Canadian Massage Therapy Education Conference Conference Speakers
Key Note Speaker
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Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD is dancer, poet, writer, and award-winning Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her multidisciplinary works have pioneered and instituted the importance of embodied inquiry and the presence of the body within arts-based research. She has published and performed widely; her books include: Embodied inquiry: Writing living and being through the body, Dance, poetics and place: Site-specific performance as a portal to knowing, and five collections of poetry. Her recent collection of poetic meditations is Creating in dangerous times. Celeste can be found at www.celestesnowber.com or dancing between land and sea.
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Pamela Fitch, M. Ad. Ed., RMT
Longtime Canadian educator, author and massage therapist, Pam Fitch has been helping teachers and therapists examine their professional practice and communicative challenges for almost 40 years. She is deeply aware of the unique ethical issues that arise in massage therapy. Using case-based modeling, Pam translates jurisprudence and ethical issues into clear-eyed decision-making that reflects professional standards, empathy and integrity. She has been recognized with several awards for teaching and her text, Talking Body Listening Hands, is used as a required text for professional practices issues in schools across Canada.
