Our courses and workshops are designed to help you learn about living with and beyond cancer. All courses and workshops are run by our fully qualified facilitators.
SWELL have introduced Art to promote healing. Art in this sense addresses the physical, emotional as well as spiritual needs that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.
Research has shown that creative arts such as viewing paintings at a gallery or in a book, or in a creative way such as in painting, drawing, sculpting and other types of creative activities can help to reduce anxiety, depression and pain thereby improving the quality of life for people living with and beyond cancer.
Mindfulness is an ancient wellness practice that focuses on training awareness, attention and compassion. Recent research has found that meditation can help to;
• Reduce stress and anxiety
• Improve focus and concentration
• Increase feelings of calm and relaxation
• Lower blood pressure
• Ease symptoms of depression
• Improve sleeping patterns
• Decrease pain
• Enhance overall health and wellbeing
Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils to improve health and wellbeing.
The theory behind aromatherapy is that each essential oil has properties that give health benefits and can:
• Boost wellbeing
• Relieve stress
• Help to refresh your body
Our Feel Good workshops are hosted by trained experts, providing step by step advice on skincare and makeup application to help you combat the visible side effects of cancer treatment.
Each workshop provides participants with a safe, welcoming and fun environment to learn new skills and techniques and have the opportunity to chat to our experts as well as others in a similar situation to yourself.
These workshops teach you how to bring balance to your day-to-day nutrition and give you the fundamental understanding needed to construct your own balanced diet.
Our Resilience Workshops focus on emotional, mental and physical wellbeing to improve quality of life and decrease stress and anxiety levels.
Support services and activities are available to anyone who has been affected by cancer. Please check our Facebook page for updates.
