Event Details

Event Description

The course is designed to help our patients build confidence and look at coping strategies following a cancer diagnosis and treatment. 

• HOPE helps you to focus on you as a person, develop new strengths and approaches and rediscover old strengths that you had.
• The course helps to boost your self-confidence and resilience to better cope emotionally, psychologically, physically and practically following your treatment.
• Through the course, attendees will be able to share their experiences with other people going through the same thing.  It helps strengthen your coping skills and learn helpful strategies to self-manage difficult thoughts and feelings that may typically arise so you can feel more like yourself.

Why attend?

The course aims to:

• Empower you to manage your health and wellbeing - learn strategies to overcome emotional and practical difficulties
• Improve and develop your self-management skills to enable you to plan and live your life as fully as possible
• Help you recognise why you may be feeling over whelmed and not in complete control
• Recognise your own potential and ability by regaining your confidence and self-esteem
• Feel more confident and able to deal with various situations and issues including anxiety, stress, sleep, physical activity and fatigue.
• Become familiar with planning and setting realistic goals and how to best achieve these
• Introduce relaxation techniques and how best to use these in everyday life.
• Meet and benefit from the support of other patients who have also had treatment at GSTT.

HOPE is a 6-week group-based course for any patient, over 18 years of age, who has had treatment for cancer at GSTT with a curative intent.

Usually the most beneficial time to attend the programme is after your surgery and treatments have finished and you are moving onto routine follow-up. Alternatively, you may prefer to attend at a later time after your treatment/surgery. There isn’t a right or wrong time to attend.

We ask that patient’s commit to attending the full 6 weeks as different topics are covered each week.  We do appreciate that there may be times you may not be able to attend due to emergencies or illness but the first session is mandatory and if for any reason you were unable to attend we would defer you onto the next course.

Septembers course dates:

• 10^th September
• 17^th September
• 24^th September
• 1^st October
• 8^th October
• 15^th October

Places are limited for each course - to register your interest and check eligibility criteria to attend please email liz.graham9@nhs.net