Marie Garlock, PhD: Mobilizer. Educator. Co-creator.
 

The Eno River Fellowship Foundation, RCWMS, + Flipping Cancer Project present

Our Bodies, Our Stories: Public Workshop
for People Navigating Life-Threatening Illness

Saturday February 10, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF), Commons Room, Care Building, 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC, 27707

More information below for interested patients, caregivers, community supporters, and healthcare workers.

Participants in an InterPlay methods workshop for healthcare storytelling led by Marie Garlock for Atrium Health (pictured: a patient advocacy / public health researcher, interfaith clergy and advocates for healthcare access, and Hematology-Oncology clinician)

 

Public Workshop Description

Come find creativity, stress release, and renewing community while navigating cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. A public workshop welcoming patients, caregivers, community supporters, and healthcare workers — of all mobilities, and across pain and energy levels.

This 90-minute session incorporates InterPlay methods to easefully explore story, voice, and movement, guiding interpersonal and inner-connection. Authentic, imaginative health storytelling practices can leave us feeling lighter and clearer than when we began.

Disability accommodations, COVID safety, refreshments and outdoor porch onsite. All are welcome!

Led by Marie Garlock, PhD, with live sound healing music by Rev. Stacy Grove.

Workshop Flyer (.pdf for print, email) — Workshop Image (.png for social media) — All Media

 

Who can benefit from attending?

Patients

  • People currently or formerly diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses (who are also so much more than the role of patient)

Caregivers + Community Supporters

  • Family members, friends, and community-based caregivers and supporters for people with cancers and life-threatening illness — such as interfaith clergy, pastoral care providers, and community volunteers

Healthcare Workers

  • Providers and staff, across fields— in hospitals, educational settings (trainees and faculty), community practices, supportive and palliative care, patient navigation, hospice care, oncology, ICUs, and more

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Accessibility

  • Accommodations available, with a warm welcome for people with disabilities and mobility differences, and across all pain and energy levels.

  • Accessible for wheelchairs and walkers, with optional chairs, a section with padded mats for extra support, audio via microphones and clear sight-lines to speakers.

  • Lower sensory environment with natural light, peaceful music, spacing for sound clarity when duos or groups are speaking together. The Commons Room has a covered porch, nearby bathrooms and indoor or outdoor space to relax.

COVID Safety

  • COVID precautions in place, with masks invited, air filter onsite, and open windows/doors for ventilation.

  • Note: Affiliation groups can form between masked and unmasked people as needed, session leaders will remove masks to speak at a distance from others, for lip-reading purposes.

 

What will participants do?

Overview

Our 75-minute workshop starts at 2 pm, Saturday February 10. Along with tea + refreshments onsite, an optional 10-15 minutes’ quiet reflection time with sound healing music closes us out by 3:30 pm.

Participants will be guided in easeful, affirming ways to explore story with and without words, movement and stillness, breath and voice.

You can expect an afternoon of meaningful fun, with memorable take-home skills for responding to overwhelm, seeking renewal, and centering your visions for health and justice.

You may gain…

  • An enriching experience, including for people who think “I’m not sure I do this type of thing…!?”, and for those who already know they might love it.

  • A chance to gently explore embodied methods of witnessing (self and others) in duos and small groups

  • Incremental play with arts-based communication about health, with no prior experience required. We may play with themes like exhaustion and purpose, daring and delight, compassion and sacred rage, loss and presence.

 

Registration