Workshops
Conversations that create room to think and move forward.
Some parts of living with cancer don’t fit neatly into appointments, handouts, or treatment plans.
Our small-group virtual workshops give patients and caregivers a place to consider what matters, reflect on their own experience, compare experiences with others, and think about what may help them move forward.
Conversation, not classroom.
Our workshops aren’t lectures or webinars where you sit quietly while someone talks at you.
They combine conversation, reflection, anonymous polls, private writing, and shared experience. You can participate in the way that feels right for you, including simply listening.
There are no right answers to find and no expectation that everyone will see things the same way.
We share experiences, not prescriptions.
Free Pilot Workshops | Now Forming
Help us choose which workshops to schedule first.
We’re now inviting cancer patients and caregivers to express interest in all three pilot workshops. Review the topics below and tell us which one you would most like to attend.
Sharing your interest doesn’t commit you to attending. It helps us understand which conversations hold the greatest interest and begin forming the first pilot groups.
What the Handouts Don’t Tell You
Because information is only part of the experience.
Medical information can explain what may happen, but it rarely shows how an experience may affect daily life, relationships, or the choices surrounding it.
This workshop helps you identify what you still want to understand, reflect on your own needs, and hear how others have approached similar gaps.
You’ll leave with clearer language for the questions or conversations you want to carry forward—and one next step you choose for yourself.
90 minutes | Small group | Virtual
PILOT WORKSHOP | NOW FORMING
Making Decisions When There Isn’t a Right Answer
Some decisions come with options, not answers.
Sometimes several options are reasonable, but none is obviously right for your life.
This workshop gives you a structured way to clarify the decision, weigh tradeoffs and possible futures, and identify what matters most to you.
You’ll leave with a clearer view of the choice in front of you and a next step for discussing or moving forward with it—even if uncertainty remains.
105 minutes | Small group | Virtual
PILOT WORKSHOP | NOW FORMING
Making Room for Life
Treatment may shape your days. It doesn’t have to occupy all of them.
Appointments, treatment, recovery, and uncertainty can gradually take up more of life than you intended.
This workshop helps you see what is necessary, what supports you, what costs more than it gives, and where you may want to make room for something else.
You’ll leave with one realistic, personally chosen way to reclaim time, attention, energy, or joy.
90 minutes | Small group | Virtual
PILOT WORKSHOP | NOW FORMING
Sharing your interest doesn’t commit you to attending.
What to expect
A small group. A real conversation.
Workshops are designed for approximately 12–15 participants and are facilitated by Scott & Patty Carroll.
You’ll stay together as one group throughout the session. There are no breakout rooms and no pressure to speak.
Depending on the workshop, you may be invited to participate through conversation, chat, anonymous polls, private reflection, or simply listening.
Come as you are.
Built from lived experience
We know what it feels like when the choices, questions, and emotions surrounding cancer extend far beyond what happens in the exam room.
Our workshops grew from our own experiences as patient and caregiver, along with what we’ve learned through conversations with others navigating cancer.
They aren’t medical care, counseling, or support groups. They’re places to slow things down, hear different perspectives, and consider what might be useful in your own life.
Your Facilitators
Scott and Patty bring two kinds of experience to Life Between Scans Workshops: years of professional work helping people and organizations navigate change and learning, and years of navigating cancer together from the patient and caregiver sides.
Before Life Between Scans, their work through Centrixity included organizational development, facilitated learning, leadership, communication and employee development. Scott’s consulting experience included large-scale change and development initiatives for major organizations, including Fortune 100 businesses and work conducted in partnership with McKinsey & Company. Patty’s experience included facilitation and workplace/team development as an authorized DiSC practitioner and facilitator. Cancer has given that professional experience an entirely different context.
Since Scott’s diagnosis in 2017, they have been navigating major surgeries, recovery, recurrence, metastatic disease, treatment, clinical trials, caregiving and difficult decisions together, often from very different perspectives.
Their Workshops are designed around reflection, participation, conversation and choice rather than lectures or prescriptions. Participants are never expected to reach the same conclusion or share more than they choose.
Scott and Patty don’t facilitate because they believe they have the answers. They facilitate because they know how valuable it can be to create enough structure, safety and space for people to think, talk, compare perspectives and decide what matters to them.
Interested in joining a pilot workshop?
Tell us which workshop you would most like to attend—and whether either of the other topics also interests you. We’ll use those responses to determine which pilot sessions to schedule first.
Express Interest in a Pilot Workshop →
Sharing your interest doesn’t commit you to attending.