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Key Note Speaker
Amanda Baskwill, PhD, is an educator, researcher, and academic leader whose work focuses on advancing health professions education. Originally trained as a registered massage therapist in Ontario, she has spent more than two decades working across post-secondary education in roles that include professor, program coordinator, dean, and senior academic administrator.
Amanda's research focuses on the professional identity of massage therapists, exploring how practitioners understand their roles, values, and contributions within the broader healthcare landscape. As Executive Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, she is committed to advancing scholarship and fostering meaningful dialogue within massage therapy research, education and practice.
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.
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.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
-Embracing Neurodiversity: Practical Strategies for the Massage Therapy Classroom
-Mastering Classroom Facilitation: Engaging and Empowering Learners
-Team-Based Learning (TBL)
- Embodied Learning
