Anne is the Director of Education and co-founder of Massage Mastery Online, specializing in digital textbooks that make learning more efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Anne is a licensed massage therapist (27 years), an aromatherapist, a certified reflexologist, a spa consultant, an author, and an educator (formally an esthetician and registered counselor). She is the former Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), where she pursued her passion for instructional design and developed support materials and resources for massage students, instructors, schools, and professional members from 2006 until 2019.

Before working with ABMP, Anne was a massage instructor for eight years, emphasizing curriculum development and program implementation for Ashmead College in Washington State, and in 2004 became their director of education at the Tacoma campus. She has offered several continuing education programs, including workshops on hot stone massage, aromatherapy, spa therapies, and reflexology.

Anne has served on the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) test writing committee and worked with the dynamic team at ABMP to develop ABMP's Student Life Program, ABMP Exam Coach, ABMP 5-Minute Muscles, and many other resources for schools and instructors. She also wrote the curriculum for the "Instructors on the Front Lines" massage teacher training program for ABMP from 2008 to 2019 and the content for the ABMP School Forum from 2007 to 2019. In addition, she is the author of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists, 2nd Edition (2016), and Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional (2013), both previously published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Anne served as project leader for the Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP). This research project described what a person must know and be able to do to practice massage safely and competently at the entry level. The ELAP curriculum blueprint outlines the learning outcomes and objectives all schools should teach in foundational education and was published in 2013 by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations. In addition, Anne partnered with Eric Brown and the team at ABMP to produce the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit, attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time.

Eric Brown started his massage career in 1989 in Canada. He worked in private practice for 20 years, managing two successful massage clinics in downtown Toronto. He has taught extensively in the advanced massage training colleges in Canada, developing curricula in massage theory, physiology, assessment, and technique. Eric was also involved in developing the Standards of Practice for massage legislation in Ontario, Canada.

In the early ’90s, Eric pioneered chair massage in Canada and has worked with some of the largest companies in Canada, including IBM, Dell, Levi Stauss, Kellogg, Amex, as well as major hospitals, banks, law firms, and financial institutions. He opened a massage school in 1994 and managed the school until 2011, training over 1,000 students. 

In 1999 he started BodyworkBiz, one of the first companies providing massage business and marketing classes online. In 2006 he established Massage Therapy Radio and, with his partners, produced over 200 podcasts. In 2008, he launched World Massage Conference, the first online conference in the massage profession. It featured some of the top leaders in the profession and produced over 400 online presentations. It was the largest event in the massage profession year after year for ten years before being sold to ABMP in 2018.

In collaboration with the Education Department at ABMP, Eric produced the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit, attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time. He has written extensively for massage journals internationally and has served as the editor-in-chief for Canadian RMT. He is the author of five number one bestsellers on Amazon, including 60 Clients in 60 Days and Fill Your Practice 101.   

Today, Eric lives in Louisville, Colorado, where he pursues his passion for online education in partnership with his wife, Anne Williams, and his passion for photography.

• Learn to recognize your personal boundaries, notice when they are crossed, and respond effectively to boundary violations.  
• Evolve your personal boundaries to improve your relationships with friends, family, work colleagues, and other health care professionals. 
• Set strong and appropriate professional boundaries to maintain healthy therapeutic relationships with clients.
• Develop the skills to establish and maintain boundaries through effective relating styles, attention to body language, active listening, and assertive communication.  
• Successfully manage the difficult client situations all massage therapists encounter during their careers while maintaining the highest level of professional ethics. 
• Enjoy your work more as your boundary-setting skills become second nature, and managing relationships, both personal and professional, takes less effort and causes less stress. 
• Learn on the go with this mobile-friendly product you can view on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone.

Video Content: Video content covers the key concepts in the text using vivid images, graphic elements, voice-over, and strong instructional design. Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice includes 22 video presentations covering seven hours of content.

Listen Along Audio: The listen-along feature is included with topics that don’t have a video presentation. You can listen to these topics while you read along, commute, exercise, or relax.

Text Translation: So long as they use Chrome as their browser, students with English as a second language can instantly translate the text into their native language, so they never miss a concept.

Lesson & Topic Structure: The thoughtful instructional design of this textbook organizes contents into carefully sequenced learning chunks. Participants can finish topics in short study sessions (an average of 20 minutes). This sense of making regular progress improves learning motivation. 

Story & Scenario: The regular use of stories and client-therapist scenarios place important concepts in a real-world context and improve critical thinking skills.

Visually Appealing: Concepts come alive with striking imagery and appealing graphic design. Printed textbooks are limited by page number and keep visuals to a minimum. In the digital world, more is more when it comes to visual aids.

Easy Navigation: Cleaver web navigation puts an entire textbook just two clicks away and provides an ongoing outline to help students mentally frame the content they are learning. Students get a dose of satisfaction when they mark topics and lessons complete and see the progress bar advance.

Learning is a Swipe Away: Students can access their textbooks on a phone, laptop, desktop, or tablet. Students today live on their phones, and now their textbooks do too. When learning is just a swipe away, students are more likely to study in the margins of their lives; a practice essential for strong academic scores. 

Learning Games: Learning games are fun and strengthen concept comprehension, memory recall, and critical-thinking skills. Games give instant feedback, so students never reinforce incorrect information. This textbook includes 13 learning games.

Let’s Talk Boundaries Interviews: Video interviews with massage professionals connect students to unique voices in our massage community. This textbook features three Let’s Talk interviews with Allison Denney (the Massage Rebel), Diane Matkowski (the Massage Mentor), and Joshua Reyes.   

Downloadable Resources: Downloads for this textbook include the Zero Tolerance for Sexual Behavior policy document and the Informed Consent document.

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TEXTBOOK INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION 

LESSON 1: PERSONAL SPACE AND PERSONAL BOUNDARIES

• Introduction, learning objectives, terminology
• Physical Space
• Sexual Space
• Sensory Space
• Psychological Space
• Emotional Space
• Privacy
• Autonomy
• Ownership
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 2: BOUNDARIES - CORE CONCEPTS

• Introduction, learning objectives, terminology
• Therapeutic Relationships
• Boundary Development
• Boundary Types and Forms
• Boundary Crossings
• Boundary Violations
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 3: ESSENTIAL BOUNDARY SKILLS

• Introduction, learning objectives, terminology
• Understand Relating Styles
• Attention to Body Language
• Active Listening
• Establish and Maintain Boundaries
• Respect Other’s Boundaries
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 4: HEALTHY PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES

• Introduction, learning objectives, terminology
• Professionalism
• Physical Boundaries
• Sexual Boundaries
• Sensory Boundaries
• Psychological Boundaries
• Emotional Boundaries
• Privacy Boundaries
• Autonomy Boundaries
• Ownership Boundaries
• Dual Relationships
• Apply It!
• Quiz

SUMMARY, RESOURCES, AND FINAL EXAMINATION 

• Zero Tolerance for Sexual Behavior Policy Document
• Informed Consent Document
• Final Examination