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Cornerstones of Career Longevity
Burnout, marginal income, and low satisfaction are common experiences for MTs. Our profession loses thousands of therapists to these issues, often after 3-5 years working, and at just the point where their experience level has them poised for more success. The wisdom from my own 40 year career, as well as that of a variety of practitioners with similar longevity, can inspire, inform, and equip therapists past these hindrances. With the ever-increasing costs of an MT education, new and developing MTs need to know that their investment holds real promise to sustain them and their families for the long-run. In addition, the growing market, especially in the over 50 age group and for healthcare treatment, calls for more mature and capable therapists to meet this demand.
Participants will be able to:
- Formulate a self-portrait of career longevity
- Identify common characteristics of MTs with decades of professional success and satisfaction
- List their strengths and weaknesses in each of the four cornerstones
- Target five action items they can pursue to build each of their four cornerstones
Interacting with the Perinatal Healthcare System
Respect, collaboration, and clear communication are often foundations of thriving prenatal practices. This presentation will guide you towards more ease, collaboration, and interaction with your clients’ maternity healthcare teams, whether physicians, midwives, or other providers. Your treatment outcomes and your bottom-line will benefit immensely from insights distilled from over 3 decades of pre- and perinatal MT practices in a variety of settings. Best suited for those already qualified as prenatal, labor, and/or postpartum MTs
The Side Lying Advantage: Better Outcomes/Broader Markets
Participants in this 3-7 hour presentation will learn:
- Client and business benefits of side lying positioning
- Use of various support equipment for aligning clients comfortably and securely on their sides
- Draping for efficient and modest coverage
- Stances and weight shifts that encourage depth, sensitivity and ease
- How to widen your client base to include those for whom prone positioning is problematic or unsafe
- Technique modifications for side lying position, especially for the back, hip and neck.
The Art and Science of Teaching Massage Therapy
Participation in this 3-7 hour presentation will help MT instructors to:
- Identify artistic and scientific aspects of MT education.
- Explore how to present the facts using art and intuition.
- Learn to engage both sides of students’ brains for deeper learning and more fun.
- Explore strategies to blend art and intuition into science lessons and vice versa.
- Evaluate the artistic and scientific aspects of class plans and/or a school’s curriculum.
Managing Massage Therapy Students’ Emotional Responses
Touching, being touched and learning new skills stir many emotions in massage therapy students. Learners can struggle with self-worth and performance or authority-related issues. When they rise in your classroom, do you try to ignore those emotions or negate them? What if you could use students’ emotions to enhance their learning and develop their body/mind sensitivity?
Come to this workshop to expand your capacity for creative, neutral, and respectful inclusion of students’ emotions in your classes. You might even tap into your own tears, fears and resistances!
The participant will be able to:
- Identify types and sources of emotional processes likely to surface in the classroom.
- Recognize students’ emotional responses and choose from options for how to best respond and interact.
- Implement classroom management that fosters healthy, appropriate emotional expression that further prepares massage therapy students for working with clients’ emotions.