Chip Hines's Blog – September 2009 Archive (6)

(Originally published on the MTBOK Project Managers blog at: http://mtbok.blogspot.com/)



You may know that on Thursday, September 24th we held an MTBOK Stakeholder Input Session open to the public in Orlando, FL. We filled a double room, and representatives from all of the MTBOK Steward organizations (AMTA, ABMP, AMTA COS, FSMTB, MTF, and NCBTMB) were present including ABMP's own Les Sweeney.



The idea of holding ad open to the public meeting at the AMTA convention site… Continue

(Originally published on the MTBOK Project Managers blog at: http://mtbok.blogspot.com/)



Im pleased that we've begun to get responses already on the draft MTBOK, and its just what we are hoping for. Its also clear that the respondants are passionate about the profession, and have given thought to their responses.



As a task force of 8 trying to represent such a broad complex profession, we think its vital that we get feedback from the community. Thats why we have tried to… Continue

Today we released the first draft of the MTBOK content. Its in a downloadable pdf document available at http://www.mtbok.org. Our press release is also available there.





The most important thing to keep in mind is that the MTBOK is intended to be by and for our community, and we want to hear what you think and hope you will provide us with focused comments.





Because there are lots of potential comment-ors out there, and only 8 n the Task Force, we developed an… Continue

In case you'd like the flyer for our September 24th Stakeholder input session, you can download it here: http://www.mtbok.org/downloads/MTBOK_Flyer_9_20091.pdf



By the Way, in case anyone isnt clear about who our "Stakeholders" are, it is anyone who is involved in Massage Therapy: practitioners, schools and educators, businesses, associations, allied health care professionals etc... so if you are reading this, you most likely are one!



While this session is a great… Continue

One clarification about the upcoming session we are holding in Orlando, FL on September 24th from 4-5pm - You DONT have to be an AMTA member, or even attending the convention to participate.

...but you do have to come...

on http://mtbok.blogspot.com

I do hate to ask you to exit this beautiful site though!