Learning Opportunities

There are many ways to connect with others and learn how to live well with kidney disease at the Kidney Wellness Hub. Check out our upcoming classes and webinars below to see what interests you.

 Upcoming Classes and Events

We are pleased to feature upcoming wellness sessions hosted by both the Kidney Wellness Hub and the Kidney Foundation. The cost of all classes and webinars is covered by the Foundation and its partners. Addresses are collected to provide provincial and regional opportunities. After adding a class to your cart, complete registration by clicking the cart icon at the top and checking out. You can also create an account during checkout to keep track of your classes, webinars and engagement sessions.

If you have questions or would prefer to skip this step, you can register via phone 604.736.9775 or 1.800.567.8112 Ext 9. We’d love to hear from you anytime at kidneywellnesshub@kidney.ca.

 

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Live Virtual Classes and Learning Opportunities

Classes and Ongoing Opportunities

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Laughter Playshop

Date: Tuesdays, July 7 & 14
Time: 1:00-1:45pm PT
Location: online

Laughter is fun, therapeutic, and contagious! Enjoy one or all four of these playshops that teach you how to use laughing yoga. Learn this life tool to better assist you in building resilience and navigating life’s challenges with a positive mental attitude. It’s a great way to reduce anxiety, stress, and even depression.

In these playshops, Sylvie will guide us through easy laughing yoga, a feel-good practice that combines intentional laughter with simple breathing and light movement. You don’t need any special skills or even a sense of humour, just a willingness to try.

Laughing yoga is welcoming, inclusive, and creates a sense of connection. It is suitable for people living with chronic illness, care partners, and anyone looking for a simple way to add joy and stress relief to their day. You can participate standing or seated, and you’re always encouraged to listen to your body.

Exercise Snacks

Dates: Mondays, July 6 - Aug 31
Time: 5:30-6:00pm PST
Location: Online

The virtual Exercise Snacks plan was created to help everyone build more movement in their day, promoting better kidney health and overall wellbeing. Exercise Snacks are 2-10 minute bouts of movement following each meal. This plan will help build your strength, stability, and endurance and reduce your potential risk of injury while walking. Join us twice a month and learn to increase your daily activity easily.

Participants can book an online individual session with a senior kinesiology student to receive a personalized plan and join every two weeks for a progress check-in.

Art Prompts for Creative Reflections

Date: on-demand
Time

Location: online emails

As part of our Art for Wellness Series, the Kutenai Art Institute has created a two-week series of art prompts that you can complete at your own pace. Each guided prompt offers an opportunity to relax, reflect, and express yourself through creativity.

Art can help reduce stress, promote mindfulness, boost mood, and support overall wellbeing. No artistic experience is needed—simply follow the weekly prompt, gather whatever art supplies you have available, and enjoy the creative process.

Discover how creativity can support your wellness journey, one prompt at a time.

We welcome your feedback and would love to hear about your experience with the prompts.

Grow Gratitude

When you register, you will receive a series of daily emails over the next two weeks. Each with prompts and a short 2-minute video designed to help you explore gratitude as a simple yet powerful daily practice for supporting wellbeing and resilience.

Through these guided reflections and daily prompts, you will be encouraged to notice moments of meaning, connection, hope, and everyday wins — even while living with the challenges of kidney disease.

Gratitude is a well-studied practice that can support mental, emotional, and physical health. Regular gratitude practice may help reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep, lift mood, and strengthen feelings of connection and wellbeing.

These short daily reflections are designed to fit easily into your day and support you in becoming more grounded, present, and connected along your wellness journey.

Kidney Wellness Coaching

Date: Book to suit your schedule
Time: Various
Location: Online

Kidney wellness coaching can improve both physical and mental health through sustainable lifestyle changes, and to support the kidney community, the Kidney Wellness Hub is pleased to provide up to three sessions with coach Francine (bio below). In Canada, wellness coaching can range from $50-$200 an hour, but the Wellness Hub is offering free sessions with cost coverage by the Kidney Foundation and partners.

Clinical trials and studies show wellness coaching can have a significant impact on reducing risk factor behaviours and increasing healthy lifestyle choices for those with chronic disease. Results also show these changes improve quality of life through increased self-efficacy, a decrease in perceived stress levels, and lowered depression symptoms*. Patients, care givers and living donors are encouraged to apply for this opportunity.

Details on how to schedule an introductory consultation will be sent via email.

Peer Engagement Sessions

Date: Various weekly
Time: Various times
Location: Online

Connecting with others who share living with kidney disease can be incredibly beneficial. It offers a sense of community and understanding that may be hard to find elsewhere, as people facing the same challenges can empathize on a deeper level.

Penticton - Wellness In Motion

Who: Patients and Care Partners
Date: Monday, July 27, 2026
Times: 9:00-10:30am or 1:30-3:00pm
Location: Penticton Health Centre 740 Carmi Ave, Penticton, BC

Join us for an engaging, interactive in-person session to explore the Kidney Wellness Hub, which offers free online resources designed to support those living with kidney disease and their care partners.

You'll have the opportunity to try fun, easy Exercise Snacks, discover wellness resources, and learn how to make the most of everything KWH has to offer.

What you'll experience:

  • A guided tour of the Kidney Wellness Hub and its free resources

  • Fun, easy Exercise Snacks that can fit into your daily routine

  • Tools and information to support physical, emotional, and social wellbeing

  • Practical strategies to help you get the most out of your daily movement

  • Opportunities to connect with others in the kidney community

  • A free swag bag for participants

  • Light refreshments and snacks

Join us and discover ways to support your kidney health, wellness, and quality of life.

Don’t live in Pentiction? Contact us to book your personal 1-1 walkthrough at kidneywellnesshub@kidney.ca

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Webinars and Guest Speakers

  • Ask Us Anything About Kidney disease

    Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
    Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Location: Online

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    Laughter for CKD Wellness: Building Resilience Through Joy

  • Act4CKD Advocacy

    Sign a petition today calling on the Government of Canada to prioritize kidney health and implement meaningful change for people affected by kidney disease.

    Deadline: JULY 11, 2026

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Community Events

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    Kidney Wellness Hub Presents - Wellness In Motion

    Who: Patients / Care Partners
    Dates: Monday, July 27, 2026
    Time: 9:00-10:30am or
    1:30-3:00pm
    Location: 740 Carmi Ave, Penticton

    LEARN MORE
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    Kidney Walk

    Date: Various
    Time:     Various

    Location: Various pan-Canadian

    Register

  • Additional In-Person Community Opportunities

    Visit Kidney.ca/events