A cancer survivor is bringing others together for a variety of activities and is our Inspiring Albertan this week.

Mike Lang was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma stage 3 in 2008 and he and his wife moved back to Calgary from the Seattle area so he could undergo treatment.

Lang felt terribly alone because he didn't know other young people who had battled cancer.

“I just wanted to meet other people my age who had gone through what I’d gone through. I felt very alone and isolated through that journey because no one understood, uh, no one my age really understood what I was going through,” said Lang.

He started an organization called Survive &Thrive to bring young adult cancer survivors together for a variety of activities.

“Over the past eight years now we've had hundreds of young adults come on expeditions with us as well as attend our retreats and our story telling workshops,” said Lang.

Wellspring is a place in northwest Calgary where cancer survivors and those living with cancer gather to receive information and support.

Lang conducts a story-telling workshop at Wellspring for Art a la Carte, a Calgary-based charity that brightens the lives of cancer patients by providing art and conversation for them.

Art a la Carte founder Debbie Baylin says Lang is an inspiring guy.

“I knew from the moment I met him, here at Wellspring, where we share office space and friendship and the like that this was a guy who was really out of the ordinary. He wanted to do something completely unique,” said Baylin.

Willie Joosen can identify with Lang, as he is also a cancer survivor, and is amazed at how Lang helped him tell his story.

“Getting it out, wording it the way I did first and then re-doing it, almost so you couldn't recognize where it came from, like, if you look at the first and second, that was really a revelation,” said Joosen.

For what he's doing for young adult cancer survivors through Survive & Thrive and for survivors of all ages through his story telling workshops, Mike Lang is our Inspiring Albertan this week.

For more information on Survive & Thrive, click HERE.

(With files from Darrel Janz)