Ethics Mindfulness & Loving Kindness- 6CE

Any professional who works with the public understands that doing so requires a unique set of professional qualities to cope with the highs and lows of daily events.  It requires patience, compassion, and empathy, yet also requires objectivity, fairness, and boundary management.  There are many places where we can find answers about how to be more professional and ethical. There are numerous text books and classes on the topic.  In most of these books, you will likely hear a similar set of principles and guidelines to help you to establish and maintain healthy professional boundaries, maintain fair business practices and ultimately provide a therapeutic service without doing harm to the client on a physical, mental or spiritual level.

 

In this course, I'd like to address many of these same topics, but through a different perspective. Here we will examine how many of Buddha's teachings can be applied to our ethical conduct. While there is often debate over Buddhism as a philosophy vs. Religion, we won’t get into that here as it is unnecessary and irrelevant.  Either way the teachings of Buddha are sound. There is much to be learned from all of our worlds’ religions regardless of your specific faith. In addition, the psychology field has adopted many of these practices into their ethical training for counselors and therapists.  It’s natural that massage should follow suit.

 

 

There are two primary areas of focus in this course; the practice of Mindfulness and Loving Kindness.  Here we will learn to define and understand those two principles, and how to apply them in our professional lives and implement those skills in our massage sessions.