Aug 17, 2009

On Friday, October 2, from 8am to 4:30pm The Center for Cancer Support & Education is hosting a wellness education event exclusively for nurses entitled Nurse, Help Thyself: A Multi-modal Approach to Create Personal and Professional Change at the Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Wheeler Rd, Burlington, MA (click for directions).

The first step to self-renewal is to listen to one's own story and hear it with gentle ears.

Join the Center for Cancer Support & Education for an inspiring and re-invigorating wellness conference designed especially for nurses!

Sample alternative therapies you can apply in your personal and professional life experiences

• Begin a journey to restore yourself

• Spend a day with nurse colleagues
• Share the experiences of being a nurse
• Learn about complementary therapies
• Benefit yourself and your patients

• Keynote: Maintaining Wholeness: Placing Ourselves at the Center of Compassion by Anne-Marie Barron PhD, PMHCNS-BC Simmons College
• Experience your stories of nursing captured in drama, song, movement by True Story Theater
• Explore complementary treatment modalities. Choose two of four interactive breakout sessions: Acupuncture by Kate Ruma, MAOM, Lic. Ac.; Expressive Arts Sampler by Mary Muir, M. Ed.; Benefits of Massage by Eric Volkin, LMT, NCTMB; Energy Healing by Deb DeMella, RN, RPP, RYS, Reiki Master.

Registration/Breakfast              8:00-9:00

Welcome                                9:00-9:15

Keynote                                           9:15-10:15       

True Story Theater                       10:30-12:30

Lunch                                    12:30-2:00

Modality Education Session 1    2:00-3:00

Modality Education Session 2    3:15-4:15

Final Words/Closing Circle       4:15-4:30

5 RN contact hours awarded by MARN, an accredited provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center

To register click the link below to print the flier/invitation or print and mail this page. 

Mail with payment of $180 payable to the Center for Cancer Support & Education, 180 Massachusetts Ave, Ste 301, Arlington MA 02474 or call 781-648-0312 to register.

Name:________________________________________________________________________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Affiliation: ____________________________________________________________________

Email: ________________________________________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________________________________

For more information call the Center for Cancer Support & Education (CCSE): 781-648-0312

CCSE is a Nurse-founded, Nurse-run organization! Attending this conference supports us!

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