GIPPEC » Events » Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) 2025 Workshop

Description

Join us for the 2025 Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully Online Workshop on November 27 and 28, 2025 from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Click here to register.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) is a brief, semi-structured, evidence-based intervention designed to help people with advanced and metastatic cancer, and their close loved ones, manage the practical and profound problems associated with advanced disease. Reduction of psychological distress and prevention of future distress are the primary goals of CALM.

Developed by Gary Rodin MD and Sarah Hales MD PhD at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada, CALM focuses on four content domains that address the practical and profound issues commonly faced by individuals with advanced and metastatic cancer.

CALM therapy optimally consists of three to six sessions delivered over three to six months, by a wide range of specially trained health care providers.

Learning Objectives:

To understand the rationale,theoretical foundations and clinical application of CALM.
To explore the process of CALM through videotaped CALM sessions.
To understand the shift to Emotion and Symptom-focused Engagement (EASE) during more acute traumatic states.

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