July 31st - August 2nd, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Post Conference Dates
August 3rd - 4th

Breakout Sessions

Wading in the Water:
Considerations before you commit to a Parish Healing Ministry

Dianne Del Giorno MALS, HTSMP, graduate work in English Education
The Rev. Joanie Delamater, MA, MDiv, HTSMP
Sherri Afryl, BS in Elementary Education, graduate work in Early Childhood Education, HTSMP
Cathryn Bashore, MA, LICSW, HTSMP

August 1st 2:00p.m. - 3:15

A successful parish-based Healing Ministry depends upon the readiness of the parish/church, prayerful planning, education (of the congregation and the ministry team), training, and nurturing. Come join the Healing Team from St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church in White Bear Lake, MN, to explore how a ministry can be established. If you feel called to build a parish-based healing ministry, their key questions, considerations, and “first steps” suggestions may boost your dreams and hopes.

A former teacher educator, Dianne Del Giorno has taught for the past eight years at Century Community College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, just north and east of St. Paul. In addition to
her work in innovative instructional techniques for developmental learners, Dianne is part of the Reflection and Renewal Team at the college, offering retreats throughout the academic year for faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Dianne is the leader of the Healing Team at St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and she was instrumental in the development of the ministry. She has written training materials for lay healers and works closely with the parish rector and clergy in sustaining and growing the Healing Ministry at St. John’s.

Rev. Joanie Delamateris an Associate Priest at St. John in the Wilderness and a healing touch practitioner. In addition to worship, education, and pastoral care, Joanie also directs the parish’s involvement in Kids Hope, a national outreach mentoring program for at-risk elementary children. Beyond her parish work, Joanie is a Diocesan Discernment trainer, a BeFriender coordinator/ trainer, and Resource Center for Churches board member. Since 1981, as both a lay person and clergy, she has been active in the Minnesota Cursillo community. In 2004, Joanie was charged with developing both a BeFriender Ministry and a Healing Team at St. John’s. The parish now has over 20 BeFrienders and a joint clergy-lay healing team, in which five clergy and six lay ministers share in the Laying-on of Hands and Anointing at Sunday and mid-week services.

Sherri Afryl is a former elementary and preschool teacher who has taught in several states and established private kindergarten programs and designed curriculum in two of them. She and Dianne Del Giorno were the lay leaders of their church, during a time of transition from part-time interim clergy to hiring and integrating a new rector. These experiences gave her a framework for new beginnings. She is currently part of her church Healing Team as well as several other ministries. Sherri has been married for almost forty years, has two grown children and cares for her blind seventeen-year-old dachshund. She is a crossword puzzle and Sudoku devotee. Some of her other hobbies include archaeology, writing, yoga, book club, gardening, refinishing furniture, and volunteering at Radio Talking Book.

Cathryn Bashore has been involved in the healing ministry at St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church and, along with other healing team members, offers Healing Touch as a part of this ministry. In the development of the two-part healing program at St. John’s, she established and first led the BeFriender ministry. She is a trained psychotherapist, a watercolor artist and musician who lives in
a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. Cathryn enjoys winter, camping, reading and spending time with her adult daughters.

 

Money Vibrations:
The Sense and Non-Sense of Money

Julie Wright CCA, Medical Intuitive, Spiritual Healing Touch Practitioner, CHC, CEBS, CFP

August 1st 2:00p.m. - 3:15
August 1st 3:45p.m. - 5:00

Are you working too long of hours and are feeling underpaid? Learn how to Get Your Business Ready & Profit Now before the coming Wellness Revolution. How do you retool and upgrade your beliefs and business to take advantage of the greatest opportunity and challenges facing the US population? By using vibrational and energy methods to develop the right Mindset for Success, and then developing the strategies, tactics and innovations to Attract More Clients that result in a business that is flourishing. Presented by one of few top business & financial coaches in the world who is also trained in energy medicine. Avoid the top 5 mistakes professionals make when entering the business world.

Julie Wright is owner of Executive Financial Architects, an independent coaching & financial services firm with locations in Clear Lake, Iowa. A graduate of Iowa State University with a B. S. Degree in Business Administration—Marketing, Wright is a speaker for seminars and workshops throughout the US on various financial topics. She is also owner of Essential HealthWorks, an energy medicine practice.

 

Establishing A Complementary Therapy Service in a Healthcare System

Pamela Larsen Schroeder MSN, RN,C, CHPN

August 1st 2:00p.m. - 3:15
August 1st 3:45p.m. - 5:00

Creating a successful complementary therapy service within an integrated healthcare system requires more than just the enthusiasm of a single practitioner. Congruence with the institution’s mission, vision, strategic initiatives, and priorities are foundational. A multidisciplinary approach, working through existing channels, is invaluable. Necessary groundwork will likely include: policy development, feasibility studies, a pilot program, training and supervision of providers, marketing, and customer service. Participants will have opportunity for dialogue and sharing related experiences.

Pamela Larsen Schroeder, MSN, RN,C, CHPN is a certified pain management and palliative care nurse. She is a credentialed educator for hospice and palliative nursing, as well as, parish nursing. Pam is a Spiritual Ministry Healing Touch Practitioner and a certified Circle of Life® health and wellness coach. She has completed coursework in clinical aromatherapy. Pam utilizes these and other holistic modalities in her private practice, teaching, and consultation offered through Healing Support Services, LLC.
 
Pam created and implemented a successful complementary therapy service for a regional, faith-based healthcare system. This solid foundation paved the way for growth and expansion of services and has been well received by patients, families, staff, and the community.

Institutional Healing:
The Public Policy Implications of Hands On Healing

Ida Stewart MA in Public Policy, JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence)

August 1st 2:00p.m. - 3:15

Our institutions need healing and that healing needs to come from the heart.  We can be part of the process if we are able to orient ourselves within our respective institutions; recognize regressive and progressive attitudes, policies, and laws; and effectively advocate for change by “being the change” and by speaking out in appropriate ways.

Ida Gwendora Stewart is a lawyer, public policy analyst, and healer. While homeschooling her three children, Ms. Stewart became a Reiki Master and licensed massage therapist, gained certification in the Roger Woolger method of Past Life Regression and acquired training in Life Between Lives work. She continued to practice law in her spare time and recently, she and her litigator husband opened a law firm in The Woodlands, Texas. Ms. Stewart, a long-time meditator and spiritual warrior, finds that she benefits greatly from weaving healing work into her daily life as a lawyer, mother, wife, and healing practitioner. Ms. Stewart is a three-time graduate of the University of Texas at Austin: BA with honors is research & writing (Plan I), MA in Public Policy from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Policy, JD from Townes Hall School of Law. 

Coming to the Heart through Sound

Arden Wilken

August 1st 2:00p.m. - 3:15
August 1st 3:45p.m. - 5:00

This presentation is focused at the conscious use of sound to create unity with self and the group. To set the stage for the final 45 minutes of ‘singing as one heart’ accompanied by tuning forks and the sounds of Tibetan bowls, Arden will explain briefly how sound works in the body to unblock tension and old traumas stored in the connective tissue and in the aura and chakras  to align and balance. She will also demonstrate how to produce a resonant sound in the correct posture to tune the body and energy system with the voice. All participants at all levels from all 3 organizations can enhance and intensify their connection within and without.

Arden Wilken is a co-founder of INNER SOUND (1978), an original system of sound therapy and therapeutic music for the expression and integration of the emotions. She has a discography of 25 music CDs, each having a specific theme or focus, in order to help the individual achieve their healing goals through unblocking the connective tissue.

Based on the composition of over 10,000 Personal Music compositions she has developed over 50 musical motifs, each creating a specific effect in the body. These form the harmonic base of INNER SOUND. Arden and her husband Jack have founded schools of sound therapy in the USA, Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands.

Using Hearts and Hands to Heal the “Little Ones”

Wendy Grace Rolf RN, MSN, HTCP/I, AHN- BC
Monica Meier, RN, HTCP, CCA, IBCLC

August 1st 3:45p.m. - 5:00

In this workshop the participant will acquire knowledge of recent research from a retrospective data base review from a major pediatric institution. They will also be instructed in and practice techniques useful in the pediatric peri-operative area. They will be taught new Healing Touch techniques that have been found to be useful with post-operative patients to help with pain, comfort and ease of “wake-up” from anesthesia.

Wendy Rolf, RN, MSN, HTCP/I is a certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor and a board certified advanced holistic health nurse working at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She has over 30 years of experience working with families and children of all ages. She works with children, parents, and staff providing healing touch and holistic care. She has experience teaching internationally, nationally and continues to teach healing touch and holistic health care to medical students and nursing students within her community. 

 


Monica Meier, RN, HTCP, CCA, IBCLC is a Healing Touch Practitioner who is working in the peri-operative area, working with children of all ages, parents and staff. Staff reports they would like to energetically clone her.

 

 

 

“Networking, Networking, Networking”

Dave Barnett BSEE, MSEE, BA Psychology, MS Computer Science, PE, HTCP
Krista Hall, RN HTCP/I

August 1st 3:45p.m. - 5:00

This breakout session will address many different “Networking” issues. We will discuss why networking is so important and beneficial and offer tips & suggestions on how HT practitioners can network together, in and with their community; create support groups; student support, etc. This will be an opportunity to share ideas and learn from others in the group. There will also be handouts available to help you put networking ideas into action when you return home.

Dave Barnett is an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist and still enjoys the surprise on people’s faces in Healing Touch classes. He lives with his wife, Cindy, in Littleton, CO, where they enjoy being first-time grandparents. He has been involved with alternative healing since the early

1980’s (Therapeutic Touch) and has worked in many modalities. Most recently, Dave has become a Psych-K practitioner and finds that this is very complementary to Healing Touch. Dave works with clients in both the Denver and Ft. Collins areas. He networks with several groups and is working on developing a free clinic within a local psychiatric nursing home. His expertise includes ongoing work in being a medical intuitive and extensive experience in distance healing using all modalities.

Dave continues with his work in aerospace consulting for the US Air Force and his previous employer, Lockheed Martin and he is also an adjunct professor in engineering and computer science at a local university. His other interests include creating bronze sculptures, wood turning, woodwork, and scuba diving.

Krista Hall, RN HTCP/I has been in love with Healing Touch for over a decade now and committed to the vision of making Healing Touch a household word, thought and action! Now a Level 1 instructor she has deepened the committment to teach Healing Touch to all who are ready to learn. Come learn how to use networking as a business strategy and tool to increase the number of clients you treat; increase your abundance; educate others and remain heart centered in the process!

 
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