About Us

The MAP Foundation aims to help break down the communication barriers between patients and health care professionals. Through creative expression we achieve a greater awareness of the emotional needs in relation to life threatening illness, thereby reducing a sense of isolation.

The MAP Foundation was founded in 2002 by Michele Angelo Petrone to help people give expression to their emotional landscape while living with cancer.

What we do

Provide trained and experienced facilitators to deliver arts-based workshops to patients, carers, medical and allied health professionals on the emotional and spiritual aspects of life-threatening illness
Communicate what is learned from these activities at conferences, exhibitions, workshops, publications and on this website
Engage with research institutions and policy makers to improve the patient experience for those living with any life-threatening experience

What we provide

Workshops for cancer patients, carers and health professionals run by trained and experienced facilitators
Books, pictures and accounts of people's experiences of cancer
Exhibitions on loan
Talks and lectures
Educational training materials on the patients' experience for medical and nursing education
Prints for sale from The Emotional Cancer Journey

How to contact us

MAP Foundation, c/o Psychosocial Oncology Group, Cancer Research UK, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG

Email: info@mapfoundation.org

The MAP Foundation is a Registered Charity: No 1093684