Opening to the Mystery: Caring for Clients at the End of Life
Instructor: Lauren Muser Cates, CMT/LMT, NCBTMB
at the Massage Therapy Institute in Davis
For information or to register for this class contact MTI
Opening to the Mystery : Caring for Clients at the End of Life
“I have created this class expressly to support experienced oncology massage therapists who want to be of greater service to their clients living with cancer and particularly to those clients who are facing the end of their lives. The class will be a combination of scientific and factual information, interpersonal exercises, self-exploration and a variety of work that will combine all of these. This class will not include traditional “hands-on” practice with massage techniques, but rather it will focus on what we can do (and be , for that matter) with our hearts and minds and souls that can make the work of our hands infinitely more valuable and connected as we work with our clients through the last parts of their lives.”
Dates: 3 days from 9am-4pm each day
Hours: 21 CEU hours
Who should attend: This class is meant for oncology massage certification graduates (300 hrs of training) or advanced students of oncology massage (minimum 70 hrs of training) who have at least one year of clinical massage practice with clients who have cancer. Oncology Massage Therapists with fewer hours of training but with years of clinical experience may be approved at instructor’s discretion: lauren@lighthold.org
To register contact MTI.
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Lauren Muser Cates, CMT/LMT, NCBTMB
is a massage therapist and End of Life Care Practitioner practicing in the Washington, DC metro area. She worked, from 2005-2009, as the Clinical Supervisor for Hospital/Oncology Massage at the 330-bed Virginia Hospital Center and as a member of the hospital’s palliative care team. Lauren has been a hospice volunteer since 2003 and has studied with Ram Dass, Dr. Rachel Remen, Frank Ostaseski, Zoketsu Norman Fischer and others in the cultivation of her practice to serve people living with terminal illness and approaching the end of life. She is a graduate of Metta Institute’s End of Life Care Practitioner Program and a teacher at the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington, DC. She teaches a 6-day course for massage therapists called “Compassionate Clinical Service: A 6-day Oncology/Hospital Massage Intensive” and is President and a founding director of the Society for Oncology Massage. Lauren’s students say that she employs “soulful humor”, “lighthearted presence” and “true passion for her work”.
(See Lauren's website for her other oncology massage trainings)