Oncology Care CE Courses In Chicago
The Essential Dozen
Taught by Wayne Mylin
12 CE hours via Zoom $300
4 sessions, 3 hours each (total 12 hours)
Workshop Description
This workshop is designed for Asian Bodywork Therapy and acupuncture practitioners who wish to work safely and confidently with people affected by cancer.
Rather than focusing on treatment techniques, this training emphasizes how to show up in oncology care settings with safety, trauma-informed awareness, and genuine support for patients, survivors, and caregivers.
Drawing on two decades of providing shiatsu sessions and wellness workshops in a major oncology center, Wayne distills 13 essential lessons for effective practice. Through storytelling, guided reflection, and structured experiential activities, participants will learn the mindset, presence, and professional behaviors that allow practitioners to support patients with humility, adaptability, and deep respect for their lived experience.
This workshop is designed to transform not only what practitioners know, but how they approach oncology care — helping them bring confidence, compassion, and integrity into every session.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate safe, trauma-informed approaches to working with oncology patients in clinical and supportive care settings.
- Apply deep listening skills and presence to create a safe and supportive space for a wide range of patient emotions.
- Adapt treatment approaches to physical, emotional, and medical constraints commonly experienced by oncology patients.
- Support patient empowerment by encouraging self-advocacy and participation in care decisions.
- Translate Chinese medicine concepts into clear, accessible language for patients, families, and medical staff.
- Identify professional limits and practice strategies for effective collaboration with oncology teams.
Create a personal action plan to guide safe, ethical, and sustainable oncology care practice.
Adding Survivorship Services to Your Practice
Taught by Wayne Mylin
6 CE hours via Zoom $150
2 sessions, 3 hours each (total 6 hours)
Workshop Description
This workshop supports Asian Bodywork Therapists and Acupuncturists in expanding their awareness of oncology-focused services that can be offered in alignment with professional training, scope of practice, and ethical standards. While clinical treatments remain central to the work, Chinese medicine provides a broad foundation for additional supportive services and resources. These can benefit patients, survivors, caregivers, and oncology professionals while also diversifying offerings and strengthening practice sustainability.
The workshop is exploratory in design. Participants will examine the unique needs of oncology populations, review the business case for expanding supportive services, and explore categories of potential offerings. Through guided reflection, they will consider which services align with their personal strengths, professional goals, and ethical boundaries. Each participant will leave with a draft “service menu” to support future implementation.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the unique needs of oncology patients, survivors, caregivers, and professionals, and explain how Chinese medicine can serve as a foundation for supportive care services.
- Differentiate which services and products can be ethically and safely offered within their scope of practice.
- Evaluate how diversifying services can enhance both patient outcomes and practice sustainability.
- Categorize potential oncology-based services (e.g., clinical adaptations, patient self-care education, survivor programs, caregiver support, staff wellness, community outreach).
Design a draft service menu that aligns with personal strengths, professional goals, and ethical guidelines.
Pulling Back the Curtain: The Integrative Oncology Practice Blueprint
Taught by Angela Lorbeck
10 CE hours. Hybrid (Zoom or in person): $250
Workshop Description
A cancer diagnosis changes everything—control, identity, daily life. Integrative oncology offers steadiness and relief, yet access to oncology-informed care remains limited. This program is a starting point for those curious about stepping in and a next step for clinicians already caring for people with cancer.
Learn directly from Dr. Angela Lorbeck, who made history at RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center as the first acupuncturist to establish an oncology acupuncture clinical program. With 19 years on the front lines and more than 18,000 patient visits, she opens the playbook to help you build confidence and competence—safely, skillfully, and with heart.
You’ll gain foundations of integrative oncology, oncology-specific safety essentials, in-the-room mastery, and strategies that strengthen credibility with medical teams while sustaining your resilience.
For the lives you touch today—and the ones you’ll be ready for tomorrow.
Burnout Reset: Evidence-Based Resilience for Clinicians
Taught by Angela Lorbeck
5 CE hours. Hybrid (Zoom or in person): $125
Workshop Description
You know the signs: the charting that stretches into the night, the conversation that keeps replaying, the faces that stay with you long after you’ve clocked out. The work follows you home because you’re human. If you’ve asked, How do I keep caring without losing myself?—this is for you.
Whether you’re new to patient care or years in, burnout doesn’t crash in—it creeps in: chart by chart, conversation by conversation, until you realize it’s taken more than you intended to give.
Join Dr. Angela Lorbeck—19 years in integrative oncology, 18,000+ patient visits—for an evidence-based reset that blends neuroscience, compassion, and lived experience. You’ll leave with frameworks, micro-practices, and real-world tools that fit clinical life.
This is how you stay in the work without losing yourself. Come reset—and reclaim the purpose and power that brought you here.
Make Cancer Pain Meet Its Match
Taught by Angela Lorbeck
5 CE hours. Hybrid (Zoom or in person): $125
Workshop Description
Cancer pain doesn’t just hurt—it steals sleep, movement, and the will to keep fighting. You know patients need you, but oncology demands precision. The risks are real. Safety is nonnegotiable. And that voice keeps asking: am I ready?
Here’s the truth: that hesitation is exactly where opportunity lives. The need is staggering—and you can fill it.
Join Dr. Angela Lorbeck—the trailblazer who made history at RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center as its first oncology acupuncturist. Twenty-three years at RUSH. Eighteen thousand patient visits. She’s mastered acupuncture for cancer pain—and she’s giving you the blueprint.
Gain oncology-safe protocols, safety essentials, clinical instincts, and communication strategies that earn medical team trust.
Stop second-guessing. Start filling a critical gap—delivering relief patients desperately need and expanding into an area crying out for skilled practitioners.
This is where confidence meets competence. This is the course.
Busting Taboos about Breast Cancer
Taught by Pam Ferguson, Zen Shiatsu Instructor and metastatic breast cancer survivor
12 CE hours: $300
Workshop Description
- Intro. Brief discussion about taboos, misinformation, treatments, integrative choices, warnings about implants. Demo and practice of unique qi inspired postmastectomy exercises to help with mobility and to prevent lymphedema. Pam has taught these topics to shiatsu and breast cancer groups in the USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
- Treatment Advice. Practical demo/plus advice about treating postmastectomy or post lumpectomy patients comfortably and effectively on the table. Which meridians are hit directly by the surgery? What to avoid? How to position the client comfortably and effectively. What questions to ask? The importance of draping the site of surgery with a soft, colorful scarf not only for protection, but to remind the therapist to be extra careful around that area. Demo of isometric exercises to test arm strength. Choice of points and meridians and how to work on them to avoid the surgical site with off-the-body Qi movements.
- Dealing with Phantom Pain, Chemo Nausea and Post Radiation Pain. Meridian and Acupoint advice. Rehab and exercise advice, Advice for those patients who had several lymph nodes removed. Hara awareness and diagnostic changes over a course of treatments. Scar therapy and treatments to help break down scar tissue and release stiffness and tightness. Useful case studies.
- Review and practice of qi exercises, table and chair treatments, with time for discussion and questions, not just about breast cancer, but all forms of cancer. What are the lessons learned from treating clients with breast cancer that can be applied to giving sessions to clients experiencing other forms of cancer? How to work with compassion with clients experiencing metastasis. How to work with clients and their families during hospice care.
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