"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy."

               - Rabindranath Tagore, ( India, 1861-1941), received the Noble Prize for

                 Literature, 1913. He was a Bengali poet and friend of Ghandi

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We invite you to share in the excitement and joy of our growth. Each Quarter we give an update of Membership, Liability Insurance Subscribers and Donations to our HTWF Designated HTPA Fund. YOU make it possible for us to continue to grow and make a difference Worldwide.

 

 

Funds Raised through HTWF as of March 1, 2013 = $ 4,690

The HTWF Designated Fund for HTPA is used to support Special Interest Outreach Projects like HT Service to the Military and Disaster Response. Thank you to all who have donated, you make it possible for us to grow our service. 

To learn more about this Fund and how to donate please go to HTWF Designated Fund for HTPA. We look forward to growing this Fund with your help- when making a donation be sure to indicate that you are donating to the HTWF Designated Fund for HTPA.

  HTPA is now offering a new Member Category:  On-Going Member

Be sure to share this new Benefit with your peers, students

& friends - Referrals bring Rewards!!

 
We have opened up a new membership category that will allow members to pay for their membership on a monthly recurring payment of only $10 per month. 

• We know that many of our students and practitioners would L♥VE to be a member of Healing Touch Professional Association (HTPA).
• We know they want to be part of the exciting things HTPA is involved in and they know that their dollars will help to spread Healing Touch around the world.
• We know that our members benefit from the support that HTPA offers to help grow their profession and expand their local Healing Touch Community.
• We know that it is sometimes hard to come up with the membership dues at the time you would like to join. 

....so now we've made being an HTPA member simple with an On-Going Membership Plan.  

You can join three ways:

• On-Line through the HTPA website.
• By Mail or Fax with a printed application (follow this link to download the application http://www.htprofessionalassociation.com/content_assets/forms/application.pdf )
• Or you can call the HTPA office and they will take your registration over the phone - (210) 497-5529 Central Time Zone. 

ENCOURAGE YOUR PEERS, STUDENTS AND FRIENDS TO JOIN: With HTPA Membership you become part of our larger Community - advancing the worldwide work of Healing Touch and energy practice. Through this Community you contribute to the expansion of your profession by creating a larger pool of practitioner power, thought, energy and forward growth. Member support strengthens the Voice of the Healing Touch Community; increases awareness of Healing Touch practice; makes it possible to expand member benefits and more.

TOGETHER, We are the Heart of Healing Touch!  

Click here to Join or Renew and/or for more information about the many Benefits HTPA Membership offers.

December 2012: Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I had her interview by Jane Hart, MD published in Alternative and Complementary Therapies.

           Kathy Moreland Layte, RN, MScN, HTCP, Chair of the Research Advisory Council for Healing Touch Program is also a contributor for the article. HT is covered well along with Therapeutic Touch and Reiki. To read more about the article follow this LINK. HTWF is offering a free copy of the article on their website.   

12/21 to 27/12 Sandy Hook Healing Project

A BIG acknowledgement goes to Debby Stein, HTP-Apprentice, Tinker Sanford, HT-Apprentice, Roberta Tachikara, and Betty Feldman, HTCP for their participation in helping to relieve the pain and grief caused by the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. They not only offered Healing Touch but they also held the space for the Highest Good of All. They took time away from their families at Christmas to bring Healing Touch and comfort in the best way they could. THANK YOU!!  For more about their experience follow this LINK to the article in the Feb 2013 HTC Newsletter. Betty Feldman shared her personal experience with the Healing Project when on the Feb 25th Chat Call. You can contact her through the HTPA Member Directory or e-mail Sharon at [email protected].

December 2012 and January 2013: Victoria Stewart, HTCP/I, HTACP had two great articles published in the HT Community News - if you missed them be sure to go back and read the Dec and Jan Healing Touch Community News issues. 

January 2013: Rumi Hashimoto, HTCP/I and Katrina Shibata, HTP returned to Japan to bring Level 1 and upper Level HT classes there. Watch for updates sharing their growth.

January 2013: Kris Sands, HTCP reports that The North Texas Healing Touch Practice Group got off to a great start. Kris also is Lead for the Local HTPA Chapter there. We look forward to hearing more as things develop.

1/17/13: Stephen P. Sutton, MD, FACS, HTCP, is a newly certified practitioner and a Urologist practicing in Northwest Ohio. He gave his first talk, titled Healing Touch, to his peers at a CME Medical Grand Rounds meeting. It was a nearly packed house at his primary hospital, St Charles Mercy. GREAT EVENT STEPHEN - wishing you many more!! To read more of the details of his presentation follow this LINK.

Photo by  Cathy Andersen

1/19/13: Sue Walker, HTCP, CRM, BSW of Fort Collins, CO represented HTPA andHTP when attending a Warrior Resiliency Project planning meeting in Los Angeles. We were invited to the Warrior Resiliency Advisory Team meeting by Raven Drum Foundation who created the Warrior Resiliency Project along with their co-sponsor the Wounded Warrior Project. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss participating in a 4 week retreat for 10 Vets who have been diagnosed with PTSD. To learn more about this upcoming Project that is planning to offer Healing Touch and other Energy Medicine modalities please read the meeting report below in "Ongoing Discussions". 

Grant Announcement: 2/2013 Lynne O'Donnell, RN, MNS, NP-C, HT-Apprentice of Chicago, is co-leading a team of VA staff who will be disseminating best practices in Healing Touch & Touch Therapies at 20 VA hospitals located in 7 VISNs (Regions) nationally. This project is funded with a $525,988 grant from the Office of Patient-Centered Care and Culture Transformation at VA Central Office. The project, led by Dr. Leila Kozak, an investigator and Clinical Champion at Seattle VA/HSRD, will provide funding to develop educational materials and tool-kits for disseminating Healing Touch and Touch Therapies to many other facilities in the future. As part of the project's activities, 392 VA staff will receive training in Healing Touch, volunteers will receive training in Hand & Foot Massage and caregivers of Veterans with cancer will receive training in touch/massage techniques to provide supportive care at home (using the "Touch, Caring & Cancer" Program www.partnersinhealing.net)

3/1/13: Healing Warriors Program Update - We have hit the ground running since our last update! Focused on serving our veteran family community, our plans include opening three Colorado clinics offering Healing Touch, Acupuncture and CranioSacral Therapy in phase 1. Our soft launch of the first clinic is targeted for early this summer. Clinics will also offer education and self care for the service member, spouse and children. We are busily recruiting Board members and planning our Gala on September 12, 2013 at the Cherry Creek Yacht Club in Denver, CO http://cherrycreekmarina.com/index.html . Visit our website at www.healingwarriorsprogram.org or our Facebook page for the latest news. And feel free to contact us at [email protected]. Tax deductible donations to the Healing Warriors Program nonprofit may be made on the website. Thank you to everyone for your generous and enthusiastic support.

We would love to share your news, accomplishments, activities, events - please send to [email protected], along with your photo. Our Newsletter goes out Quarterly - March, June, Sept, and Dec.

Healing Touch Certified Practitioners - CONGRATULATIONS

Susan Ackerman, Michele Anderson, Bonnie Bailey, Jennelle Berg, Irene Bigot, Holli Brown, Vicki Bryce, Kriss Ham, Meg Haggerty, Lois Kelley, Cynthia Louis, Carolyn Oden, Ann Peck, Maria Rog, Mytzi Rudolph, Paula Schlauch, Maureen Swanson, Linda Waddington.

  The Shift Network                                   Humanity's Team  

www.theshiftnetwork.com                 http://www.humanitysteam.org/ 

 HeartMath's Global Coherence Initiative

 

          Peace Begins with Me  
http://www.peacewithinisworldpeace.com

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation                          One Billion Oms 

     http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/                      http://www.onebillionoms.com/ 

Let us know if you have favorite websites you'd like to share 

send to [email protected].

HTPA will conduct the Annual Membership Meeting virtually (phone and webcast) on Thursday June 27, 2013 9 pm Eastern. The Annual HTPA Member Meeting is important to attend so you can add your voice to it. Please MARK YOUR CALENDAR and do join us. It is a time of recapping where we have been, outlining what we are currently working on and sharing what we have on the Horizon. We ALWAYS want your input and suggestions and there will be plenty of time for you to speak, offer suggestions and ask questions. We always send a Member Survey prior to the Annual Meeting so look for that to come in May. PLEASE COMPLETE THE SURVEY so we know your satisfaction level as well as what you would like us to add to what HTPA offers. We look forward to serving you as we continue to grow our benefits and service worldwide.

 Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9pm - 10:15pm Eastern

Interview with Cyndi Dale, Energy Medicine Scholar, Author, Healer

"Learn About Developing Your Spiritual Gifts

So Necessary for Energy Healing"

We invite you to join us for an informative, FUN discussion!  Click here to register. 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9pm - 10:15pm Eastern 

  Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9pm - 10:15pm Eastern  

This year we have seen a huge increase in our Professional and General Liability Insurance inquires and subscriptions. This of course is due to the fact that Energy Practice is in demand and becoming more and more main stream. The more we and our "work" are exposed to the general public, liability issues rise, landlords are requiring it, clients expect it, etc. Our HTPA Liability Insurance costs pennies per day to carry and yet provides you protection from a potentially costly claim. Just the peace of mind, knowing that if your client were to slip and fall while in your environment, you are covered, is worth the annual fee. Also, when you carry your Insurance through HTPA (an energy practice source rather than through a massage source) you are supporting the growth of our Energy Medicine Profession. For information about HTPA's Liability Insurance follow this Link: Liability Insurance.

Reimbursement for Healing Touch and other Energy Practice remains a "hot topic" of discussion. It continues to be a divided opinion as to whether we should get involved in setting ourselves up with Health Insurance Reimbursement as it is well known that it can be a paperwork nightmare and that reimbursement can take months, even years as a result many practitioners (who are in private practice, outside of an MD's office) have taken to giving their clients an invoice and having the client submit that invoice to their insurance source. But even better, we now encourage asking your clients if they have a Health Savings Account (HSA) or a Flexible Savings Account (FSA) as both of these sources almost always allow funds to used for Energy Practice sessions. There have been articles written through HTPA and published in Energy Magazine about this (including Links to invoice samples). To see the May/June 2012 and Sept/Oct 2012 issues of Energy Magazine visit the archive page. 

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Bringing HT Service to the Military:

Report on HTPA's attendance at the Warrior Resiliency Advisory Team Planning Meeting 1/19/13 - The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and the Veteran Resiliency Project (VRP) have joined forces in creating the Warrior Resiliency Program (WRP), a unique program weaving together traditional and non-traditional modalities of care. The goal of this program is to achieve post traumatic growth, which refers to a positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. These sets of circumstances represent significant challenges to the adaptive resources of the individual, and pose significant challenges to the individuals' way of understanding the world and their place in it. Post-traumatic growth is not simply returning to the place they were before the event occurred, but to become better or show improvement, due to those challenges.

The mission of WWP is to "Honor and Empower Wounded Warriors." A wounded warrior is defined as a service member or veteran who incurred a wound, injury or illness of the mind or body in the line of duty on or after September 11, 2001. www.woundedwarriorproject.org  

About the Veteran Resiliency Project  

The Veteran Resiliency Project (VRP) provides a variety of programs that support veterans and their families as they learn to live with the personal impacts of war and separation. These programs guide participants and give them somatic and contemplative tools that bring the body and mind to a place of rest and balance. The Veteran Resiliency Project is sponsored by the Raven Drum Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, and Lauren Monroe, musician and healer. Raven Drum's mission is to serve, educate and empower veterans and people in crisis. www.ravendrumfoundation.org  

Needless to say, HTPA and HTP were delighted to be invited to attend the WRP Advisory Team Planning Meeting for the Project described here. As our representative, Sue Walker handed out full information packets introducing all meeting attendees to HTPA and HTP. The relationships we made at the meeting are invaluable. Not attending the meeting was Kathy Layte, Chair of the Research Advisory Council for Healing Touch Program, who is in active discussion about the research possibilities for this Project.

Lauren Monroe Allen shared "We believe that the choice to ask you here is not only based on our own experience of how successful your work is but also on the evidence-based programs that you've constructed within your modality. Ultimately this program is going to be published so others can read about it, be inspired, and take bigger steps. Our goal -the health and well-being of our veterans and their families- is the core of this program. "

Funds for HTPA expenses to attend this meeting were provided through our Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation Designated Fund for HTPA. If you would like to help us continue our participation in this Project and others providing HT Service to the Military, please consider making a donation to our Fund - no matter what size you give, it will make a difference.  

Dalai Lama Foundation & Association for Global New Thought

COMPLIMENTARY TELECONFERENCE THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 12:00pm Los Angeles; 1pm Denver; 2pm Chicago; 3pm New York. If you don't see your time zone listed, click on this link:

The Dalai Lama Foundation is the Association for Global New Thought's (AGNT) special guest for this unique free tele-seminar to honor the addition of His Holiness' name to the Gandhi King Gyatso Season for Nonviolence this year. Many SNV groups have participated in "Ethics for a New Millennium Study Circles," a curriculum developed by DLF based on the book. This is a chance to hear fresh news of the Dalai Lama Foundation's plans for expansion of this course, and perhaps to offer "Beyond Religion," the Dalai Lama's newest work, for future study groups.

The teleconference panel will set a foundation for what we mean by "secular ethics" in a new millennium, why the Tibetan culture and wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama are key to this work on a universal level, and what is the vision of the Dalai Lama Foundation in cultivating partnerships with organizations and individuals who share the same values. As Humanity's Team--in partnership with AGNT--embarks upon planning Global Oneness Day 2013, we invite you to join us for an exciting hour of presentations and dialogue, also participating in small group discussions with others from around the world. REGISTER FOR FREE CALL AT http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/RTYUSEASV37T1UZB 

Also, please consider signing The "100th Tibetan" Petition!

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9th Annual Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana Regional HT Conference 

 

Saturday, April 27, 2013 ~ 8:30am - 4:30pm 

Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, OH 

with Karen Drucker, Musician & Author

Early bird discount for registrations received by April 1st: 

HT Students and Practitioners - $80 

Non-HT Students/Practitioners - $100 

(After April 1st the fee increases by $25)

5.25 CE hours available for an additional $10.

For registration or questions contact Mary Duennes at [email protected].

 

Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by
the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission On Accreditation.

 

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HTP 2013 Regional Conferences

 

Healing, A Place to Grow
April 5-6, 2013 in Chicago, IL

Oneness: Speaking with One Voice
August  23-24, 2013 in Denver, CO

Visit the HTP Regional Conference website for more information.

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HTP Mentor Training Class Beginning in April 

 

Dates: Tuesdays, Beginning April 2 through May 28, 2013
Length: 9 consecutive weeks, 2 hours/week plus homework of 1-2 hours per week
Two Sessions are offered:
Mornings - 9am Pacific Time with Dawn Warnaca, HTCP/I
Evenings - 4pm Pacific Time with Tim McConville, HTCP/I

Tuition: $475
CE contact hours: 27
Prerequisite: Healing Touch Certified Practitioner

Click here for more information on the class.
Click here to register online, or call the HTP office at
               210-497-5529.

Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by
 the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission On Accreditation. 

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SAVE the DATE: HTPA ANNUAL MEETING

 

HTPA will conduct its Annual Membership Meeting virtually (phone and webcast) on Thursday June 27, 2013 9 pm Eastern   

MARK YOUR CALENDARS