Posts Tagged ‘ Ethics ’

Post by new guest blogger Steph Lasch, LMT, CFT This is my first blog entry for the WIBB. I’m truly excited to be providing quality content here and talking about some of the things I’m passionate about, besides being a massage therapist. I love talking about business, finance and operations in the spa &...
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Last week, the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards presented their long-awaited proposal for a new national continuing education approval program. They are calling it Maintenance of Core Competencies – or MOCC for short. As I indicated in my previous post, this proposal not only failed to deliver on the original promises made by...
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Please allow me to wax a bit poetic. On the eve of Valentine’s Day and also in the wake of a very visible entertainer, Whitney Houston’s untimely death, I am really reflecting on how important it is to live in the present moment and to tell all those we love, how much we love...
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I must admit that country music is not my favorite music genre, but in 1978 the Kenny Rogers’ version of The Gambler hit the charts and the chorus of that song has stayed with me for 34 years! If you’re gonna play the game, boy You gotta learn to play it right You’ve got...
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What is wrong with the following statement? FIRE!!!! Ready…aim. It seems silly, counter intuitive and even dangerous to get such important steps this badly out of order. You would not do it with a rifle, why would you do it with your business? Sometimes we are faced with making decisions quickly in business, sometimes...
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If you’re an employer of massage therapists, or you are a massage therapist who’s is employed by someone else, who “owns” the client? The short answer is, no one. People have the right to go where they choose, and to patronize whatever massage therapist they choose to patronize. The long answer is a little...
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I’ve just returned from the second annual meeting of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education in Charleston, SC.  It was an excellent gathering from start to finish. There were keynote speakers throughout the weekend, daily opportunities for those present to give input into the initiative on teacher standards the Alliance is undertaking, informative continuing...
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On June 28, 2011 I posted a blog on Hotel Insecurity. That post addressed the issue of the high percentage of sexual harassment in the hotel industry. On the Body_Work Professional Discussion Forum, Toni Roberts posted a great commentary about the Newsweek article. She gave me permission to adapt it and share it with...
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On May 21, 2011, Luke O’Neil wrote an informative article in The Wall Street Journal, titled, A Guide to Happy (and Legal) Tumblr-ing: Blogging without ‘stealing’ is much easier than you think. He addresses the common sentiment among the majority of bloggers of a “what’s-mine-is-yours-and-what’s-yours-is-mine policy.” While most people are cautious about copyright infringement...
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On June 5, 2011, Newsweek posted an article titled Hotel Confidential, highlighting a poll of 400 married businessmen. “Three percent said they’d made a pass at a hotel worker (more than half were rebuffed), and 2 percent had sex with them.” The article didn’t specify what percentage of these were massage therapists, but they...
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