The Healing Touch Program is an international, multi-level educational program in energy based medicine therapy. The Healing Touch Program™ curriculum progresses from beginning to advanced practice. As a professionally accredited program, the curriculum encompasses increasing levels of practice and techniques, standards of care, code of ethics and scope of practice. Healing Touch is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association and the Canadian Holistic Nurses Association (CHNA). Practitioners and Instructors are certified through an independent certification process. When one completes the Healing Touch Program (after Level 5), they may apply for certification. Healing Certified Touch Practitioners are recognized internationally as having achieved a professional level of energetic therapy competence.

Level 1 begins with 16 or more clock hours of instruction that allows persons with varying background to enter, acknowledge their previous learnings, and further develop concepts and skills in energy based therapy. A strong commitment to personal growth and knowledge of holistic health principles are required.

Level 2 consists of 16 or more clock hours of instruction each that allows the participant to gain specific skills necessary for more advanced practice. Emphasis is on deepening skills, developing healing sequences for specific client needs, learning back and neck techniques, and gaining skills in therapeutic interactions.

This class focuses on your development as a healer through self-care and pre-session practices. Utilizing these concepts you will also be introduced to several new techniques that will continue to expand your understanding of the human energy field and how it manifests in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.

Completion, Celebration & Commitment!

Level 5 is a time of completion, celebration and commitment to continued progress and excellence. Assignments which were completed during the apprenticeship period are submitted and evaluated for course completion. This session is designed to acknowledge the student’s work and offer constructive suggestions for continued improvement.

Level 6 is the instructor training for the Certified Healing Touch Practitioner who wishes to become a Healing Touch Certified Instructor Level 1. The emphasis is on group dynamics, setting up programs, principles and methods of teaching and learning. All instructors meet annually to advance skills, network and develop activities pertinent in the work of Healing Touch.

Healing Touch Certification Board administers certification through a separate review using standardized criteria. Certification acknowledges learning experiences and demonstration of competence as a Healing Touch Practitioner. The Certification Board does not license the practice of an individual nor assumes any legal responsibility for her/his practice.

Healing Touch Practitioner Certification

Certification as a Healing Touch Practitioner is open to all students who have satisfactorily completed Levels 1-5 of the Healing Touch Program (HTP) coursework and received a Certificate of Course Completion. Certification is an appropriate goal for all who wish to establish a Healing Touch practice, or incorporate Healing Touch as a focus within an existing practice.

Training to become a Healing Touch Certified Instructor begins with Level 6. For complete information on the Level 6 Class and requirements, click here. For the Level 6 Training Application click here.

Successful completion of Level 6 allows one to apply for certification as a Level 1 Instructor.

All Healing Touch Program Level 5 students must be in an active mentorship process with a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner for at least three months prior to attending Level 5. This Supervised Mentorship experience is discussed thoroughly during the Level 4 class.

All practitioners who have completed Level 5 and received a Certificate of Course Completion may choose to apply for certification. The certification criterea requires one full year of Supervised Mentorship. This period includes the Supervised Mentorship between Levels 4 and 5.

New Policy for Qualified Mentors (March 2010)

HTP proudly announces the new policy to designate Qualified Mentor (QM) status. HTP mentors support Level 4 HT Practitioner Apprentices toward course graduation and international certification status.

This document is divided into four major parts:

A. History of Mentoring in HTP

B. HTP’s New Qualified Mentor Standard

1. Applying for QM Status
2. Grandmothering for QM
3. Practitioner Directory - QM Listing

C. Qualifications and Charging for Mentoring

D. HTP Mentor Training Course

Healing Touch and Principles of Hypnosis is a course of study designed for Healing Touch Practitioners who desire to enhance their skills related to working with altered states of consciousness during Healing Touch sessions. The focus is on "Words That Enhance Healing".

This course is for the beginning and advanced Healing Touch Practitioner who is interested in refining their therapeutic communication skills and in recognizing the energetic patterns of interactions.

My Helpful Healing Touch instructor training was designed and created for those who want to teach Healing Touch to for children, ages 6 to 12. The training tele-seminar is based on the book, My Helpful Healing Touch, a Guide for Empowering Children. The instructors are; Cynthia Hutchison, HTP Program Director and Lynn Placek who are joined by Karen Daughtry and Darlene Nelson, the authors of My Helpful Healing Touch; A Guide for Empowering Children.

When you register, you will receive:

*A link to the two hour recorded tele-seminar
*Links to tools from the back of the MHHT Instructor guide which you can download
*The lyrics for the CD, "Your Invisible Gift" by Steve Skudler.

The following packet will be sent to you:

* The book, My Helpful Healing Touch, a Guide for Empowering Children
* The My Helpful Healing Touch Instructor Guide
* Your Invisible Gift – a CD of delightful songs about energy and healing that correspond to    the sections of the book; written and produced by Steve Skudler

Continuing Education Contact Hours: 2
Prerequisite: Completion of Healing Touch Level 4 or above
Tuition: $120.00 Regular Tuition $95.00 HTPA/AHNA Members

Healing Touch Program Announces our First Cruise Class

Take a Healing Touch Level 4 or 5 class
on a 5 day Cruise From San Diego, CA to Baja Mexico

Instructor: Cherry-Lee Ward, B.S.B.A., M.Ed., HTCP

Join this simple yet profound seven week journey through the chakras. We will delve into one chakra per week - cleansing, clearing and honoring from the Root Chakra on up. In class we will meditate, learn about the function and dysfunction of each chakra and bring healing to it. You’ll gain an experiential understanding of each chakra and learn ways to further heal it and enhance it’s function. Going through the chakras intensively like this brings an opportunity for big shifts over the seven weeks of class. The short classes seem to energetically fill the time between them - informing your personal experiences and your work with clients.

Become a Qualified Mentor! The HTP Mentorship Training Course is a 9-week advanced practice Healing Touch Program course that enables any Healing Touch Certified Practitioner (HTCP) to become a “Qualified Mentor”. This course prepares HTCPs to mentor students of HTP through Healing Touch Level 5 graduation/completion and application for HTP Certification. Topics include: Utilizing the Mentor’s Tools, Conflict Resolution, Criteria 1-8 requirements for both Level 5 completion and Certification, essential elements of a case study, safe practice, transference and counter-transference, ethics and professionalism, mentor responsibilities, and more.