The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center is offering a free support group for children (ages 6-11) affected by cancer and their parents or adult caregivers. CLIMB (Children’s Lives Include Moments of Bravery) is a six-week program designed by the Children’s Treehouse Foundation and will take place Mondays, beginning May 7, from 5 – 7 p.m. at CMMC, 12 High Street, conference room H.

The Healing Tree Children’s Program of The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing is offering a free cancer coping workshop children ages 9-and-over. ‘Words in Motion’ will take place Wednesday, Wednesday, May 9 from 4 - 5:30 p.m. at CMMC, 12 High Street in conference room I.

This workshop, presented by Elizabeth Park, Certified Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator; and Tookie Bright, LMSW-CC, Children’s Program Coordinator, will help young people identify their personal struggles surrounding cancer.

Participants will learn new ways to cope through the use of words, movement, music, and drawing.

The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center is offering a free meditation workshop for cancer survivors and caregivers. ‘Mindful Meditation: A Tool for Working with Change’ will take place Mondays May 14 through June 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at CMMC, 12 High Street in conference room H.

Staying present in the midst of difficulty and change takes some conscious practice. Often we develop reflexive patterns of avoidance, distraction or reaction.

Presenter Angela Lutzenberger, Bereavement Coordinator and Inter-Religious Chaplain for Beacon Hospice, will introduce Mindfulness Meditation, a tool and practice that helps us recognize and feel our experience in each moment with nonjudgmental attention. It is about truly letting ourselves be exactly who we are.