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The Education Committee is charged with researching and delivering courses for Chapter members in order to meet continuing education requirements, and promote high standards of professionalism. ** Remember that the CT Chapter AMTA subsidizes a large portion of the class fee. We will continue having one day workshops so long as they fill. Let us know what you are interested in learning and who teaches it. It is the goal of the CT Chapter AMTA to try to give members FREE continuing education each year. I (Chaleen) am looking for one or two more interesting topics to choose from for this year. Send me your information ASAP if you have one! For those new to attending CT AMTA sponsored classes, you must bring your AMTA membership number for the sign-in sheet. It is required by national and if we are audited and the necessary numbers are missing, those people will not get credit for the class.
Chaleen Bloethe-Abely For any questions about these workshops, contact Chaleen or JoAnn Parady. |
Special Note: There are some modalities of training offered to massage therapists which are not covered by the AMTA liability insurance. Please check these out here.
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Please also be aware that promptness getting to class and getting back from breaks must be observed in order to earn any CEs offered for the class. If you come to class later than 15 minutes after the class has begun, you will not be turned away, BUT you will not receive continuing education credit for the course. |
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About the workshop: A. Transform the unnatural act of “compliment deflection” and awaken your innate capacity to comfortably accept appreciation and money B. Identify 10 negative thoughts or obstacles that currently block the achievement of massage goals and success. C. Overcome these inner obstacles through the creation of ongoing positive messages, resulting in greater capacity to achieve success D. Identify a major secret of the creation of success: namely the role that focusing on success has in creating more success. Awaken, at will, the quality of enthusiasm, one of the major secrets of all successful people. This enables LMTs to more powerfully magnetize people to them, including new clients. At a time when there are more massage therapists than ever before, merely staying in business has become a formidable challenge. Compounding the problem of marketplace competition is a vexing hidden problem: sabotage, in the form of unconscious limiting beliefs that keep a massage therapist struggling and consistently earning less than he or she is capable of. It’s like tying a body worker’s arms behind her back. What's she to do? This course will transform limiting beliefs about money and enable her to learn to earn. The inner, daily workout taught in this workshop builds a powerful success consciousness that naturally attracts more new clients to therapist. The workshop won’t eliminate competition, but it will inspire an LMT to behave with such confidence that she’ll feel as if she were the only massage therapist in town. About the Instructor:
"How Marketing can help your Massage Business Thrive" & "How to Communicate Effectively" with Cary Bayer Register here - Part 1: How Marketing Can Help Your Business Thrive Discover how to create your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) to differentiate yourself in the marketplace. Discover 23 specific market segments for CMTs to choose from to expand their massage businesses quantitatively, in terms of new clients, and qualitatively, in terms of the kinds of clients that they’d personally like to work on. Learn how to cultivate referrals from clients that can result in dozens of new clients. Identify how to cultivate referrals from four types of health care professionals Learn how to sell innocently from the heart to create measurable increases in new clients, numbers of sessions given and total revenue. How to create four distinct sales promotion programs. Discover the differences among columns, profiles and round-up article P.R. opportunities, and how to write a pitch letter to an editor, proposing each type of press coverage. Isolate local publicity outlets that can be utilized to help position their style of massage in the marketplace, expand brand awareness and increase revenues. This hands-on lecture/interactive workshop is vital if you want to continue to have a practice in these difficult times. It teaches marketing, promotional and sales skills so that your massage business can be well positioned, a marketing term that differentiates you from competitors. The workshop also shows you how to incorporate successful promotional programs from other industries, develop niche markets for stimulating your massage business, inspire sporadic clients to become regular ones, and develop a “sales force” that encourages clients to actively refer new clients to you. Please bring a notebook, a pen and a desire to build your business. - Part 2: How to Communicate Effectively Participants will learn Acknowledgment Meditation, a daily 2-minute exercise that deepens all their relationships. Participants will learn Affirmation Meditation to overcome limited messages they learned about communication to create breakthroughs in professional and personal relationships. Participants will learn “Mirroring,” enabling them to listen consciously to any client, co-worker or person in their lives. Participants will learn how to tell the truth quickly with clients, co-workers and others. Participants will learn how to get “complete” with at least one person in their lives through a systematic 3-part process of forgiveness Participants will learn “Tele-Connecting,” using the phone consciously to build their business by regaining as many as a dozen clients or more. This highly interactive workshop will teach massage therapists communications and listening techniques to empower their massage businesses, transform negative patterns in relationships, and create positive breakthroughs. They’ll learn how to communicate the truth quickly, effectively and kindly, avoiding unexpressed communications that hold back so many client relationships. Attendees will also learn a writing technique to help them forgive clients and others, enabling strained or broken relationships to be repaired. This has the effect of creating more positive relationships and often income, as well. Cary Bayer was the keynote speaker at the 2006 American Massage Therapy Association convention in Atlanta . He’s a Life Coach and CE provider licensed by both the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, as well as Florida Dept. of Health’s Board of Massage Therapy. A faculty member of Massage Business University, he writes a column for Massage Today, as well as for AMTA publications in nearly a dozen states. He has also authored more than two dozen publications on personal growth, including The Prosperity Aerobics; Breakthrough Coaching for Massage Therpists; Massage Therapists and Money; Reach Out and Touch Someone: Tips for Marketing Massage; Affirmations for Massage Therapists; and Knowledge for Power and Success: The Keynote Address for the 2006 American Massage Therapy Association National Convention. He’s privately coached more than 100 massage therapists throughout the U.S. in sessions by telephone by the ocean in south Florida (954-788-3380) and in the mountains of New York State (845-679-5526). He’s also a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. You can find him on the internet at www.carybayer.com and can reach him by email at successaerobics@aol.com
About the Workshop:
Students attending this workshop need to bring, massage tables, sheets, lotion, writing implements. Lee Stang is a CT Licensed Massage Therapist and owner of Bridges To Health Therapeutic Massage Center in Plainville CT She is Nationally Certified and holds advanced certification in Orthopedic Massage, Medical Massage and Sports Massage. Lee is a graduate of the CT Center for Massage Therapy in Newington, CT and currently teaches Clinical Massage, Event Sports Massage, and Anatomy and Physiology at the school. She also holds a bachelor degree from Penn State University and a Masters Degree from Indiana University. In 2006 she received the National Sports Massage Achiever Award by the National AMTA. Lee has owned and operated Bridges To Health Therapeutic Massage Center for 13 years. She currently has 6 therapists that work with her providing a wide range of therapeutic massage services. Clients range in age from 3 months to 95 years of age. Lee’s practice focuses primarily on specific work with injury recovery and prevention as well as relaxation and stress reduction. She conducts numerous workshops out of her office geared to working with specific soft tissue problems. In addition to working with clients from all walks of life and all occupations her clientele also includes amateur, college and professional athletes in all sports. She has extensive experience working with world class athletes including current members of the WNBA. She was the team Massage Therapist for the Springfield Spirit and New England Blizzard, professional women’s basketball teams. She was a member of the sports massage team that provided massage to athletes at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. She coordinated the massage team at the Olympic Stadium Complex in Athens Greece at the 2004 Paralympic Games. She worked with college players at the NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four in San Antonio Texas. She traveled with the US National Powerlifting Team to the World Championships in Praque, Czecholovachia and to the National Tournament in Kileen Texas. Lee is the Immediate Past President of the CT Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association. She is the former Director of the CT Sports Massage Team. Prior to becoming a Massage Therapist she was the Director of Rehabilitation for a CT Head Injury Rehabilitation Center. Exploring Ethics with Carol Bufithis AMTA Professional Members: $60 Registration deadline is October 24th. There are NO refunds for this workshop. Register here.
About the workshop: How about a day of Education, Interaction, Introspection and FUN! We will:
Bring with you: an inquisitive mind, an open attitude and an intention to play at 100%! About the Instructor: Carol Bufithis (BS, LMT) is a 1983 graduate of CCMT in Newington, CT and has owned and operated Therapeutic Massage Center in Middlefield, CT since 1983. She has been an educator for 35 years in a variety of settings and since 1984 has been a faculty member at CCMT where she originally taught hands-on Swedish massage classes. Today, she teaches Discovery workshops to people inquiring about the field. She also teaches Personal and Professional Potential, a course designed for students to develop intra- and inter-personal skills to establish high standards for a therapeutic relationship. She is one of the instructors in the Teacher Training Program at the school with an emphasis on "Teaching from Your Authentic Mindful Self". Carol has designed a course, "Ethical Inquiry: A Process of Reflection and Revision" and has taught that course in both large settings and small group practices. She now offers a second workshop with a continued emphasis on individual and group process in the context of ethics. |
Success Aerobics: A Prosperous Mindset Creates a Successful Massage Business with Cary Bayer
Introduction to working with fascia in massage therapy with Lee StangPast 2008 Educational Workshops:
- 1/27/08: Aromatherapy for the Massage Therapist with Wendy Payton
- 4/6/08: Yamuna Body Rolling with Sharon Sklar
- 4/27/08: Working with the Psoas with Martha Griffin