The foundation of our coaching method rests on people’s capacity to choose and make their own decisions, even when they have cancer. To achieve this type of empowerment, we often need tools to help us reconnect with ourselves, our strengths and our hopes and dreams. This path of personal development and growth goes beyond the cancer to focus on the person.

We look at the present and to the future:

How do you want to live with your cancer? And what do you need to do to live with it?

Naturally, we need to come to terms with our cancer, but we can take many steps to assign it a place in our life, so the condition doesn’t tie us down.

We’ve also been there. We had cancer, so we know what it feels like.

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us the importance of being there for others and providing emotional and psychological care, even when this couldn’t be done in person.

With this in mind, Teresa decided to do something about it. Until then, she had been working since 2010 with breast cancer patients and championing their interests as an international patient advocate for more than ten years. She was also finalizing a 5-year research project on coaching for empowering breast cancer patients, culminating in a PhD thesis. Then came the time to put her knowledge into practice.

With her background in leadership coaching at IMD (one of the world’s leading business schools) and her knowledge of running online training courses, Teresa had more than enough experience to launch her idea. 

She put together a team of experienced specialists, including coaches, communication experts, photographers, designers, patients, and legal and business advisors, and she got to work.

The first courses were designed, videos were recorded and websites were set up. An initial market analysis with a prototype version of the Soul Reconnect online portal achieved positive feedback from customers and users even before the official launch. Such was the impact that Soul Reconnect received an entrepreneurial venture grant as well as recognition from the sector for its approach, rigour and effectiveness.

The first people with cancer and caregivers signed up, eager to embrace this new approach to dealing with cancer.

Today, more than ten years later, we are launching a new model of patient relationship centred on emotional and psychological assistance using tools and a unique method.

We offer several modalities of psychological support and assistance for people with cancer. Our platform provides all the information about our range of online training courses, combining group webinars, virtual one-to-one activities, coaching sessions and individual work.

Our work draws inspiration from ‘coaching for breast cancer patients’, a new type of specialized health coaching that combines executive and leadership coaching with its creator’s personal experience with cancer.

We also train future health professionals to assist and empower people with cancer by equipping them with the necessary tools. 

Our offer is growing every day so let us know what you need, and if we can – and if it’s in line with our life and work philosophy – we will do it.

Soul Reconnect’s coaching is based on the BCPC Model (Coaching for Breast Cancer Patients), which was developed, calibrated and scientifically analyzed by Teresa Ferreiro in a five-year study. The culmination of her research was a PhD dissertation that received the highest honours, summa cum laude.

Soul Reconnect’s model consists of 6 units of step-by-step and easy-to-follow activities. Each unit covers one specific aspect of people’s lives and is intimately related to their cancer. Research has shown that these six aspects, which are vital for people with cancer, are generally less developed or approached from a different perspective than our own course.

Each unit shows you how to use self-empowerment tools through self-reflection exercises and taking steps to connect with yourself and better understand your needs.

As coaching professionals, Soul Reconnect makes the following guarantees:

• We follow the code of ethics of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the international regulatory body for coaching and coaching professionals that sets the standards of conduct for its members in line with the ICF’s core values and ethical principles.
• We advocate and align ourselves with the cancer treatment prescribed by the patient’s medical team. Under no circumstances will we promote or support the use of alternative therapies that imply the abandonment of conventional medical treatments.
• We uphold the Basic Law Regulating Patient Autonomy and Rights and Obligations Regarding Clinical Information And Documentation (Law 41/2002), which guarantees the rights and specifies the obligations of patients and users.
• We assist our users in their empowerment process, understood as the process in which they restore their self-confidence, responsibility, autonomy, free choice and decision-making, self-control, and management of their condition, emotions and life.
• We recognize that the user’s capacity to make their own decisions is that of a human being that allows them to discern between different options they take, based on their personal criteria, in a conscious and empowered manner.
• We regard the use of complementary therapies solely as tools to improve the user’s quality of life.
• We understand the user’s choice as set out in Law 41/2002, consisting of freely and voluntarily opting between two or more care alternatives, among several physicians or among care centres, in the terms and conditions the competent health services establish, in each case.