Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey Course
About the Course
What is the Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey course?
This course is not a support group. Learn More About Our Support Groups
It is a live (will not be recorded), six-week virtual (via Zoom) course where people who have been diagnosed with vasculitis explore behavioral strategies from the Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey Guidebook together.
This course requires a commitment. We ask that you commit to attending all six 75-minute class sessions and complete 60-90 minutes of outside reading and content application activities each week.
Course Date & Time
The summer 2025 Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey class will meet for six-weeks on Mondays at 11:00 a.m. central beginning Monday, June 9 and ending Monday, July 14.
The application window for the summer course will open on Monday, May 5th. If you would like to receive an email reminder when the next application period opens, please click or tap on the button below and complete the form.
This course is offered at different times throughout the year. Check back for additional course dates and times.
What is Required of You During the Course
- Participate in all six class sessions.
- Complete 60-90 minutes of outside reading and class preparation activities each week.
Topics Covered In the Course
Navigating the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of a vasculitis diagnosis can be overwhelming. Each week we will explore concepts and share tools from the guidebook that will help you learn new behaviors and create routines that support you as you navigate life with a chronic illness.
Week 1 Guidebook Chapter 1: The power of mindful awareness
Week 2 Guidebook Chapters 2 & 3: Meeting the needs of your body & techniques for regulating your nervous system.
Week 3 Guidebook Chapters 4 & 5: Discovering your needs, preferences, and values & exploring your health story
Week 4 Guidebook Chapters 6 & 7: Taking stock of your time and resources & identifying and reconnecting with the people, activities, and purposes that matter most
Week 5 Guidebook Chapters 8 & 9: Prioritizing your well-being & making healthy changes that are important to you
Week 6 Guidebook Chapter 10: Celebrating your achievements & maintaining changes that support you
What This Course is Not
- The course teaches behavioral strategies. It is not a support group. Learn More About Our Support Groups
- In the course we do not review medical information or give individual psychological advice.
- This course does not cover:
- Detailed information about each form of vasculitis
- Vasculitis treatments and medications
- While this course can provide you with tools that help you control what is within your circle of control and find peace with what you cannot control, there are many things about vasculitis that you cannot control including:
- Whether or not you will have a flare
- Whether or not you can remain in remission without any maintenance medications
- Whether or not you completely regain your former level of function
Frequently Asked Questions
The course teaches techniques and strategies that are most helpful when you are in a stage where you are ready to make behavioral changes that support your mental and physical health.
- If you are newly diagnosed with vasculitis, it might be more helpful to devote your time and resources to educating yourself about your diagnosis and coordinating your treatment. You may gain greater benefit from the course when your vasculitis is more stable.
- If you are struggling with the emotional impact of a life-changing diagnosis, you may find it most helpful to be able to share your story in one of our support groups.
The Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey class is offered multiple times a year. Don’t feel pressured to take the course before you are ready. Living well with vasculitis is a marathon, not a sprint. You will find the course to be most helpful when you have time and energy to devote to learning and applying course concepts, and are at a place in your journey where you are ready to make specific behavior changes to support your mental and physical health.
The Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey Guidebook is designed to be self-guiding, self-paced, and is available to everyone. Even if now is not the right time for you to take the course, you will find value in working through the guidebook at your own pace.
You can apply for the Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey course if you meet the following criteria:
- Are able to attend the weekly live Zoom meeting throughout the 6-week course. (We recognize that something unexpected may occur which could prevent you from attending a meeting.)
- Have a diagnosis of vasculitis.
- Are proficient in English (Course materials and instruction are only available in English at this time.)
- Are 18 years of age or older.
- Class size is limited.
- The course teaches techniques and strategies that are most helpful when you are in a stage where you are ready to make behavioral changes that support your mental and physical health. The application is designed to help you reflect on whether or not you are at a point in your vasculitis journey where you are ready and able to make these changes.
The course is led by a volunteer facilitator. Facilitators are people who have vasculitis, have participated in the course previously, and have received additional training. The facilitator is a guide who helps manage the flow of the course and the group as they work together to learn and practice concepts from the Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey Guidebook. Facilitators are not healthcare providers or mental health experts.
You do not need to take the course to benefit from the Navigating Your Vasculitis Journey Guidebook.
The guidebook is designed to be self-guiding, self-paced, and is available to everyone.
Application Process
This course teaches techniques and strategies that are most helpful when you are in a stage where you are ready to make behavioral changes that support your mental and physical health. The application is designed to help you reflect on whether or not you are at a point in your vasculitis journey where you are ready and able to make these changes.
The application window for the summer course will open on Monday, May 5th. If you would like to receive an email reminder when the next application period opens, please click or tap on the waitlist button near the top of the page and complete the form.
This course is offered at different times throughout the year. Check back for additional course dates and times.
