Date: June 25th
Time: 4pm-8pm PST
Location: Zoom Webinar
4 Hours in Ethics, NCBTMB approved course
This engaging and reflective ethics course is designed to help massage therapists navigate the emotional, energetic, and professional realities of caring for others in a helping profession. Through guided discussion, case studies, practical tools, and collaborative learning, participants will explore ethical decision-making, professional boundaries, communication skills, scope of practice, transference and countertransference, burnout prevention, and strategies for sustainable long-term practice. We will discuss classic ethics for healthcare practioners and business ethics solopreneurs and entrepreneurs.
This course fulfills the ethics continuing education requirements for NCBTMB renewal and is appropriate for both new and experienced practitioners seeking grounded, real-world conversations about the evolving challenges of therapeutic work. NCBTMB Board Certificants are required to complete ethics continuing education as part of their renewal process.
One restorative week of training with wellness-industry leaders on serene Orcas Island at Camp Orkila. Each day includes 6 hours of hands-on instruction in modalities you can use for a lifetime, complemented by forest walks, beach time, and cozy evening fires.
Meals and lodging at the Wally Fisher Lodge included
You’ll receive healing bodywork, enjoy a peaceful, sales-free learning environment, and return to your treatment room rested, restored, and equipped with new skills to invigorate your practice and boost cash-based services.
Island residents: Use discount code Resident at checkout for ½ off the registration fee. Residency will be verified.
Total cost: $1800.00
$450.00 deposit reserves your space, is added toward your total cost, and is non-refundable, but transferrable
Discover how breath shapes movement. In this dynamic course, Dr. Evan Hassel blends functional anatomy, manual therapy, and guided breathwork to help massage therapists understand the diaphragm and thorax as an integrated system.
Learn why rib mobility matters, how to identify dysfunctional breathing patterns, and how manual techniques can restore efficient, easeful breath. Perfect for therapists working with chronic pain, stress-related conditions, or mobility limitations.
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