Keynote Speakers

Creating Abundance - How to shift your energy to attract success
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, RN, HN-BC, HTCP/I
Marilee Tolen, Board Certified Holistic Nurse, Entrepre-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.

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Nourishing the Light Body: Essential Nutrition for Vibrational Healers
Barbara Starke, RN, MSN, FNP, HTCP/I
Why are we in America so sick? Why is the upcoming generation not expected to live as long as their parents--an scientific observation seen for the first time in the evolution of the human species!

Learning how to select and cook healthy foods to promote radiance and longevity is a gift given to us from our ancestors. To reclaim these gifts, our time together will look at the factors underlying imbalances in gut health; the various ways society sabotages our ability to make healthy food choices; and ways to optimally support the gut and the immune system for optimal energy, cell vitality, and longevity.

Barbara Starke, RN, MSN, FNP, HTCP/I
Barbara Starke, has over 30 years of experience as a holistic nurse. She specializes in Healing Touch and  Functional Medicine interventions for the treatment of chronic diseases. Barbara holds certifications as an advanced practice holistic family nurse practitioner, a Healing Touch Program practitioner and instructor, and a NADA trainer and ADS (Addiction Detox Specialist--auricular acupuncture using the 5-needle NADA protocol). She is currently co-Chair of the Healing Touch Program Certification Board.

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Heart-centered voyage into the body: Novel techniques for common problems
Sue Hovland, HTCP/I, BSN, CMT
Sue Hovland will be presenting a practical, interactive and joyful presentation that combines anatomy with energy to effectively address four common areas of concern – balancing the body’s trauma alarm system, sending energy to basic tissues, clearing and enhancing the lungs, and boosting the immune system. We will learn and practice these innovative techniques on ourselves and others.

Sue Hovland, HTCP/I, BSN, CMT
Since studying with Janet Mentgen from 1982—1993, Sue has studied many energy and body therapies including nursing, massage, and Cranial Sacral, plus energy with Rosalyn Bruyere Program, Mary Jo Bulbrook’s Energetic Healing, Arden Wilken’s tuning forks, Axiatonal Alignment, plus Allergy Antidotes, NAET, and other energetic approaches to allergies and trauma.  Since she was certified in 1993 as a Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor, she has been teaching HT, and has had a private practice in Denver, CO, doing energy therapies, massage, Cranial-Sacral therapy, and more.

Drawing on her anatomy and energy background, she founded her own multi-level program Anatomy for Healers® in 1997, which she joyfully teaches nationally and internationally. Her motto is: “If you know energy medicine, you need to know the body.  If you know the body, you need to know about energy medicine.  If you know both, you need to know how to put them together in a healing session!”

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Compassionate Presence: Deepening Heart-Centered Skills
Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, RN, PhD, HTP/I-BC,HNC, FNP-BC, CS
An experience in deepening presence will be practiced after examining the components of compassion, love and “being with” another person.   In Healing Touch practicing client centered presence is critical to building rapport, trust and confidence in the practitioner’s skills.  Being present fully allows the practitioner to enjoy each “Now” moment with others, including family.  As practitioners, this skill is one of most important activities to living one’s life fully. Based upon energetic as well as excellent communing skills, the practitoner’s awareness expands exponentially.

Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, RN, PhD, HTP/I-BC,HNC, FNP-BC, CS
A long time trainer in the use of empathy and the best helping skills available, Sharon strongly supports practitioner development to  focus more specifically upon client’s presence.  Teaching practitoner’s to ‘hold” themselves “back”  to allow clients to emerge more fully ensures safe and client focused sessions. A practicing psychotherapist who incorporates Healing Touch in sessions, Sharon utilizes compassionate presence as the foundation of her practice which at this time is in a traditional Mental Health Clinic and a therapeutic equestrian program.

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Healing Songs Sing-Along

Music lives in every fiber of our being.  The rustle of the wind in the trees and the power of the ocean's waves were healing to the earth long before we even inhabited it.  Together we will acknowledge and celebrate the role of music in well-being.  Vocal exercises will invite us to "tune in" to ourselves and each other.  Singing together we will experience the healing effects of a "hearty" Sing-a-long!

Kathleen Kelly RN,BS-Promoter of health,joy and music making
Forty years of nursing has taken Kathleen up and down many roads-Lamaze Instructor,Planetree Facilitator,Community Health Educator to name a few.  "Singing Your Stress Away" is her favorite workshop which she has shared with many varied audiences--young families,students,educators,seniors,etc.  Blending healing and music has been a life-long mission for Kathleen.  She is most grateful for all of the avenues of musical healing expression that she has and will travel.