Professional Responsibility #13 of Healing Touch Program The Code of Ethics has been updated to clarify ethical issues that may present when an HTCP, HTP, HTPA or Student of Healing Touch is practicing other energy medicine therapies or modalities within a Healing Touch session. The practitioner/student must do so with their client's prior knowledge and informed consent, and the practitioner/student will be bound by the HTP Code of Ethics. Reference for the corrective actions that may be taken for non-adherence to, or violation of, the Code of Ethics or Scope of Practice have been included, as well as clarification that The Healing Touch Program CEO and the Healing Touch Certification Governing Committee are the sole authorities to determine continued certification or eligibility to study.
 
These changes have been made to strengthen the Code of Ethics by providing clearer guidelines. The ethical standards that have been defined in the Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice help to assure and promote professional ideals, aspirations, and a sense of safety and trusteeship for society. I would like to thank the entire Healing Touch Ethics Committee for their dedicated service, and Jerry Becker (vice-chair) and Monica Nebauer for chairing a sub-committee to work on these changes.

Just a reminder, it is up to each and every one of us in the Healing Touch Community to assure adherence to the Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice.  Click here to download the updated Code of Ethics.

Blessings,
Nancy Lester,  Healing Touch Ethics Committee Chair

ANCC recently reversed their requirement preventing repeat students from receiving continuing education (CE) hours for classes. This is excellent news and HTP is excited to say that students repeating classes, class coordinators and class helpers will receive ANCC CE hours for HTP classes.

Instructors please note that the Class Fee Report and the Class Confirmation Letter have been updated to reflect this and are posted on the website.

HTPA often receives requests for information about how to get insurance reimbursement for Healing Touch Sessions. Although we have been diligently searching to find practitioners who are getting reimbursement directly from insurance carriers, we have not found any practitioners who are submitting invoices themselves. Instead they are giving invoices to their clients; having them seek reimbursement. Or, they are submitting for reimbursement under the umbrella of a physician's practice.

Our goal in creating this committee is to pursue the search to find out what options there are, if any, that will lead to a successful reimbursement process. The Chair for this committee is Gail Cox, RN, HTCP.  If you have any information that might help this committee, or if you would like to be involved in working on it, please contact Gail at [email protected].   

 August 23 - 24, 2013

Denver, CO  

 

Oneness: Speaking with one voice

about energy healing therapies 

 

Early Bird discount pricing - register by June 23rd 

HTPA Members $190 / Non Member $230

 

Includes:
* Friday Evening Reception
* Saturday Continental Breakfast and Buffet Lunch
* 7 Continuing Education hours

• Linda L. Smith, Oneness through the Language of Vibration and Resonance
• Janet Quinn, Coming Home to the Healing Heart: Guidance from the World's Spiritual Traditions
•  Nancy Battilega, The Seven Rays of the Cosmic Christ
• Ann Martin, Sacred Sonic Tonic! ...Awakening Harmony and Healing Using Sacred Sound 

 

2013 Annual Instructor Gathering

 

Linda is one of our treasured Healing Touch Elders, who with others assisted Janet Mentgen, Healing Touch founder, in the very early days when the HT program was being developed. Linda has years of business experience along with her rich experience practicing and teaching energy therapies. With Janet's support and encouragement, Linda created the HT Spiritual Ministry track, which then led her to create the Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy (ISHA).  In addition she has created the ISHA Certification in Clinical Aromatherapy program.

Linda says that our goal as healers is to bring balance and harmony back to someone's energy field, and that using our hands to heal is a beginning form to facilitate that but there are many ways that we can actually enhance our work by utilizing other frequency generators. Our interview with Linda will be about what she has learned from her own personal experiences and how we can enhance our own practice by the awareness and use of these vibrational generators.

Linda believes that we healers are frequency generators - change agents who bring resonance to the energy fields of our clients. She believes it is our responsibility to find ways that work for us to create coherence and wholeness. As we enter into a new world post 12/21/2012, there is a need for holistic healers to remember who they are at this juncture in our evolutionary journey, and to take the lead in diversifying their hands-on work with other vibratory frequencies to heal not only people, but also the animal kingdom and the planet. During our interview, Linda will tell us just how we can do that using many specific and accessible tools that she has incorporated into her practice and classes. What an opportunity we have to recognize this path to higher vibrational being and take the lead among those dedicated to healing.  

Join us for this Interview with Linda to learn how you can embark on a conscious journey to utilize other vibrational generators and become a higher vibrational generator yourself.  Click here to register.  

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.

Karen Chin

As President of the Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation, I'd like to welcome us all  into the Spring season of growth and renewal. The HT Regional conferences in Chicago, California, and Ohio yielded not only a total of more than $3,000.00 to date, but the wonderful meeting of old friends, regardless of HT affiliations. The Board of HT California, a 501(c)3 corporation in its own right, generously agreed to raise monies for HTWF - Kudos to them!

In our ongoing campaign to raise $60,000.00 or more this year, my challenge to each of you is to assist us with the moving energy of the Heel to Heal Fun Run by considering an automatic deduction of at least $10.00 / month. This will enable the Foundation to continue its vision and commitment to service, research, and the furtherance of Healing Touch worldwide. As a quick update, Aparna just last month came to Colorado from Nepal for the Level 3 Instructor's class.

Thank You all for your ongoing support - please visit the Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation website for donation options!
Karen B. Chin, RN, HTCP/I
HTWF President

HTWF has purchased the following article to share with the Healing Touch Community: Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, and Reiki: Energy Medicine Advances in the Medical Community by Jane Hart, MD; published in Alternative and Complementary Therapies Volume: 18 Issue 6: December 2012.

Use this article to promote your practice and to show the validity of Healing Touch to your clients, students and colleagues. This article highlights Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch and Reiki, and their increasing acceptance in the medical community.  Click here to visit the HTWF website and get the article.

[email protected], or call  513-260-1273.

Through the work of Healing Touch Japan (an international division of  Hashiba Institute) and co-founder Rumi Hashimoto, MSN, RN, HTCP/I, Healing Touch is now part of a well-known fundamental Nursing textbook in Japan, "An Introduction to Nursing: Approach to Nursing" (3rd edition, first published in 2005).  

Translation:"Japanese are deeply connected with the nature and the environment.  Reading between the lines, the culture of sensing the 'unseen' may be deeply connected with the theory proposed by Rogers," state Dr. Tutsui. Dr. Dolores Krieger has applied Rogers' Theory of Unitary Human Being into nursing practice through the introduction of Therapeutic Touch, a form of energy therapy, which later expanded to Healing Touch.  Healing Touch has been rapidly spreading in Japan. (20, 21) Healing Touch uses hands to clear, restore, and balance the energy field, thus supporting the person to self heal.  It's clinical applicability and usefulness during disaster situations, such as the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan, has been demonstrated in recent years. (22)
Since 2010, Healing Touch has been growing throughout Japan with hundreds of participants taking Healing Touch Program classes.  Currently, HTP Levels 1-3 are offered at a number of universities and community centers across the country. This summer, Healing Touch Japan will continue teaching classes, practice groups and special lectures throughout Japan.  For more information, visit www.hashibahealth.com.

May 6th is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern day nursing. It is also National Nurses Day and kicks off a week of events and recognition and appreciation for nurses.

This year, Healing Warriors Program had the honor of participating in both the Denver and Cheyenne VA Medical Center's Nurses Day by providing a day of complementary care clinic sessions for the VA nursing teams. Many of our VA nurses are veterans themselves, and work on behalf of our veteran community, helping to heal, support and comfort those who are ill and in pain. This was our opportunity to give back to those who serve.

Healing Warriors Program had approximately 23 volunteer practitioners in total between both sites, and  schedules were full throughout the day. Healing Touch, Acupuncture, CranioSacral therapy, Reflexology, Acutonics and Jin Shin Jyutsu were among the therapies offered. For those who had never experienced mind-body therapies, it was both educational and relaxing.  

The Cheyenne VA Medical Center was a new addition this year and the day's success has already generated interest for a follow up visit. The event, led by Healing Warriors Program Northern Colorado Site Director, Sue Walker, demonstrated the effectiveness of the modalities largely because of the professionalism, skill and caliber of the practitioner team volunteers. Sue is quick to recognize her VA partners "Michelle Mulberry, RN, BSN, of the Cheyenne VA and Johnna Greeley RN-C, BSN, of the Denver VA offered outstanding to support to Healing Warriors Program by communicating the nurses appreciation event to the nurse managers and their departments. There was a large group of nursing staff that participated and the practitioners were honored to give back to them. We look forward to serving them again in the future."

Healing Warriors Program Co-Executive Director, Ana Yelen remarks, "It is through the outstanding work of  the practitioner teams and the tremendous staff at both the Cheyenne and Denver VA Medical Centers, that we look forward to further growing our friendships and connections with the VA teams. We are grateful to our VA nurses for their heart centered service to our military men and women and we are privileged to support them."

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