In a first for student training in the UK, Made for Life Organics and the Made for Life Foundation have partnered with White Rose Beauty Colleges to offer the industry leading Cancer Touch Therapy™ to Level 3 students or those studying Complementary Therapy.
Cancer Touch Therapy training is SATCC approved and accredited by the Complementary Medical Association. It was developed with advice from trained oncology massage teachers, and advisors from the oncology team at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Macmillan.
This new student training programme is designed to empower future therapists with the skills, expertise and knowledge to undertake body and facial treatments for people living with cancer. It enables students to gain a deeper understanding of what cancer is, the staging and grading of cancer and how the treatments for cancer can affect the need to adapt spa treatments. It is intended to broaden the horizons of each therapist and to ensure that each and every person living with cancer can access wellbeing therapies in a spa setting when they need them most.
Cancer Touch Therapy training at White Rose College will commence in January 2021 once students have completed the relevant sections of the course including Anatomy and Physiology having developed the appropriate level of knowledge to enable them to undertake the training modules within Cancer Touch Therapy.
Each student will be provided with a Touch Therapy kit of the individual Made for Life Organics skincare – organic, cruelty free, nurturing collection of products hand blended in Cornwall using organic herbs and flowers. This will enable them to effectively carry out treatments immediately after successfully completing the course.
It is estimated that there will be an initial group of 120-130 students across the eight White Rose Beauty College sites in 2021.
Made for Life Organics Managing Director, Amanda Winwood explains: “One of the core aims and the vision I have personally held for many years, is to see well trained therapists being able to welcome all people including those living with cancer into their spas, salon and personal practice. This includes empowering well qualified therapists at NVQ level 3 to leave college with the skills and confidence needed to enter their first role and support the wellness industry to be accessible to all.”
“The collaboration between Made for Life and White Rose Beauty Colleges to integrate SATCC approved Cancer Touch Therapy is a significant and pivotal shift within the wellness industry. For years, therapists have been incorrectly trained that people living with cancer should not be welcomed, resulting in many spas turning up to 96% of people with cancer away.”
“The stories from women with cancer who have been turned away from spas has been heart-breaking. However, we believe that our joint initiative will see the start of a shift across colleges providing education in the UK who cover wellness and beauty sector. I cannot express how grateful and delighted the Made for Life team are to be working with White Rose Colleges to create a wonderful shift across the wellbeing industry.”
Karen Lee-Cooke, Principal of White Rose Beauty Colleges said: “We are passionate about introducing Cancer Touch Training into all of our Level 3 training programmes, allowing skilled therapists to be able to treat clients living with or in remission with cancer. Currently, our industry’s awarding organisations recognise cancer as a condition usually contra-indicated to massage therapies. We are committed to pioneering and changing these practices ensuring all clients, especially clients living with cancer, are able to access spas and salons”.
Kris Hallenga, Founder, Coppa Feel, a breast cancer awareness charity explains why this training is so important: “Being turned away from a spa for fear that a therapist might, in some way, adversely affect my cancer and my recovery is pretty humiliating and traumatising. As a cancer patient you are desperate for any calming and soothing complementary therapy you can get since the rest of our lives is spent being prodded and poked. It’s so vital that ALL therapists are brought up to speed on the actual science and benefits of touch therapy, so we don’t continue to feel like the outsiders. I cannot wait for every single spa to welcome people like me with open arms!”
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