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

 Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program December/January Issue. Healing Touch Professional Association Celebrates Another Great Year!  By Sharon Robbins, HTPA Executive Director

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program December/January Issue  Composing Joy by Sarah Moor, HTCP brought us all together and instilled a sense of peace in each of us an 

are words I always associate with this time of year. Singing those words in community as a little girl, I re-member feeling swept away in rapture. I not only felt joy, I WAS joy. The feeling was palpable yet difficult to put into words. It could be sensed though in familiar faces, gleaming eyes, loving embraces, voices joined in celebration and the warmth of the candlelight as the organist carried the melody that sent our message out to the world. From a different vantage point now, I simply call that very palpable experience – Heart. Indeed that is where I felt it – right smack in the center of my chest. I believe Heart and the arms of Heart were present – love, care, compassion and gratitude – to name a few. Heart is what d hope for greater harmony among all. In those joy-filled moments we became stewards of Heart and felt Heart longing to live in and through us each day, in each interaction, in each project. No wonder we were filled with wonder and awe as that is the power inherent in the heart – my heart, your heart – in each and every beat. That magnificent organ that is so much more than a rhythmic pump for each beat carries an encoded message. We are the composers who determine just what that message Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program September/October Issue.  Accreditation Fact Sheet by Energy Medicine Specialists Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program September/October Issue.  Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison Healing Touch Program Director Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue.   We Made Conference  by Margaret Nies, photo by Cathy Anderson August 2010 Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program June  2010 Issue.  Book Review:  Healing Touch Guidebook  Practicing the Art and Science of Human Caring; by Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN, D.CEP

by Dr. Robert S. Ivker, DO, ABIHM, FAAFP, HTCP Read the rest of this entry »

 Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program May Issue.  The ‘Clown’ Chakra by Sharona Ben-Sorek, RPT, HTP

The enthusiastic new Level 4 apprentice stopped me in the cafeteria before break­fast on the last day of class.  “Where is the ‘Clown’ chakra?,” she asked. “Some people said that you mea­sure it here [she had her hand on her head], and others said that it was here [other hand near her clavicles] at the high heart. Where is it exactly?” “Well, it’s here at your upper arm – be­cause that’s the humerus,” I replied. I didn’t understand at first that she was serious. She also didn’t get the joke.  The “clown” chakra had been mentioned in her class the previ­ous evening. Once I understood that she truly was having a hard time understanding, I tried to explain in more detail. Read the rest of this entry »

 Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program May Issue.  Just Do the Work and see What Else is Possible by Cindy Palajac, Hon. B.A., Dip. Adult Ed., HTCP/I

Yesterday was my day off and the farthest thing from my mind was “doing the work of Healing Touch.” I enjoyed a lovely hand reflexology treat­ment, went to the chiropractor with my daughter, had lunch and went to yoga with a girlfriend. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program May Issue.   Learning to Listen by Deborah Schlag, HTP

I like to be creative, combining several things for a fabulous outcome. Get the most “bang for the buck” so to speak. While working on my own healing and spiritual path I created the Bless­ing of the Quilts. To clear my clutter and open space for new growth, I decided to recycle the scraps that were left from my previous sewing business. I had half a brain’s worth of clutter. I mean good fabric waiting to be something won­derful for someone else. When I had my busi­ness, the scraps (some more than six yards long) were eventually used in some way. At that time it was not a scrap pile, it was my personal stash – a collectors dream. Now it was tak­ing up space – not only in my house, but in my life. There was so much time involved in deal­ing with it while packing and unpacking when I moved. (I had already made two moves with it and knew I would be moving again the follow­ing year.) This fabric was also good fabric, too good to just throw out. I had previously offered all of it to several sewing groups in my town – who turned it down. This is absolutely unheard of in sewing circles – turning down fabric- what were they thinking?! Then, it hit me — ta da! Clear my clutter by making it a blessing for someone else. This fabric needed to be made into quilts for The Denver Children’s Hospital. Read the rest of this entry »