Keynotes
Five dynamic and inspirational keynote speakers will offer insights and practical applications during the 2010 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference. Keynote speakers and breakout sessions will increase your knowledge, provide a basis for sharing conversation and networking, and give you new ideas to enhance your studies and practice of Healing Touch and energy medicine.
Celebrating! Healing With Joy
Cyndi Dale, Author, Energy Healer, Workshop Leader
Joy is the most powerful healing tool on this planet. The wise have known this for ages, calling forth the celebratory energy of joy to produce concrete transformation. Science is now proving that joy as an energy, idea, and emotion can heal, especially when encouraged through the heart. Let’s journey through the history and science of joy—and then “join” in “enjoyment,” using techniques leading to treasures for self and others.
Cyndi Dale is the author of more than nine books on energy medicine and healing, including The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy and The Complete Book of Chakra Healing. During her 25 years of private practice, she has assisted over 30,000 individuals with accessing the true healing powers of love, wisdom, and spirituality. Most important, she believes, is her work in helping others awaken their inner gifts so they might better express them in the world. Cyndi travels extensively to ports around the world, leading workshops and constantly seeking new learning, but credits most of her practical knowledge to her two sons, five animals, and foster daughter.
Cyndi will also offer a breakout session on Friday afternoon titled . This has been scheduled so all conference participants can attend. See the Breakout Sessions for details.
Being the Sleuth: Detecting Culprits in Energy Disturbances
Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, RN, PhD, HCTP/I
Carol Komitor, CMT, HTCP/I, CHBMT, HTACP, ESMT
This presentation helps the energy medicine practitioner to determine the causation of the body’s energy disturbance through logical understanding and problem solving. The detective approach to finding the culprit energy disturbance will allow the practitioner to facilitate healing from the root of the problem. Sharon and Carol demonstrate this in-depth process of “detective work” through an easily understood and direct manner. The practitioner becomes the “stealth” and healing takes place from the inside—out.
Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon is a "young" elder who teaches 1-5 levels of Healing Touch and is training for Level 1 of Healing Touch for Animals. She chairs the Healing Touch Program Certification Board and is a director on the Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation board. Sharon runs a NARHA equestrian center on her farm in Iowa. She has authored the Energetic Counseling course and Energetic Patterns. Currently Sharon lives in mecca with skiing and a five star hotel within ten miles of her farm.
As a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner/Instructor, Certified Massage Therapist, Certified Hospital Based Massage Therapist and Equine Sports Massage Therapist, Carol Komitor has taken her thirteen-year background as a veterinary technician and deep love for animals to develop energy-medicine techniques for animals. The teaching that offers a cooperative model that bridges holistic animal healthcare with traditional veterinary medicine.
The Transformational Power of Intention, Touch and Earthly “Medicines”
Linda Smith, RN, MS, HN-BC, HTCP, HTSM-CP/I, CCA
How do you bring new life into your healing work with others? Through the power of transformation—yours and that of your clients. This presentation will take a new look at the power of word and intention (prayer) and examine how our touch conveys love, compassion, understanding and a myriad of other “vibrational” frequencies. Then we will explore how the vibrations of “Medicines of the Earth” in the form of living organic substances (essential oils) can help transform body/mind/spirit and bring joy to your healing work.
Linda L. Smith is the founder of the Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy. After a successful career in traditional nursing settings, she has devoted the last twenty years to complementary forms of healing including holistic nursing, Healing Touch, Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry and aromatherapy. As a healer and educator, she is passionate that her students learn to integrate more than one form of energy healing. She is the author of several books on healing and on aromatherapy and travels and teaches throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Europe.
Sacred Geometry and Symbology in Healing Touch
Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I
Much to the surprise of many practitioners, sacred symbology and geometry are present in the teachings and practices of Healing Touch. Cynthia will present selected aspects of sacred geometry and symbology and show how they are evident in HT and how being consciously aware of this can deepen the energetic practice of healing. In addition to lecture and visual presentation, participants will share in experiential teachings using paper and pencil as well the practice of eurythmy, an expressive human movement art form brought by Rudolph Steiner in the early 1900s.
Cynthia Hutchison is the Director of the Healing Touch Program™. In the early 1980s, she began studying holistic healing, natural healing and energy therapies. She is an avid student of spirituality and energy medicine. A doctorally-prepared nurse from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (1987), Cynthia is also knowledgeable in the mainstream health sciences. Cynthia earned a master's degree as a clinical specialist in mental health nursing, and has maintained a private practice in Healing Touch for many years. In 1995, Cynthia initiated the research program for Healing Touch and became the first Director of Research, a position she maintained until 2000. She was invited by Janet Mentgen (founder of HT) in 2003 to serve as the Assistant Program Director. Cynthia became the Program Director in May of 2005 (several months before Janet's death), and was asked by Janet to carry on her legacy of the Healing Touch Program. Teaching internationally and nationally all levels of HTP curriculum, she brings much enthusiasm, empowerment and creativity to her classes. A mother of three awesome daughters in college, Cynthia has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1993.
The (other) Joy of Healing: Dancing at the Edge of Evolutionary Transformation
Janet Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN, PhD
While participating in the healing of others through our work is a source of great joy, it is not the only joy of healing. The purpose of this keynote speech is to energize and inspire Healing Touch practitioners to continue the journey of the heart for the joy of and in service to the unfolding mystery of evolutionary transformation and ever increasing universal wholeness.
Janet is an interspiritual spiritual guide in private practice; former Spiritual Director in Residence of the Claritas Institute Interspiritual Mentor Training Program, a retreat/workshop facilitator; a professor of nursing; an international speaker and consultant in Healing, Caring, Spirituality and Healing and Integrative Medicine/Nursing; and the owner, artist, and everything person for Wisdom Stones, which manufactures/distributes her “touchstones to what matters most.” She is one of the earliest pioneers in Therapeutic Touch practice and research and has taught both all over the world. Janet is a long-time practitioner/student of the Christian Contemplative Tradition, a practicing Sufi in two lineages and a student of the Perennial Wisdom. She is the author of a book of affirmations and meditations for women entitled I Am A Woman Finding My Voice.