GCT- TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM GUIDELINE

Thai massage has been one of the ancient healing arts of traditional Thai medicine for centuries. This great art was transmitted from teacher to student orally and by practice from the ancient era. In several decades, Thai massage gains more interest from the general public and then from foreigners. The Thai education and public health sectors share the concern on safety and image of Thai massage, thus impose the requirement on massage and service providers to be licensed in order to provide massage services to the public.

The need of qualified Thai massage teachers is the important resource to support the goal of proper training for the providers. To become a teacher one must be able to perform the task perfectly. Thus GCT program is the double benefit for the learners who seek to learn the skill, perfect it and able to share with the world either by offering the service or by teaching the art.

Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai (TMC) and Thai Massage School Thailand are proud to present the first ever in the world The Government Certified Thai Massage Professional and Teacher Training International Curriculum (GCT). GCT: The most comprehensive Thai Massage international curriculum is now available at TMC Thailand.

GCT program two main objectives are:

• to provide students with necessity and essential knowledge to be able to perform competent - good Thai massage
  
  
• to be able to teach Foundation of Thai Massage (Level I) to community students.

GCT program designs for both students with no experience in massage or with previous experience in Thai massage or other type of massage. However, GCT program is for sincere learners who seek the ancient knowledge. The program is intensive. Maximum compliance to the curriculum is required in order to achieve the program objective and to graduate.