With cancer affecting 1 in 2 of us during our lifetime, there is an urgent opportunity to have deeper conversations about what that actually means for us as individuals, our collective response to those in our communities and healthcare responses to cancer. There are over 200 different types of cancer and each one of us, with our unique physiology, will respond differently to that cancer and also to the treatment we are offered. Ultimately, the resources available to us, relationships, finance, community, will play a massive role in our ability to manage what a diagnosis means to each one of us.

Dr Lisa Cherry, diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (a blood cancer) and Dr Karen Triesman, author of Trauma Informed Health Care, explore cancer through a trauma informed lens. There will be a Q & A for deeper discussion and we encourage those impacted by cancer and those working in the field of healthcare for those with cancer to join us.

Biographies:

Dr Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a 'one stop' approach to delivering on research, consultancy and learning and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services and systems to create systemic change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around Education and Children’s Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with Social workers, Educators, Probation Workers and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world including in the US, Australia and Pakistan and across the whole of the UK.

Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and Lisa's own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970's and 1980's. In February 2024 Lisa completed her DPhil research at The University of Oxford in the Department of Education. The research asked "How do care experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?"

Lisa is the author of the hugely successful and award winning book 'Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People' (2021)and ‘The Brightness of Stars’ 3rd Edition published in June 2022. A new book contract has been signed for publication in 2024/2025 on cultivating belonging.

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Dr. Treisman is a highly specialist clinical psychologist & trauma specialist, trainer, TEDx speaker, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) Fellow 2018 and author.

Dr. Treisman holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked in the UK National Health Service (NHS) & children’s services as well as cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide. She has specialist training in a range of therapies including EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Trauma-focused CBT, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Guidance, Sensory Approaches, Theraplay, amongst others.

Dr. Treisman is the author of 11 books including the best-selling, “A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma: Creative techniques and activities”. She has also developed toys, cards and worksheets to help children from a therapeutic perspective.