December 05, 2026, 1 pm – 5:30 pm, Rural Hillsborough 27278, home address, to be announced upon registration.
Cost: $110
Practices and techniques to cultivate healthy empathy in a massage therapy practice.(4 CEU)
In this course, we will focus on practices and techniques to cultivate healthy empathy in your massage therapy practice. We will look at the nature of suffering, its effects on healing outcomes, and explore methods for “filling our own cups” to expand our capacity for compassion. Massage therapists will leave with a solid framework applicable in both life and practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify your own pain-avoidance habits
- Learn to recognize when and how attachment to suffering can block client progress
- Tonglen Meditation exercises for transforming suffering into compassion
- Techniques to pause and ground during a fatiguing session