I am going to write to the Administrator in the local Health Centre. Any advice how to word the letter. Basically I want to enquire if there is any scope of assisting any patients with pain or suffering with stress who may benefit from a calming therapy.

Help!

brightspark wrote:

I am going to write to the Administrator in the local Health Centre. Any advice how to word the letter. Basically I want to enquire if there is any scope of assisting any patients with pain or suffering with stress who may benefit from a calming therapy.

Help!

Be ready to produce your Reiki certification
a brochure if you have one or a flyer. You
want to talk about Reiki from your point of
view as you understand/experience Reiki.
Noting to yourself........that your not a
medical practitioner and you do not diagnose
medical conditions. Check out Reiki websites
and note the similarities as you read their
views on Reiki. It is more than a calming
therapy.

It is very rewarding to work in such facilities

brightspark wrote:

I am going to write to the Administrator in the local Health Centre. Any advice how to word the letter.
Help!

hi Brightspark

thats a passionate gesture and i admire you as you think for that step. Depending upon location and culture, the Health Professional react to reiki in ways that might be quite unpredictable...

some of them have a know how of reiki as an alternate therapy and if they know more, they start taking reiki as a comptetive threat to their own practice.... others, who dont have this back of mind, may approach reiki as a spiritual/faith healing and link it to a belief system (which is their shallow knowledge of facts only)...


i mean, you need to project/introduce reiki in a highly objective way to appeal to their intellect... a good practice is to quote references from websites of national authority of your country that deals with registration/recognition/accredition of reiki as a complimentary / alternative therapy... if there is a silence in this respect, you can find quotes from comparative authorities/their websites of countries like UK, US, etc.

the second question/imediment you might face is that they would question your credentials, and ask for your certification/licensing credentials...

thirdly, some systems of alternative medicine/therapies, for example, shaitsu, reflexology, etc. equip their practitioners with basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.. and this they would expect in a reiki practitioner too... so a basic knowledge of the working of human body may help making a point during discussions even despite that this is not at all required technically in reiki...


'selling' reiki commercially by creating a nich market, is a highly specialized art, and we see that Takata Sensei was so gifted in this aspect too


i wish you all the best... please keep us posted too.


take care



salman

Thank you for all your help. I had been teaching all day then designing leaflets and gift vouchers and I was very tired when I asked for advice. Next morning I went into the Health Centre found out the name of the administrator and wrote introducing myself, put a leaflet in explaining about reiki, following some of the suggestions given and posted my letter. Will let you all know what kind of reply I get.

brightspark1 wrote: Thank you for all your help. I had been teaching all day then designing leaflets and gift vouchers and I was very tired when I asked for advice. Next morning I went into the Health Centre found out the name of the administrator and wrote introducing myself, put a leaflet in explaining about reiki, following some of the suggestions given and posted my letter. Will let you all know what kind of reply I get.

Great start, also don't forget to
do a waiver so your clients and
volunteer clients sign it, as
part of your record keeping.

To date I have not had a reply from the Administrator. Tomorrow I am going to phone her.

brightspark1 wrote: To date I have not had a reply from the Administrator. Tomorrow I am going to phone her.

Maybe a personal visit would help.

I have learned it's best to approach
a liasion over an administrator.