RETURN TO INDUSTRYSCHOLARSHIP

• Opportunities for TAFE WA education facilitators

• Up skilling of knowledge within the industry

• HTP 50302-50307

PERSONAL CONTEXT• Growth in the

Massage/Remedial Massage Industry

• Inspiration from attendance to National Conference

• Knowledge of Training Package Review

• Desire for Personal Growth

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

• Rationale behind my application

Including a time frame

• Budget

• Intended Outcomes

MASSAGE CANCER AND MORE Dispersing the myths

4 DAY TRAINING

• Theory

• Practice

• Discussion

• Participation

QUEST FOR LIFE RETREATWORK PLACEMENT

Working with the clients attending 5 day

residential

“Enabling people to regain a sense of control over their lives and actively participate in their

own healing”

QUESTS PHILOSOPHY• Since 1985, 60,000

people have attended Quests programs.

• Their mission is “to inspire and empower people dealing with suffering, pain, fear and uncertainty, to experience fulfilment in living”. (King)

• To empower them to find peace.

(p.5 Quest for Life residential manual Petrea King)

QUEST FOR LIFE PROGRAMME• Daily exercise and fresh organic food• Meditation 3 x every day• Vegetable and fruit juices 2 x day• Group work topics:

• The Four “C’s”- Peace of Mind– Meditation and Relaxation– Anger– Changing our language of reaction– Communication– Understanding Cancer– Nutrition and Complimentary

Therapies– Biology of the Body

THE 4 C’s QUALITIES THAT ASSIST WITH

PEACE OF MIND

1. CONTROL• consciously choosing

our response to life's challenges

2. COMMITMENT• committed to living• to being emotionally

present• re-focusing priorities• forgiveness of self

and others present and past

THE 4 C’s QUALITIES THAT ASSIST WITH

PEACE OF MIND3. CHALLENGE• challenged and excited

by life• living the life we came

here to live

4. CONNECTION• that we are loved and supported by those we

share our life with• or that we have a sense of belonging• or that we are connected to the sacred in some

way

PEACE OF MINDPEACE IS A DYNAMIC STATE IN WHICH WE ARE

ABLE TO EMBRACE EACH NEW MOMENT WITH A CLEAR MIND AND AN OPEN HEART

“You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul,for this is the great error of our

day in the treatment of the human body,

that physicians separate the soul from the body”.

Plato – 400BC

WEBSITES AND PLACES OF INTEREST

• Cancer Support Association of WA Inc www.cancersupportwa.org.au

• Solaris Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital

• Petrea King Quest for Life Centre www.questforlife.com.au

• The Gawler Foundation www.gawler.org

• Cancer Council WA www.cancerwa.asn.au

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REFERENCES

• Quest for Life by Petrea King• Your Life Matters by Petrea King• Shattering the Cancer Myth by Katrina Ellis• Medicine Hands by Gayle MacDonald• Massage for the Hospital Patient and the Medically Frail

Client by Gayle Mac Donald• Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton• A Massage Therapists Guide to Pathology by Ruth

Werner• Massage Therapy Principles and Practice 3rd ed by Susan. G. Salvo