Absolute Bodyworks

Trauma Informed Practices For Ethical Massage Therapy
Wednesday May 20th 5-9pm

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This four hour workshop meets the standards outlined by the OBMT & The Washington Department Of Health.

4 In person Ethics CEs - NCBTMB Approved Provider #1000101

Working with clients as massage therapists, as healthcare professionals we certainly encounter ethical issues, and we certainly encounter clients who are managing their own levels of trauma. Trauma and how human beings manage it, is more complicated than most of us actually realize and ethical issues and dilemmas can be an obstacle to the therapeutic relationship and the resolution of pain for a client. The specifics of our profession bring us closer to a client suffering from trauma more than others and understanding the framework of how trauma effects an individual is crucial to both safety and ethical massage therapy. The more ethically we approach the complex nature of trauma the better equipped we can be in working with and supporting our clients while maintaining an ethical massage practice. Through the lens of the most up to date neuroscience we examine the effects of trauma on the human nervous system and thereby its effects on the human being. We will look at specific ethical issues that face the massage therapy community in working with clients recovering or experiencing trauma. Join Jonathan C. Primack BA-LMT for this in depth look at ethical massage therapy related to trauma, its mechanisms and its behavioral significance on clients as well as on us as massage therapists. Students will be provided a detailed handout that will support the lecture and power-point presentation. Specifics include: connections between traumatic life events and the manifestation of these events in physical symptomology. Examination of real altered behavioral states, physical triggers and emotional responses through student interactive trauma-based examples and exercises. We look very closely at our scope of practice and how to support the therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist. Ethical decision making when referring out and how to maintain healthy, ethical. professional boundaries when working with a human being recovering from trauma.

This four hour workshop meets the standards outlined by the OBMT & The Washington Department Of Health.

4 In person Ethics CEs - NCBTMB Approved Provider #1000101

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Free Virtual Workshops – Nationally Certified – OBMT And Washington State Approved - Good In All 50 States

I have been a bodyworker now since 2003. I have been an instructor since 2006. The years have passed quickly and yet have been filled so many amazing moments and opportunities. Honestly as I try to communicate it all to you it is hard for me to find the words of expression necessary to be succinct with how much gratitude I feel for the craft of bodywork and for the community of bodywork.

It would be best said that I have an incredibly healthy relationship with bodywork.
Everything I give to my craft … it gives back to me.
How rare to find such a give and give back in any relationship.
When you give to your relationship and it gives back…. All you want to do is give even more.
There simply is no feeling in the world like it.

As this year has unfolded I have been thinking and thinking how do I do just that.
How do I give even more to this relationship ?

In order to express to all my clients, all my instructors, all my students, and everyone out there that I have yet to have an experience with in the bodywork community I have decided for the entire month of November to give away for free all of the on-line bodywork classes that I have posted at my site.

That’s right for free… no strings attached. Maybe you need a couple of credits … maybe you have always been curious about this approach to bodywork but was not sure it was for you… maybe the financial commitment is a burden.

Whatever the reason, from November 1st thru to December 1st you are welcome to take one Nationally Certified Online Workshop. Oh and before you ask… of course you will get credit and receive a certificate for taking the class, I am not a fan of wasting my time or that of anyone else.

Giving more to the relationship I have with bodywork means giving more to as many of you as I possibly can and this feels like a sincere and honest gesture towards that goal.

At checkout simply type in the code GRATITUDE2024 and a free class is all yours.

Feel free to share this post or the information with anyone and everyone.

Thank you bodywork …. for all that you have given to me.

~ Jonathan C. Primack LMT #10789