Cumberland Institute - Continuing Education Division

CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $250 ($295.00 if registering within 7 of class)

This eight hour class gives therapist time to focus on their own self-care and bodywork needs and how that can improve their well-being and practice. This class is designed to help therapists learn how to connect with their own self- care needs and how to practice self-care before, during and after sessions.

Topics to be covered include:

• The impact of being a therapist and ways to care for oneself.
• Methods of energy management.
• Physical care of the body
• Emotional care
• Mental and spiritual care
• Importance of receiving bodywork.
• Sharing of benefit of day and how to carry forward…

This class will include lecture, self –reflection, sharing and exchanging bodywork. Participants need to be prepared to receive and give bodywork.

PLEASE BRING TO CLASS:  SET OF SHEETS, FACE CRADLE COVER, BLANKET, YOUR FAVORITE LUBRICATION AND A RELAXED SPIRIT.

Class Agenda:

• Introduction and Welcome
• Sharing about ways impacted by being a bodyworker
• Ranking self on skill level of meeting one’s own needs
• Maybe therapists sharing the areas they are strongest in and how they meet that need.
• Energy work exchange --- holding area most in need of attention
• Exchange full body work

A lunch break will be taken midday. You may bring your lunch, or eat at one of the many restaurants located nearby. Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

If you have any trouble the morning of your class, please contact Mindy Oldham, instructor, on her cell: 615-957-7129.