Intervention
cancer
CANCER
GRACE incorporates both psycho-educational and experiential interventions. The curriculum is standardized and includes themes illustrated via PowerPoint slides with structured delivery, video presentations, a variety of mindfulness meditation practices, and selected readings that serve to reflect and capture the theme for the week of the curriculum, with a substantial emphasis on Dr Rachel Naomi Remen’s, GRACE was designed to provide a sense of awareness and control, develop ways of finding meaning and purpose, learn skills to enhance perspective management, strengthen connectivity, develop a sense of gratitude despite difficult circumstances, identify and utilize personal strengths and virtues, and to help crystallize one’s legacy as a means to living the most purposeful life possible. In essence, GRACE was designed to provide a structured, systematic way of building coping and resiliency skills under difficult life circumstances to address a major gap in comprehensive cancer care.