Psychoneuroimmunology for Bodyworkers

Materials

• Text - 320 pages
• Multiple-choice test
• Certificate upon completion

Description

The science of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) investigates the mind/body link. This course focuses on PNI in relationship to body memory and provides radical feeling-centered, body-focused awareness tools for both professionals and general health seekers. In the text, the latest findings are transformed from the mind/body science of psychoneuroimmunology into practical deep-feeling techniques for busting dysfunction, mobilizing the healing system, quickening recovery and breaking out of ruts.

In this course, you will:

• Recognize the author's descriptions of sanity; how feelings are dealt with in our healing systems, and how important bodily and emotional feelings are for healing and wellness
• Examine the "internalized stressor" and communicate the benefits of "body-focused therapy"
• Identify the biology of memory, the three levels of the human brain, and how these each contribute to "body memory"
• Distinguish between psychological, physiological and structural tension in yourself and your clients
• Recognize the possibility for elements of fragmented feelings in your own and your client's experience
• Learn how to center yourself in a therapeutic mindset that carries healing intent through your touch
• View the boundaries and connectedness between psychological, physiological, and structural tension in yourself and your clients
• Incorporate strategies for a bodywork treatment plan that includes awareness of your client's feelings and/or life context
• Review the professional roles and boundaries for a bodywork treatment plan that interfaces with body-focused psychotherapy

Full of illuminating and moving case studies, this course will help you better understand the emotional component of your work and facilitate longer-lasting positive results for your clients.

Course Objectives

1. Recognize the author’s descriptions of sanity; how feelings are dealt with in our healing systems, and how important bodily and emotional feelings are for healing and wellness.
2. Define “internalized stressor” and communicate the benefits of “body-focused therapy.”
3. Identify the biology of memory, the three levels of the human brain, and how these each contribute to “body memory.”
4. Distinguish between psychological, physiological, and structural tension in yourself and your clients.
5. Recognize the possibility of elements of fragmented feelings in your own and your client’s experience.
6. Describe how to center yourself in a therapeutic mindset that carries healing intent through your touch.
7. Recognize the boundaries and connectedness between psychological, physiological, and structural tension in yourself and your clients.
8. Identify strategies for a bodywork treatment plan that includes awareness of your client’s feelings and/or life context.
9. Identify the professional roles and boundaries for a bodywork treatment plan that interfaces with body-focused psychotherapy.

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Instructors

Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, NCTMB

Sharon Burch holds a Masters Degree in Nursing and has been practicing as a nurse since 1974. She is currently a Registered Nurse in the state of Arkansas. Additionally, Ms. Burch studied under many of today's leaders in massage therapy and bodywork during the 1980s, became Nationally Certified through the NCBTMB in 1993 and holds a professional membership with the AMTA.

As founder of Health Positive!, Ms. Burch has created over 60 home study nursing and massage continuing education programs, performed over 65 public, live educational presentations, has written two published books, served as a member on the NCBTMB Continuing Education committee and was a founding member of the National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists.

Sharon is an instructor on many of the Institute's programs and has authored and co-authored various ethics courses and additional titles such as Touch for the Seriously Ill, Stress Reduction Through Bodywork, Staying Well – Naturally, Cardiopulmonary Health and Illness, Chronic Pain Management, Marketing Massage in Four Easy Steps, Preventing Medical Errors, HIV Update for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers, Understanding HIV, Massage for Edema and more.