Annual General Meeting

1. ACT Alberta; Action Coalition of Human Trafficking Alberta: 2 CEC – Free

Saturday, June 6^th, 2020
Presented by ACT Alberta
Time – 7:30pm – 8:30pm

ACT Alberta is a Canadian coalition of Government of Alberta representatives, non-governmental organizations, community organisations, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ACT Alberta provides resources to help front-line workers identify potential trafficking situations and aid victims of human trafficking by increasing knowledge and awareness on human trafficking, advocating for effective rights-based responses, building capacity of all involved stakeholders, and leading and fostering collaboration and communication for joint action against human trafficking.

2. Professional Misconduct Prevention Workshop: 4 CEC

Friday, June 5, 2020
Instructed by Janet Mwamburi and Alyssa Hendry
Time – 8:00am – 12:00pm & 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Following the high incidence of inappropriate touch, sexual assault and abuse cases in the Massage Industry, Instructors of Alberta College of Massage Therapy: Alyssa Hendry and Janet Mwamburi developed a training program to inspire prevention of sexual misconduct in massage practice. The program is also designed to encourage compliance to Massage Therapy Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics as laid out by regulated jurisdictions and professional bodies in non-regulated provinces.

3. Align and Refine Self-Care for the Upper Body: 4 CEC

Sunday, June 7, 2020
Instructed by Geri Dale-Greiner with Seminars for Health
Time – 8:00am – 12:00pm & 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Utilize this easy and practical system that reverses the postural patterns that lead to repetitive strain injury. Affect fascia, soft tissue, joint and the vertebrae on a segmental level. Create movement with decompression that builds strength and coordination of your postural muscles. Last longer and work with ease. This class is perfect for your own self-care, plus share with your client some home care that will make their massage treatment last. Achieve ease and happiness with your body again with Align and Refine Self Care for Upper Body.

4. Fundamentals of Advanced Orthopedic Massage: 4 CEC

Saturday, June 6, 2020
Instructed by Linda Hoppe with Seminars for Health
Time – 8:00am – 12:00pm & 1:00pm – 5:00pm

This seminar will cover pregnancy massage, stretching techniques, proper positioning and draping specific to pregnant and postpartum women. Contraindications, complications, postural changes and basic anatomy of the pelvis will be examined. Labor massage techniques and postpartum care will also be taught. This course will show therapists how to treat expecting women effectively and compassionately.

5. Posture & Gait Analysis: 7 CEC

Friday, June 5, 2020
Instructed by Kristi-Lynn Mitchell
Times – 8:30am – 4:30pm

“The Orthopaedic Approach for Massage Therapists”, created by Dr. Lanre Salami, wouldn’t be complete without Posture and Gait Analysis! This one-day course isn’t offered anywhere else.

This seminar is designed to educate the participants on the importance of gait and postural evaluation in designing a management strategy for encountered musculoskeletal dysfunction that can be successfully managed with soft tissue mobilization techniques and massage therapy. Postural and gait evaluation is essential in order to determine a primary dysfunction from a secondary compensatory adaptation that the client develops as a result. This allows the practitioner to be able to address the primary cause directly thereby guaranteeing a successful correction of the dysfunction. A good posture and gait evaluation will reveal to the therapist “what is, what was and what is going to be” about the client’s posture and gait.

6. Document Refresher: 7 CEC

Friday, June 5^th, 2020
Presented by Amanda Bach
Time – 9:00am – 5:00pm

This course is available for any practicing RMT that feels their note taking and documentation skills could be better. We will branch out and discuss beyond the SOAP protocol and discuss why certain types of information are important to have included on a client file.  You will gain the opportunity to review, evaluate and revise your current note taking and documentation practices. We will discuss ideal and non ideal habits that can develop over a long career. RMT’s will review standard SOAP note protocol, privacy standards and best billing practices for the industry. We will also touch on direct billing professionalism and documentation. Therapists will review protocols of common assessment techniques as well as document and store personal client information, optimizing their documentation skills. We will also review how to handle a situation that may be fraudulent. Leaving each attendee with a fresh and focused outlook on how they and their clinic stands regarding proper documentation skills and the importance of good notes for themselves, clients and other healthcare professionals.

7. Reflexology: 7 credits

Friday, June 5, 2020
Instructed by Carrie Suwal
Time – 8:00am – 5:00pm

In this course we will go over the scientific and energetic connections between our reflex points in the hands and the feet, and the effect they have on the physical, emotional and energetic body. By the end of the day you will confidently be able to give a full reflexology treatment to find illness and dis-ease in the feet and hands, as well as treating the imbalances found.

8. Usui Reiki Level 1: 7 credits

Saturday, June 6, 2020
Instructed by Carrie Suwal
Time – 8:00am – 5:00pm

In Usui Reiki Level 1 receive an attunement to open your chakras to healing and teaching. We will be going over the history and usage of Usui Reiki. You will learn how to treat yourself, others, plants and animals with this beautiful life force energy. Reiki is used to increase our own capacity for vital life force energy, allowing us to access greater health and wholeness. We use Reiki to assist others in directing their flow of negative energy outside of the body and expanding positive energy within.

9. Assessment & Treatment of Viscera: 7 CEC

Friday, June 5, 2020
Instructed by Sheryl Hamilton
Time – 8:00am – 5:00pm

Visceral dysfunction can create symptoms throughout the body through fascial restriction, neurohormonal dysfunction, and neurological dysfunction. This workshop will help you:

• Locate and treat visceral restriction in the thorax, abdomen and pelvis
• Learn to use treatment of viscera to improve range of motion
• Extend your career by straining your body less in treatment

The easy-to-learn tools taught in this workshop will let you add visceral assessment and treatment to your practice right away.  Improve your results with your patients and expand the scope of functional issues that you can effectively treat.

10. Mobility PRO Level 1: 7 CEC

Friday, June 5, 2020
Instructed by Jay Noronha
Time – 9:00am – 5:00pm

Mobility PRO is here to teach Principles, Assessment and Application of Mobility Tape and how to integrate them into your practice! Our goal is to give you a practical framework where the patient comes first, followed by hands on protocol learning. This course builds upon foundational anatomy knowledge to inform practitioners of the benefits of kinesiology tape.

11. Oncology 1 day: 7 CEC

Sunday, June 7, 2020
Instructed by Seminars for Health
Time – 9:00am – 5:00pm

Our Fundamentals of Oncology course is designed to take the fear and misunderstanding out of providing soft tissue manipulations to individuals who have had a cancer diagnosis or are actively affected by cancer. Fundamentals of Oncology offers a service for the fast-growing need to train health care providers to provide clients with ongoing and post-treatment soft-tissue care. This path will give you the foundation to support oncology patients and cancer survivors through hands-on support confidently.

12. Mobility Tape 2 day Advanced: 12 CEC

Saturday & Sunday June 6^th and 7^th, 2020
Instructed by Jay Noronha
Time – 9:00am – 5:00pm

This course continues the development delivered in Level 1 focusing on more complex applications. Techniques are designed to cover topics ranging from enhancing movement to diagnosing dysfunction patterns and utilizing kinesiology tape to enhance recovery periods while decreasing pain.

13. Jade Stone: 12 CEC

Saturday & Sunday June 6^th and 7^th, 2020
Instructed by TBA
Time – 8:30am – 4:30pm

Training is by demonstration and hands-on treatments. This workshop is an excellent foundation for Massage Therapists, Estheticians, Body Workers, Holistic & Natural health practitioners enabling you to incorporate your specialty with jade stones. Jade stones promote relaxation & vitality while releasing toxins and inflammation. Work with fewer stones using alternating temperatures for deeper results.

14. Advanced Craniosacral: 12 CEC

Saturday & Sunday June 6^th and 7^th, 2020
Instructed by Sheryl Hamilton
Time – 8:00am – 5:00pm

This class will bring you beyond cranial rhythm and into mid-tide and long-tide which are the deeper expressions of fluid potency in the cranial system.  You will learn to work with meninges, bones, ventricles and the central nervous system to re-connect your patients with the deeper tides thereby restoring overall health by directly improving vitality. You will learn to:

• Palpate and assess all tissues in the cranium;
• Recognize and work with cranial rhythm, and mid-tide and long-tide;
• Safely restore normal or improved function to the central nervous system by improving cellular nutrition and fluid flow;
• Extend your career by learning a gentle, non-invasive approach.

Come and improve the function of your own CNS and learn how to support your patients in enjoying a healthy brain in a healthy body.

15. Advanced Integrated Therapy for Hand, Wrist, Forearm & Elbow: 12 CEC

Saturday & Sunday June 6^th and 7^th, 2020
Instructed by Herb Longworth
Time – 9:00am – 5:00pm

In this Advanced Integrated Therapy for the Hand, Wrist, Forearm & Elbow you will learn:

• Common dysfunctions (acute-chronic) of the hand, wrist, forearm & elbow
• Palpation, movement, motion testing, and differential assessment
• Contraindications (absolute and local)
• Advanced Integrated Therapy using massage, osteopathic, and tissue/joint decompression techniques for correcting tissue and joint dysfunction.
• Integrated lymphatic techniques specific to the dysfunction
• Rehabilitative exercise & taping methods for enhancing and extending therapeutic effects
• Application to self-treatment for therapists and clients.
• Lecture, presentation and hands-on workshop