 "Pure love is life's most powerful healer. Love is understood,
felt and demonstrated through human thinking, feeling and actions."
~ Energy Magazine Calendar December 2014
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As the holiday season approaches, I would like to take this opportunity to express our deep gratitude at Healing Touch Program for your continued support and enthusiasm for Healing Touch. It is our loving and heart-centered community who makes our jobs a pleasure and keeps the work of Healing Touch so successful.
I like sending our December Community News issue on December 18th, as it is my mother's, Janet Mentgen, founder of Healing Touch, birthday anniversary. We miss her physically, but we know that she is with us energetically!
I would also like to mention the passing of our dear friend and colleague Sharon Robbins this year on August 17, 2014 at our HTP Worldwide Conference in Chicago. We know that she has joined Janet and Dorothea on the other side and is supporting the program in the spiritual realm. If you have not see the tribute we created for Sharon I invite you to take a few minutes and see the wonderful things that her friends have said about her. Sharon's Tribute. We celebrated her life on November 22, 2014 at a lovely ceremony that the San Diego community organized. Karen Drucker joined us in celebrating and honoring our dear friend.
We have had several achievements for HTP this year that we celebrate - see Cynthia Hutchison's 2014 Review below in this newsletter.
Please note that the HTP office will be closed from December 24 and will reopen January 5th. We're all taking time off to be with our family and friends before what's sure to be an incredible 2015.
 May your holiday season and the New Year be filled with joy, happiness, growth, and success.
With Gratitude and Love,
Lisa Gordon, CEO Healing Touch Program |
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Healing Touch Office Holiday
Announcements
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Please note: This includes all store orders. They will not be shipped until January 5th. Please make sure you have all our store orders in by December 22 for holiday delivery.
Alternative ways to get information or contact us:Please visit our website at www.HealingTouchProgram.comPlace a store order at the Healing Touch Program StoreLeave a phone message 210-497-5529 Fax us 210-497-8532 Send us an email at [email protected]Leave a message on Healing Touch Facebook
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Healing Touch Educational - 2014 Review
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Dear Healing Touch Community,
 What an amazing year it's been for Healing Touch Program! I'd like to remind you of a few of our educational achievements from this year. We started out 2014 with being awarded national accreditation in the field of health care with the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) in January. This was a four year journey of dedication and demonstrating HTP's excellence and professionalism. You can proudly share this statement: "Healing Touch Program is the only continuing education program in energy medicine which holds not only one, but two, national accreditations!" Our first accreditation was with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) back in 2011. Before that, our nursing CE contact hours were provided by the Colorado Nurses Association.
This year also brought the completion of the curriculum revisions for the all five levels of the core curriculum. All the notebooks have been made more comprehensive and professional, with many additional articles within the main sections and within the appendices, providing more than 800 pages of text for students and practitioners. We have received ongoing rave reviews for the level of professionalism, clarity and flow.
The mentorship program has been strengthened with a revised online and live course, as well as hiring Franny Harcey as Lead Mentor, and adding an online Mentor portal site that has a Mentor Forum page, support material, newsletter and quarterly teleconference. This new portal will be released in January 2015 to all HTCPs. Janna Moll has expanded and updated the Mentorship Course which offers 27 Continuing Education contact hours and will be offered twice in 2015 - January and September.
To support our instructors in providing our high quality worldwide standardized educational program, HTP has also produced Instructor Training Videos where they can view modules to review and be updated on the various blocks of curriculum from Levels 1 and 2. Level 3 is being released by the end of this month. The instructors have rated the instructional/review videos as overall excellent. HTP plans to continue to create more online instructional modules to support instructors to be the best they can be.
The 2 CD set: Healing Touch Meditations: Guided Practices to Awaken Healing Energy for Yourself and Others (by Cynthia Hutchison), continues to be a very popular product, now in its fourth year of Sounds True Publications success. We now have four products through Sounds True, a highly respected holistic education production company, helping to bring Healing Touch Program to thousands more across the world.
Healing Touch Japan has been growing by leaps and bounds thanks to Rumi Hashimoto, HTCP/I and Katrina Habata, HTCP. They have brought HTP class Levels 1 - 4 to over 500 nurses in Japan over the last two years.
We could not have accomplished these achievements without the support and dedication of so many instructors, coordinators, practitioners and students. As staff and leaders of HTP, Lisa Gordon and I wish to heartfully thank you for all that you have done to bring healing and compassion to so many around the world. We look forward to 2015 being another year of significant accomplishment to our worldwide community as we continue to manifest more and more of our vision...."Healing Touch in every home, health care facility, school and hospital"! Stay tuned!!
 With a grateful heart and wishes for many blessings during this Season of Light and Holy Nights,
Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, HTCP/I
Educational Program Director
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Healing Touch Certification Updates
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We are happy to report that Healing Touch Certification has had an awesome year! Thank you to all that have renewed your certification or have applied for certification during 2014! We are very proud of our HTCP's that are now accredited by NCCA.
Congratulations to the 2014 New HTCIs
 Shirley Ballantyne, Catherine Borysewicz, Dorothy Kuckuck, Roberta M. Lewis, Katie Oberlin, Isle Polonko, Amielle Moyer, Nancy Sehnert, Johanna Keefe, Judith Villegas, Susan H. Johnson, Arlene Mauney, Sue Walker
Congratulations to the 2014 New HTCPs  J eannette Barczak, JoAnne Bartz, Mary Elizabeth Berkun, Jill Berrong, Elizabeth Blackman, Sue Brady, Lynda Brooks, Felicia Marie Bush, Paulette Carpenter, Marcia Conroy, Kathleen Costa, Kathy Cuddeback, Diana Czekalski, Lucrecia Milagro Darling, Velice Decker, Jessica Duggan, Nancy Esch, Anna Marie Friedberg, Julie A. Hamann, Mary Pat Hank, Lou C. Hipps, Katharine Holzmer, Heather M. Hutson, Lillian Johnson, Pam Johnson, Janice Joyce, Ingrida Kancans-McLaughlin, Kimberly Kuppenheimer, Vivien Joy Lamadrid, Megan Larsen, Karen Lease, Ellen Sidonia Lenz, Janan Leya, Terry Loe, Cathy Lucchesi-Gedda, Cristiana Manole, Linda M. Martin, Susan Kay Martin, Megan MacCarthy, Pamela McConville, Sharon Mirman, Leslie A. Newell, Richard Newell, Robin Newland, Barbara Pacca, Lyria (Elaine) Pascal, Linda Anne Poelzl, Sherry Tina Pryor, Claudia Denice Riggs, Ilona Robinson, Katy Rosemont, Kay M. Ryan, Nancy Schappert, Pamela L. Searles, Katrina N. Shibata, Jayne Southard, Sylvia M. Stone, Flora Taboada Vazquez, Heather Lynne Talley, Terri Terhaar, Louise Underwood, Judith Voisine, Rosemary Walter, Jennifer Williams, Mary Woolson, Barbara S. Zimmaro All of our HTCP Practitioners have met the requirements and qualifications and are officially awarded Board Certified Credential HTCP which is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Attention all HTCPs - We need your HELP! We have a short survey to gather the information about the value of your HTCP certification. We are excited to know how your accredited credential has helped you in your job or practice and would like to share with potential HTCP candidates. Thank you for your help! |
HTPA - Community Connections
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The View from my row in the HTPA garden
By Dawn Warnaca, HTCP/I
Do you know what outdoor gardener enthusiast do during the winter months? I am told that the very best gardeners keep gardening all year long. When winter weather keeps them inside, they think, dream, and talk about both the upcoming season, and the last. Healing Touch is what I am planning on cultivating once again this spring. I am poring over the Qualified Mentor Training Course, planning my office schedule, and gearing up for an upcoming Level 4/5.
What are your thoughts digging up? HTPA sponsors a monthly Let's Chat conversation designed to invite each and every one of you to share what you are pondering, excited about or have a question around.
These calls are the last Monday of every month, our conversation from the November 24th Let's Chat began around the topic of 'Working on family and friends over the holidays?"
We had over 20 people attend this call, and only a couple folks signed on to the webcast. I'm sorry - to those of you who tried to dial in and to some who even got a different recording. Seems we had a technical difficulty with the link, and many were unable to get through. Darn these details, just like a phone number, if you get just one wrong, the whole system runs resistance.
I did discover why some callers prefer the webcast to phoning in. One caller said it is easier to write in questions and comments, not having to be concerned with accidently speaking over another caller, and another commented that when listening on the webcast there is no concern about the family dog barking up a storm in the next room. I am beginning to accept that conference calling is getting more and more mainstream, and encourage you to TRY IT. Give yourself space to be uncomfortable, while you learn to navigate the *2 to raise your hand, and *6 to mute yourself. We are happy to have you on the call, whichever way you choose, but I personally love to hear your voice.
We did talk about working on family members, we heard from Sherri who did Healing Touch on her mother every day during a three-week visit, with lovely outcome that lasted weeks upon her moms return home. Other callers found it better to not be their spouses 'therapist' regardless of modality, for example massage, but instead to suggest that close relatives find their self care support outside of the family home. Another caller works almost exclusively with family, and having experienced three deaths (in the family) in little over a year, finds that Healing Touch is invaluable for her family dynamics.
Some use Healing Touch to help their children get settled down for sleep, or a just a few minutes of Magnetic Passes/Hands in Motion when they have woken up after a nightmare. Some discussion took place around boundaries and asking spouses and family members to set an appointment for Energy Work, and not expect to receive a session upon arriving home from a bad day at the office.
 We were reminded about the available youtube video called Healing Power of Energy, a 12 minute video by Katie Gerhard. It is a wonderful introduction to what Healing Touch and Energy Work is, and how it works. Donna told us that she often refers potential clients to this video, and has found it helpful as an introduction before a first session.
Another caller brought up how important positive intention is in setting mutual goals. Instead of setting a goal of lowering pain, this caller suggests a positive intention, for example the opposite of pain for one client might be a sense of peace and joy. One suggestion was made to flip the scale - try using 0 for the negative and 10 is best. How would the client rate their sense of joy, with an intention of a better rate after the session.
Please join us at our next Chat on:
Monday December 29, 2015 6 pm Pacific / 7 pm Mountain / 8 pm Central / 9 pm Eastern
our opening topic will be: 2014 in review and 2015 New Years Resolutions. Join us!
 This call is a live discussion aimed to support Healing Touch practice. These calls are open to all, for sharing HT stories and discussing practice issues. The goal is to provide time to share what is going on in local HT communities, ask questions of each other and learn from other practitioner's experiences.
All are welcome to join
By phone: Call (425) 440-5100 and use access code 546360#
Or click here to join the online webcast
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Holiday Gift Ideas
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Reduced price - 75% off!
Get your 2015 Energy Magazine Calendar now only $4.00 each!
These make great gifts and supports Energy Magazine!
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HTPA Professional Development "Live" Interview
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January HTPA Practitioner and Business Support
"Live" Interview
Thursday, January 8, 2015 9pm Eastern
Join Dawn Warnaca as she interviews Ann Marie Chiasson, MD. Ann Marie Chiasson has a private integrative practice in Tucson, AZ, where she offers consultations, treatments, seminars, and retreats. She teaches at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, and facilitates spirituality and healing conferences. She is the author of the Energy Healing home study course and coauthor of Self-Healing with Energy Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil. More information can be found at: annmariechiassonmd.com.
Bio: Ann Marie Chiasson, MD has spent a number of years exploring and practicing Energy Medicine which is the ancient art of working with the subtle or energy body to improve health and vitality. Dr. Chiasson incorporates  integrative family medicine along with hands on healing and other techniques that change, stimulate, add or shift the underlying energy that is associated with the disease process and utilizes the transformational tools of meditation, movement, dream work, psychospiritual counseling, and indigenous healing practices. In addition to her private integrative medicine practice, she teaches and has authored Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self Care (Sounds True, 2013).
Please join us for this HTPA Interview call on January 8th. Ann Marie will share some of her personal stories with energy work, and some Self-Care practices that we can all take home.
We look forward to having you join us!
Free for HTPA Members and $15 for non-members.
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HTWF Updates
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December is here!
It is time to count the Year's Blessings
and Celebrate our Successes for 2014.
 Your generosity made this year's fundraising events a Great Success, RAISING $55,360!
- Funds raised from 2 regional conferences $ 5,260
- Funds raised at the HTP Worldwide conference $27,715
- Funds raised from 4 Heel to Heal races $16,450
- Funds raised from online raffles $ 6,475
We are extremely grateful to all who supported us in our events, those making donations and for the support, enthusiasm and energy created from our Heel to Heal races. We also would like to extend a special thank you to the SPONSORS who made the races possible.
In this Season of Giving we Thank You for giving abundantly to the Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation a 501(c)(3) Corporation. We wish you joy-filled holidays and a prosperous new year.
HTWF: Opportunities for Community Visibility
As you plan your calendar for 2015, share your talents with Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation (HTWF). We are growing and becoming known, not only to our HT members, but also to other organizations within energy medicine.
In 2014, HTWF spent time developing a dynamic organizational chart with defined positions for Board and Committee members. HTWF is seeking individuals with the following skills: graphic design, writing, advertising, fundraising, ecommerce, administration etc. Our goal is to raise $100,000 in 2015! With your expertise we will achieve our goal. Funds are granted to qualified applicants doing research, service and international education.
In gratitude of the legacy Janet gave us, your service will help spread Healing Touch Worldwide. We are asking you to give us a call or drop an email to: Roberta Lewis [email protected], cell 714-376-4178 or Norm Morrow: [email protected], phone (281) 463-1915.
Watch for the new organizational chart and job descriptions being placed on the HTWF website. This is a "Fabulous Experience".
The Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1997 by the Healing Touch Program founder, Janet L. Mentgen, RN, BSN, HNC, HTCP/I. Our mission is to receive and distribute funds to assist, encourage and advance the philosophy, objectives and techniques of Healing Touch. Funding is available!!! Please consider applying for a Research, Education, or Service grant. Click here for Grant Information.
Please email us at [email protected] if you have an item to donate for an upcoming raffle. We are always seeking new products or services that will excite our community.
Thank you so much for your continued support.
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November/December 2014 - Energy Magazine
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 Featured in this month's Energy Magazine:
- Holistic Nursing: Ushering in a New Paradigm of Healing and Wellness by Lucia Thornton
- Discover Your ExtraOrdinary Life Through the Akashic Records by Linda Howe
- Four Key Tips to Help You Bridge the Chasm Between Traditional Western Medicine and Energy Medicine by Astrid Pujari
- Caring Science and The Intersection with Healing Touch by Jean Watson
Energy Magazine is a free, on-line bi-monthly publication, providing information about energy medicine. Energy Magazine offers articles and monthly columns, written by leaders in the field, that relate to energy medicine modalities, research, disease, healing, developing a business and much more.
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Let NANDA Know What You Think
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What does NANDA do?
NANDA provides the world's leading evidence-based nursing diagnoses for use in practice and to determine interventions and outcomes.
Why you matter - NANDA is working on terminology developments. A recent example has to do with the diagnosis: Disturbed Energy Field (00050), which was accepted into their terminology in 1994 (prior to implementation of the level of evidence criteria). In 2011, NANDA received concerns about this diagnosis from those who were concerned about the lack of evidence. NANDA is now revising their terms and this diagnosis is currently under review due to concerns raised regarding the scientific level of evidence available to maintain it within the taxonomy, so it may or may not remain in the next edition (2015-2017), depending on that review. When the diagnosis was accepted, NANDA did not have Level of Evidence Criteria, and they are reviewing all diagnoses that were grandfathered in to the taxonomy at the time that those criteria were adopted.
This term has not yet been removed from NANDA's list of nursing diagnoses. Feel free to comment on the website with your opinion on this, your voice may impact whether or not this term is removed from NANDA's list of diagnoses.
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2015 Shadowcliff Retreat with Sound Healing
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Join Cynthia Hutchison for the 2015 Shadowcliff Retreat with Sound Healing - June 20-23 at Grand Lake, CO. Based on the success of the 2012 and 2014 Shadowcliff Retreats, I am planning a third for June 20-23, 2015. Visit www.BoulderHealingTouch.com my website, to view the photo albums, evaluations of attendees and to view a short video invitation.
The theme of 2015 Retreat is dual: Sacred Geometry in Energy Medicine AND Sound Healing as a Portal to Our Cosmic Roots.
At the 2014 Shadowcliff Retreat, Ken Goff, sound healing musician and gong master, provided three successive evening gong immersions plus gonging during some of our body prayer practices. We will gather with fellow holistic practitioners to share in conversation and practices while alternating with soulful quiet time to open to revelations about one's life and practice. I hope to see you there! Cynthia |
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HT Online Survey- We Want to Hear From You
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Opportunity to Participate!
 Tim McConville HTCP/I and Margaret Moga PhD have created an online survey for HT practitioners and students, which is open to non-HT practitioners as well.
Have you ever experienced unusual sensations during your practice of HT?
Have you seen or felt energetic structures, such as chakras or meridians?
We are interested in hearing about your extraordinary experiences during Healing Touch.
Any level may participate, including HT students, practitioners and instructors. All survey responses are anonymous. To participate, or for more information, see our HT Practitioner Survey Webpage
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HTP's Upcoming 2015 California Symposium
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Save the Date: April 18 & 19, 2014
9th Annual Regional Symposium
The Art & Science of Healing Touch
Kona Kai Resort
 Saturday April 18th - Pre Symposium with four outstanding optional workshops on self care and growing your practice, free HT-Sessions, Networking Hour and Pinning Ceremony (Up to 6 CEs).
Sunday April 19th - Two uplifting keynote speakers will deliver experiential presentations to take your heart and practice to higher vibrations. (5CEs)
All week-end long - Plenty of free time for visiting with friends , making new connections, enjoying exhibits, and basking in the beachfront ambiance.
Want to know more? Please visit http://www.healingtouchcalifornia.com/2015-symposium.html
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Healing Touch Association of Canada 2015 Conference
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Upcoming AHNA News
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AHNA's 35th Annual Conference
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GROUNDED IN HOLISTIC NURSING
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We're getting back to our ROOTS in Branson, MO.
Come get GROUNDED IN HOLISTIC NURSING!
Learn how to utilize holism in your daily practice.
Industry Leading Exhibitors
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"Oh the things you can find, if you don't stay behind!" ~ Dr. Seuss
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