There will be three groups of 10 participants with a chronic disease that will receive the Body knowledging Program. The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation, and self-care management of their chronic disease. The participants will include people 18 years and older that have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. This pilot study will use a pre-post design. Some of the data will be collected initially, then the intervention will be provided in seven sessions the first three face-to-face at a local community center and then the last four sessions through video conferencing that will be facilitated by three researchers. Data collection will take place at the first session and then again at the seventh session. The participants will be invited back in week nine to attend a video conference focus group to obtain qualitative data. Both qualitative and quantitative data will be analyzed.

The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation, and self-care management of their chronic disease. The participants will include people 18 years and older that have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. This pilot study will use a pre-post design. Some of the data will be collected initially at the first session and then again at the seventh session. The intervention will be provided in seven sessions the first three will be face-to-face at a community center and then the last four sessions will be through video conferencing and will be facilitated by three researchers. The participants will be invited to a focus group interview in week nine in order to collect quantitative data. Once the sessions are finished both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and then analyzed.

measures eight self-management skills in people with chronic conditions. Possible scores are on a 4 point likert scale. The scale is 1-4. higher score indicates better self-management, with the exception of the emotional wellbeing construct for which scoring is reversed.

assesses the five cognitive illness representations on a five-point Likert scale. The scale is 0-10. A higher score reflects a more threatening view of the illness.

the measure of a person's knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their own health and well-being on a 0-100 scale the higher score measures indicate higher patient activation.

measures a person's quality of life on a scale 0-100. The higher the score the higher the quality of life.

measures the phases of the Bodyknowledging program