Callanish Healing Retreats Society

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About Callanish Healing Retreats Society

Overview

Callanish Healing Retreats Society provides residential week-long retreats for participants with cancer, offering support to the participants, their loved ones, and healthcare professionals who care for them. Additionally, they have Supporter's Circle and Parent Circle programs to provide further assistance and resources to those affected by cancer.

Mission

Callanish Healing Retreats Society exists to improve the emotional and spiritual health of individuals and communities affected by cancer by supporting people living with or dying from cancer—and their loved ones and caregivers—to explore illness and death openly and consciously. Through residential retreats and ongoing community programs, Callanish inspires participants to reconnect with the essentials of life and to feel soothed, strengthened, and restored.

Vision

Callanish envisions communities that can develop resilience in the face of illness, loss, and death by coming together in authentic dialogue and deep exploration of what it means to heal emotionally and spiritually. The organization works toward a world where cancer does not define those it touches, and where compassionate care for oneself and others allows lives and deaths to carry profound meaning.

Unique value proposition

Callanish is one of only two programs of its kind in Canada, distinguished by its integrated focus on emotional and spiritual healing rather than medical treatment, and by its model of authentic community dialogue among people at all stages of cancer. Founded in 1997 and inspired by the pioneering Commonweal Cancer Help Program in California, Callanish brings together a multidisciplinary team of oncology professionals, counsellors, artists, and therapists to create a transformative retreat experience that participants carry forward as a foundational shift toward inner peace. Its more than 25-year history, over 100 retreats, and the development of specialized programming for younger adults further set it apart as a deeply rooted and uniquely comprehensive healing community.

Financial overview

Revenue (2025)
$1,345,289
Expenses (2025)
$596,110
Total assets
$4,405,695
Liabilities
$20,498
Year Revenue Expenses Program Admin Fundraising
2025 $1,345,289 $596,110 $580,852 $0 $15,258
2024 $573,300 $697,713 $697,227 $0 $486
2023 $619,702 $572,967 $566,666 $0 $6,301
2022 $3,736,247 $510,889 $510,889 $0 $0
2021 $456,486 $377,195 $376,834 $0 $360
2020 $622,241 $497,133 $491,463 $0 $5,670

Financial data sourced from the Canada Revenue Agency.

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Leadership team

JB

Janie Brown

Executive Director & Co-Founder

DL

Daphne Lobb

Co-Founder, Physician

MS

Maryliz Smith

Co-Founder, Musician

JG

Justine Greene

Wizard of Operations

CT

Claire Talbot

Physician & Board Member

AC

Andrea Coulter

Apprentice Facilitator

LM

Laurel Murphy

Musician

TC

Tessa Cherniavsky

Registered Massage Therapist (Retired)

DC

Dan Cohen

Registered Massage Therapist

CS

Carol Sutcliffe

Cook & Clinical Associate

NM

Nicola Murray

Cook

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