Healing Journey is a multi-step program for those who want to play an active role in their own healing. Through the program, you will learn ideas and techniques from both modern psychology and a variety of spiritual traditions. These approaches are shown to reduce suffering and may assist with healing of the body.
This program is an ideal place to start for those who wish to learn how to cope better with their illness. There is no charge to attend.
Dr. Alastair Cunningham is the founder of the Healing Journey. Alastair’s wealth of knowledge reflects his background having earned two Ph.D.s, one in microbiology and another in psychology. He is also a cancer survivor. He knows from his own experience, and from talking to thousands of people with cancer, just how frightening and stressful the disease can be, both for them and for family members. Alastair and his team of clinical researchers have worked since 1982 to develop and research the Healing Journey program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Canada. It is the lifelong culmination of Alastair’s compassion and dedication to the needs of people coping with cancer.
Alastair is recognized internationally as a pioneer and world leader in psycho-oncology. In 2003, Alastair received the Order of Canada in recognition of his contribution to cancer supportive care, and was the recipient in 2007 of the Dr. Rogers’ Prize for Excellence in Comprehensive and Alternative Medicine.
“Some evidence has been found, in prospective, longitudinal studies, that when people with metastatic cancers become strongly involved with psychological and spiritual self-healing work, this may significantly prolong their lives. Qualitative analysis of interviews with people whose lifespan has exceeded expert predictions by many years, has led to a simple theory of the beneficial effects of mental change on progression of cancer.” Cunningham, A.J., Edmonds, C.V.I., Phillips, C., Soots, K.I., Hedley, D. and Lockwood, G.A . (2000) A prospective, longitudinal study of the relationship of psychological work to duration of survival in patients with metastatic cancer . Psycho-oncology, 9:323-339.
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