Letter of intent ... From March 2024, we want to organise discussion groups !!!
As of March 2024, non-profit organisation SuperNils, together with the LEA programme, organising chat groups for AFTER patients with haematological disorders. Because yes, these people too often need a chat.
Partners, children, friends ... all have questions when someone close to them falls ill. Often they have nowhere to turn with these questions. Vzw SuperNils and LEA want to do something about this. We want to bring these people around the table, giving them a platform for their questions and needs. To steer these conversations in the right direction, we are taking on an organisation like Lost & Co asbl under the arm.
To make it a total experience, we always want to start with a presentation on a relevant and interesting topic. This will be followed by coffee and a local delicacy, to give everyone a chance to put their questions on the table. The aim is to be able to vent your heart, but above all to hear that you are not alone with those questions and needs. Learning from each other's feelings, each other's experiences ... it makes us so much richer.
After such a talk-group experience, people should return home with a more relaxed mind.
Keep following this page and our news releases, to keep up to date with dates and venues (in the future throughout Flanders!).
Also important ... the discussion groups are FREE. We only ask to sign up in advance for the limited seats.
Free talk groups ... how do you do it?
We always want to be able to offer our discussion groups free of charge to haematological cancer patients and their loved ones/carers. This is not easy! Such an organisation obviously has a number of costs that need to be borne (venue, guidance, speakers, catering).
It is thanks to the support of companies and individuals that we can continue to do this. Do you also think such a discussion group is important and want to support its organisation? There are several ways to do so. Quickly click on the orange button at the very top and show your good heart!
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Overview of our planned discussion groups
Thursday 14 March 2024
Around the table together: a frank conversation with loved ones of blood cancer patients
Location: GLOED, Antwerpsestraat 126, 2500 Lier
Welcome: at 19:30
Maximum number of participants: 15
When someone close to us falls ill, it is not only the person himself
but also everyone who cares for him/her on a daily basis, confronted with the loss of all kinds of things: untroubled life, opportunities and plans. Moreover, you also sympathise strongly with what your child, your partner, your sibling, ... all have to lose: his/her health and perhaps his/her self-image, work, friends, fertility, ... Often, there is little space to dwell on this. LEA and non-profit organisation SuperNils would like to offer this space to anyone who needs it.
Therefore, they invite Marijke Quaghebeur (UZ Gent) who, from her extensive experience with haematology patients and their families, will take us through a lecture on the impact of cancer on the lives of those close to a patient.
Afterwards, Kathleen Roskams (psychologist and founder of Lost & Co) and Marijke engage with you together so that experiences can be exchanged and you can give each other tools on how you try to deal resiliently with that loss and impact.
Agenda:
19:30 welcome
19:45 short performance vzw Supernils, Lost & Co and Lea programme
20:00 presentation Marijke Quaghebeur
8.20pm Time for coffee and a delicious Liers Vlaaike
20:30 together in conversation
10pm we quietly round off
Unfortunately, we received no requests for this discussion group, despite several attempts to bring the offer to patients and their families. Perhaps the time is not yet ripe for it? Maybe we should look for another way to reach the target group? Is the location well chosen? Do we try it better online, e.g. via a Zoom session?
Many questions occurred to us ... At least we are not giving up. Together with LEA, we keep looking for alternatives. Would you like to help us do so? Then send a quick message via our contact form (button below).