The Massage in Schools Association is a not-for-profit organisation, bringing together and supporting Massage in Schools (MISP) Trainers, Instructors and branches from over 30 countries worldwide.
The mission of the Massage in Schools Programme is to provide high quality and professional training to all teachers and caring adults willing to bring nurturing touch into all children’s daily life.
The vision of the Massage in Schools Programme is that every child attending school experience positive and nurturing touch every day… everywhere in the world.
The Massage in Schools Programme (MISP) is a peer massage programme for children aged between 4-12 (with adaptations for 2-3-year olds) that’s helping people all over the world. MISP is not intended as a therapy, rather it aims to promote the well-being of children in the knowledge that nurturing touch is a basic need and a powerful tool to help children develop into healthy, well-balanced human beings. It has been developed as an inclusive whole school strategy for reducing children’s stress levels, aggression and bullying, and is also implemented in other childcare settings such as nurseries, after school clubs, community groups and families.
Paired children learning the MISP massage routine, through the clothes, on the back, arms, shoulders and head
It has been unequivocally proven through research studies that regular nurturing touch is a developmental need in children. In targeting this need, proven effects of the Massage in Schools Programme include:
