1. RETURN TO INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP Opportunities for TAFE WA education facilitators Up skilling of knowledge within the industry HTP 50302-50307

2. PERSONAL CONTEXT Growth in the Massage/Remedial Massage Industry Inspiration from attendance to National Conference Knowledge of Training Package Review Desire for Personal Growth

3. SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION Rationale behind my application Including a time frame Budget Intended Outcomes

4. MASSAGE CANCER AND MORE Dispersing the myths 4 DAY TRAINING Theory Practice Discussion Participation

5. QUEST FOR LIFE RETREAT WORK PLACEMENT Working with the clients attending 5 day residential “Enabling people to regain a sense of control over their lives and actively participate in their own healing”

6. QUESTS PHILOSOPHY Since 1985, 60,000 people have attended Quests programs. Their mission is “to inspire and empower people dealing with suffering, pain, fear and uncertainty, to experience fulfilment in living”. (King) To empower them to find peace. (p.5 Quest for Life residential manual Petrea King)

7. QUEST FOR LIFE PROGRAMME Daily exercise and fresh organic food Meditation 3 x every day Vegetable and fruit juices 2 x day Group work topics: The Four “C’s”- Peace of Mind –Meditation and Relaxation –Anger –Changing our language of reaction –Communication –Understanding Cancer –Nutrition and Complimentary Therapies –Biology of the Body

8. THE 4 C’s QUALITIES THAT ASSIST WITH PEACE OF MIND 1. CONTROL consciously choosing our response to life's challenges 2. COMMITMENT committed to living to being emotionally present re-focusing priorities forgiveness of self and others present and past

9. THE 4 C’s QUALITIES THAT ASSIST WITH PEACE OF MIND 3. CHALLENGE challenged and excited by life living the life we came here to live 4. CONNECTION that we are loved and supported by those we share our life with or that we have a sense of belonging or that we are connected to the sacred in some way

10. PEACE OF MIND PEACE IS A DYNAMIC STATE IN WHICH WE ARE ABLE TO EMBRACE EACH NEW MOMENT WITH A CLEAR MIND AND AN OPEN HEART

11. “You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body”. Plato – 400BC

12. WEBSITES AND PLACES OF INTEREST Cancer Support Association of WA Inc www.cancersupportwa.org.au Solaris Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital Petrea King Quest for Life Centre www.questforlife.com.au The Gawler Foundation www.gawler.org Cancer Council WA www.cancerwa.asn.au

13. “ REFERENCES Quest for Life by Petrea King Your Life Matters by Petrea King Shattering the Cancer Myth by Katrina Ellis Medicine Hands by Gayle MacDonald Massage for the Hospital Patient and the Medically Frail Client by Gayle Mac Donald Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton A Massage Therapists Guide to Pathology by Ruth Werner Massage Therapy Principles and Practice 3 rd ed by Susan. G. Salvo