ETHICS, SUPERVISION, AND BOUNDARIES
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 10 students. You will return to your practice refreshed and with a deeper sense of clarity.
Because of the currently recommended social distancing precautions, this class will be held on Zoom. In order to get the most out of the webinar, we ask that you be present and fully participate. Since much of this webinar will involve small group discussion, we ask that you keep your camera on throughout the webinar, unless a minor situation briefly comes up (there will be breaks every 60-75 minutes). We strongly recommend that you use either a desktop, laptop, or tablet with a good WiFi connection, and not a phone for the class.
“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
"This class was far better time spent than an internet facsimile of an ethics class." -Christian Green
“I didn’t anticipate that I would come to feel in community with 10 strangers so quickly. It’s helpful and humanizing to hear other people’s stories and what they are wrestling with in their practices, and also have the opportunity to sort through some of my own questions with a supportive community.” -Alice Hunting
Instructors: Brian Utting and Matthew Sorlie
Ethics CE hours: 4 ethics CE hours; meets the WA state ethics requirement
Tuition: $80.
Please note that this class is currently sold out. If you’d like to be placed on the waiting list, contact us at info@pnwschool.com.