Providing Excellence In Continuing Education

The goal of Education Initiatives Canada Inc. is to provide knowledge and skill enhancing seminars for Massage Therapists to review and augment their abilities. The main focus of the continuing education we offer is a "some review and some things new" approach to aid current Massage Therapists in developing, maintaining, and improving primary knowledge and skills.

Our mandate is to share information and skills vital to providing the best in massage therapy care from assessment to treatment. We believe in facilitating progress in core competencies for all Massage Therapists in Canada.

Some things new:

Our workshops provide up to date, evidence-based information to help Massage Therapists make better clinical decisions informed by best practices. We can help Massage Therapists be more effective and communicate the results to others – clients, third-party payers, referrers and other health care professionals.

Some review:

Polish any skills that may be rusty, discard out-dated invalidated tools, patch any holes where clinical skills may be missing.

Donelda Gowan-Moody is our workshop facilitator and the President of Education Initiatives Canada (EIC). She has an excellent reputation in her field as a writer, educator and clinician. Donelda graduated from the CanadianCollege of Massage and Hydrotherapy in Sutton Ontario in 1987 and the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in 1997. Her thesis titled The Effects of Therapeutic Massage on Mood garnered significant results. She has maintained a thriving private practice over the last 19 years and taught massage theory and practical classes at the Professional Institute of Massage Therapy in Saskatoon from 1995 to 2003. Donelda has recently been appointed Co-chair of the Canadian Massage Therapy Research Network (CMTRN) and contributed to the National Taskforce on Outcome-based Massage. Donelda also belongs to the IN CAM research network, and CAMera (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta).