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Click here to view photos of the 2012 Worldwide
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Letter from the HTP CEO
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Welcome to the February Community News. As usual, this newsletter is full of information and articles that let you know what is happening in our community. We hope you will enjoy this issue.
We are thrilled to let you know that Healing Touch that was included in an article by Dr. Jane Hart that was recently published in Alternative and Complementary Therapies. My thanks go to both Kathy Layte, who wrote a synopsis of the article, and Cynthia Hutchison who was interviewed by Dr. Hart for the article. Articles like this in scholarly journals increase the credibility and visibility of Healing Touch.
 Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, Cynthia Hutchison and I spent a fruitful afternoon at the new AHNA headquarters in Topeka, Kansas on February 11th.
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Terri Roberts
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Sharon Scandrett PhD, RN,
HTCP/I and HT Certification Chair, was the president of AHNA and served on their Board of Directors for eight years in the early years of our organizational relationship. Terri Roberts is AHNA's new executive director who has a rich professional and experiential background, and depth of understanding organizational systems. The four of us shared in many conversations related to Healing Touch and AHNA history, and how we can continue to support each other as like-minded and like-hearted organizations. We felt welcomed and honored, as well as excited about discussing ways to work together. Read more.
May you be showered with blessings
during the upcoming month.
Lisa Mentgen Gordon
HTP CEO
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2014 HT Worldwide HT Conference - Save the date
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Photo by Cathy Andersen
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HTP is excited to announce the date for the
2014 Worldwide Healing Touch Conference:
The Journey Within: A Garden of Possibilities
August 14 - 17, 2014 in Chicago, IL
at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg
Submissions for Breakout Sessions
are now being accepted.
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2nd Annual Healing Touch Midwestern Regional Conference
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 April 5 - 6, 2013 ~ Chicago, IL
Conference Theme: Healing Touch: A Place to Grow
Purpose: To gather in community to celebrate our continuing growth as Healing Touch Practitioners at a time in history when our gifts can transform the world.
Location: Hyatt Regency Schaumburg
Click here for registration and more information.
Keynote Speakers:
- Cyndi Dale, Wings for Flying: Stages of Growth for Healer, Sage & Seer
- Kathleen Kelley, Gardens of Soil, Gardens of Spirit - A Joyous Celebration in Song
- Marie Manuchehri, Intuitive Health
- Jennifer Fournier, Movement Meditation: Supporting Self Growth
- Ann Cathcart, Crop Circles: Catalysts for Growth
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Rocky Mountain Regional Conference & Annual Instructor Gathering
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Rocky Mountain Regional Conference
August 23 - 24, 2013
Annual Instructor Gathering ~ August 25, 2013
Location: Inverness Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Click here for registration and more information.
Keynote speakers:
- Linda L. Smith, Oneness through the Language of Vibration and Resonance
- Nancy Battilega, The Seven Rays of the Cosmic Christ
- Ann Martin, Sacred Sonic Tonic! ...Awakening Harmony and Healing Using Sacred Sound
- Janet Quinn, Coming Home to the Healing Heart: Guidance from the World's Spiritual Traditions
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Additional Regional Conferences - Save the Date
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 Eastern Regional Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 14-15 (proposed)
Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle, WA, October 4-5 (proposed)
Southwestern/California Regional Conference, Long Beach, CA, November 8-9 (proposed)
Once the hotels are finalized for these conferences the dates will be final. Visit the Regional Conference website regularly for updates.
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Updates for HT Mentors and Mentees
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The online resources for mentors and mentees have been updated and moved from the Certification website to the Resources area on the HTP website. Use this link to visit the new mentorship area: http://www.healingtouchprogram.com/resources/mentorship.
In September 2012 the Level 4/5 notebook was updated. This included updates to the Level 5 homework requirements and student materials. The updated documents are posted on the Resources: Student/Practitioners page on the HTP website, https://www.healingtouchprogram.com/resources/student-practitioner.
In September 2012, the Practitioner Certification Application and requirements were updated. This application is now required for submissions. Visit the Practitioner Certification page on the Certification website, http://www.healingtouchprogram.com/certification/practitioner/practitioner-certification.
The HTP Practitioner Directory is the main source for mentees to use in finding a mentor or Qualified Mentor. All mentors and QMs should make sure the mentoring information in their listing is current.
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HTPA March Business Support "LIVE" Interview
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HTPA Business Support PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 9pm - 10:15pm Eastern
We invite you to join us for an informative, FUN discussion! Click here to register.
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HTPA Monthly "Let's Chat" Support Call
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Monday, March 25, 2013 at 9:00pm Eastern time
All are welcome to join - no registration necessary
By phone: Call 210-515-4837 and use access code 546360#
Or click here to join the online webcast
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HTWF NEWS
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 Why you would want to support HTWF?
- Support grants for Integrative Medicine research
- Provide grants for international HT instruction
- Community service
Please consider making a recurring donation
A $10 recurring donation will HTWF meet our $60,00 goal! HTWF PayPal offers a selection of recurring donations! Donations are tax deductible! Click here to visit the donation page and set up a reoccurring donation.
In the upcoming months you will find more creative opportunities to give your support to HTWF.
Congratulations to Dottie Graham, winner of the HTWF Valentine Raffle!
 Dottie wrote this beautiful thank you:
Hi Nancy & all you folks at HTWF,
Thank you for your wonderful, surprising email. Here it is Valentine's Day, and I truly feel like Janet just reached out and hugged me. I am in tears - tears of joy at having had the pleasure of knowing and loving Janet for many years. And now to be Ms.Thanksabunch's loving keeper. WOW! Ms.Thanksabunch will be enlisted as one of our beloved "Stuffed Healers" in the GISA Healing Sanctuaries, and will be a "helper" at all VCHT classes. What a wonderful honor. With much love and healing joy, Dottie
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Sandy Hook Healing Project
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By Tinker Sanford, HT Practitioner Apprentice  The tragic events of 12/14/12 in Newton, CT left many of us feeling numb. How and why did these senseless acts occur? Immediately the news media and bloggers galore debated the need for gun control and automatic weapon bans while others discussed poor parenting, the breakdown of mental health systems and Asperger syndrome. Like many healers, I felt compelled to offer my services as a Healing Touch practitioner to those families and individuals so horribly affected. I just wasn't sure how. Meanwhile in Newtown, Heather Rivera-Gunn, the daughter of an art teacher who was present at SHES that day, conceived the idea of the Sandy Hook Healing Project. A joint venture of the Grassroots Fitness Project from NYC and The Gym from Southbury, CT, this non-profit effort's goal was to bring healing of all kinds to the community of Newtown.
Read more.
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Coming Out of the Spiritual Healing Closet
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By Stephen .P Sutton, MD, FACS, HTCP
I am a Urologist practicing in Northwest Ohio. I am also a HTCP! As soon as I received notification and my certificate this past Fall, I proudly forwarded it to the Medical Staff Offices where I practice. Within a few weeks a Physician at my primary hospital, St Charles Mercy, approached me about giving a talk at a weekly CME Medical Grand Rounds. After earning my Certification I'd been searching for ways to maximize its impact, so when the Universe presented this opportunity to me I sure wasn't going to turn it down. I'd already presented a Nursing Grand Rounds but this was going to be my first chance to go LIVE with my peers. So on Friday January 17, 2013, I gave a talk titled Healing Touch to a nearly packed house. Read more.
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HT & HTP Highlighted in Scholarly Journal
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Healing Touch and Healing Touch Program™ Highlighted
in Alternative and Complementary Therapies
By Kathy Moreland Layte, RN, MScN, HTCP/I
According to Julia Chapman, assistant editor for Mary Liebert Publishers, "Alternative and Complementary Therapies provides the most authoritative, evidence-based, and practical information for integrating alternative therapies and approaches into clinical practice or hospital integrative medicine programs. The journal offers the latest clinical guidance and research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine as it relates to the prevention and treatment of chronic illness, mind/body approaches to disease management, and clinical applications of CAM therapies."
 This past December's issue (doi:10.1089/act.2012.18609. vol. 18 No. 6), carried Dr. Jane Hart's exploration of the advancement of Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch and Reiki in the medicine community. Among the biofield practitioners showcased in the article were Cynthia Hutchison, Program Director of Healing Touch Program™ (HTP™), and Kathy Moreland Layte (yours truly), co-chair of the Research Advisory Council for HTP™. Both shared knowledge and experiences of how Healing Touch has progressed over the past decades making it more acceptable in mainstream medicine.
Read more.
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9th Annual Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional HT Conference
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Karen Drucker
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Saturday, April 27, 2013 ~ 8:30am - 4:30pmBethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, OHwith Karen Drucker, Musician & AuthorEarly 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 please contact Mary Duennes at mduennes@att.net.
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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The Body Selectric Class
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How the Body Moves from Fight, Flight and Freeze Back to Flow
Date: Saturday, April 13 & Sunday, April 14, 2013
Time: 9am - 5:30pm (both days)
Instructor: Kathy Allan, RN, HN-BC, HTCP/HTCI, SEP
Tuition: $325 early bird before March 22 and $350 after March 22
Location: Loveland, CO
Registration and Information: Sue Walker, 970-282-0050, suewalker88@gmail.com
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North Texas HT Practice Group
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Back Row, left to right: LuAnn Wahl, Stephanie Stegmaier, Bethlyn Gerard, Kris Sands, Kathleen Armentrout, Linda McClintock
Front Row, left to right: Kim McKibben, Esther Rodriguez-Phelps, Becky Gilkerson
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The North Texas Healing Touch Practice Group got off to a great start in January 2013. The delight of so many gathering together with intent is an event to be repeated often. We welcome you to join us in experiencing three hours of support, sharing, laughter, practice and self care. Students and Practitioners of all levels and experience are invited to meet monthly in the afternoon of second Saturday, 2-5pm. Please visit and like our Facebook site for details: North Texas Healing Touch or rsvp to Kris Sands at kris@holisticenergypractice.com.
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15th Annual International Energy Psychology Conference
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Keynote Speakers:
David Feinstein, PhD: What Does Energy Have to do with Energy Psychology?
Joan Borysenko, PhD: The Science and Psychology of Ancient Wisdom
William Tiller, PhD: Toward an Orthodox Science Capable of Integrating with Psychotherapy and the Healing Arts
Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD: The Qi - Ancient Roots of Energy and Consciousness Medicine
Dr. Eben Alexander: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
Click here for information.
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All great masters are constantly learning and adding to their knowledge. They never tire of learning more about their subject; this is why they are the masters. HTP continuously offers the opportunity to increase your knowledge of Healing Touch.
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Healing Touch Level 6 Instructor Training
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Dates: March 25-28, 2013
Location: Boulder, CO
Instructor: Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, HTCP/I CE Contact Hours: 32
Level 6 is the instructor training for the Certified Healing Touch Practitioner who wishes to become a Healing Touch Certified Instructor for HT Level 1. The emphasis is on group dynamics, setting up programs, principles and methods of teaching and learning. All instructors meet annually to advance skills, network and develop activities pertinent in the work of Healing Touch.
Click here for more information. Download the Level 6 Training Application here. 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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Mentor Training Class Available in April
| Length: 9 consecutive weeks, 2 hours per week plus homework of 1-2 hours per week
Dates: Tuesdays, Beginning April 2 through May 28, 2013
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 hereto register online, or call the HTP office at 210-497-5529.
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Healing Touch Classes
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