Service Through Touch
Why Everflowing Training Programs
Body workers
I am a body worker. How can Everflowing Training help me professionally?
Everflowing offers a skillful approach to touching that includes therapeutic presence, verbal direction, and tactile sensitivity to enhance your current hands-on modality.
The skills and hands-on approach that we offer will assist you in creating an environment of unprecedented calm in your hands-on sessions. This allows for a deeper level of trust in the client/practitioner relationship, thereby deepening the state of relaxation not only for your client, but for you as well.
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Everflowing will teach you protocals for working with seriously ill and fragile clients.
Seriously ill clients are not clients you have to seek. They are found among your current clients. Everflowing training will prepare you to stay with your clients if they are diagnosed with a catastrophic illness or have an accident and go into the hospital.
Everflowing training will allow you to expand your current practice:
• Take referrals from health care organizations
• Take referrals from skilled nursing facilities
• Develop an out call business for the home bound
• Work with the dying as part of hospice care.
• Be available to serve your friends and family.
There are vast opportunities for you in the field of bodywork for the seriously ill and the dying which is a rapidly growing field in the bodywork profession. It is a field that takes us out of the massage room into specialized settings with unique challenges. These challenges require you to have specialized training. Some of these challenges are:
• Working as part of a health care team
As a body worker with a seriously ill client you are part of a team which consists of a physician, a nurse, a social worker, maybe a physical therapist and volunteers. There will also be attendants and/or certified nursing assistants. You need skills in gathering information from and reporting information to other team members. You also need skill in recognizing the values of your role and staying in it. Click here for more info on how to order “Massage for the Ill and the Dying in a Home Setting” handbook.
• Working with frail clients
To work with clients who are weak and fragile you need skills in modifying your current bodywork techniques to prevent client injury or fatigue; skills in positioning your client to maximize their comfort; and skills in being with clients in physical pain.
• Body mechanics
Performing a bodywork session for someone in a bed or a wheelchair is physically difficult and requires skill.
• Learning to seek and ask for support
The emotional component of working with ill and dying clients requires you to develop coping strategies and support systems to prevent burn out. Click here for more info.
Nothing in this field looks like a standard bodywork practice. Without training in all the components mentioned above, you as the practitioner may become over whelmed physically as well as emotionally. Without specific hands on supervised practice, developing and modifying techniques for the fragile is not recommended. The only way you can provide a safe environment for your client as well as for yourself is to acquire training from a professional who has hands-on experience in this field.
Everflowing offers you the skill and wisdom of over 2 decades of pioneering work in this field. Irene Smith’s voice has set a standard for professionals internationally. Irene’s voice comes from working with the old and the young in hospitals, private homes and skilled nursing facilities.
Everflowing offers you the most in-depth training possible in the field of bodywork for the dying.
To acquire the skills you need to work with the dying, click here.
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Testimonials
“As a massage therapist with a primarily geriatric/hospice clientele, I often felt sore, tired and emotionally depleted. Irene’s classes provided me with tools, techniques, skills and personal practices which I use to continually enhance my comfort at the chair or bedside, to revitalize my physical energy and to process the emotional impact of my chosen work.”
— Maureen M. Trilsch, C.M.T., Hospice Practitioner
"Human touch is the integrative thread that weaves the physical, psychological and spiritual aspect of care together creating what is truly the essence of health care"
— Irene Smith
I am a hospice care provider. Why do I need Everflowing training?
Touch is the most prominent language in the care giving relationship. Every act of care giving involves touch. Everflowing training will help you to develop touch skills that enhance the comfort and the overall effectiveness of your current health care practice and return the contact that you deserve to stay nurtured and energized in your chosen service. The healing of touch is reciprocal.
Everflowing training will help you to:
• More clearly define the dimensions of touch in daily care giving. Click here for article.
Touch is a multi-dimensional relationship. As a care giver you are touching your patients physically, psychologically and energetically. Learn skills that will help you to clarify boundaries and assist you in deepening the trust in your care giving relationships.
• Cope with the emotional impact of working with seriously ill and dying persons. Click here for more info.
• Demonstrate a more skillful approach to persons who are fragile, anxious and/or confused through the development of therapeutic presence.
Physicians, nurses, CNA’s, physical therapists, volunteers, and family care givers will all benefit from Everflowing Touch training. Click here for training program.
Testimonials
"We who work daily with patients suffering from catastrophic injuries are tempted to adopt coping skills that, ironically, alienate us from those whom we wish to serve. Irene taught us practical ways to be present with our patients through touch. Perhaps more importantly, Irene reminded us of the importance of listening to ourselves in the midst of suffering, and how to utilize that listening as a tool to be responsive to those whom we hope to help.
— Scott Rome, MD, Medical Director, California Pacific Regional Rehabilitation Center
"Irene is an exemplary role model for all of us, not only for her knowledge and sensitivity, but also for the depth of her compassion and understanding."
— D. Friedman; Rheumatologist
“In my work as a medical/surgical registered nurse, I often only have one brief encounter with a client. Everflowing has allowed me to give these clients a simple yet effective expression of concern that lets them experience the care that surrounds them.”
— Raymond Sigrist, R.N., Hospice Volunteer
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Family Care Givers
I am a family care giver. How can Everflowing training help me?
Everflowing training will provide you with skills that ease the helplessness. When there is no cure Everflowing will give you skills, techniques, and personal practices to help you and your loved one stay connected in hope. Not hope for cure, but the hope that is reflected in being able to provide comfort.
Testimonial
“Irene taught me that simply speaking softly to my mother and holding her hand or rubbing her feet is welcome and enough. Even though my mother no longer knows me as her daughter, she knows on some level that I am a welcomed presence.”
— Gail Schweitzer, A Client’s Daughter
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