reflexology in the office

[Another Massage Therapist]

I was wondering if anyone corporate reflexology?
as i have been reading up on it, and wondered if anyone has done it and how it went?
and do you have any advise?
thanks

 

[charming]

Hi Froggy

I do a reflexology day twice a month in a corporate body (they're not a company but have 30-40 employees). It's a great gig and I see 10-12 clients a day. The company sets aside a room and I bring everything else.

I start half hourly treatments at 10 and finish at 4.30 and the company looks after assigning who gets to have a treatment. I take a 1/2 hour lunch break but tend to leave it til 1.30 or 2 to give busy staff the chance to utilise their lunch break.

The staff love the treatments and it reflects really well on the management, with lots of positive comments and a great buzz that goes around, particularly at the start as the curiosity factor kicks in.

I got the gig through a recommendation from a client but it has proved great for both me and the company that I'm talking to a few companies near one of the centres I work out of.

It's quite a delicate approach that you need to make and you need to be patient but persistent. Firstly you need to target the right companies ones that have a significant number of employees, are sufficiently profitable interested in staff welfare. The key is to find out who has the power to make the recommendation. I'm based in Melbourne and they have a number of different positions that would have authority for example the HR manager or the Health and safety officer or the Social Affairs officer. My approach was to call to reception with a poster advertising my regular practice and just get chatting with the receptionist and try to get a name, if appropriate. The it's off to the phone and try to get an appointment to see the right person.

there's a high attrition rate because most companies aren't interested, and those that are would prefer massage not reflexology so you need to knock on a lot of doors and make a lot of phone calls. It is worth it though. It's regular income and you can get some nice clients out of it as well as some referrals. It helps you build your profile as well if you work in your local area.

There's some research on the benefit to companies, from Denmark I think, available online that you can use in your presentations.

If anybody else has any other advice, I'd love to hear from them as well.

Best of luck, and keep at it.

 

[Everard J]

Hi there

That's really interesting , last week we had a corporate company come in to our workplace and offer either reflexology, indian head massage or general back massage. They were really good, but they were limited to time on each staff so for example we were only allowed 20 mins on each course. I choose the reflexology one and found it quite interesting and nice. However when i asked about how much they charge for an hour they said it would be £30 but for the 20 mins they would charge £10.00.. which I though was a bit much giving that your not totally benefiting from the short treatment but getting a flavour as it were.. Still i could see the benefit it would have on continual treatments for staff.

 

[Inintaice]

Hi setanta,
Having read your post on your corporate reflexology treaments...
Iwas just wondering how you and the company cope with the clientsafterwards?
Most ofmy reflexologyclients i have worked on are really chilled out and tired afterwards...
Do they really go back and carry on working?

Bye for now

Rachel

 

[Beanboy117]

Hi Rachel

The actual treatment time is quite short, 20-25 minutes so the clients don't get as deeply relaxed. I also keep in mind during the treatment that I want to the client to be energised after. They come out chilled, but usually quite up and there doesn't seem to be a difficulty. I think the fact that they're being treated when they should be working gives a lift too

 

[TK-421]

Thanks for your reply, ive never thought of taking reflexology into the workplace because of those very reasons(too chilled out)
Im glad its working for you..

Good luck

Rachelx

 

[Radha]

Hi everyone

I have just qualified on VTCT Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology and am setting up as a mobile reflexologist. Hoping to tap into the corporate sector and have been reading some research from Denmark. I have at least 3 big companies near where I live where I could hopefully try and do some treatments but need to compile some info and a presentation. Anything that helps to destress and relax people in this world would be beneficial and I would love to be a small part of that movement.

John

 

[Vfdheofmlkexc]

Hi Froggy
I'm about to do something similar but in the University where I work part time. My question is - how do you feel about giving a half hour treatment? I'm wrestling with myself about this as I don't want to compromise my treatment but I feel that as staff will have to have treatments in their own time, they are more likely to be able to work around half an hour rather than a full hour.

Kind regards
Vasari4