What is Making Sense of Pain: Online?
Do you live with chronic pain? Making Sense of Pain: Online is a free nine-week program from Pain BC designed to empower you to improve your quality of life and well-being through pain education and social connection.
The weekly 90-minute online group will be facilitated by Pain BC facilitator Sara Laybolt, Social Worker and co-facilitators Shirvin Lee, Clinical Counsellor, and Carmelle Jaeggle, Social Worker.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding the biopsychosocial model of pain
- Understanding the role of stress in chronic pain
- Exploring different forms of movement for managing chronic pain
- Sleep, mood and emotions and their impact on pain
- The importance of social support
- The role of nutrition in healing
- Grief and loss
- How your thinking can affect your experience of pain
Using a combination of interactive learning, discussion and practice activities each week will offer education, tools and resources to support you in your pain management, while providing an opportunity to share, listen and learn from others who live with chronic pain too.
Making Sense of Pain groups are offered on a weekly basis on Tuesdays OR Thursdays from 1:00PM to 2:30PM Pacific Time. Groups are held online via Zoom. We strive to support accommodation requests such as closed captioning.
If you’re interested in participating in Making Sense of Pain Online, please complete the self-referral form. Please note, participants must be 18-years of age or older.
Funding for this program is provided by the Government of BC and the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller.