Chapter Meetings
Meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 with Bonnie Kassam discussing Feldenkrais Method - Freeing the Neck and Shoulders 2 CEUs. Meeting location at the Bass Pro Shop, Ft. Myers. Doors open at 5:30 for room set-up and please be there before 6:30 pm for our short business meeting. Remember we ask that you turn your phones, pagers and electronic devices to "stun" mode during the meeting and presentations. We are asking for a $1.00 donation to the general fund if you forget to silence your phone and a $5.00 donation if you actually answer the phone during the meeting or presentation. The membership meeting is directly before the CE presentation which starts at 7 pm, and goes to 9 pm. Address and direction below.
Bass Pro Shops, Exit 128
GULF COAST TOWN CENTER
2nd floor - Conference Room
10040 Gulf Center Drive
Ft Myers, FL 33913
239-461-7800
- I-75 to Exit 128 (Alico Road)
- Go east on Alico a half mile, then right into Gulf Coast Town Center, and right again.
- From the large parking lot look for a building with a large sign "Outdoor World", and smaller sign
- "Bass Pro Shops" above it.
- Walk through the store (it's huge) all the way to the back where the elevators are located.
- Go to the second floor and turn right off the elevator.
- Walk through the forest of camouflage clothing to the far right wall.
- Ask any clerk for the conference room.
- There are many restaurants in the Gulf Coast Town Center including the Islamorada Fish.
- Company Restaurant accessible from inside the Bass Pro Shop, with a charming atmosphere with walls of fish tanks.
For calendar of events see NEWSLETTER page at the top.
2012 State Convention
Here is some NEW information regarding the 2012 state convention which is scheduled for June 28 to July 1
A YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8DDhOxae8
1/4/12 Membership Meeting - Debra Ray, Insurance Billing
12/6/11 Holiday event for all members at the Islamorada Restaurant, Ft. Myers
11/1/11 Membership Meeting - Wolfgang Luckmann, Treating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
10/20/11 Board Meeting
10/3/11 Membership Meeting - Patricia Donohue, Introduction to Bindegewebsmassage
9/15/11 Board Meeting
9/6/11 Membership Meeting, Carola Koenig, Applied Lymphology, 2 CEU's
8/28/11 Annual Fishing Trip
8/18/11 Board Meeting
8/2/11 Membership Meeting, Jack Ryan Positional Release Therapy
7/21/11 Board Meeting
7/5/11 Karen Ford, Chairman of the Board of Massage, Florida Law, 2 CEU's
6/22-26/11 State Convention - Orland, Fl.
5/3/11 Ben Dillard, Professional Ethics, 2 CEUs
4/5/11 Terry Lowder, HIV/Aids, 1 CEU, and Medical Errors, 2 CEUs
3/1/11 Nathalie Cecelia, Bamboo Fusion, 2 CEUs
2/1/11 Dr. William Doreste, Cranial Release Technique (CRT), 2 CEUs
1/4/11 Cathy Cohen, Touch: its Light and Shadow Side, 2 CEUs
12/6/10 Christmas party - no meeting
11/20/10 Special Meeting at Chiro Convention with BOMT Chair Karen Ford, 2 CEUs
11/15/10 Laurie Messina on Himalayan Salt Stone Massage, 2 CEUs
10/23/10 Massage Therapy Awareness Day at Warm Mineral Springs
09/19/10 Transition Team special training by Ben Dillard & Dolores Gozzi
09/14/10 Elisa DiFalco, Color Therapy, 2 CEUs
08/29/10 Annual Fishing Trip, free to members, no meeting this month.
07/25/10 All-mandatories Day, Silvia Casabianca, 7 CE hours
07/07/10 To 7/11/10 FSMTA annual convention, Omni Orlando Resort
06/14/10 Dolores Gozzi, Samadhi Transformation Meditation, 2 CEUs
05/10/10 Terry Lowder, Fibromayalgia Patholoy and Therapy, 2 CEs
04/12/10 Cindy Black, Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), 2 CEUs
03/15/10 Wolfgang Luckmann - Chinese Craniosacral Polarity, 2 CEUs
02/15/10 Alvina Quatrano - Enneagram - Bass Pro Shops, 2 CEUs
01/18/10 Katie Haley - Aromatherapy - Bass Pro Shops, 2 CEUs
12/10/09 Lynda Solien-Wolfe on Florida Law, 2 CEUs, at the Chiro Convention, Naples 12/05/09 Holiday Party Cruise
11/16/09 Alvina Quatrano - Chakra Tai Chi, FMCC
1 0/19/09 Dan McGovern - Whole Body View ovement), FMCC
10/17/09 Warm Mineral Springs outing, Massage Therapy Appreciation Week
09/21/09 Cathy Cohen, Putting your hands to better use, FMCC, 2 CEUs
08/20/09 Fishing trip
08/17/09 Terry Lowder, Women's Pathology, 2 CEUs
07/20/09 Cindy Black, Anatomy & Physiology, 2 CEUs
07/08/09 FSMTA annual convention, Orlando
06/15/09 Terry Lowder, Ethics, 2 CEUS
05/18/09 Silvia Casabianca, Florida Law, 2 CEUs
04/20/09 Wolfgang Luckmann, Indian Head & Face Massage, 2 CEUs,
03/16/09 Terry Lowder, Medical Errors, 2 CEUs,
02/16/09 Silvia Casabianca, HIV/AIDs, 2 CEUS,
01/19/09 Alice Belusko on Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, 2 CEUs, and Election of Officers
12/06/08 Christmas party at The Edison, Ft. Myers Country Club
11/17/08 Tracey Allen Jones, Neurosomatic Educators at Punta Gorda YMCA, 2 CEs 10/18/08 Warm Mineral Springs Day, celebrating Massage Therapy Awareness Week
09/15/08 William Muhlstadt on Sports Massage, Ft. Myers CC, 2 CE's
08/18/08 Meeting cancelled (Neurosomatic Educators) due to tropical storm Fay.
07/21/08 Eeva Vahler on Slipstream Therapy (rubber cups), Ft. Myers CC, 2 CE's 07/02/08 FSMTA Annual Convention, Boca Raton, 7/2 - 7/6
06/23/08 Mark Bigelow on Disk Problems at Ft. Myers Country Club, 2 CEs
05/26/08 Dolores Gozzi on Aromatherapy. Fort Myers Country Club, 2 CEs
04/28/08 Elisa DiFalco, Manual Lymph Drainage, Easter Seal Community Rehab, 2CEs 03/24/08 Margie Meshew on Swe-Thai massage. Fort Myers Country Club, 2 CEs
02/25/08 No presenter. First meeting at Ft. Myers Country Club.
01/28/28 Alice Belusko on Lomi Lomi at Punta Gorda YMCA, Edison College, 2 CEs
12/01/07 Holiday party at Ft. Myers Country Club.
11/15/07 David Kent at Naples Grande Hotel, Chiropractic Winter Convention, 2 CEs
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Only FSMTA-sponsored events are posted here which take place at chapter meetings. See CE CLASSES to upcoming classes by our sponsors.