In this cooperative setting the group will learn to discern appropriate ethical choices as massage therapists. By observing and experiencing through play-acting, the class will ask, “is this a balanced decision?” This ethics course will support creating the template for making “balanced professional choices.”

Through experiential role-play, students will learn:

• Skills for assessing a variety of situations that may present in the massage session.

• How to speak and set clear boundaries with each and every client through nonviolent communication.

• When to refer out to other healthcare professionals when a situation is out of the scope of their practice.

• To assess their own needs for self-care by recognizing physical or emotional burn out symptoms.

• To assert their own basic rights.

• Their professional responsibilities.