​From this course, you will benefit from weekly live webinars with Trudy Boyle and Kate Karius, along with readings, exercises, and home practices to help you to live more fully and meaningfully in the face of life's challenges. Through our work together, we aim to help you move beyond bodily struggles to cultivate a life rich with purpose, beauty, and inner strength.​ No prior experience necessary—just a willingness to reflect and explore.​​​​ ​​​Each session blends insights along with gentle reflection and guided support to help you in cultivating joy, creativity, and meaning.

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What You will Explore:
 

• How to take an active role in the management of your illness

• Exploring your own Ikigai by reconnecting with what brings you meaning

• Developing ways to help others

• Cultivate resilience in the face of uncertainty, anxiety, and difficult emotions

• Explore creative expression and nature as sources of healing

• Honour what is as well as your emotional experience without being defined by illness

 

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS​

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Trudy Boyle is the author of Ikigai and Illness: A guide to Living Fully with Purpose, Meaning, and Joyful Moments. She has spent three decades teaching, writing, and mentoring people living with illness. As Director of the ToDo Institute's Living Fully with Illness initiative, she leads webinars, digital programs, and residential courses, and contributes to the Thirty Thousand Days Quarterly. A former program director of Wellspring Alberta, Trudy finds her Ikigai in her work, her adventures with grandchildren, and her passions for cycling, photography, and exploration. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.

 

Kate Karius is an Integrative Functional Nutrition Therapist and Wellbeing Practitioner who has co-facilitated this programme for the past three years. A student of Morita Therapy since the early 2000s, Kate's own health journey profoundly informs her work. She supports people living with illness by integrating nutrition, wellbeing, and healing practices that honour the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Kate is also a storyteller and writer, exploring the intersections of health, science, compassion, and the natural world. She served as editor of Power and Care, a book on compassion and human flourishing with the Dalai Lama. Outside of her professional life, Kate enjoys tending to her garden, playing the Celtic harp, and life with her husband and son in Zurich, Switzerland. 

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Individual one-to-one sessions are also available upon request, as well as the opportunity to join a Living Fully with Illness retreat. ​​