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www.biaov.com March 2016 Spring Issue contact@biaov.org

Phone: 613-233-8303 300-211 Bronson Avenue Ottawa, ON K1R 6H5 Fax 613-233-8422

Brain Injury Association of the Ottawa

Valley

Spring Education Day

When: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

Where: The Bronson Centre: 211 Bronson Avenue, Room 222

Registration: 9:00 – 9:30

Workshops: 9:30 – 2:00

Session 1. Money Management and Budgeting. 9:30 – 10:30

Presented by Jeri Bittorf of K3C Credit Counselling

Topics include credit, planning for the unexpected, budgeting

Break: 10:30 – 11:00

Session 2. Brain/Body Nutrition 11:00 – 12:00

Presented by Ottawa Public Health-Community Food Advisor –

Smart Eating for a Healthy Body and Brain – Healthy Snacking

Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00 Please note: there will be a $3.00 charge for lunch

to help defray costs.

Session 3. Exercise and Stretching. 1:00 – 2:00

Brandi Cowl will lead a gentle exercise and stretching class, and

speak on meditation and focusing the mind

Evaluation: 2:00 – 2:30

RSVP: confirm your attendance by April 22nd

For further information on Spring Education Day, please contact

Wendy (BIAOV) at 613-233-8303

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Any donation to help defray costs

would be greatly appreciated.

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Spring Education Day Registration Form

Last Name: First Name:

Address: Telephone #

E-Mail: Survivor or Family member:

Inside the March Newsletter:

Fundraising Dinner 3-4

Golf Tourney Ahead,

Income Tax Clinics 5

Brain Basics,

Road Safety 6

Kevin Dooley 7

Member Profile 8-9

Cognitive Corner 10

Walking Group 11

Niagara Trip 12

Concussion Corner,

Mindfulness and ABI 13-17

Calendar 18-19

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Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Board of Directors and myself, I would like to thank everyone who attended or sponsored our 9th Annual Fundraising Dinner. It is only with the support of the community that we can continue to provide service to survivors of brain injury and their families. Special thanks to Veronique Soucy, from 94.5 uniqueFM for acting as the MC for the evening and for sharing her personal story and to Ruth Wilcock, Executive Director, Ontario Brain Injury Association, for her enlightening address on “The Importance of Community”. We would especially like to thank our title sponsor, Burn Tucker Lachaîne LLP for once again putting an enjoyable event together. This could not have happened without the efforts of Colleen Burn, Nicole McMullen, Lori Mitchell, and their team of office volunteers, together with the entire Fundraising Committee. Congratulations to all of the lottery winners, the name of which can be found on the website. Sincerely, Wendy Charbonneau, President

Suite 300, 211 Bronson Avenue

Ottawa, ON K1R 6H7

Telephone: (613) 233-8303

Fax: (613) 233-8422

Website: www.biaov.org

Email: contact@biaov.org

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MEDIA IN KIND

Thank you to our Fundraising Dinner

sponsors

Disclaimer:

Articles may be reproduced from the BIAOV Newsletter provided credit is given to

the authors wherever possible. Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of

the respective authors and advertisers and not necessarily those of the Brain Injury

Association of the Ottawa Valley (BIAOV). BIAOV will not be liable for any

damages or losses howsoever sustained as a result of the reliance on or use by a

reader or any other person of the information, opinion, or products expressed,

advertised or otherwise contained herein. Where appropriate, professional advice

should be sought.

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Golf Tourney Coming Soon

Income Tax Clinics

To qualify for services, individuals must usually meet the following criteria:

simple tax situation

low income (maximum income varies by organization)

interest income of less than $1,000; no capital gains; no rental income

The following categories are excluded: individuals who are self-employed, bankrupted,

deceased; businesses.

Clinics are free – donations welcome. Some organizations offer services to all residents

of the City of Ottawa; others are limited to a geographic area.

What to bring: All relevant tax documents, including your last return and a 2015 tax form.

Information on Clinics: 613-598-3968 or 1-800-959-8281

Volunteer tax preparation clinics are generally offered February through April at various

locations. You can also check at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/vlntr/clncs/on-eng.html

Canada Revenue Agency Contact Information:

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/cntct/phn-eng.html

TIPS (Tax Information Phone Service): 1-800-267-6999

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Important Changes to the Highway Traffic Act

New rules at pedestrian crossovers and school crossings

As of January 1st, 2016, drivers (including cyclists) must stop and yield the whole roadway at pedestrian crossovers and school crossings where there is a crossing guard displaying a school crossing stop sign.

These rules apply at pedestrian crossovers identified with specific signs: road markings and lights. The new rules do not apply to pedestrian crosswalks at intersections with stop signs or traffic signals, unless a school crossing guard is present.

The new law, part of the Making Ontario’s Roads Safer Act, also provides municipal road authorities the ability to install new types of pedestrian crossovers on low speed, low volume roads in addition to the existing crossovers.

It is up to drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians to keep everyone safe on Ontario

roads. Learn more about how to stay safe as a pedestrian and as a driver or

cyclist: www.mto.gov.on.ca

Brain Basics Success

Twenty people attended the Brain Basics training program held at the RA Centre in March.

The Brain Injury Association of the Ottawa Valley and the Ontario Brain Injury Association

partnered in providing the event. The program is a certificate course focusing on Acquired

Brain Injury.

Many thanks to the facilitator, John Kumpf, and also to the panelists: Wendy, Bob, Natalia,

Murray, Bob A., Hélène, and Steve.

Brain Basics is a training program for frontline health care workers and others. The goals of

the training program are to help participants:

understand the structure and function of the brain;

appreciate the consequences of ABI (physical, cognitive, and behavioural/emotional);

acquire strategies to work effectively with people living with the effects of ABI.

Wendy Charbonneau explains the success of the two-day session: “It gave people a better

understanding of the people they’re working with. The bottom line was to think outside the

box. The same approach doesn’t work for everybody.”

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For Kevin Dooley of Ottawa and

members of his family, the annual St. Patrick's luncheon at the work centre of the Brain

Injury Association of the Ottawa Valley (BIAOV) at Bronson Street on March 10th, 2016,

is a very special occasion.

An Irish Canadian, in Canada since 1977, Kevin, his daughter Deirdre and son Ciaran,

are musicians and singers who together with friends played at this luncheon.

The members of the work centre cooked up a delicious Irish stew with salad, roll, and

dessert. This reflects the integral nature of the centre. It is a place of support and

fellowship for head injury survivors (HIS) and their families.

Kevin, too, is a HIS, on a permanent disability pension from WCB (B.C.). He lost his

occupation as a machinist and marine engineer through a workplace accident. He

survived through much toil and assistance to become a successful musician, author and

heritage activist.

On this very special event, Kevin can share his talents and offer encouragement to HIS

peers. And here Kevin can dissolve with impunity, knowing here he will not face the

stigmatization, the alienation, and social isolation so common to all HIS.

Kevin discloses his status whenever possible. His latest novel "A Dog's Breakfast" is

dedicated to all Head Injury Survivors, everywhere, and his son set up a facebook page

for his novels - check him out on google.

Submitted by: Onagh Dooley (Kevin's spouse)

KEVIN DOOLEY AND

FRIENDS

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Member Profile: Jane Clark

A slip and fall on ice three years ago left Jane with a collection of sensory,

cognitive and physical persistent post-concussion symptoms that will be

familiar to many readers of this newsletter. It ultimately ended her career as a

top ranked IP litigation lawyer with prestigious national and international

rankings including Best Lawyers in Canada, Who’s Who Legal, IAM 1000

(World’s Leading Patent Practitioners), and LMG Life Sciences Stars.

“It is a tough recovery road” she says. “One of my first surprises was that ‘auto-

pilot mode’ had been erased. Seemingly routine activities were now a jumble of components

and steps requiring exhausting focus to assemble and undertake in the proper order. I was

young and old at the same time: relearning basic skills like a newborn while sharing traits of

advanced age. Ordinary environments presented as excruciating conditioning exercises

overloaded with noise, movement and speed. My life was undergoing major unwelcome shifts

on all fronts yet no one knew it, physicians and myself included. We all expected a full

recovery. Uncertainty is simply part of the concussion package including, on timing,

treatment, priority of treatments, and outcome”.

Barriers to find, fund, wait for and coordinate appropriate care were another surprise. Fifteen

months post injury, she was seen at the Acquired Brain Injury clinic (TOH’s Rehab Centre)

run by Dr. Marshall, lead author on practice guidelines for persisting symptoms. Jane notes,

“The practice guidelines suggest referral to a specialized centre if symptoms persist at three

months. Patients then face a further wait time of 9-12 months. This is essentially a denial of

care at the most critical time made more abysmal given the spotty concussion expertise

elsewhere. That said, I will be forever grateful for the sophisticated expertise, excellent care

and innovative guidance that I found there”.

Determined to advance her recovery, Jane has engaged in conventional and cutting-edge

treatments alike. Familiar with research frontiers after 25 years as patent counsel, she

recognizes the patterns in concussion treatment. “Controversies abound. Experts pursue,

study, debate and rebuff various theories and therapies. Eventually answers will emerge that

explain all the pieces, likely to be led by individuals or groups prepared to move in unobvious

directions. In the meantime, on the front lines living it, I take chances on new options.

Otherwise, plateaus at the end of conventional treatments become ceilings rather than

stepping stones. If a therapy improves function, for whatever reason, that’s a win.”

Success came recently with a filtered music therapy under the care of Paul Madaule (The

Listening Centre, Toronto). Dr. Norman Doidge described Paul’s work helping autistic

children fix their “auditory zoom” in his book The Brain’s Way of Healing, 2015. Beset by a

debilitating auditory processing disorder post-injury, Jane identified with the children running

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from a noisy room, hands clamped over their ears and convinced Paul to try it on her. “I had

no filters. Sounds jammed equally together into a disturbing indecipherable mess causing

nausea, dizziness, startles and usually gagging. Continued exposure turned me into a

‘pumpkin’, a ‘squash head’. Like Cinderella’s coach, ‘poof’, my brain was mush, literally out

of gas with no one home, and often required days of recovery”, elaborated Jane. Despite

assessments by ENT’s and audiologists, and conditioning exercises for the last two years,

progress on this issue was limited, with few treatment options. She was thrilled when the

sounds began “to stay outside” by the 5th day of music therapy. While significant auditory

hurdles remain, “this was a leap, shattering what seemed like a concrete wall. I am mainly

back from the exile of a separate room at family events. My young nieces and nephews and

I are becoming reacquainted. I can participate in more things directly rather than vicariously”.

She also continues to see TOH audiologist Jennifer Platt-Talbot on other auditory issues and

is one year into a tinnitus retraining therapy (hyperacusis) trial.

Hoping for the day when all concussion patients will have timely access to appropriate care,

Jane has publicly spoken and written on the barriers. Like many of her peers from BIAOV’s

concussion support groups, she is an ambassador of the new Concussion Injury Group of

the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute currently focused on improving

access. She also volunteers in a patient advisory capacity reviewing health research funding

proposals to improve concussion care. “I am excited by ongoing work and growing

awareness. A year ago, Wendy Charbonneau and BIAOV stepped up to the plate, and

without delay created two successful concussion peer support groups. As members know,

these groups are a tremendous resource for those with persisting symptoms. I am also

impressed by the tireless commitment of Dr. Marshall and his capable colleagues at the

Acquired Brain Injury clinic, and other specialized care centres in the province, working

together to pioneer and systematize concussion best practices”.

Jane credits her progress to the constant family support and top care she has received, “I am

blessed to have an amazing family who has walked with me, baby step by baby step, a

superb medical team and an ability to engage in physician recommended and other

rehabilitation. It is not the outcome I hoped for, but the quality of my life is vastly improved

from the early days post injury. If I start to feel sorry for myself, I only have to look around

for ready inspiration, from my concussion peers, to Jill O’Conner, the new Mom who declined

chemotherapy while pregnant, to my personal hero, Jonathon Pitre, full of joy and wisdom

despite constant pain and a tender age. They make me see accommodations, pacing and

other tools as enablers rather than chains”.

Her parting advice is: “Hang in there. With patience and time as faithful allies, anything is

possible.”

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To find the answer to the quote, use only letters in the column directly above each blank column. As you use a letter in the column cross it off. A blank space indicates the end of the word. It is possible to have the first letter of a word starting at the far right and continuing in the row below, starting in the left hand column. Hint: Scan entire puzzle from left to right to see if you can see a word. Answer can be found on next page.

T E I S T N C T V E R Y B A C A O M P L T Y

H T O E R E A G E E A A C I E P M T L W A S

P M L N O R O H E E T H C A A H S I S

C E P B A T R A S C H L E

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Wendy BIAOV

COGNITIVE CORNER: QUOTE IN A BOX

(Coordonnatrice du Programme

de soutien par les pairs)

Brain Injury Association of the Ottawa

Valley

pscbiaov@gmail.com

www.biaov.org

(613) 233-8303

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PEER MENTORING? CONTACT HÈLÈNE AT (613) 233-8303

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Keeping Fit, Helping Others

Our weekly Walk/Run Group participated in the 5k Santa Shuffle along the Rideau Canal.

Proceeds from this event were directed to the Salvation Army Food Bank.

Are you interested in improving your health? You do not have to be a runner: join the Walking Group.

When: Wednesday afternoons from 3:00 – approximately 4:00.

Who: Join Scott Vernon, from Vista Centre Brain Injury Services and Wendy, as

they take the group out to explore the City.

For more information: please contact Wendy at (613) 233-8303.

Cognitive Corner Answer: Celebrate each small step on the ABI pathway to recovery. Each step is a great

accomplishment.

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BIAOV Members Enjoy Ontario Conference

A circle of family and friends gathered at the Provincial Brain Injury

Conference in Niagara Falls in November. Ten members from the BIAOV

attended the conference. Many thanks to Kathy and Hélène, the volunteers,

who made sure that those travelling by train had a safe trip.

Members attended a Remembrance

Day Service. A Picture was taken with

98 yr. old Mr. Sanderson who

continues to attend the outdoor

ceremonies at the historical monument

on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls.

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Concussion Corner

Concussion Support Group: We continue to meet every Monday, 10:30 – 12:00, at the

BIAOV centre. Group members are a cross-section of society with diverse and impressive

backgrounds, and an inspiring dedication to their recoveries. It is a place where those with

concussions are welcomed, understood, and encouraged.

Save the Date: Wednesday, June 15th is the 8th Annual Brain Injury Awareness Day at

the Hampton Inn, Ottawa. Some members of our Support Group will present a panel

discussion entitled Coping with Persistent Concussion Symptoms: The Inside Scoop. They

will address concussion issues such as barriers in access to appropriate care, common

symptoms, strategies for coping, and experience with therapies, including treatments for

visual and communication deficits.

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Coping Tips for those with Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms

Submitted by members of the Concussion Support Group

From those with a Concussion:

Join a peer support group like the BIAOV for camaraderie, recommendations, and

perspective. As well, peers have a wealth of expertise for adapting rehab lessons into

practice to manage ordinary daily situations. (Jane)

Adopt a new scale, the “concussion scale”. Measure your progress against last week or last

month, not as against pre-injury. (Jane)

Create and carry a concussion coping kit with aids tailored to your symptoms from ear muffs

and plugs, to dark glasses and eye covers, nausea meds, and a folded large plastic ziploc

bag in case the nausea worsens. If you find yourself in an overwhelming place (like a hospital

waiting area), you can cover your eyes and ears to try to reduce stimuli and turn the chair to

face the wall. (Jane)

Use plastic cutlery or wooden or plastic chopsticks for dining to cut down on noise. This

works well at larger dinners as well. (Natalia)

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Sticky notes and timers are useful tools. For example, for appointments, a watch timer can

be set to signal when to begin getting ready and a sticky note (and sometimes an additional

timer) can be used as a reminder of when to actually leave for the appointment. (Natalia)

To accomplish a goal, break it down into doable baby steps (something that does not take

more than 30 minutes of recovery) and plug away 3x/day, 5-6 days per week, building level

by level, until the complete task is achieved. (Jane)

Coping Tips From Families/Caregivers

Openly discuss issues and concerns so everyone understands and is on the same page.

(Alex, child)

Often family members see overload trouble coming (stammering, word searching,

blanching, rapid blinking, errors, rushing, eyes dazed or sinking). Take action. Gently stop

whatever is happening (talking, house chores) and guide the person to a rest zone (low

stimulus) until they recover. (Alex, child)

Environment is often the key to success: remove unnecessary barriers (background

noise), seat the person in a way that is most comfortable, in a “grounding” chair (solid back

and arms for maximum body contact), looking at the calmest view (e.g. back yard instead

of street view with traffic) and positioned to accommodate right or left issues. If hearing

voices from different angles (above, behind or to the sides) is disturbing, arrange

conversations directly face to face, all seated, and one person speaking at a time. (Rob,

husband)

If you are frustrated or angry, just walk away. When everyone is calm, come back and

discuss it. (Sam, child)

Irritability is a common symptom. We chose together a neutral signal for when irritability

arises, “rainbow”. It signals to us all to step back, to not take it personally, and for the

concussed person to rest. (Sam, child)

Just like for concussion patients, hang in there and be patient. (Alex, child)

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Mindfulness Opens New Pathways

By a member of the Concussion Support Group

Help for individuals with ABI/post-concussion syndrome comes in many different forms.

One very special approach is mindfulness practice. Well-known for enhancing the lives of

people without brain injury, the benefits for helping to cope with ABI/post-concussion

symptoms are emerging.

The Mindfulness/MBCT Maintenance Group for People with Acquired Brain Injury was

formed a few months ago by three specialists with many years of experience working with

people with ABI. Sally Cuddy, Elly Nadorp, and Evelyn Tan set up the group, which meets

twice a month under their much-appreciated volunteer direction.

For those of us with acquired brain injury, including concussion, the guided mindfulness

meditation sessions are a welcome oasis of calm in the myriad physical, cognitive, and

emotional challenges of living with our injury. Of great importance to all of us, the sessions

provide supportive direction for ongoing mindfulness practice in our daily lives.

One of our group members explains: “Mindfulness has been very helpful to me in three

ways: Firstly, as a tool to combat anxiety, sleeplessness, or both combined, by offering a

soothing relaxation through focusing on the here-and-now experience of the body.

Secondly, as a way to promote pacing and 'cool' the frenetic activity of the mind during the

course of the day. Thirdly, to promote the awareness and appreciation of small joys in life

when so much can easily be counted as lost.”

Group member N.R. says: “For me, mindfulness practice has been about learning to

manage my thoughts, and it has given me a way to manage symptoms and to get through

times of emotional difficulty. I also find meditating with a group to be uplifting, which is why I

have continued with the group. I increasingly consider mindfulness practice as a

cornerstone to promoting wellness.”

From another member: “Mindfulness is helping me with compassion, especially self-

compassion in struggling with all the changes in my life from the concussion. It helps me

stop judging myself and being so self-critical over all the difficulties I now have. I also can

find some peace in the group meditation sessions, and peace is really hard to find with a

brain injury.”

Some of us were first exposed to mindfulness through the Mindfulness Based Cognitive

Therapy (MBCT) program at the Rehab Centre’s post-concussion clinic. Others have

explored mindfulness through a variety of sources. The new community group offers much-

needed ongoing guidance in mindfulness for people with ABI/post-concussion syndrome.

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Evelyn Tan, a speech-language pathologist, explains: “The group was started in order to

help people maintain their [mindfulness] practice and deepen their insights. If one hopes for

positive changes to occur in the brain due to neuroplasticity, opportunities to practise must

be provided after the formal [MBCT] course work is completed. The group was started in

order to provide these opportunities.”

Sally Cuddy, a social worker, reinforces the importance for people with ABI to have

opportunities to continue mindfulness practice. “Research tells us that in order for the brain

to change, one needs to consistently practise the approach.” She refers to several online

sources, including the Harvard Gazette and Psychology Today, which discuss research

showing beneficial changes in the brain related to mindfulness meditation.

It is very important to have mindfulness sessions geared specifically to individuals with ABI.

“An effort is made to accommodate the needs of people with ABI, and to provide

information regarding neuroscience as it applies to the practice,” Evelyn says. “Some of

these needs include limited cognitive endurance and physical challenges, such as impaired

balance and pain.” This special setting can also help address emotional issues such as

“adjustment to huge life changes” resulting from ABI/concussion.

Elly Nadorp, also a social worker, says, “The group members provide support to each other

and receive support from each other because they all share the fact that they have a brain

injury.”

Peggy, one of our group members, reflects on her experience with the Rehab Centre

MBCT course and the new Mindfulness Maintenance Group. MBCT strategies “have

helped me get through many frustrating moments when I have found it difficult to accept my

present circumstances, and help me to be more able to live in the present moment.”

There are several reasons why MBCT can be helpful for individuals with ABI/post-

concussion syndrome. Evelyn says that based on her personal practice in mindfulness and

meditation, as well as her clinical work as a speech-language pathologist, she has

determined that:

“the practice improves decision-making in that one becomes less inclined to behave impulsively or on auto-pilot;”

“better decisions result in wise actions and less wasted energy ­- physically, mentally and/or emotionally;”

“the practice develops compassion for oneself and for others, something that can be lacking when, due to the severity of symptoms post-injury, people suffer losses in jobs, relationships and identity.”

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Difficulties with depression and anxiety are common concussion/ABI symptoms. On her

website, Evelyn states that while it is impossible to eliminate all sources of stress in life, “it

is possible to change the way we perceive them and therefore, not be swept into habitual

downward cycles of stress, anxiety and depression. MBCT is designed to help individuals

learn present-moment awareness without attaching or reacting unskillfully to thoughts,

sensations and feelings in ways which could trigger and prolong these conditions.”

Peggy discusses benefits of MBCT in this area: “The aspects of the MBCT training course

that have been most helpful in managing symptoms of anxiety and depression that were

exacerbated by my concussions are the concept that ‘thoughts are not facts’ ... and being in

the present moment. Seeing negative thoughts as self perceptions that can be interpreted

in a different way helps to de-escalate anxiety provoking spirals of negative thinking that

feed into further anxiety.”

Elly adds that the MBCT Maintenance Group is helpful “to refresh the group members’

understanding of mindfulness and how one can use the practice to deal with reoccurrences

of feelings of depression and anxiety.”

The overall benefits of ongoing mindfulness practice are shared by a member of our

Concussion Support Group, S.B.: “Mostly, it helped me get outside of myself and my

anxiety ... I also developed a patience with myself and those around me ... Now I know that,

no matter where I am, or what I am doing, I can always close my eyes, breathe, and go

back into my body to get out of my head.”

In our daily lives with ABI/post-concussion syndrome, we all really appreciate that the

Mindfulness/MBCT Maintenance Group is here. As Peggy says, “The mindfulness

extension group helps to further the practice I have learned from the MBCT course, and I

am grateful that Sally, Elly and Evelyn have initiated it.”

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Concussion

Support Group

10:30 – 12:00

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Art Workshop

10:30 – 2:30

Woodworking

1:00 – 2:30