to offer ourselves to those processes?
• Exploring the "sacred work" of dying in this time, the personal and collective dimensions of that, and practices to support us.
  
• Working with grief as a transformative power, and generating compassion. 
  

• BC Cancer handout: Understanding Spirituality, Spiritual and Existential Distress, also available in the following languages:
  
• French
  
• Punjabi
  
• Simplified Chinese
  
• Traditional Chinese
  
• Tagalog
  
• Canadian Association for Spiritual Care
• Canadian Ministry of Health Spiritual Health Framework
  
• Education Module: Developing an Understanding of Spiritual Health 
• Spirituality Pathfinder