Educational Offerings
Professional Ethics for the Massage Therapist and Body Worker.
This educational program explores the “basic” dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. Topics of discussion: codes and guidelines, law and legislation, roles and boundaries, sexual misconduct, informed consent, confidentiality, and standards of practice. * 6 CE Hours Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Right Use of Power
This course is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. The Right Use of Power approach to ethics is dynamic, engaging and inspiring, along with recognizing that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. The container for this study is exploring our beliefs, attitudes and history around Power. Experiential topics in this workshop include, but are not limited to grounding in the felt sense of the power differential, awareness of personal power styles, nurturing communication tools, establishing and maintaining boundaries, seven reasons good intentions are not enough, exploring the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, and a practical process for resolving relationship issues as they arise. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on sensitivity, skill and personal responsibility. Owning and re-engaging with one’s power as a resource for good can be personally and inter-personally transformational. *6-16 CE Hours Click Here to Register.
Teachers and Right Use of Power in the Classroom
~Teaching with Power and Heart
All good teachers are truly present in the classroom, deeply engaged with their students and their topic and continue to reflect upon the teacher who is teaching. This course begins by exploring the multiple dynamics of the power differential and the influence teachers hold. Participants will be invited to explore their personal relationship with power and how this relationship expresses itself in their role as a teacher. Each participant will increase skills in establishing and maintaining clear boundaries in the classroom by identifying the principles which provide a quality learning environment to include accountability agreements, dual role relationships, and the art of being prepared.
Kathy gently invites each learner into a place of inward reflection. Kathy brings heart and passion into the teaching environment. Kathy offered this course at the 2011 AMTA National Convention.
* 4 - 8 CE Hours
Ethics as Self Care
This is a humanistic, inspiring and engaging approach to the work of ethical awareness and accountability. This course will invite the participant to explore Self Care as an aspect of ethics and right use of power. This class offers the participant two lenses to look through—exploring self care both inside and outside the therapeutic relationship. The following skills and disciplines will be explored as topics of study: personal care and life style habits, self care attitudes, maintaining balance to prevent over working and burn-out, supervision and support, increase awareness in tracking skills, protocol for professional habits, increase awareness around personal limitations and ethical edges, tracking for impact and intention and much more! This course promises to offer a learning experience that provides information, along with practical tools that will guide and inspire the participant to a greater understanding and awareness of how to work within the often confusing and fragile client/therapist relationship. My intention is to allow the study and exploration of ethics to come alive! (Kathy presented this class at the 2005 AMTA National Convention in Albuquerque, N.M.) * 8 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Nourishing Communication
Developing A Healing Attention This interactive class invites the participant to develop a healing attention within the therapeutic relationship. The central theme of this class is learning to be with our clients in a shared state of presence. Words can be our friend bringing practitioners and clients together. The participant will explore a simple yet powerful model for communicating in a way that meets both parties needs; fostering an authentic partnership with your clients. This class is for anyone who would like to communicate with more skill, clarity, and empathy! (This class is modeled around the course: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg). * 6 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Soul Work Retreat Nourishment ~ Rest ~ Renewal
Massage therapy is a vocation that requires constant renewal of mind, heart and spirit if we want to avoid burnout, take joy in our work and grow in our service to others. Creating nourishing relationships with our clients is something we all desire.
However ~ the demands of our work cause many of us to lose heart, to lose our way.
Our life experiences sometimes create foggy areas where it is difficult for us to see what we are putting into our own relationships. In these foggy areas we can bump up against each other in ways that cause annoyance, depletion, or even harm.
During this retreat we will gently explore our personal foggy areas and learn some practices that can serve as fog lamps, including self-inquiry, self-care disciplines, spiritual disciplines of solitude and stillness, communication skills which foster presence, attentiveness and deep listening, and finally exploring one’s personal boundary style.
Kathy and Leora will gently take each participant on an inner journey toward reconnecting with heart & spirit ~ recovering the passion for one of the most important human endeavors ~ serving others with our touch.
There will be opportunities for self-reflection, solitude, community learning, exploring through art ~ pausing for stillness and soul renewal in a setting that is dedicated to both.
Emotions in the Session Room
Exploring the Psychological Life of the Body Massage Therapy can intervene with the patterns of the body—muscular or otherwise. These patterns often organize or hold each person’s psychological experience. Research demonstrates that our emotions accompany physiological changes. The purpose of this training is to explore the inseparable Body/Mind matrix and the ethical stance this space requires. The participant will gain an understanding of how the body organizes around experience. The participant will explore how the psychological life of the body impacts the massage therapy session, the therapeutic relationship and how you as a massage therapist can offer a safe and supportive container for your clients while remaining true to your scope of practice. Time for experiential exploration of participants mind/body connection will be offered.
* 8 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
The 4 Pillars of Business
Creating your practice from the inside ~ out Whether you are exploring your career options, working for someone else, or in private practice this course is for you. This course covers 4 fundamental aspects that will guide you into work you love. This framework includes:
Click Here to Register.
Dimensions of Money
Blueprint to your financial success What would it take for you to feel rich in the way your bottom line numbers read and rich in heart? This course engages each learner with the various dimensions of money often encountered as professional massage therapists and body workers. Through personal stories and practical advice Kathy will offer each participant a fundamental blueprint to solid financial sufficiency and purpose. The class opens with inviting each participant to honestly examine one’s relationship and attitude toward money – earning it, spending it, saving it, and giving it away. Additional topics of discussion to be included are exploring how money works, basic money management principles, financial record keeping & taxes, establishing your fees, raising your fees, diversified fee structure, recession proof your practice, selling a practice/buying a practice, negotiating lease contracts, diversifying your income, work smarter with barter, seeking professional guidance and much more. This class promises to bring clarity, conviction and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities money wields over our lives today. * 8 CE Hours
*Prior to entering the field of massage therapy and bodywork, Kathy spent 7 years licensed in the financial service sector teaching her clients fundamental money management principles.
Click Here to Register.
Ethics, Power & Heart
The heart of ethics is human relationships ~ the capacity to enter into a simple caring presence with our clients; using our power with awareness and skill. This class will guide each participant to a deeper connection with one’s personal relationship with power & heart. Together we will explore how to dance with grace and integrity within the therapeutic relationship. Topics of exploration include, but not limited to:
This course is designed around the 4 seasons of ethical development ~ Spring - planting, Summer - tending, Autumn - harvesting, and Winter – reflection. The course is experiential, interactive, and self reflective.
Click Here to Register.
Your Body as Beloved Partner
We spend our lives with our bodies; however we often leave the body behind. Our body often becomes a burden. Our body feels numb, perhaps stuck; our body may even feel like a stranger. As body-workers and massage therapists it is important to befriend our bodies and learn to honor our bodies in new ways.
This class is about bodies, your body and your client’s body. Kathy will take you on a journey into your body, a journey that embraces honor and respect. With new skills learned, you will then be able to offer your clients ways to connect with their body, and also deepen their experience on the massage table, while staying within your scope of practice.
Often during a massage therapy session, the client may drift into daydreams, go off into their own thoughts, or carry on a conversation. The only proof they have had a massage is oily hair and table face. In this class you will learn how to actively encourage clients to stay in their experience ~ to be present in mindful awareness. But first we will explore our own bodies ~ our capacity to sit in stillness, foster deep listening with patience and without expectation, and truly befriend our beloved partner. My hope is that you will learn to deepen your relationship with your body and from this space, your clients may discover a similar source of deep communion with their body.
Some of the days’ highlights include:
Ethical Dilemmas
Informal Fireside Chat Bring your real life practice situations and learn heart-centered listening. You are invited to an informal fireside chat @ the home of Kathy Ginn. A great opportunity to discuss and receive support from fellow colleagues regarding individual practice challenges. A great opportunity to learn in a relaxed and supportive environment!
Are you looking for a unique learning opportunity while obtaining CE Hours?
Garden Discussion & Fireside Chat These discussions are an imfomal way to learn in a relaxed and supportive environment. Bring your real life practice situations and receive support from fellow colleagues. You will leave with greater insight into the often complex dynamic of the therapeutic relationship ~ and have fun too! Garden discussions take place in the warmer months. Fireside chats take place in autumn and winter.
*Participants will receive 1 CE hour for each hour of attendance. Time together: 4 -6 hours
Click Here to register.
* Kathy brings her wisdom and passion into the classroom. Her 20 years experience in the field of massage therapy & bodywork, including advanced training in Hakomi body-centered experiential therapy, provides personal and professional experience which she feels honored to offer others.
home page | about me | educational offerings | workshop schedule
Professional Ethics for the Massage Therapist and Body Worker.
This educational program explores the “basic” dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. Topics of discussion: codes and guidelines, law and legislation, roles and boundaries, sexual misconduct, informed consent, confidentiality, and standards of practice. * 6 CE Hours Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Right Use of Power
This course is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. The Right Use of Power approach to ethics is dynamic, engaging and inspiring, along with recognizing that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. The container for this study is exploring our beliefs, attitudes and history around Power. Experiential topics in this workshop include, but are not limited to grounding in the felt sense of the power differential, awareness of personal power styles, nurturing communication tools, establishing and maintaining boundaries, seven reasons good intentions are not enough, exploring the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, and a practical process for resolving relationship issues as they arise. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on sensitivity, skill and personal responsibility. Owning and re-engaging with one’s power as a resource for good can be personally and inter-personally transformational. *6-16 CE Hours Click Here to Register.
Teachers and Right Use of Power in the Classroom
~Teaching with Power and Heart
All good teachers are truly present in the classroom, deeply engaged with their students and their topic and continue to reflect upon the teacher who is teaching. This course begins by exploring the multiple dynamics of the power differential and the influence teachers hold. Participants will be invited to explore their personal relationship with power and how this relationship expresses itself in their role as a teacher. Each participant will increase skills in establishing and maintaining clear boundaries in the classroom by identifying the principles which provide a quality learning environment to include accountability agreements, dual role relationships, and the art of being prepared.
Kathy gently invites each learner into a place of inward reflection. Kathy brings heart and passion into the teaching environment. Kathy offered this course at the 2011 AMTA National Convention.
* 4 - 8 CE Hours
Ethics as Self Care
This is a humanistic, inspiring and engaging approach to the work of ethical awareness and accountability. This course will invite the participant to explore Self Care as an aspect of ethics and right use of power. This class offers the participant two lenses to look through—exploring self care both inside and outside the therapeutic relationship. The following skills and disciplines will be explored as topics of study: personal care and life style habits, self care attitudes, maintaining balance to prevent over working and burn-out, supervision and support, increase awareness in tracking skills, protocol for professional habits, increase awareness around personal limitations and ethical edges, tracking for impact and intention and much more! This course promises to offer a learning experience that provides information, along with practical tools that will guide and inspire the participant to a greater understanding and awareness of how to work within the often confusing and fragile client/therapist relationship. My intention is to allow the study and exploration of ethics to come alive! (Kathy presented this class at the 2005 AMTA National Convention in Albuquerque, N.M.) * 8 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Nourishing Communication
Developing A Healing Attention This interactive class invites the participant to develop a healing attention within the therapeutic relationship. The central theme of this class is learning to be with our clients in a shared state of presence. Words can be our friend bringing practitioners and clients together. The participant will explore a simple yet powerful model for communicating in a way that meets both parties needs; fostering an authentic partnership with your clients. This class is for anyone who would like to communicate with more skill, clarity, and empathy! (This class is modeled around the course: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg). * 6 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
Ethics as Soul Work Retreat Nourishment ~ Rest ~ Renewal
Massage therapy is a vocation that requires constant renewal of mind, heart and spirit if we want to avoid burnout, take joy in our work and grow in our service to others. Creating nourishing relationships with our clients is something we all desire.
However ~ the demands of our work cause many of us to lose heart, to lose our way.
Our life experiences sometimes create foggy areas where it is difficult for us to see what we are putting into our own relationships. In these foggy areas we can bump up against each other in ways that cause annoyance, depletion, or even harm.
During this retreat we will gently explore our personal foggy areas and learn some practices that can serve as fog lamps, including self-inquiry, self-care disciplines, spiritual disciplines of solitude and stillness, communication skills which foster presence, attentiveness and deep listening, and finally exploring one’s personal boundary style.
Kathy and Leora will gently take each participant on an inner journey toward reconnecting with heart & spirit ~ recovering the passion for one of the most important human endeavors ~ serving others with our touch.
There will be opportunities for self-reflection, solitude, community learning, exploring through art ~ pausing for stillness and soul renewal in a setting that is dedicated to both.
- Co-facilitated with Leora Weitzman, Ph.D., C.M.T., NCTMB, Oblate St. Benedict
- Class includes two hours of standard V – roles and boundaries. Class begins Friday evening @ 6pm and ends Saturday afternoon @ 5pm. 10 CE hours
Click Here to Register.
Emotions in the Session Room
Exploring the Psychological Life of the Body Massage Therapy can intervene with the patterns of the body—muscular or otherwise. These patterns often organize or hold each person’s psychological experience. Research demonstrates that our emotions accompany physiological changes. The purpose of this training is to explore the inseparable Body/Mind matrix and the ethical stance this space requires. The participant will gain an understanding of how the body organizes around experience. The participant will explore how the psychological life of the body impacts the massage therapy session, the therapeutic relationship and how you as a massage therapist can offer a safe and supportive container for your clients while remaining true to your scope of practice. Time for experiential exploration of participants mind/body connection will be offered.
* 8 CE Hours
Click Here to Register.
The 4 Pillars of Business
Creating your practice from the inside ~ out Whether you are exploring your career options, working for someone else, or in private practice this course is for you. This course covers 4 fundamental aspects that will guide you into work you love. This framework includes:
- Value of Purpose ~ finding work that offers you meaning and purpose.
- Value of Commitment ~ what are you willing to commit to?
- Value of Discipline ~ what disciplines are required?
- Value of Knowledge & Skill ~ putting into practice the proven and innovative business methods that have brought success to others.
Click Here to Register.
Dimensions of Money
Blueprint to your financial success What would it take for you to feel rich in the way your bottom line numbers read and rich in heart? This course engages each learner with the various dimensions of money often encountered as professional massage therapists and body workers. Through personal stories and practical advice Kathy will offer each participant a fundamental blueprint to solid financial sufficiency and purpose. The class opens with inviting each participant to honestly examine one’s relationship and attitude toward money – earning it, spending it, saving it, and giving it away. Additional topics of discussion to be included are exploring how money works, basic money management principles, financial record keeping & taxes, establishing your fees, raising your fees, diversified fee structure, recession proof your practice, selling a practice/buying a practice, negotiating lease contracts, diversifying your income, work smarter with barter, seeking professional guidance and much more. This class promises to bring clarity, conviction and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities money wields over our lives today. * 8 CE Hours
*Prior to entering the field of massage therapy and bodywork, Kathy spent 7 years licensed in the financial service sector teaching her clients fundamental money management principles.
Click Here to Register.
Ethics, Power & Heart
The heart of ethics is human relationships ~ the capacity to enter into a simple caring presence with our clients; using our power with awareness and skill. This class will guide each participant to a deeper connection with one’s personal relationship with power & heart. Together we will explore how to dance with grace and integrity within the therapeutic relationship. Topics of exploration include, but not limited to:
- Offering our gifts of character
- The healing attitude
- The power differential
- The entrapment of the helping prison
- Ethical communication
- The healing silence
- Developing a heart-felt presence
This course is designed around the 4 seasons of ethical development ~ Spring - planting, Summer - tending, Autumn - harvesting, and Winter – reflection. The course is experiential, interactive, and self reflective.
Click Here to Register.
Your Body as Beloved Partner
We spend our lives with our bodies; however we often leave the body behind. Our body often becomes a burden. Our body feels numb, perhaps stuck; our body may even feel like a stranger. As body-workers and massage therapists it is important to befriend our bodies and learn to honor our bodies in new ways.
This class is about bodies, your body and your client’s body. Kathy will take you on a journey into your body, a journey that embraces honor and respect. With new skills learned, you will then be able to offer your clients ways to connect with their body, and also deepen their experience on the massage table, while staying within your scope of practice.
Often during a massage therapy session, the client may drift into daydreams, go off into their own thoughts, or carry on a conversation. The only proof they have had a massage is oily hair and table face. In this class you will learn how to actively encourage clients to stay in their experience ~ to be present in mindful awareness. But first we will explore our own bodies ~ our capacity to sit in stillness, foster deep listening with patience and without expectation, and truly befriend our beloved partner. My hope is that you will learn to deepen your relationship with your body and from this space, your clients may discover a similar source of deep communion with their body.
Some of the days’ highlights include:
- How we become disembodied
- Define the term body armoring, and how it manifests.
- Develop skills in somatic tracking.
- Cultivating body awareness – mindfulness, breath, deep listening.
- Learn how to offer your clients gentle directives.
- The quality of curiosity.
- Inviting little experiments into the massage therapy session.
- Identify and discuss issues of scope of practice and boundaries.
- Fostering the practice of stillness, solitude & deep listening.
Ethical Dilemmas
Informal Fireside Chat Bring your real life practice situations and learn heart-centered listening. You are invited to an informal fireside chat @ the home of Kathy Ginn. A great opportunity to discuss and receive support from fellow colleagues regarding individual practice challenges. A great opportunity to learn in a relaxed and supportive environment!
Are you looking for a unique learning opportunity while obtaining CE Hours?
Garden Discussion & Fireside Chat These discussions are an imfomal way to learn in a relaxed and supportive environment. Bring your real life practice situations and receive support from fellow colleagues. You will leave with greater insight into the often complex dynamic of the therapeutic relationship ~ and have fun too! Garden discussions take place in the warmer months. Fireside chats take place in autumn and winter.
*Participants will receive 1 CE hour for each hour of attendance. Time together: 4 -6 hours
Click Here to register.
* Kathy brings her wisdom and passion into the classroom. Her 20 years experience in the field of massage therapy & bodywork, including advanced training in Hakomi body-centered experiential therapy, provides personal and professional experience which she feels honored to offer others.
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