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Ethics, Supervision, Boundaries, and Montana State Law (sold out)

  • (11am-6pm Mountain Time) Live webinar, via Zoom in your home (map)

ETHICS, SUPERVISION, BOUNDARIES, AND MT STATE LAW

An ethics and law class especially for Montanans. The class is sold out, but if you’d like to get on the waiting list, contact us at info@pnwschool.com.

We will begin with a thorough review of Montana massage law, and some interesting, important, and occasionally upsetting updates to the law. After a review of professional ethics, roles, and boundaries, we will take a more personal approach to professional ethics. Ethics is a living subject and is best learned in a live, interactive format. As massage practitioners, we work closely and intimately with our clients, but we often experience isolation and burnout in our own practices. When ethical conflicts, confusions, and challenges inevitably arise, we often feel that we have no place to take them. 

In this peer supervision class, we will explore your current professional issues and dilemmas, whether they be interpersonal, ethical, financial, COVID-related, or other. This is not a hypothetical or 'you should eat your vegetables' approach to ethics, but rather an opportunity to draw support and gain insight from your peers and mentors as you deal with whatever your real ethical issues or conflicts are. The class size will be quite small and intimate, with two instructors and a maximum of nine students. You will return to your practice refreshed and with a deeper sense of clarity.

The class will be co-taught by Tamara Leach and Jessica Powell Riley. Tamara has served on the Montana Board of Massage and was an instructor and the Director of Education at Health Works Massage School in Bozeman. Jessica has been in practice since 2008, and was the former Chair of the Montana AMTA.

Because of the currently recommended social distancing precautions, this class will be held on Zoom.

"This was the best ethics class I've ever taken." -Darcy Hovard, Erin Morgan

"Masterfully organized, and complete in subject coverage, handouts, and time management." Barbara Johnson

"This class was far better time spent than an internet facsimile of an ethics class." Christian Green

"This is the only ethics class I've ever taken that I wish were longer." -Mariah Vanhee

“Finally, an ethics class that is substantive, useful and not onerous!! I may never be able to tolerate the alternatives again.” Darlene Sluder


Instructors: Brian Utting, Tamara Leach, and Jessica Powell Riley
CE hours: 6 CE hours (2 hours of law, and 4 hours of NCBTMB-approved ethics)
Tuition: $90

Registration: The class is sold out. If you’d like to get on the waiting list, please contact us at info@pnwschool.com.