Welcome reception at the Hotel
Thurs, Apr 29, 2010; 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Main Conference (includes lunch each day):
Fri, Apr 30, 2010; Register/Breakfast 8:00-8:45 a.m.; Classes 8:45 a.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Sat, May 1, 2010; Breakfast 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.; Classes 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Post Conference:
Sun, May 2, 2010; 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (one hour lunch on your own)

CE Hours: Main Conference (12.5 hours); Post-Conference (8 hours)

Tuition Options:
$329 Main Conference (Fri/Sat) – includes welcome reception; breakfasts and lunches

$159 Post-Conference Seminar (limited to 20 people at each)
Gentle Techniques for Working with Post Mastectomy Scars and Adhesion OR Mastectomy Massage

Quick Links

• Registration Options:
  Call 952-885-5446
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• Reasons to Attend
  
• Course Descriptions
  
• Conference Schedule and Instructors
  
• About the Society for Oncology Massage (S4OM)
  
• Call for Posters
  
• Exhibitor/Sponsorship Opportunities
  
• General Information

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Learn practical information and "take-home" techniques to help people return to their best lives. An opportunity for you to network with colleagues who share your professional passion.

Join other health practitioners, patients and caregivers in a presentation of Jonna's Body, please hold, riotously entertaining, profoundly moving hour-long show that has audiences on their feet! An award winning one-woman-show starring actress Jonna Tamases. Jonna's Body must unite to fight for her life, in a heart-pounding battle that will leave you breathless with laughter and joy.

This years conference will open with Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes, MA, RN, the popular author of "Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying". She'll teach you the power of hope and how to utilize the Hope System, the Four Stages of Hope, to help you understand your clients journey toward healing. This powerful and simple process deepens your connection with your clients' changing stages of hope (facilitating a more realistic therapeutic relationship).

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Conference Schedule

Friday, Apr 30, 2010

8:00 am – 8:45 am                 Registration and Continental Breakfast.  Visit Vendors.
8:45 am – 9:00 am                 Welcome.  Conference Overview. 
9:00 am – 9:15 am                 In Honor of Cynthia Delano Myers, Tracy Walton, MS, NCTMB
9:15 am – 10:15 am               Hope, a Dynamic Process in Living; Cathy Fanslow-Brunjes, RN, MA
10:15 am – 10:45 am             Break – Visit Vendors – Poster Sessions

10:45 am – 12:45 pm:         Breakout Sessions

• Strengthening Immunity with Bodywork: A Blend of East and West (Repeated Sat., 1:45 pm) - Isabel Adkins, BA, CMT, CMLDT
• Research and Practice: Touch, Caring and Cancer; Tracy Walton, MS, NCTMB and William Collinge, PhD, MPH
• The Science Behind Gentle Touch for People with Cancer (Repeated Fri., 4:15 pm); Eleanor Oyston, CT (ASC), DipRM, Bowen Therapist, ATMS, BTFA, AAMT, AIMA
• Massage for Children with Cancer (Repeated Sat, 10:45 am); Tina Allen, LMT, CPMMT, CPMT, CIMT

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm               Catered Lunch in Cafeteria

1:45 pm – 3:45 pm               Breakout Sessions

• Panel of 3:  Creating Your Dream; Johnette du Rand, LMT, NCTMB, S4OM Program Director, Greet the Day; Wayne McKinzie, LMT, CMLDT, Executive Director Shine Therapy; Steve Gordon, LMT, NCTMB, Executive Director The Hand to Heart Project
• The Most Important Question – What Are You Hoping For?;Cathy Fanslow-Brunjes, RN, MA, CNS
• Healthy Steps, Moving You to Better Health with the Lebed Method; Antoinette Muirhead, LMT, Lebed Method Instructor
• Yikes, A Reporter Is On The Phone, What Do I Do Now?; Jean VanEtten, LMT
• Communicating with Medical Staff;Curtiss Beinhorn, LMT, NCTMB, MTI and Sat-Siri Sumler, LMT, NCTMB, RYT

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm    Break –Vendors/Poster Session – Cathy Fanslow-Brunjes Book Signing

4:15 pm – 6:15 pm     Breakout Sessions

• Ingredients in Skin Care and Techniques Used in Esthetics for Patients Living with Cancer, Morag Currin, LA, CMLT
• A Less Demanding Approach to Post Mastectomy/Radiotherapy Scar and Adhesion Release, Jamie Elswick, LMT, BS, NCBTMB Provider
• The Science Behind Gentle Touch for People with Cancer; Eleanor Oyston, CT (ASC), DipRM, Bowen Therapist, ATMS, BTFA, AAMT, AIMA
• Healthy Digestion, the Elixir for Life (Repeated, Sat., 10:45 am); Sandy Cazone, DOM

Saturday, May 1, 2010

8:00 am – 9:00 am                Continental Breakfast – Visit Vendors
9:00 am – 10:15 am              Jonna’s Body – please hold.  Sponsored by Abbott Northwestern                                             Hospital’s Penny George Institute of Health and Healing
10:15 am – 10:45 am             Break – Visit Vendors – Poster Sessions

10:45 am – 12:45 pm           Breakout Sessions

• Creating Community Based Oncology Massage Clinics:  Developing Successful Models and Meeting the Challenges; Martha Menard, PhD, CMT and Vicki Lynn Ferguson, MAA, LMT
• Massage for Children with Cancer; Tina Allen, LMT, CPMMT, CPMT, CIMT
• Healthy Digestion, The Elixir of Life; Sandy Cazone, DOM
• Safely Massaging the Client at Risk for Lymphedema (Repeated, Sat., 1:45 pm); René Janiece, LMT, NCTMB, CLT, Reiki Master
• Yoga for People with Cancer; Sat Siri Sumler, LMT, NCTMB, RYT
• Massage Therapy’s Role in Today’s Oncology Management; Panel discussion for patients, their families, and other health care practitioners

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm – Catered Lunch

1:45 pm – 3:45 pm      Breakout Sessions

• Strengthening Immunity with Bodywork:  A Blend of East and West; Isabel Adkins, BA, CMT, CMLDT
• Writing Successful Grant Proposals; Martha Menard, PhD, CMT
• Safely Massaging the Client at Risk for Lymphedema; Rene Janiece, LMT, NCTMB, CLT, Reiki Master
• The Psychological, Emotional and Physical Aspects of a Mastectomy; Cheryl Chapman, RN, HN-BC, NCTMB, NJSC
• Live Cadaver Lab; Kim Swineheart, DC

3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Native American Blessing of the Hands
All participants join together to adjourn the conference.

Sunday, May 2, 2010
Hands-on! Optional Breakouts (choose one) - Limited to 20 people in each course
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (one hour lunch on your own)

1. Gentle Techniques for Working with Mastectomy Scars and Adhesion; Jamie Elswick, LMT, BS, NCBTMB Provider
2. Mastectomy Massage; Cheryl Chapman, RN, HN-BC, NCTMB, NJSC

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About the Cosponsor
Society for Oncology Massage (S4OM)

Dealing with cancer is both destination and journey. 
Medicine focuses on the quality of the destination. 
Oncology massage focuses on the quality of the journey.

Vision
The Society for Oncology Massage is founded to ease the journey through cancer and beyond for patients, family members and caregivers.

Mission
S4OM is grounded in a philosophy of compassion and service. We are focused on connecting cancer patients, their families and their caregivers with skilled oncology massage therapists.

An oncology massage therapist is a massage therapist who, following comprehensive training in general massage therapy, has completed additional  “post-graduate” training addressing the full spectrum of cancer-related issues: the physical consequences of cancer, the side effects of various treatments, the psycho-social and emotional consequences.  Therapists learn to adapt the extensive repertoire of standard massage therapy techniques to work safely and effectively with people living with cancer.

Our programs are intended to:

1. make all people affected by cancer aware of the healing power of massage and where it is available in their communities.

2. expand the availability of qualified oncology massage wherever cancer patients live and are treated.

3. develop an educated, experienced and cooperative community of oncology massage therapists.

4. establish,  promote, and maintain an ethic of care setting a high standard for the emerging field of oncology massage therapy.

5. facilitate and encourage the specialized training of oncology massage therapists.

6. educate the medical community, cancer patients and their caregivers as to the extreme importance of proper training for oncology massage therapists.

7.  provide a forum where oncology massage therapists can share the special challenges and joys of their work.

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Call for Posters

A Call for Posters is being issued for presentation at the 2010 Oncology Massage Healing Summit on April 30 thru May 1, 2010. You are invited to present a poster of your recent massage and bodywork research project.

The poster sessions are an integral component of the Oncology Massage Healing Summit. They allow us to bring research to the exhibit hall floor in a professional and educational manner. More and more massage therapists are becoming exposed to research, thanks to our poster sessions. In 2007 over 175 oncology massage therapists and faculty attend this event. More are expected in 2010. If you are unable to attend personally, another member of your research team can present the poster or you can ship the poster to our staff to display on your behalf.

If you wish to participate, please submit an abstract to Curtiss Beinhorn at cbeinhorn@mdanderson.org  by February 26, 2010. Notifications will be made March 26, 2010.

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General Conference Information

• Your $329 registration fee includes admission to Friday and Saturday’s educational sessions (extra fee $159 to attend a post conference session), conference materials, exhibit hall admission, poster presentation, Thursday’s welcome reception, continental breakfasts and lunches.

• You will choose which breakout session you’d like to attend when you arrive at the conference.  Onsite CD/MP3 recordings will be available to purchase of non-technique sessions contingent on presenter approval.

• Northwestern Health Sciences University reserves the right to make changes to the conference sessions and/or speakers when conditions prevail beyond its control.  Information distributed or contained in the presentations is the sole responsibility of each presenter and does not necessarily represent the opinions of Northwestern.

• Business casual dress is appropriate during the conference.  You may wish to dress in layers for your own comfort.

• Cancellation/Substitution policy:  You must call 24 hours prior to the conference for a full refund.  Calls received after the conference will be honored, but a $75 processing fee may apply.  Delegate substitutions are allowed, but notification must be received prior to the conference.

• Northwestern Health Sciences University is an approved provider through NCBTMB.  (450464-07).

Conference Location
Northwestern Health Sciences University, 2501 West 84th St, Bloomington, MN 55431.  We are just four blocks south of Interstate 494 on the corner of 84th Street and Penn Ave.  Free parking is available on campus.  Visit http://www.nwhealth.edu/aboutnw/direct.html for directions.

Hotel Accommodations and Airport Information
Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington, 3900 American Blvd, Bloomington, MN 55437, (952) 893-9500 or visit http://www.nwhealth.edu/aboutnw/areaacc for a link to the hotel’s reservation site.  When calling please mention Northwestern Health Sciences University to receive a discounted rate of $119 (Mon-Thurs); and $89 (Fri-Sun) single or double occupancy.

The nearest airport is Minneapolis St Paul International Airport (MSP) http://www.mspairport.com/.  It is conveniently located just 7 miles from the campus.

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