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 Carmelle Jaeggle, 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 interactive learning, 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.
ALL 2024 GROUPS ARE FULL
Here are the dates of our 2025 groups:
Group One:
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from January 14 - March 11, 2025
Group Two:
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from January 16 - March 13, 2025
Group Three:
- Every Tuesday at 1:00PM PST from March 25 - May 20, 2025
Group Four:
- Every Thursday at 1:00PM PST from March 27 - May 22, 2025
Group Five:
Group Six:
Group Seven:
Group Eight:
Funding for this program is provided by the Government of BC and the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller.