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 Energy Medicine Practice™ Attracting Wealth in Your Practice Step 2: Cleaning Up Messes by Julie M. Wright, Financial Planner, Profit Coach, Executive Financial Architects

Samantha is a smart, dynamic, heartfelt healer. As part owner of a holistic health business, she got the courage to call after a particularly bad few months. “Julie, I hear that you help business owners like those of us who are stuck.” “Tell me about yourself and how I can help you,” I asked. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program September/October Issue. Disease and Healing: Where’s My Magic Bullet? by Bonnie Thompson, HTCP, EFT-ADV Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program July Issue.  Greetings from Lisa Mentgen-Gordon
July 2010 Greetings from Lisa Mentgen-Gordon CEO, Healing Touch Program

 I’m excited to have the opportunity to write the welcoming letter for the July Energy Magazine issue. Cynthia Hutchison, Healing Touch Pro­gram Director, has had this privilege for our first 45 issues! Cynthia and I are now going to share this opportunity to welcome our 14,000 plus readers. While as CEO of Healing Touch Pro­gram, I have daily interaction and visibility with instructors, practitioners, and coordinators in the business activities of Healing Touch, I haven’t had the same opportunity to reach out to every­one in our worldwide community. 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.   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 »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program April issue.  Biggest Secret For Marketing Your Energy Therapy Practice by Greg Pitstick 

 Biggest Secret For Marketing Your Energy Therapy Practice

Would you like to have a successful energy therapy practice? A fulfilling practice that en­ables you to help other people while meeting your financial needs?

You can do it, but it may require you to think a little differently than you have been thinking in the past. My name is Greg Pitstick, and I have been helping businesses make more money for over 20 years. My clients have included really big compa­nies like Proctor & Gamble and professionals like Healing Touch practitioners. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program April issue. Creating a Healing Practice By Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN, HNC, HTCP/I, Founder of Healing Touch

Creating a Healing Practice

There are many things to consider when creating a healing practice. The practice needs to fit with your personality, your lifestyle, your values. Rushing into a practice is often costly and unsuccessful. Spend the necessary time imaging how your practice is to look. Work your plan on paper many times before making any financial investment. Set your goals and plans with an orientation to the future. Think about the practice in terms of the first year and years to come. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program April issue. Healing Touch Program: Changes Build the Specialty of Energy Medicine by Janna Moll, HTCP/I, MSN, QM 

Healing Touch Program: Changes Build the Specialty of Energy Medicine

What an amazing time to be living! Healing Touch Program has come through some of the toughest years since Janet Mentgen took the risk to establish our discipline in the 1980’s. Back then, for many of you, things were far from easy – having to deal with skeptics, culture shock and conservatism in relation­ship to our energy work callings. We did not seem to really fit anywhere. However, as hands-on healers, we belong aligned with health care. Not just anyone can break into that field – especially from the outside. With great wisdom, intuition and safety in numbers, Janet aligned Healing Touch with nursing. We are proud of this and highly value our health care connections. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program April issue.  Cultivating the Yang of Your Business Mind by Lauri Pointer, BA, HTCP/I

 Cultivating the Yang of Your Business Mind

Many of us who are drawn to the profession of Healing Touch have well developed right brains (our yin side) – we are creative, playful, spiritual, intui­tive. These qualities allow us to be very effective at administering a Healing Touch treatment. But it takes more than a right brain approach to manifest a thriving Healing Touch practice. There is a business structure and a plan behind every practice that sur­vives and thrives. Often this requires a practitioner to cultivate growth and development of the left brain (our Yang side) – that aspect of our self that under­stands the business structure and financial aspects of business. Read the rest of this entry »