TEAM & ADVISORY
Supporting the professionals supporting women.
Peony PRO exists because the people doing this work — across oncology, rehabilitation, nutrition, mental health, integrative care, and advocacy — deserve better infrastructure than they have.
WHY WE EXIST
The challenge is not a lack of expertise. It's integration.
Every day, practitioners help women navigate some of the most consequential decisions of their lives. They educate, guide, advocate, listen, coordinate, and support — usually while keeping up with a research landscape that moves faster than any one person can follow.
Most of them are trained deeply within a single discipline, and rarely have structured opportunities to learn alongside professionals approaching the same woman from a different angle.
Peony PRO was built to close that gap through shared education, a woman-centered Care Plan framework, multidisciplinary community, and clear pathways to future verification and deeper training.
Integrative care begins with integrative thinking.
OUR ORIGIN
Founded by a midwife. Written during treatment.
Sarah Glynn is a trained midwife, a publisher, and an educator with more than two decades of experience bringing evidence-informed health education to professionals and consumers.
She founded the first international exchange program and online college for out-of-hospital midwives, launched major online education platforms including programs with Sounds True, produced the Dragonfly Health series on Gaia TV, and hosts Wellness Week in Boulder, Colorado, convening leaders across integrative and conventional medicine.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer five years after losing her mother to the same disease.
She received excellent clinical care — and still found herself largely responsible for everything surrounding it. Understanding complex information. Coordinating supportive care. Making sense of integrative options. Navigating the long stretches between appointments. She knew what she was looking for, and could not find it in one trusted place.
The Peony Care Method™ was developed during that treatment.
WHAT MIDWIFERY CONTRIBUTED
A model for keeping women at the center.
What stood out across Sarah's career was not any particular therapy. It was the model of care.
Midwifery offers a model of continuity, shared decision-making, preparation, and coordinated support around a woman moving through complex care. Peony draws from those design principles without suggesting that birth and cancer are clinically equivalent.
The parallels to breast cancer are not decorative:
- Complex decisions under time pressure
- Multiple providers whose communication may be limited or fragmented
- Information overload
- Conflicting recommendations
- A long arc rather than a single event
- The need for someone who holds the whole picture
Maternal health spent decades building models for that. Peony applies those principles to breast cancer care — not as a replacement for medical treatment, but as a way to strengthen the experience surrounding it.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
The principles that guide the work.
- The challenge is integration, not expertise. The people in this field are extraordinarily good at what they do. What's missing is connection between them.
- No single practitioner has all the answers — and the ones who serve women best are the ones who know it.
- Evidence over enthusiasm. Conventional and complementary approaches each have a role, applied responsibly and within scope. Where the research is thin, we say so.
- Scope, held clearly. Learning beyond your discipline is not the same as practicing beyond it.
- The woman owns her plan. Not her practitioner, not her care team, not Peony.
- Technology should strengthen human relationships, not replace them.
- Supporting practitioners helps more women receive informed, connected support.
GOVERNANCE
How our standards are governed.
Peony publishes its own professional and education standards. That only means something if it is clear who governs them and how they change.
The Advisory Board, once appointed, will review the Standards of Practice and governing frameworks and advise on curriculum, program quality, and certificate policy. Final authority and responsibilities will be stated in the approved governance documents.
The Program Director is accountable for the certificate program and its documents, and makes final certificate-conferral decisions.
Instructors propose changes from teaching experience and apply the current published versions.
Every published edition of the Standards records its approving authority, approval date, effective date, and next scheduled review. Approved changes and their rationale are recorded, so the history of the standards is traceable.
These are Peony's own published standards for its program and community. They carry no statutory, governmental, or national regulatory authority — and we do not present them as though they do.
ADVISORY BOARD
The Peony Advisory Board is being assembled across medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, oncology nursing and navigation, rehabilitation, integrative oncology, nutrition, mental health and survivorship, genetics, and patient advocacy — alongside women with lived experience of breast cancer.
Members will be announced as appointments are confirmed.
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Peony is building a defined, evidence-informed pathway for whole-person cancer navigation — with a documented method, clear scope, competency-based training, supervised practice, and clinical collaboration.
The goal is to strengthen the support around existing cancer care, not replace it.
Our development path:
- Pilot the certificate program and role with early partners
- Evaluate and revise the curriculum from cohort experience
- Gather participant and learner feedback systematically
- Calibrate instructors so assessment holds to one standard
- Take clinical partner feedback on integration and fit
- Define meaningful outcomes before making outcome claims
- Review the published standards as evidence accumulates
Each step precedes the claims it would support. We do not present outcomes, recognition, or credentialing structures before they exist.
OUR NORTH STAR
Better supported practitioners. Better supported women.
When practitioners have access to better education, stronger professional networks, greater visibility, and more opportunities to learn from one another, women benefit.
They benefit from broader perspectives, clearer communication, and more connected support from practitioners who understand that living through breast cancer involves more than treatment appointments alone.
We are not simply building a network. It is a future where every woman facing breast cancer has access to the information, support, and care she needs — and does not have to assemble it herself.
HOW WE HELP
Four ways the work reaches practice.
The Members-Only Classroom
weekly expert-led education, emerging research, and multidisciplinary learning.
EXPLORE THE MEMBERS-ONLY CLASSROOM →The Network
future CONNECT-verified listings designed to help women understand practitioners' stated credentials and help professionals find one another.
EXPLORE THE NETWORK →The Certificate
preparing Integrative Healthcare Advocates™ to guide women through diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship using the Peony Care Method™.
EXPLORE THE CERTIFICATE →The Tools
the Care Plan Practitioner Toolkit, evidence-informed practice guides as they are released, and woman-facing education—with CONNECT planned for 2027.
EXPLORE THE TOOLS →WHO WE SERVE
A multidisciplinary professional community.
Medical Oncologists · Radiation Oncologists · Breast Surgeons · Oncology Nurses · Nurse Navigators · Nurse Practitioners · Physician Assistants · Physical and Occupational Therapists · Lymphedema Specialists · Exercise Oncology Specialists · Registered Dietitians · Nutrition Professionals · Functional Medicine Practitioners · Integrative Medicine Providers · Psychologists, Therapists, and Counselors · Social Workers · Genetic Counselors · Health Coaches · Community Health Workers · Patient Advocates · Survivors Supporting Women · Nonprofits and Mission-Aligned Organizations
You're already doing this work.
Whether you're caring for women, educating professionals, conducting research, advocating, or helping shape what comes next — Peony PRO exists to support the people doing it.
Founding membership: $450 for your first year · Renews annually at $650 · Founding rate ends December 31, 2026