The HEARTS Process for pain management and relaxation
About the Course
Learning HEARTS is a wonderful opportunity for nurses, aromatherapists and other health care professionals to learn how to work with people who are in pain as you will learn a multi-sensory approach to the treatment of different kind of pain. Besides pain you will also learn in this two-days live course (and pre-recorded class) how to use this extremely useful therapeutic relaxation approach to unwind, calm and refocus someone dragged in physical, emotional pain, anxiety, stress, or distress.
What is the HEARTS Process?
H.E.A.R.T.S. is an acronym that stands for Hands-on, Empathy, Aroma, Relax, Texture and Sound and it is therapeutically offered as the HEARTS Process drawing on a range of natural skills and different sensorial experiences with the aim to be used in all kinds of clinical settings, hospices and in private practices and home care as well.
The HEARTS Process was created and developed by Ann Carter in the UK (in the 1990´s) and was primarily designed to be used where conventional massage techniques were inappropriate or difficult to perform due the fragility of the patient involved. HEARTS is a recognised complementary therapeutic tool that is being used successfully in different hospitals, clinics, hospices, and others healthcare establishments in different countries.
Within the aroma component of the process, two extra clinical interventions using essential oils on aroma sticks and patches were researched and developed by Jonathan Benavides to be used during a HEARTS session to try to help the patient switch their attention from pain to comfort. “Train to the Light” (aroma and sound) and “Remembering and Honouring you” (aroma and texture) are these two methods that are used for pain management in all kinds of settings within cancer and palliative care.
Course content:
Theoretical approach
. Pain concepts, management, and relief
. Identify scores in pain scales
. Help the client to look realistically to their pain score
. The H.E.A.R.T.S. rationale
. Different touch techniques
. Empathy vs sympathy
. Essential Oils and different sensorial experiences
. How to choose essential oils
. Benavides’s interventions, theory, and case studies
. Designing a personalised aromatic intervention
. Case studies
Methods of use:
. Touch techniques: Library of strokes
. Aromatherapy components
. Working with aroma and sound
. Working with aroma and texture
Protocols and current safety requirements for:
. Different ages and applications at home (parents and caregivers)
. Different ages and applications at hospices, hospitals and private practice (healthcare professionals)
. Safety, precautions, and contraindications
Practical Learning
The class has an important practical element to it as participants will be practicing in class how to perform the HEARTS Process. Student will learn to perform HEARTS sitting, lying down and self-applied.
Who can attend this course?
This course is for any aromatherapist, healthcare professional, healthcare student, parent, caregiver or anyone interested in learning to apply the HEARTS Process technique for pain management and relaxation.
Certification
Each student will receive an official HEARTS Process certificate.
Availability
Due to the practical exercises and practice, there is limited places available.
Dates
To accommodate students from the USA, Canada and Europe, the live classes will take place on:
Saturday, March 15th - 17:00 / 22:00 GMT (Lisbon time)
Sunday, March 16th - 17:00 / 22:00 GMT (Lisbon time)
You can check your local time here:
Classes highlights
Interactive online classes: Learn to use the HEARTS Process for Pain Management and Relaxation.
Comprehensive course notes: Receive the official HEARTS Process manual, and in-depth notes and resources to support your learning and practice beyond the course.
Certificate of completion: Earn a certificate that recognizes your learning.
Your investment:
Price: € 300.- (+/- $ 310) (Payment in one, two or three instalments)
Payment by bank transfer or credit card.
Modality:
Twelve and a half hours comprising a pre-recorded lesson (2.5 hours) and two live sessions, 5 hours each.
After the live sessions, you will still have the possibility to ask questions by email.
After registering, you will receive a
A link to a pre-recorded lesson (2.5 hours long)
A PDF with the lesson’s slides
A PDF with comprehensive notes and the official HEARTS manual
References
A link to the Zoom classes, Saturday, March 15th and Sunday, March 16th.
You will be able to watch the pre-recorded lesson and the two recorded live sessions for 6 months.
Enroll today in The HEARTS Process for Pain Management and Relaxation.
For more information, write to us:
Info@essentianobilis.com
About the Facilitator
This course is given by Jonathan Benavides
Before becoming a clinical aromatherapist Jonathan studied psychology and specialized in autism and communication disorders. Jonathan has always been involved in training, research and developing different therapeutic approaches for complimentary and Integrative care. He got first in touch with aromatherapy when working with sensorial therapies for autistic children in the Netherlands. He has participated in several seminars, conferences and congresses in aromatherapy, complementary therapies, psychology, and music therapy.
Jonathan is also:
HEARTS (UK) Teacher (trained and certified by Ann Carter), Aromatic Sentinel Creator (NL), Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho Master, Anointer, Coach, Counsellor, Trainer, Lecturer, International Speaker, Author and Airmid Institute Ambassador and NAHA Regional Director to the Netherlands.
Since 2009 he has been working within the Palliative Home Care system in the Netherlands with the very sick and the dying. During this whole professional life, he has developed, used, trained, and lectured nationally and internationally different therapeutical interventions (conventional and non-conventional) such as:
“Into the tunnel” for autistic children (1987)
“Bio-gymnastics, integrating the emotions in your body (1989)
“Ahava, the Reiki of Love”, a new Reiki approach (2001)
“Anointing, a spiritual seance”, an energetic chakra harmonisation (2008)
“Into the Light”, psychological approach for the sick and dying (2011)
“Integrative Reiki, Reiki Usui together with essential oils, electromagnetic frequencies and roses energy” (2013)
“Reinforcing your T-cells”, a holistic immunological approach” (2015)
“Let be free again”, a trauma release aromatic approach (2017)
“Train to the Light” aroma and sound for HEARTS (UK) (2018)
“Remembering and Honouring you”, aroma and texture for HEARTS (UK) (2018)
“Adjusting, a multisensory self-compassionate approach for cancer related distress” (2019)
“Decompression, an anxiety relief technique for pandemic times” (2021)
Jonathan has written and published several articles in professional journals.
In 2023, Jonathan published his first book: “Rest on me, breathe – Emotional palliative care” (ISBN: 978-989-33-4619-8)