Healing Through Play

A Joy-Centered Path to Flourishing After Cancer, Trauma, and Life’s Hardest Seasons

Lee Lees Life Lessons is a nonprofit organization helping individuals rediscover joy, meaning, and connection through the Let Us Play™ Healing Framework.

Founded by Lisa Caughman, MSc, HHP, CAPP — cancer survivor, positive psychology practitioner, and speaker — this work invites people to move beyond survival and into flourishing.

Through retreats, workshops, and community programs, participants reconnect with curiosity, creativity, and purpose after adversity.

Evidence-informed | Survivor-led | Rooted in Positive Psychology

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The Let Us Play™ Framework

The Let Us Play™ Healing Series is a structured, joy-centered healing framework designed to help individuals rediscover vitality, meaning, and connection after life-altering experiences.

Rooted in positive psychology, the science of play, spirituality, metaphysical awareness, and lived wisdom, Let Us Play™ Healing invites participants to reconnect with the parts of themselves that adversity often quiets.

Play is not childish.
Play is regulation, restoration, and possibility.

Programs within the Let Us Play™ Healing Series include:

• Let Us Play™: Thriving With & Beyond Cancer

• Let Us Play™: Healing from Childhood Adversity

• Let Us Play™: Leadership & Flourishing

• Let Us Play™: Thriving With Neurodivergence

• Let Us Play™: Restoring Joy After Burnout

Each program offers compassionate guidance and experiential exploration to help individuals reconnect with themselves and their lives in meaningful ways.

Experience Let Us Play™ Healing

Imagine arriving at a peaceful retreat space in the mountains.

There is no pressure to perform, fix yourself, or be anything other than human.

Over the course of the experience you may find yourself:

• laughing more than you expected
• reflecting on life with fresh perspective
• reconnecting with creativity and curiosity
• sharing meaningful conversations with others who understand
• enjoying quiet moments of rest and renewal

Participants often say something simple yet profound at the end of a Let Us Play™ retreat:

"I remembered what it felt like to be myself again."

This is not therapy.
It is not a lecture.

It is a joy-centered space where healing, connection, and possibility unfold naturally.

Lee Lees Life Lessons

Lee Lees Life Lessons is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals heal, grow, and flourish after life’s most challenging experiences.

Our work focuses on:

• cancer survivorship
• trauma recovery
• leadership and community wellbeing
• healing through play

Through retreats, workshops, and community programs, we create spaces where people feel safe enough to rediscover joy and reconnect with what matters most.

Sometimes the most courageous thing a person can do is simply allow themselves to play again.

Joyful Collective Studios

Joyful Collective Studios is the creative home for books, programs, and educational resources developed from the Let Us Play™ Healing framework.

Through writing, speaking, facilitator training, and collaborative projects, Joyful Collective Studios expands the reach of joy-centered healing into communities, healthcare settings, and organizations.

Projects include:

• The Let Us Play™ Healing book series
• Facilitator training and certification
• Retreat experiences
• Speaking and educational events
• Creative collaborations

Together, these initiatives support a growing movement dedicated to restoring joy as a pathway to wellbeing.

Why This Work Matters

A cancer diagnosis, traumatic experience, or major life transition can leave people feeling disconnected from themselves and their lives.

Many survivors eventually find themselves asking a quiet question:

“Now what?”

The Let Us Play™ Healing Framework was created to answer that question with compassion, curiosity, and hope.

Through guided reflection, playful exploration, and community connection, participants rediscover the parts of themselves that adversity often silences:

• curiosity
• laughter
• imagination
• connection
• meaning

Play becomes more than recreation.

It becomes a pathway back to life.

Join the Joyful Play Collective

Healing happens in community.

The Joyful Play Collective brings together survivors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and individuals seeking deeper connection and meaning.

Together we are creating spaces where healing is supported not only by resilience, but by joy.

Ways to participate:

• Attend a Let Us Play™ Healing retreat or workshop
• Bring the program to your organization
• Support a survivor through scholarship funding
• Join the growing Joyful Play Collective

Every act of participation helps expand the circle of healing.

Support the Mission

Your support helps provide scholarships for cancer survivors and others navigating life after adversity to participate in healing retreats and programs.

Together we are restoring joy as a pathway to wellbeing.

Support the Mission

Let Us Play™ Healing

Because flourishing is still possible.