Category: The Wellspring Team Stories

Meet Wellspring’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Roundtable

The D&I Roundtable is comprised of individuals who are committed to creating a Wellspring where everyone belongs. These are dedicated individuals who have: lived cancer experience; knowledge or experience with marginalization and racism; and/or, have encountered barriers to accessing community-based supportive care or the health care system.

Frank Pickard: finding the missing piece at Wellspring

Frank Pickard is grateful to be alive, relatively stable, and doing as well as possible, in year four of what is commonly viewed as a five-year cancer monitoring window. He is especially cognizant of his all-around good fortune, given the prognosis of a 35 percent chance of recovering from two cancers found within three months of each other in 2019.

Pat Murray: Wellspring member, volunteer, program leader and donor

When Pat Murray was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age 63, the last thing she imagined was that the frightening path she was on would eventually lead her to find joy in the pursuits of volunteering, leading and giving.

Wellspring CEO enters the race

Wellspring Alberta CEO, Natalie Noble, takes on Challenge the Chief – climbing to the top of Brookfield Place – all while raising money for Wellspring and those with cancer.

Sanam Zomorodi: cancer at 27

Sanam Zomorodi answered the call when Wellspring Alberta sought volunteers for its Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Roundtable. With firsthand experience as a cancer survivor, she recognizes the significance of accessing community-based supportive care while confined to a hospital.

Munira Jiwa: connect to calm with Qigong

Munira Jiwa discovered qigong when she was at a low point in her life, suffering with a number of ailments including fatigue, chronic pain and depression. After a couple of months of practicing the gentle formula of meditation and movement, her pain completely disappeared. This life-altering change was so dramatic, that Munira she ended her career in physical therapy and made qigong her life’s work.

Julie Barker: life on the edge

Julie has travelled a tumultuous path, but she doesn’t present her story this way … she narrates it as a wildly adventurous ride; a bit of a ‘living on the edge,’ meets ‘diving inward to find answers’ kind of story.

Janean Hodgson: full circle with luck and Wellspring

Janean Hodgson is not just a bright, tender-hearted person who embodies the perfect mix of compassion, empathy, and positivity to be an awesome Wellspring program coordinator; she is a brilliant young adult who has recently overcome cancer herself.

Red Deer Advocate’s Journey with Wellspring

Brett Martin is a very enthusiastic Wellspring Community Connector in Red Deer. Community Connectors are a vital part of the strategy for spreading the word about Wellspring across the province.

Cidalia Campos: gratitude galore

Cidalia Campos has come a long way from Mozambique to volunteering at the Wellspring front desk! She is a dedicated gratitude tracker, wholeheartedly tallying the goodness in her life in a journal she tends to daily. Wellspring, she says, is high on her list.