with Jeanne van Gemert, MA, MFA, LPC, LMBT

October 31 | Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm
7 continuing education contact hours | $145 | Practitioners only

While good non-verbal communication is the essence of the massage therapist/client relationship, skillful use of verbal communication can deepen the quality of the relationship, the therapist's role, and the client's therapeutic experience.

In this experiential workshop, you will be introduced to a model of therapeutic communication which supports the needs and challenges of hands-on practitioners. We will identify the purpose of this specific form, and explore elements including the role of words, underlying concepts, use of body, timing, tone, personal boundaries and scope of practice. You will learn essential skills such as reflective listening, managing one’s personal reactions, creating a safe and strong space, and making choices about how to move from soma to psyche... and from psyche to soma.

These concepts and skills are valuable in enhancing the client’s experience of the bodywork session, in providing ways to manage emotional states, and in allowing for profound change on a whole-person level.

NOTE: This workshop meets the requirements for ethics education for license renewal with the NC Board of Massage & Bodywork Therapy and for recertification with NCBTMB. NC license renewals that are postmarked by October 31 meet the renewal deadline.

Jeanne van Gemert is a Mind/Body Therapist at the Duke Universlty Center for Integrative Medicine. Her multi-modality approach, which also includes the Expressive Arts, operates on many levels to transform and integrate healing with the mind, body and spirit. She holds a bachelors degree from Knox College, a masters degree in fine arts from Syracuse University, and a masters degree in counseling psychology from Lesley University. Jeanne graduated from the Baltimore School of Massage, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and studied for four years with noted energy healer and author Rosalyn Bruyere. She is both a NC Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist, and is a certified practitioner of Zero Balancing and CranioSacral therapy. For the past nine years, Jeanne has been an instructor at the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program in the Department of Integrative Medicine at Duke University.

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