Discovering Your Inner Strengths: Resilience Workshop for Long‑Term Conditions
Discovering Your Inner Strengths is a gentle, practical resilience workshop designed for people living with long‑term conditions such as cancer, Parkinson’s, COPD, MS, chronic pain, autoimmune conditions and other LTCs.
It helps participants reconnect with strengths they may not realise they have, steady themselves on difficult days, and feel more confident navigating uncertainty, fatigue, fear and change.
Grounded in evidence‑based resilience tools and delivered in a psychologically safe, compassionate and strength‑based way, this workshop offers a space for people to breathe, reflect and rebuild confidence at their own pace.
Who this workshop is for?
This workshop is designed for anyone living with a long‑term condition, including:
- Cancer
- Parkinson’s
- COPD
- MS
- Chronic pain
- Autoimmune conditions
- Other fluctuating or long‑term health conditions
It is suitable for people at any stage of illness or recovery, including those navigating treatment, returning to work, or adjusting to new limitations.
What the workshop covers
Rediscovering Inner Strength
Participants explore how strength shows up during illness, including identity changes, loss, fear and meaning. They map personal strength stories using gentle storyboarding techniques.
Managing Uncertainty & Fear
Tools for waiting, worrying and “what if” thinking, flexible thinking strategies, and the Spider Diagram for best, worst and most likely outcomes.
Energy, Fatigue & Capacity
Understanding fluctuating capacity, identifying what drains and restores energy, and creating a personalised pacing plan.
Emotional First Aid
Grounding techniques for difficult moments, the Five‑Sense Check‑In, and short‑term and long‑term emotional nourishment.
Thought Steadiness
Using the ABC Model to understand how thoughts influence feelings, challenging disbelief and fear‑based thinking, and building confidence through flexible thinking.
Connection & Support
Navigating relationships during illness, asking for help without guilt, and building micro‑communities of care.
Wheel of Life
Creating a personalised wheel of life that looks at the aspects of life that are important to the person and how they can manage the energy to make the most of each day.
Format & Delivery
This workshop is can be delivered as three short sessions, each lasting 2 hours, creating space for reflection, rest and gentle learning or as two half days.
Why this workshop matters
People living with long‑term conditions often carry invisible strength — but illness, fatigue, fear and uncertainty can make that strength harder to see.
This workshop helps participants:
- reconnect with who they are
- steady themselves on difficult days
- build confidence in navigating change
- find hope, meaning and identity beyond illness
- feel supported, understood and less alone
- It is gentle, human, and deeply empowering.
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