December

Feel alone? Pick up the phone

With an MBA in finance and 12 years of experience working in the corporate world, it might seem that opening a massage practice would be a snap for Christina Bara. Yet when she graduated from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in 1996, Bara struggled to get her practice off the ground. Now, with 10 years of successful massage practice under her belt, she's helping other therapists succeed too.

Bara developed telephone classes and roundtables to connect therapists to each other, and to the expertise of a certified coach who leads each session. Classes are in lecture format, with time for questions at the end. Roundtables are designed to give each individual time to explore his or her issues, concerns and question; and receive feedback, ideas and motivation from the group as well as direction from the coach.

"So often we feel like we're in a vacuum," Bara says of the massage profession. "So often our work is isolated work, even though we love being with people.

"One of the things I’m trying to develop with this is that massage therapists feel like they have community, like they can jump on the phone and connect with massage therapists around the country who have the same issues with them and the same fears, and they can feel not so all alone."

Classes cost $20 for 60-75 minutes. Subjects that have been covered in past tele-classes include: Legal Issues for Bodyworkers to Consider; Get Clients NOW!; and Money's Not The Magic, It's The Mirror: Financial Integrity From The Inside Out.

For more information, log onto www.thingsconnected.com or call (303) 750.5458.