Keynotes

Five dynamic, knowledgeable and inspirational keynote speakers will offer insights and practical applications during the 2011 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference.

Transitioning from Experimental Data to Clinical Applications in Healing Work
William Bengston, Ph.D.

I have conducted 10 experiments on mice in five separate labs, including two medical schools. These experiments have demonstrated reliable cures on mice infected with cancers that are normally fatal. These cancer cures have been replicated using skeptical volunteers. Clinically, I have also applied the same healing techniques to selected individuals with positive results, and others that have been trained by me have done likewise. In addition I have researched some correlates to healing, including EEGs, fMRIs, and geomagnetic micropulsations.

This talk will summarize some of these data, and will also concern itself with some of the issues involved in transitioning from experimental to clinical work. That is, I will summarize “what I think I know” from the experimental data, and “what I still need to know” to open the door to clinical application. The latter involves questions of dose response and whether healing can indeed be taught. In addition, there are some methodological complications involving the “resonant bonding” of experimental and control group animals resulting in the possibility of type II errors in research that have not been sufficiently addressed.

William F. Bengston is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph's College in New York, and President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, an international group of scientists who investigate anomalies. His areas of specialization include research methods and statistics. For twenty years, Dr. Bengston has been doing research into anomalous healing and has numerous publications in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and Explore. In addition, he has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe. His research has produced the first successful full cures of transplanted mammary cancer and methylcholanthrene induced sarcomas in experimental mice by laying-on-of-hands techniques that he helped to develop. He has also investigated assorted correlates to healing such as geomagnetic micropulsations and EEG harmonics and entrainment.

Wake Up Laughing, Wise Up Loving: Spontaneous Evolution From Ideal to Real Deal
Steve Bhaerman, M.A.

At a time when our world faces multiple crises, here is some good news: We are on the threshold of evolving into a new super-organism called Humanity. Author, humorist and practical philosopher Steve Bhaerman offers an inspiring presentation based on the book Deepak Chopra has called "world-changing": Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here, co-authored with noted cellular biologist Bruce Lipton. Combining Bruce's work as a biological scientist, and Steve's background as a political scientist, this talk is an invitation to participate in the greatest adventure in human history -- conscious evolution!

In addition, Steve will be entertaining us during the banquet as the hilarious, mind opening, thought provoking Swami Beyondananda. To read more about this click here.

Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 23 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the "Cosmic Comic." Swami's comedy has been called "irreverently uplifting" and has been described both as "comedy disguised as wisdom" and "wisdom disguised as comedy." Since 2005, Steve has written a political blog with a spiritual perspective, Notes From the Trail, hailed as an encouraging voice "in the bewilderness." His latest book, written with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House, 2009). Steve is active in transpartisan politics and the practical application of Spontaneous Evolution. He can be found online at www.wakeuplaughing.com.

The Ceremony of Healing
Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, MPH, CCFP

The art of healing includes a component of ceremony and ritual. This aspect of healing has a potent effect and is of primary importance when clients go to see a healer of any type. We will discuss how our clients experience healing as ceremony and how this augments the healing responses for the client. Cultural examples will be explored as well as the components of sacred ceremony we can deepen to augment healing.

Dr. Chiasson will also offer a workshop on Friday afternoon titled, Healing the Healer - Simple Tools for Self Healing. For more information, click here.

Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson,is Canadian Board Certified in Family Practice and pursued a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through Dr. Andrew Weil's Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She holds an MPH in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a MD, from Dalhousie School of Medicine in Nova Scotia, Canada. She completed her residency in Family Medicine in Canada and worked as a primary care physician in Northern Canada for the Central Interior Native Health Service, and in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Chiasson has also trained extensively with Dr. Brugh Joy, and with Mayan shamanic healers and psychic surgeons in the Yucatan peninsula.

Dr. Chiasson is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, and works teaching medical students and residents various aspects of Integrative Medicine. She also has a private integrative and energy medicine practice in Tucson, AZ where she offers consultations, treatments, seminars, and retreats. She has co-authored Self Healing with Energy Medicine (Sounds True, October 2009) and authored Energy Healing for Beginners (Sounds True March 2011,) and Energy Healing: The essentials of self care (Sounds True March 2011.)

Hey Healer ~ Can You Paradigm?
Necessary Mindset Shifts You Need to Make More Money in Your Healing Practice
Marilee Tolen, RN, HN-BC, HTCP/I

This powerful presentation will move the healer from 'scarcity to success' consciousness by using the most integral part of one's beingness - their own Energy System! Learn what blocks you have to receiving the money that you want and need in your Healing Touch practice, how to release those blocks and barriers, and receive the prosperity that is yours. Marilee combines music, movement, process work, and energy exercises to give the participant the most fun and effectiveness in learning to receive abundance!

Marilee Tolen, Board Certified Holistic Nurse and Healer-Preneur, is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Instructor, Clinical Aromatherapist, passionate Dog Mom, and a Marketing Expert. She is a 1996 graduate of the four year Barbara Brennan School of Healing Science and in her senior year wrote her thesis on the Energy of Money. She is a contributing author the Jones & Bartlett Published Book "Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life" writing the chapter on "Creative Financial Health". She has also been a regular contributor to "Energy Magazine" in her "Money as Energy" column. Marilee has several successful businesses both online and offline including a Healing Touch practice. She is passionate and skilled at supporting health care professionals and healing arts practitioners in developing their practices and businesses by using her gifts as an Intuitive Healer and an "Education-Based Marketer". Marilee was a keynote speaker at the very first Healing Touch conference in January 1997.

Sound - The Healing Bridge
Arden Wilken, BA (cum laude) in Music Theory University of Washington, Seattle 1972

We always carry with us the ability to create a bridge between our body, heart, mind and soul. Some are afraid to use it because it can bring us into contact with old pain or trauma. This silent part of us is our own voice. Learning the body’s innate posture, practicing letting our sound flow up from our roots creates an unstoppable force that will imbue every word said, song sung, and action made.

Arden Wilken is an American musician, composer and sound therapist. She is co-founder of INNER SOUND (1978), an original system of sound therapy and therapeutic music for the expression and integration of the emotions. She received a bachelor's degree in music theory from the University of WA in 1972 and has a discography of 25 CDs, each having a specific theme or focus, in order to help the individual achieve their healing goals through unblocking the connective tissue through sound and music. She is also trained in body work. Arden and her husband Jack have founded schools of sound therapy in the USA, Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands and are now based in Seattle, WA after living many years abroad in the far East, North Africa and Europe.