Perkatory (per-kah-tawr-e) BREWING TOUGH CONVERSATIONS TO HELP EACH OTHER FACE CANCER Elephants and Tea is bringing you a new way to hear and amplify the stories of the adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer community with the digital series Perkatory: Brewing Tough Conversations to Help Each Other Face Cancer. The last Thursday of each month we will host a Zoom meeting at 7:00pm Eastern Time inviting anyone that would like to join Perkatory that month. (Sign up below for each month) HERE IS THE UPCOMING PERKATORY SCHEDULE AND TOPICS * March 25h - Guys and Their Emotions - Featuring Cancer Dudes * April 29th - Letters to My Younger Self - Featuring Epic Experience * May 27th - Survivor's Guilt - Featuring Stupid Cancer * June 24th - Dear Cancer Letters - Featuring Lacuna Loft * July 29th - Sex and Intimacy - Featuring Dear Jack Foundation * August 26th - Medical Professionals - Featuring Teen Cancer America * September 30th - Mindfulness - True North Treks * October 28th - Incurable and Metastatic Cancers * November 18th - Health Insurance and Financial Toxicity -Featuring Triage Cancer * December 30th - What the Holiday Means to Me Now PAST PERKATORY EVENTS * January - Finding Your Herd - Featuring Young Adult Survivors United (YASU) * February - Being Present - Featuring b-present VISIT HTTPS://ELEPHANTSANDTEA.COM/PERKATORY/ TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEXT PERKATORY HOW PERKATORY WORKS: Each Perkatory session we will invite writers that will be featured throughout the month on a specific topic to read their writing out loud to the community. We will then invite an organization to come and present briefly about who they are and what they do so people attending can learn more about other awesome organizations. We will then open it up to Q&A and a discussion on the topic of the month and the writers stories. THE GOAL OF PERKATORY IS: * To encourage individuals to use their voice * Learn more about a specific topic that might be difficult for some cancer patients to bring up themselves * Bring each other out of " perkatory " to help live your best lifehttps://www.cancerdudes.org/ https://www.epicexperience.org/ https://www.stupidcancer.org/ https://www.lacunaloft.org/ https://www.dearjackfoundation.org/ https://www.teencanceramerica.org/ http://www.truenorthtreks.org/ https://www.triagecancer.org/ https://www.yasurvivors.org/ https://www.b-present.org/ https://www.elephantsandtea.com/perkatory/