Scholarships are available!

September 21-23, 2012 (14th annual!)    September 28-30, 2012 *** at Great Camp Sagamore

For over a decade…

We provide retreats to women who are broken by trauma.  Have you ever had a day when your whole life seems to be falling apart?  Creative Healing Connections serves women whose days are just like that. It may come in the form of a call telling them that the lump they found was indeed cancerous, or that a disease that they thought was in remission or behind them was back, or they wake up nights in a cold sweat reliving an experience from their time in the military.  Come to Great Camp Sagamore and experience the healing.

We are not in the business of curing people. We are in the business of healing them.

Creative Healing Connections retreat at Great Camp Sagamore in upstate New York provides a safe space where women who have experienced cancer or other chronic illnesses can come together. Retreat participants share stories and emotions. Through sharing, they find a support network.

Creative Healing Connections also offers retreats to other important groups, including female veterans and military spouses.

To learn more about these retreats and Creative Healing Connections, its mission, its guides, and its growing community please visit www.creativehealingconnections.org.

We provide a safe space where they can come together with others facing similar challenges and talk, share stories and emotions, and find a support network. We teach them a wide variety of skills to enhance their quality of life. We engage them in all manner of arts activities of their choosing, to help them give voice, individually and collectively. And we use the extraordinary healing power of nature in the Adirondacks, be it a walk through the woods, sitting by a burbling brook, or floating in a canoe on a starlit night.

Our program was founded 13 years ago to support women living with cancer and chronic illness in the North Country of New York State, a region encompassing the Mohawk River north to the Canadian border, a vast area with low population figures, high unemployment and low per capita income, great distances between communities and, for many that we serve, among the highest per capita rates of breast cancer in the state.

 “I gained a deeper awareness of myself—a clearer view of me, whole and damaged, a keener sense of my own strengths, to get thru days – The gentle guides through art, song, storytelling.  Every phase of the retreat has given me a clearer vision, by sharing with other women and listening, truly listening.  I leave calmer, more centered and ready to go join my life again.”  –Sam Corbo