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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.

Healing Touch Program welcomes you to an on-line Introduction to Healing Touch.

The video below is 27 minutes long. We recommend watching the video with a friend and sharing the techniques offered with each other. Watch the technique portion first, then pause the video and work on each other following the directions. Whether you watch with a friend or by yourself, you will come away with a greater understanding of energy medicine, Healing Touch, and practical applications you can use for your self care or with others.

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.

Level 3 teaches the "art" of being a healer. It's one thing to know how to paint and quite another to be a painter. Level 3 will transform your practice from one of techniques to a canvas of healing energy that will heighten the color palette of your energetic senses, expand your experience of life around you and create a deepened sense of sacred space and well-being for those who reach out to you for Healing Touch work.

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 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 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
Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA.

Prerequisite: Completion of Healing Touch Level 4 or above

Tuition: $120.00 Regular Tuition; $95.00 HTPA/AHNA Members

Simple Sound and Breath Tools to Use for Yourself and With Your Clients
Experiential* Tele-Seminar

Presenter: Arden Wilken, with over 30 years experience in sound therapy, sound healing and therapeutic music

The Power of Your Awareness Webinar

Instructor: David J. Fiala, MSSA, LISW

Go beyond Mindfulness - to The Power of Your Awareness. This is a holistic approach to life that integrates the mind, body, and spirit in a conceptual and experiential manner to significantly increase your awareness of life. This self-paced online seminar experience takes you through a unique process by teaching you how to be more conscious of what’s transpiring inside of you physically, mentally, and emotionally. Subsequently, you learn and experience the critical importance of implementing, in addition to practicing, various internal skills as a way of life. These practical life skills then give you a foundation to overcome even the most challenging situations.

The HTP Mentor Training Course is a 9-week advanced practice Healing Touch Program course that may be taken by Healing Touch Certified Practitioner (HTCP). 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.

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.