HIV/AIDS Update
The Greatest Risk in Working with HIV-Infected People
Is Not What You Think!
Spend an hour with a massage therapist who has been providing care for people with immune deficiency, lecturing and offering highly acclaimed experiential workshops on this topic since 1989.
Learn:
- What the greatest risk is when providing bodywork to someone with HIV.
- What the leading cause of immune deficiency is.
- The difference between feeling responsible for and responsible to your client.
- Why your own healing precedes your ability to be present with another’s healing.
- How the epidemiology of HIV compares to other dangerous pathogens.
- Why some people exposed to HIV become infected and some don’t.
- How to protect yourself from HIV infection.
- The “good news” and the “bad news” of how HIV is spread.
- Which pathogens pose more of a problem to massage therapists than HIV.
- This class is designed specifically for people administering non-invasive hands-on services.
Read what other participants had to say about this class and instructor at the end of this announcement.
NCBTMB 027030-00
FL 50-1131 - Course #20-78841
Testimonials
This is the best HIV class I have ever attended. I liked that it was an update, not a reiteration of things I already learned… Troy R., LMT
Well informed instructor, interesting and informative group dialogue and wonderful, in depth explanations from anatomy and physiology to world wide perspectives…Linda B., LMT
I found it very interesting. Karen has a great teaching style which works perfectly for me. I learned a great deal in a short time. Karen, I like the way you explain things… Jessica P., LMT
I would come to this instructor in the future. I would seek her out…Joanne P., LMT
I would come to another class by this instructor…Kimberly V., LMT
Terrific – clear, concise, and compassionate…(this class) related more toward massage than any other class in HIV I’ve ever taken…I was impressed with Karen’s clarity, her knowledge and her wisdom regarding beliefs around disease in general. She created a safe place with no fear around this subject…Robin K., LMT
Excellent examples. Easy to listen to and follow…Anne C., LMT
Effective yet soft spoken – liked the informal structure and pow-wow feel of class… Christopher D., LMT
Excellent – put the cell mutation right at a level I could understand…Sandie B., LMT
Highly effective. Karen did not lose track of the issues discussed nor did she brush over questions asked…Catherine B., LMT
A gracious and effective speaker!!! (She) allowed people to answer their own questions if possible – to brainstorm…Betsy Jo E., LMT
Great class – time well spent…Pam P., LMT
Very innovative method of teaching. Received extremely well…C. Elishirah R., LMT
