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.
The weekly 90-minute online class will be facilitated by Pain BC self-management facilitator Tasha Lowe, Social Worker and co-facilitators Shirvin Lee, Clinical Counsellor, and Danielle Harrison, Social Worker.
The Making Sense of Pain program answers questions like:
How does pain become chronic?
What is the role of my brain in my pain?
Is it true that other factors influence my pain, like diet, thoughts and emotions?
Once the biology of chronic pain is understood, participants are best placed to learn best practices for managing and healing from pain.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding the biopsychosocial model of pain
- Understanding the role of stress in chronic pain
- Gentle movement exercises 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 teaching, discussion and practice activities, each week will offer 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.
Upcoming groups:
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 secure Zoom for Healthcare videoconferencing.
Group One: FULL
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from February 1 - March 28, 2024
Group Two: FULL
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from February 6 - April 2, 2024
Group Three: FULL
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from April 4 - May 30, 2024
Group Four: FULL
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from April 9 - June 4, 2024
Group Five:
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from June 6 - August 1, 2024
Group Six:
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from June 11 - August 6, 2024
Group Seven:
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from August 8 - October 3, 2024
Group Eight:
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from August 13 - October 8, 2024
If all groups are full, please email msop@painbc.ca to be placed on the wait list.
Please note that the number of seats is limited to 12 participants per class.