Massage Continuing Education

Massage Continuing Education classes are an important part of your Professional Massage Therapy career.

I'd like to share with you a couple of tips I've learned over the past six years so that you won't make the same mistakes I did. Scheduling and planning ahead is important!

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These tips have made for a much more satisfying experience!

• First, ensure that the massage continuing education course you'd like to take is recognized by your governing body. If you are nationally certified, ensure that the course you want to take is recognized by the NCBTMB. (That is if you wish to receive credit for the course. If not, have at it, just ensure you know that you are not receiving credit!)

  If you are regulated under your States guidelines, ensure the class you wish to take is recognized by your State. I always send the continuing education provider an E-mail asking them, and ensuring me, their course is recognized by the State of Nevada.

• Plan ahead! Realize the moment you are licensed and certified that you will need to take these continuing education classes and plan appropriately! If you've been certified for years, take a moment and schedule out your year with these classes included.

  When you are pressed for time, you'll have to take what you can get, and often times this will result in a poor choice; something you just HAD to take because you needed your credits ASAP. It's seldom a waste of time and money, but if you had other plans, to bad!

• Start building your niche' or specialty by focusing on what you really LOVE to do! Take courses specific to your interest, then, work away on all associated information and courses as well.

  This ties into the previous bullet point of planning. Most massage continuing education providers have their schedules advertised months in advance. Choose your specialty that you love, then, start planning on when the next courses on this subject are being held.

  Working on what you love to do is great. Keep in mind though, everyone has opportunities or weaknesses, and you need to work on those as well! Take some courses on what you really need to improve on to make you a better person, not just a massage therapist.

• Where is your next course going to be? What is your next course, and is it more of a 'hands on' course that you need to be there physically, or one you can take over the Internet? You can even earn massage continuing education credits on a cruise ship nowadays and in foreign countries! This also ties into your planning schedule, as well as your budgeting schedule which I'll cover next.

• What is your budget? Do you have enough money to take the courses you want?

  Some smaller credit courses are not very expensive, but if you are planning on taking, say, an entire Medical Massage course of 100 credits or more, you'd best start budgeting for it!

• In regards to planning and budgeting comes timing. What time of year are you slow in your business and when are you busy? When do you have the most money to afford being able to take your massage continuing education courses? Many times none of these coincide very well. Plan!

  Most of the time when we are busy we earn the most money. But guess what? This is also when we have the least available time! What about other concerns such as your family? The days are long gone when most of us can drop everything we are doing and run off on a cruise ship to take our massage continuing education classes for a week at a time!

These are just a few ideas to explore before you dive into your continuing education classes. If you plan and schedule wisely you will get the maximum benefit out of these excellent experiences!

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