TOOLKIT
Support women through breast cancer with greater confidence.
The Care Plan Practitioner Toolkit helps you bring breast cancer context into the work you already do, so you can see the bigger picture, ask better questions, understand where your expertise fits, and know when another professional should be part of the conversation.
You do not need to become an oncology expert to become better equipped to support women through breast cancer.
One Care Plan. Clear professional roles. One woman at the center.
THE CONTEXT
Breast cancer changes the context of the work you already do.
You may already support women through nutrition, movement, mental health, menopause, rehabilitation, recovery, mindfulness, sexual health, or another part of whole-person care.
When a woman is also navigating breast cancer, your work sits within a more complex picture: treatment, side effects, medications, appointments, changing priorities, and input from multiple professionals.
You do not need to become responsible for her cancer care.
You do need enough context to understand how your work fits into the whole of her care.
The Practitioner Toolkit gives you a framework for doing that with greater clarity, confidence, and connection.
CARE PLAN
Six areas. One shared picture of her care.
The Peony Care Plan™ helps a woman bring together what matters across treatment and life while keeping the plan where it belongs: with her.
These are not six steps to complete. They are a living map she can return to as her needs change.
| Area | What it helps her explore |
|---|---|
| 1 · Know Me | What matters to me, and how do I want to be cared for? |
| 2 · Understand My Cancer | What do I understand about my diagnosis, treatment, and decisions ahead? |
| 3 · Support My Whole Health | What is happening across my health, and what may support me? |
| 4 · Put My Plan Into Practice | What matters now, and what needs to happen next? |
| 5 · Navigate My Care | How do I prepare for appointments, questions, and decisions? |
| 6 · Living Beyond | What matters as my health, treatment, and life continue to change? |
YOUR ROLE
Use the plan to support your work, not replace hers.
The Care Plan helps you understand what matters to the woman, what she is already carrying, where your expertise fits, and where another professional may need to be part of the conversation.
You may use it to help her:
- clarify what matters most right now
- prepare for an appointment or decision
- identify the question underneath the question
- make a recommendation more realistic in daily life
- recognize when another practitioner or her medical team should be involved
The plan remains hers. Your expertise helps her use it more effectively.
Listen. Clarify. Support. Connect.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Know how to be more useful in the room.
The Toolkit is designed to help you answer the questions that often arise when breast cancer enters your work:
- What does this woman need from me right now?
- What should I understand about the larger picture?
- How does my recommendation fit alongside her treatment?
- What is within my role?
- When should another practitioner or the medical team be involved?
Peony Care Method™ Mini-Course
5 modules · 45–60 minutes
1 · See the Woman, See the Bigger Picture
Understand the larger experience surrounding breast cancer care.
2 · Six Areas, One Woman at the Center
Learn the Care Plan framework and see where your work fits within it.
3 · Facilitate, Don’t Take Over
Practice the Peony Care Method™: Listen. Clarify. Support. Connect.
4 · Put the Care Plan to Work
Apply the framework to real professional conversations and recommendations.
5 · Support, Connect, Refer
Recognize what belongs with you, when another professional could help, and how to make a thoughtful handoff.
TOOLS
Practical resources for the work you already do.
The Toolkit includes:
- Practitioner Quick Start
- Six-Area Practitioner Map
- Better Questions Guide
- Care Plan Conversation Guide
- Referral + Connection Guide
- Practitioner Scenario Workbook
- woman-facing worksheets and appointment tools
- evidence-informed practice guides
The practice guides are designed to help you quickly understand what current evidence supports, where uncertainty remains, and when a question belongs with oncology or another qualified professional.
Topics may include nutrition, movement, rehabilitation, sleep, symptom support, complementary therapies, endocrine-therapy support, recovery, and long-term health.
IN PRACTICE
Feel more prepared when a woman with breast cancer walks through your door.
After the Toolkit, you should be better able to:
- understand the larger breast cancer experience surrounding your work
- have a more informed first conversation
- ask questions that reveal what actually matters to her
- understand where your expertise fits within the larger care picture
- make recommendations more realistic during treatment and recovery
- talk about supportive and integrative care with greater clarity
- recognize when something belongs with oncology or another professional
- help her leave with a clearer next step
More context. More confidence. Better support.
CONNECT
Help her move from “What do I need?” to “Where can I find it?”
The Care Plan helps a woman recognize what she needs.
Peony CONNECT is being built to help her find appropriate practitioners, resources, services, education, products, and community.
Peony PRO members may complete separate CONNECT verification and prepare a professional profile for future listing.
Verification applications open January 11, 2027.
Verified profiles publish March 2027.
NEXT LEVEL
Want to help a woman carry the whole picture?
Using the Care Plan within your existing professional role is one thing.
Helping a woman keep the whole plan connected through diagnosis, treatment, recovery, recurrence, and change is another.
That is the role of the Peony Integrative Healthcare Advocate™.
Practitioner Toolkit
Use the Care Plan within the work you already do.
Integrative Healthcare Advocate Certificate Program
Train to help a woman put the whole Care Plan into action.
No woman should have to navigate breast cancer alone. Become someone who knows how to walk beside her.
PEONY PRO
The Toolkit is included.
The Care Plan Practitioner Toolkit goes live October 1, 2026 and is included with Peony PRO membership.
Peony PRO also includes:
- expert education
- evidence-informed practice guides
- practitioner resources
- Peony PRO sessions
- future CONNECT visibility opportunities
- a growing professional network centered on better support for women with breast cancer
Founding membership: $450 for your first year · Renews annually at $650 · Founding rate ends December 31, 2026