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Director Letter
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Dear ,
Welcome to the 2nd quarter HTPA Newsletter! The past three months have been a whirlwind of activity for HTPA! We managed to produce the HTPA 2014 Annual Report, be a part of interviews with Karen Drucker, Dr. Penny Burdick, and Laurie Keene, attendance at the 9th annual California Symposium in San Diego, represent HTPA at the AHNA Conference in Branson MO., AND hold the HTPA Annual Membership Meeting - whew!
Dawn Warnaca and Sue Walker at AHNA Conference
I also got to mix business with pleasure, by visiting Sharon Scandrett- Hibdon's equestrian farm in Iowa. Sharon helps Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation (HTWF) by making a donation - of a 5-day visit to her farm - available at auction at HTPs worldwide conference. What fun it was to ride horses, hike the tallest biking bridge in the U.S. and simply bask in the homegrown feel of the Iowa cornfields. Heartfelt hospitality and delighftful storytelling, It was fun to hear stories of the early days with Janet, and also inspiring to see that Healing Touch is something that continues as a heart centered work in the lives of the Healing Touch elders in our community. Thank you Sharon for the vacation and encouagement!
Sharon, Ralph, Mike and Dawn in Iowa
The Pacific Northwest was in the national news recently, and as is the current trend with national news, sure enough it was bad news. The New York Times reported the predictions about a long overdue West Coast earthquake, and the devastation expected from not only the earthquake, but resulting tsunami. The timing seems more than interesting, in light of a recent grant HTPA has applied for through HTWF. If approved, HTPA would have a line item donation account open, to help HTP students and practitioners receive training for Emergency Response (training, deployment, and donations). HTPA currently has a grant potential available to help support Military Outreach - in any number of ways. If you would like more information about how you can donate to, or apply for Military Grant funding for your activity, please contact director@htprofessionalassociation.com
Healing Touch Professional Association: Here to help BUILD, SUPPORT and EXPAND your Practice.
 Together, we are the
Heart of Healing Touch,
Dawn Warnaca, HTCP/I
Acting Executive Director
Healing Touch Professional Association
director@htprofessionalassociation.com
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NEW! CE Offerings
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 NEWEST BENEFIT FOR HTPA MEMBERS
We excited to announce that we are now offering Continuing Education Contact Hours for selected HTPA monthly business calls.
Our members have been asking us for educational opportunities and CE credit for things they participate in with HTPA. We have been working with the Lead Nurse Planner at HTP, Sue Erlewine, to make this possible for the HTPA business calls.
Our first three offering are now found in the Healing Touch Store under Educational Offerings. The calls are free to listen to and the CE credits are a low cost of $10- 15 for members and $15-20 for the public for 1.0 or more CE Contact Hour (see coupon for HTPA members below). We will be continually adding to this, so check back often!
How to get your CE Certificate
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- Add the item you are interested in to the store cart
- Completed payment
- You will receive a download, from the HT Store, that will contain a mp3 recording of the call and an evaluation form to fill out.
- Send in your competed evaluation to the HTP office and you will receive an electronic certificate with your CE credits to the email address you provided.
Here are the first three items available for CE Credit:
Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
 Healing Touch Program is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider (#150588-00).
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Save $5
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Special Savings for HTPA Members!
HTPA members only- save $5 off any CE offering through the HTPA Store. Use coupon code: HTPASAVE5
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Insurance Initiative Update
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 The HTPA Insurance Initiative committee sent out a survey on Healing Touch Clinical Use on July 14, 2015. This survey was created to help find out just how prevalent Healing Touch has become, so that we can use that as justification when we are applying with the American Medical Association (AMA) to get Healing Touch added as a reimbursable service.
We have asked everyone in our HT community that is using Healing Touch professionally or knows of a facility that uses Healing Touch to participate in this survey. We are very pleased with the participation so far and the results are enlightening.
To date 405 individuals have completed the survey!
Here is just a taste of the details from the survey we have gathered.
- 57% reported that they provide HT in a Healthcare setting
- 39% said that HT is part of their regular job.
- 79% of request for HT comes from Patients and 47% are family requested.
- 5 people reported billing for HT through insurance
- Pain is the #1 (91%) reason people seek HT Treatments and stress and anxiety are close seconds.
If you have not taken the survey yet, we would appreciate your participation.
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HTPA Annual Meeting - Follow Up
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 The Annual HTPA Membership Meeting was
Thursday, June 25, 2015
I want to once again thank the many of you that participated in the HTPA Survey, and the Annual Membership Meeting. For those of you that were unable to attend, please listen in and follow along with the slides by going to: 2015 HTPA Annual Membership Meeting
Every year we like to give away a gift to encourage our members to participate in our survey and annual meeting. This year our winners are...
- Bonnie Bailey: Who will receive a Two set Healing Touch CD - for taking the survey
- Karolyn Howard: A one year HTPA membership - for attending the HTPA annual meeting in person
 The 2015 HTPA Annual report is available on line for your to review. Please take a moment and see how your professional association is supporting you in your practice. We would appreciate you sharing this link with your students and colleagues that are not currently HTPA members.
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Albany, NY Healing Touch Regional Conference
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 Plan to join HTPA at the
Healing Touch
Eastern Regional Conference
Spirit-Filled Healers Journeying Together
Albany, NY
October 16-17, 2015
Keynotes:
Cindy Palajac -Sacred Hands, Sacred Heart Your hands hold a sacred energy of love to heal yourself and others. That sacred energy comes from your heart. Come explore how using your hands in a playful way expresses who you are. Experience hand reflexology, hand mudras and hand holding as ways to send energy to yourself or another person. Let your light shine through your hands. Barbara Evans -The Art of Raising FrequencyRaising Frequency is the key to raising consciousness, activating a deep connection with our true inner essence, releasing our inner healing abilities, and achieving our full potential. The Art of Raising Frequency introduces the unique high vibrational art of transformational healing artist and award winning Author Barbara Evans. This multisensory experience guides participants on a journey of self-exploration and personal growth, as they take a deep dive into the world of Sacred Geometry, Mandalas, Crystal Energies and Sacred Sound. Insights and energetic support gained from the interaction with these new and innovative tools reflect out in all aspects of life, both personal and professional, and at the same time offers an experience filled with joy and playfulness.
Registration to be opened soon. Watch you email for more details.
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HTPA Professional Development
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INTERVIEWS KEEP ON INSPIRING
 What fun it was to interview Donna Eden on July 9, 2015. Donna was just bursting with enthusiasm not only for her own Eden Medicine program, but also for Energy Medicine in General - and Healing Touch in particular! Donna overcame MS using energy methods and is simply contagious in her desire to share the simple yet profound energy medicine practices available. Click here if you missed the call, and would like to listen in: HTPA Support Calls
These calls are a FREE benefit to HTPA members.
Coming up next month - Join us for an interview
David Feinstein, Ph.D: Ethics for Energy Healing Practitioners.
 DAVID FEINSTEIN, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who has been a pioneer in developing innovative therapeutic approaches, leading to nine national awards for his books on consciousness and energy healing. He was the recipient of the U.S. Book News Best Psychology/Mental Health Book Award of 2007. He has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Antioch College. Author of Ethics Handbook for Energy Healing Practitioners
August 13th, 2015
6:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Mountain/8:00pm Central/9:00pm Eastern .
This call is free to HTPA members, $15.00 for guests.
Scheduled interviews for the rest of this year:
- Richard Schulman, composer and musician
- Lisa Gordon, on using Social Media to expand your Internet accessibility
- Sister Rita Jean, teaching us the "Diamond technique"
- Marilee Tolen to round out the year with Vibrational Marketing and Self Care!
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The second support call that HTPA sponsors is the monthly "Live Chat" call. This call is about Healing Touch Practice, experiences and Support. This call is open to any student or practitioner of Healing Touch and is monitored by an Healing Touch Certified Instructor. Topics include specific work with ailments and diseases, practice issues, client questions, business questions and more.
This call is on the last Monday of the month.
By phone call-in (206) 402-0100 access code 546360# or join by webcast: (each month has it's own link) see HTPA website for links.August 31 Chakra Spread - how have you used this technique Sept 28 Self care when its busy - harvest time Oct. 26 Fall back- next week. Does the time change affect you? Nov 30 Gratitude, what are you thankful for? Dec 28 Janet's birthday was Dec. 18th- what do you remember about Janet? Or 2015 in review
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VETERANS STAND DOWN: Coeur d'Alene, ID
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 Sharon Fletcher, RN-BC, HTCP/I, CCHT shared recently about the May 9 th, 2015 Coeur d'Alene Idaho Veterans Stand Down. There were four HT volunteers, with a total of 20 hours of service provided. 22 people received sessions, 16 of those were Veterans. Interesting enough, 21 of the 22 people receiving Healing Touch reported pain prior to their session, 12 of these reported a 50 to 100% decrease in their pain! 20 of the 22 also reported stress and/or anxiety before the session, with again, 12 again, reporting a 50 to 100% reduction of symptoms.
The most frequent response was how relaxing the Healing Touch session are. Sharon felt that the presence of Healing Touch added a "positive element of holistic healing" to the Stand Down.
THANK YOU Sharon, and your volunteers for giving your time and talents to our Veterans and their families.
 REMEMBER: Volunteer Aprons are available upon request - these are very helpful in uniting your volunteer team at any Healing Touch Volunteer Event - send your request EARLY to: info@htprofessionalassociation.com
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Want to get involved at Stand Down's -
Here is a link to the 2015 schedule of US Dept. of Veteran's Affairs STAND DOWNS -
http://www.va.gov/homeless/events.asp
From California to Florida to Alaska and
so many places in-between, these events
are already in place.
Consider calling or e-mailing the local Stand Down contact to see if space is available for you to volunteer to help our homeless Veterans.
E-mail HTPA for more information:info@htprofessionalassociation.com
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HTPA Chapter Happenings
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WEST COAST GATHERINGS
THIS SUMMER AND FALL
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Healing Touch Professional Association Oregon Chapter
2nd Annual Healing Touch Gathering
August 8, 2015 11:00-on
Hammond's Cabin Little North Fork of the Santiam (Off Of Hwy 22)
Bring your drinks and something to share; swim suits; massage table, if you want, for exchanges; woods type clothing. Sorry, NO DOGS.
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Healing Touch Professional Association - Western Washington Chapter
September POTLUCK & POETRY
September 26th, 2015, 11am to 4pm at the farm of Mike and Dawn Warnaca
2.5 hr Speaker/workshop with Sharon Fletcher and Dawn Warnaca
Poetry as Healer - using creative expression for Self Care
Bring your own chair : )
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HERE IS WHAT CHAPTERS ARE SAYING
SOUTHERN NEVADA
Kathy reports that this group has chosen to use articles or techniques out of Energy Magazine as a focus when they get together. One month they learned the Self-Mind Clearing and another they studied Connecting Heaven and Earth both from the March/April 2015 issue.
This Chapter is going to have a SOCIAL in August - calling it: "A Summer afternoon of Tranquility".
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AUSTRALIA
We now have two Australia HTPA Chapters - one on each side of the country. Welcome - Brisbane! If you would like to send news from your chapter across the globe, please write to Margo at: mar0yoga@bigpond.com
The Albany HTPA Chapter reports that with generous donations, they have purchased two treatment tables for use at Chapter gatherings! Gillian (the Chapter Lead) also reporting that their group regularly uses Skype to connect with students too far away to attend the meetings. What a great idea as it is so important for those geographically "isolated to be encouraged and reassured that they ARE a part of of the bigger picture for HTP."
If your Chapter is having a special gathering and you would like to have it listed in our next quarterly newsletter... please send your information to: director@htprofessionalassociation.com
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Liability Insurance for your Practice
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Professional Liability and General Liability Insurance
Available Directly through HTPA!
The HTPA Member Liability Insurance Program has been specifically tailored for Healing Touch students, practitioners and instructors, including other related modalities. The annual cost of coverage for liability insurance for HTPA members is quite low - starting at $125 for students and $150 for practitioners.
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ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION
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HTPA: Build, Support and Expand
Our Vision
Healing Touch Practitioners are fully recognized as vital professionals in all aspects of health care.
Our Purpose
- HTPA unites and gives voice to our Members while providing support for high level Healership and successful Healing Practice.
- With cutting-edge Professional and Business Development Tools, HTPA offers all Healing Touch Students and Practitioners, resources to be a qualified health care team member as Healing Touch takes its rightful place as a valid, sought after practice in every health care setting.
- HTPA promotes adherence to the Healing Touch Program Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.
- HTPA provides avenues for community building through Community Connections, offering opportunities to actively participate in Service Outreach, local Chapters and Networking.
- HTPA is a conduit for information regarding the new profession of Energy Practice, keeping our membership informed about new research, changes in health care delivery and legislative issues that affect their practice.
Fax 210-497-8532
Website: www.HTProfessionalAssociation.com
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. weekdays. Voicemail on after hours.
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