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Education

CE Courses – A directory of therapeutic massage and bodywork continuing education offerings and non-credit sessions from educators and institutions committed to offering courses meeting a range of professional development needs. Listings are from AFMTE as well as its CE Provider and School members.

NTESP Core Competencies – Central to the mission of the Alliance is the commitment to strengthen and improve the quality of therapeutic massage and bodywork education and create a culture of teaching excellence in our field through a comprehensive effort called the Teacher Education Standards Project (NTESP).

MTBOK – Massage therapy training programs will benefit from the Alliance’s extensive review and analysis version one of the Massage Therapy Body Of Knowledge. After receiving excellent feedback from the leaders in the field, our work is now being used by the ELAP working group.

ELAP – The Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP) is a research project initiated by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations in March 2012. The project goals were to define knowledge and skill components of entry-level education and recommend the minimum number of hours schools should teach to prepare graduates for safe and competent practice in the massage profession. Completed in December of 2013, the project published two documents, which describes ELAP work group findings and recommendations.