Ethics of Diversity

Materials

• Text - 188 pages
• Multiple-choice test
• Certificate upon completion

Description

In Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama proposes the development of a secular system of ethics that transcends religion and focuses on our shared humanity and our interdependence as a key part of that humanity. His Holiness discusses the importance of global tolerance and rejection of violence, as well as the need for morality to be included in education.

In this course, participants will:

• Define secular ethics and what it means to enjoy mutual tolerance and respect for all.
• Discover the elements of a shared human experience: identity, perspective, equality, empathy and suffering.
• Explain the role of discernment in creating our own inner value system and generating our own personal level of ethical awareness.
• Examine the role of ethics in our shared world by discussing concepts of cooperation, the culture of violence that exists, personal disarmament, the environmental crisis and the needs for education of the concepts of ethics.
• Analyze key inner values of patience, forbearance, contentment, self-discipline and generosity, consider how they impact our system of ethics and integrate these values into our practice.
• Discuss the purpose of diversity training as it pertains to the massage therapy industry.

Course Objectives

1. Construct a definition for secular ethics and what it means to enjoy mutual tolerance and respect for all.
2. Discuss the elements of a shared human experience: identity, perspective, equality, empathy and suffering.
3. Differentiate between the two levels of satisfaction we experience in the quest for happiness.
4. Define compassion as a concept and examine examples of compassion in a variety of situations.
5. Differentiate between justice and vengeance, examining the principles of compassion, punishment and fairness in dealing with those who perpetrate violent acts.
6. Explain the role of discernment in creating our own inner value system and generating our own personal level of ethical awareness.
7. Examine the role of ethics in our shared world by discussing concepts of cooperation, the culture of violence that exists, personal disarmament, the environmental crisis and the needs for education of the concepts of ethics.
8. Identify the Ethics of Restraint, the Ethics of Virtue, and the Ethics of Altruism and how to apply them in everyday life.
9. Recognize destructive emotions and learn ways to take a stance of opposition toward these emotions.
10. Discover how to integrate key inner values of patience, forbearance, contentment, self-discipline and generosity into our own inner value system.
11. Analyze the key human values of patience, forbearance, contentment, self-discipline and generosity and consider how they impact our system of ethics.
12. Review techniques for transformation, including meditation and mental cultivation.
13. Define key terms of diversity, including: diversity, culture, race, ethnicity, tolerance, assimilation, stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, racism.
14. Discuss the purpose of diversity training as pertains to the massage therapy industry.

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Instructors

Leslie DeMatteo, MS, LMT

Leslie L. DeMatteo, LMT, MS, has been an active massage therapist since 1998, after graduating from the Sarasota School of Massage Therapy in Sarasota, FL. There she completed the massage therapy program along with a certificate program in Nuad-Bo-Rarn: Traditional Massage of Thailand.

Since then, she has completed continuing education in cranial-sacral fundamentals, cancer and mastectomy massage, reflexology, trigger point therapy and prenatal massage. She is also certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) and is a Professional Level member of Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP).

Her work in massage therapy continuing education and teaching in a massage school ignited a passion for adult training and education, which led her to pursue her Bachelor's Degree in Adult Learning: Vocational Instruction, followed by her a Master's Degree in Adult Learning.

Ms. DeMatteo is the instructor for many of the Institute's courses including such courses as Advanced Prenatal Massage, Ethics of Diversity. Cupping Therapy: A Step-by-Step Approach, Diversity: Cultural Competence, Mastering Pregnancy Massage, and many more.