2011 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

Healing Touch practitioners know how deeply self care is emphasized throughout the Healing Touch curriculum. Janet Mentgen continuously stressed the importance and value of daily self care.

But alas, knowing and doing are two different things. Those who are called to “do the work” of Healing Touch often need to be reminded to examine their self care practices and make necessary adjustments.

Self care and its relevance on health and wellness is being studied and addressed widely today in relation to overall health and wellbeing, and in relation to specific physical and mental health conditions.

Take time to examine your commitment to self care and consider the many ways that joining your Healing Touch community at this year’s conference can play a significant role in nurturing and caring for your own beautiful self. Coming to the conference will allow you to:

• Renew your commitment to self care Learn new techniques and ways to engage in ongoing self care
• Take time for yourself
• Share with old friends and build new relationships
• Discover different healing modalities
• Take a break from your daily routine and commitments
• Open yourself up to the surprises that will happen
• Laugh with others
• Feel loved, understood and accepted in a community of like-minded energy sensitive beings

If you don’t practice self care – who will?

Healing Touch practitioners know how deeply self care is emphasized throughout the Healing Touch curriculum. Janet Mentgen continuously

stressed the importance and value of daily self care. But alas, knowing and doing are two different things. Those who are called to “do the work”

of Healing Touch often need to be reminded to examine their self care practices and make necessary adjustments.

Regular and consistent self care results in increased emotional and physical health.

“Self-care is practicing prevention and taking personal responsibility for health. It includes a wide range of health-related decision making skills and care

undertaken by individuals on their own behalf . . . A self-care program emphasizes the importance of both prevention and responsibility.”

• Renew your commitment to self care
• Learn new techniques and ways to engage in ongoing self care
• Take time for yourself
• Share with old friends and build new relationships
• Discover different healing modalities
• Take a break from your daily routine and commitments
• Open yourself up to the surprises that will happen
• Laugh with others

Feel loved, understood and accepted in a community of like-minded energy sensitive beings

Support your self care at the conference through:

• Early morning movement activities
• The Natural Bridge Caverns Tour
• Entertainment, music, laughter and sharing meals together
• Use of the treatment room for Healing Touch exchanges
• Using the hotel exercise facility and pool
• Access to the River Walk area (great shopping & dining!)
• Using sound to connect body, heart, mind and soul

Learning simple tools for self healing

Self care is one of the learning tacks of the conference this year.

You will see the red butterfly in the selection of breakout sessions, panel discussions and post-conference workshops.

Self Care Conference Learning Tracks

Keynote

Sound – The Healing Bridge, Arden Wilken

Breakout Sessions

Healing the Healer – Simple Tools for Self Healing, Ann Marie Chiasson Celebrating Healing from Trauma, Abuse and Disasters, Mary Jo Bulbrook Cool Responses to Heated Discussions: Understanding Beliefs and Developing Effective Strategies for Responding to Criticism, Debra Basha, & Joel P. Bowman Self Care 101: Juggling, Barbara Starke

Panel Discussion

Self Care for Practitioner Development

Post Conference Workshops

Traumatic Stress Relief Team: Healing in the Midst of Chaos, Kathy Allan Integrating SoulCollage© into a Healing Touch Practice, Jan Willar, & Patricia Crow Aromatherapy for Symptom Relief, Pamela Larsen Schroeder Utilizing Auricular Acupressure: Integrating 5-point protocol into your HT Self care, Barbara Starke

Read more about each of these offerings on the conference website.

Testimonials from the 2010 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

"This has been a tremendous conference. It has been well organized, fun and filled with good information.

I appreciate the time allowed to visit, shop and do some self-care. The Spirit of Joy permeated the conference each day."

"This conference was very meaningful, reconnecting and boosting for me and many others I talked with."

 Take time to examine your commitment to self care and consider the many ways that joining your Healing Touch community