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Dear ,
 Gentle rain falls here in the Pacific Northwest and the grey skies are a perfect complement for the evergreen trees that dominate the view out my window. My family, like so many others was painfully affected by the lack of rainfall this past summer. The near drought conditions, in particular over on the Eastern part of Washington State resulted in a massive fire that affected over 132 thousand acres. This fire started from at least five lightening strikes - on the same day, in and around the same countywide area. Our family has property in the fire zone know as the Okanogan Complex Fire. I expected our property to escape damage as it had the year before - sadly we lost everything.
FROM VICTIM TO FIRST RESPONDER
Are you familiar with HTPA's Community Connections? It is the Volunteer branch of Healing Touch Professional Association. I helped Sharon Robbins develop the Disaster Response committee and imagine my surprise when I got the deployment request from Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT) to support the First Responders at the Okanogan Complex Fire! A simplistic description of GCAT is that it trains volunteers in Field Traumatology and Compassion Fatigue. For more information, please go to: http://www.greencross.org
I spent five days working with GCAT at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and was pleased to work on 5 or more first responders a day - doing, YES, Healing Touch. There were so many things I learned! It was an honor to be deployed - perhaps the dual relationship of being both first responder and victim complicated the experience.
After my shift ended with GCAT I drove up to our property, now clear for owners to enter, and walked the moonscape in absolute amazement at the devastation. Everything man made - was just gone. The buildings seemed to have melted into the earth with only the metal roofing at ground level remaining, but hardly recognizable.
The rain has let up; the soft afternoon sunlight filters through the clouds and highlights the dozen different greens surrounding my Western Washington home. The Fall season is In full swing, and I welcome the 'time change'. Click here to see more information on Community Connections, and read on to find out all the HTPA activities this past three months!
Please especially note the new articles by Renee Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D, HTCP, and Ramona Rolle-Berg Ph.D, HTCP! These women are now Producers of the HTPA Interviews as well as the Let's Chat calls and have so much to offer our community. Also in this and future newsletters you will find contributions from our community about books they are reading. Thank you, Frances Malone and Barbara Litchfield for sharing what you are reading about. There are also snapshot happenings from many HTPA Chapters included, keep scrolling, and thank you for taking the time to read YOUR HTPA 3rd Quarter Newsletter.
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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2nd Quarter HTPA Highlights
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HTPA highlights for the last few months include the launching of our new Membership Site! Ann Darmester, HTPA executive assistant, has been focused on not just the research of the very best new format - but the implementation and execution of all the necessary details to bring this new look, feel and support to HTPA and our membership.
NEW MEMBERSHIP FORMAT
We - and by that I mean Ann, transferred all the information from the previous site that she was allowed to do - it is a little bit like moving your address book from an old phone to the new one, with one major difference. It is not possible - and for good reason, for anyone to transfer your personal payment information across digital platforms. For our members that have previously paid for their membership with revolving credit - you will be prompted to enter this information at the time of your next renewal. If you have any questions don't hesitate to give our office a call. (210) 497-5529.
TO CONFIRM that your information seamlessly shifted --- please, check out YOUR information by going to the login site above, and clicking on "My Profile". Then click "edit" to add, edit or improve your PROFESSIONAL information. If you currently to not have a photo - I encourage you to attach one.
Here a just a few of the new features you will find in the new membership website:
| Member Directory - The HTPA Member Directory offers you networking capabilities with other members.
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| Forum - The HTPA Forum is an opportunity to connect quickly and easily with other members about questions you may have or subjects you wish to discuss.
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| Education Center - Sponsored by HTPA, the Education Center offers monthly calls with leaders in the field of Energy Medicine and business, as well as leaders in other fields. These calls are free to HTPA members and can be joined live or listened to as time allows via a free recording. Registration is required. In addition, some calls offer Continuing Education Credit. Review all of the opportunities.
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| Tip and Tools - Sponsored by EMPI (Energy Medicine Professional Insurance) this section is designed for the practitioner. The tips and tools range from how to set up your office to ethical considerations - you will want to check out the selection.
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| Blog - Our blog offers insights and information of benefit your Healing Touch practice. Be sure to check out the recent post.
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| Membership Renewal - It has never been easier to renew your professional membership. Change your member level, profile information or simply renew with your current information
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INTERVIEWS
The HTPA Interviews with Laurie Keene, Dean of the Barbara Brennen School, Donna Eden, and David Feinstein, Ph.D. (May, June & July) were fascinating and inspiring. Did you know that bit by bit, these interviews are becoming available for Continuing Education - in the HTPA Education Center. We currently have three calls available for you to listen to AND get 1 hour CE. The three calls include Walle Adams-Gerts "implementing HT into a Hospital Environment", Karen Drucker "Staing Inspired and in Business" and David Feinstein's "Ethics for Energy Healing Practitioners". If you missed these - go to: HTPA Education Center
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HTPA members only- save $5 off any CE offering through the HTPA Education Center.
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HEALTHCARE NEWS YOU CAN USE
 Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D & Renee Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D |
Producers of HTPA Interviews and Conversations that Matter
In each newsletter, Drs. Renee and Ramona will present a selection of news bites with a focus on practitioner health, energy medicine research and professional practice opportunities to help you grow in your practice. This is another valuable resource available only to HTPA members
The Precision Medicine Initiative�
By Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D., MS., HTCP
Last January, in his State of the Union address, President Obama announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative� (PMI). This initiative is an incredible opportunity to advance research and expand medical knowledge about how to treat disease and improve health. The PMI is focused upon leveraging advances in genomics and emerging methods for managing and analyzing large electronic data sets to speed up biomedical discoveries.
The PMI will incorporate data from a set of participants the National Institutes of Health has dubbed the Cohort. This research cohort will include a million or more volunteers living in the U.S., and be assembled beginning sometime in 2016 and onward for several years. These volunteers, children and adults both, will contribute health data from electronic health records, and health survey information, over many years in an effort to improve medical health outcomes, spur new treatment development, and catalyze data-based diagnoses/treatm  ent plans and more precise preventive care and medical treatment. (within HIPPA guidelines) Data collected includes information on lifestyle habits, genetics, and environmental exposures with participants undergoing standard baseline physicals including blood work. Because privacy and security were viewed as critical elements of PMI goals, maintaining data security and privacy was paramount in the planning stages of the PMI. In return for participation, the PMI has been designed to afford the cohort the highest level of access to their study results, along with aggregated results from all study participants.
The PMI is not looking to focus on a specific disease. Rather, research is focused on identifying successful and novel treatment approaches (such as those already found for certain cancers) and ways to increase longevity in the presence of disease.
For HTPs and our clients, membership in the cohort could be very beneficial. Not only will we have access to study results (research opportunities here!) but yearly physical and blood test labs may be paid for by cohort participation.
What to know more? Here's the link:
U.S. Adults Spend Billions Out-of-Pocket on Complementary Approaches
By Ren�e Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D., MS, HTCP
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) reported in August that the money being spent by U.S. adults on complementary health approaches to treat or manage pain was $14.9 billion according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of 5467 adults. That's a huge number. Three annual interviews of tens of thousands of Americans using the NHIS in 2002, 2007, and 2012, allowed researchers to examine 14 pain conditions in an effort to correlate total cost data for arthritis, dental pain, fibromyalgia, gout, inflammatory bowel disease, jaw pain, joint pain or stiffness/other joint condition, lupus, regular headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, sprains or strains, back pain or problem, neck pain or problems, and severe headaches or migraines.
Highlights from the research findings included:
1) Back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and arthritis brought in the highest out-of-pocket spending for complementary approaches ($13.7 billion total)
2) Back pain topped the charts as the #1 condition. US adults paid practitioners $4.7 billion to assist with back pain reduction.
The study (epublished in the Journal of Pain 8/27/2015) noted that on a per-person and per-condition basis, adults with fibromyalgia spent the most out-of-pocket (an estimated $895/year) while adults with regular headaches spent the least ($568/year). The authors noted that these two groups spent the most on visits to complementary practitioners while adults with sprains/strains spent the least.
For HTPs, the results of this study support our healthcare goals for our clients and our profit goals for our businesses. It focuses our attention on the economic impact of specific pain conditions, and presents opportunities for specialization if the inclination and available population exists.
Here's the link if you want to read more:
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What we LOVE Reading
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THANK YOU so much to our contributing authors in this edition of HTPA's Quarterly Newsletter. Frances Malone and Barbara Litchfiled offered to share a bit about what they have recently read. Notice that Frances' is structured more in the BOOK REFLECTION style requested when preparing for Level 5, while Barbara's shares a style of BOOK REVIEW.
BOOK REFLECTION -
by Frances Malone, HTCP
by Janet Conner
Conari Press (January 1, 2009)
This book helped me in ways that were far beyond my expectations. Janet's style of writing is direct and honest. The quotes from poets and sages are very helpful to the process of learning and listening. There were pages where I think my soul jumped for joy because I was beginning to really understand what it and I needed on a daily basis. You are comforted and challenged by the process and come to the end of the book a different person. The instructions for the process of learning to journal on a soul level are clear and concise. Janet helps you to develop a sacred ritual to help keep you centered. Her four steps of: Show up; Open up; Listen up; and Follow up may sound elementary but the depths of who you are as a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being is revealed in the process. It is like doing a deep chelation process on yourself through writing.
This book brought about a way of writing that I had not experienced before. I started writing in my diary as a young teen and developed a whole pattern as I grew into adulthood. Writing things down in lists and on grids was my basic decision making mode. Having the tools of this book at my disposal I can get to the meat of the matter with clarity and do reflective writing about issues without going into the minutia of the situation which is an excellent tool in self-healing and self-care. Healing Touch recommends we have a regular practice of self-care and this book and form of journaling has helped me in daily care and in the Intentional Creativity groups I have participated.
Highly recommend to anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of their own life or is on a journey to discover their purpose and talents. Easy to read and has many diagrams that help you develop your own style of journaling on a soul level. This book has many references of great poets; defines difference between journaling and soul writing; and even provides a 30 day writing log to help you develop your practice. This book will begin a journey of self-discovery to many wonderful places with grace and ease.
BOOK REVIEW:
By Barbara Litchfiled, HTCP, MA, CCA, HTCP
By Kyriacos C. Markides
Penguin Books; Reprint edition (February 1, 1989)
Enter the world of Spyros Sathi. . .the Magus of Strovolos. Be introduced to him by the firsthand experiences of Kyriacos C. Markides, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, who, on sabbatical from his position, witnessed and recorded the incredible healings of Spyros Sathi. This is a world mysticism and spirituality. While these words may seem flat but when "Daskalos," as Sathi became known, introduces concepts such as: etheric double, exomatosis, the noetic body and elementals among many others, he pulls the reader into a new realm. This is a realm of maneuvering the mind and etheric material to facilitate miracles. Indeed, Daskalos healed those who doctors had given up on. He thought of himself as " doctor of the soul and whose primary mission was to alleviate the pain of the suffering.
This is an astonishing read. . .but one so very important to humanity. Markides recorded easy meditation techniques to keep the etheric double of each person healthy and vital. In fact, the founder of the Healing Touch, Janet Mentgen, incorporated the Etheric Vitality Meditation into the program for their practitioners to not only utilize for themselves but also for their clients. Working toward the client's best and highest good is the goal of the program, which is very much in alignment with the mission of the Magus of Strovolos. It's highly recommended. While the book was published in the 1989 it has much relevance today.
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HTPA Professional Development
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INTERVIEWS KEEP ON INSPIRING
Click here if you missed one of our previous interview calls, and would like to listen in: Archived Interviews
These calls are a FREE benefit to HTPA members.
COMING UP
Join me November 12th, 6pm Pacific time to learn: The Diamond Technique AND Self Mind Clearing. Sr. Rita Jean Dubrey, and Dr. Penny Burdick will guide us through learning these two techniques!
This call is free to HTPA members, $15.00 for guests. To register for this event, click:
Marilee Tolen to round out the year with Vibrational Marketing and Self Care in December.
NOTE: We are lining up next years interviews! For 2016 - these calls will be moving to the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
2016 Theme: The Science/Spirit Partnership
We have invited an array of professionals in the Energy Medicine Field to join us and will keep you informed on who, what, when and where.
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HTPA also sponsors a monthly "Live Chat" call. This call is about Healing Touch Practice, experiences and Support and is open to any student or practitioner of Healing Touch. The call is facilitated by HTPA's Acting Director, or 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.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
New for 2016 -"Conversations That Matter"
HTPA is changing the format of our Let's Chat calls starting in January 2016. HTPA members and the new Production and Development Producers Renee Rolle-Whatley,and Ramona Rolle-Berg are excited to support these calls with inspiring topics and thought provoking conversations that will support and impact your practice. Watch for the new 2016 schedule to be posted on the HTPA website soon.
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LESSONS LEARNED - HTPA INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHT
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We learned SO much about Social Media in our October LIVE INTERVIEW, please take a minute to just read about ONE highlight from the call.
DO YOU NEED A WEBSITE?
Why wouldn't you be there when prospective clients go looking.
Do you have a website? We learned in our last interview (Oct. from Lisa Gordon, CEO of Healing Touch that "INBOUND" marketing - is completely different than traditional outbound marketing. These terms were new to me, and I found them worth learning about.
When the PROFESSIONAL is going looking for clients or sales - that is outbound marketing. Examples of outbound marketing include newspaper ads, direct mail, and even phone solicitations. It is often expensive, and dependent on your audience seeing the marketing at just the right time of their need for your product or service.
INBOUND marketing is when the client is looking for you - or what you offer. Think about how we now use the internet for finding information quickly. A website is an effective tool for a broad audience who are searching for Healing Touch. Consider the many different ways people may look for you and include those words or phrases within the text of your content. Consider using Healing Touch, but also Energy Work, Energy Medicine, Reiki (if you have training, include this)- if not, you might write content that includes - sessions look similar to Reiki with hands placed gently over appropriate places on the physical body.
DON'T WAIT for a perfect Website - get a one to five page website up - and be there when clients come looking!
If you missed it, here is a link to the HTPA interview with Lisa Gordon last month:
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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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WELCOME to a New HTPA Chapter!
Central Ohio Area Local Chapter
Chair: Janet Kevan in Worthington OH
Central Ohio Area Chapter Vision:
- To build a Healing Touch Community
- To participate in Stand Downs, Disaster Response
- To encourage and support students to move toward and obtain creditialing
- To support practitioners with lifting each other up to self care
- To participate in Healing Touch Workshops and Park/HealNew England Chapter - Chair: Pat Yetman - they took the summer off! : )th Fairs
- To present Healing Touch Program to all western medicine practitioners including hospitals to promote Integrative/Complementary Health Care
Please contact Janet for more information about this new HTPA Chapter!
2nd QUARTER HTPA CHAPTER HAPPENINGS
IDEA? Would you like to ADD a LOGO to your chapter reports below?
Perhaps a contest? Ask your chapter members if they would like to create a logo that represents YOUR Chapter and what you would like to WIN. Contact Ann at: Healing Touch Professional Association htpa@healingtouchprogram.com
Western Australia - Chair: Gillian Robertson. They are using Skype to meet with another practitioner living 5 hours away. They all joined together in meditation during the Skype session and felt the "togetherness".
Questions from this Chapter: How to attract the interest of those not attending meetings?
| Schenectady, New York - Chair: Teresa Jewett. Excitement around committed volunteers and a regular T/Th schedule at the hospital. Focus on treating nurses for compassion fatigue, this month two doctors asked for an HT session!
| Louisville, KY - Chair: Kristi Forrest. 6 attended this last group meeting, time for discussion around the calendar for coming year, and 30 minute exchanges as well as sending Healing Energy around prayer requests.
| Central MN/East WI - Chairs: Julie Weaver and Pam McConville. The September meeting focused on a presentation by Pam and Tim McConville and Ingrida
Kankans-McLaughlin on their 3 week teaching stay in Napal.
| New England Chapter - Chair: Pat Yetman - they took the summer off! : )
| Mid-Central Illinois - Chair: Chris Kaufman. "Rich Mix" of practitioners at the quarterly meeting including Healing Touch, Reiki, Barbara Brennen practitioners and one beginner. The plan was to talk for an hour, and then have group treatments, but the discussion was so deep - they decided that was just the kind of support needed! Next meeting is November 14th, they will have a Barbara Eden demonstration, and a book signing for a member that just self published a book about her personal healing journey with Reiki. This group has also started a "closed Facebook page" for group communication between meetings.
| Chicago Metro - Chair: Cossy Ksander. This chapter supported two different events for military veterans in the same week! 15 volunteers provided Healing touch to 70 people and 3 service dogs at Soldiers Field, and 7 volunteers served 22 people at the DuPage County Stand Down. They plan to continue supporting their local VA Stand Downs.
| Southern Nevada - Chair: Kathy Vanderlinden. No formal meeting, rather an open "afternoon of tranquility" at the home of one of the members. It was a great summer gathering and time to simply "be present" with on another.
| Mohawk Valley - Chair: Sr. Rita Jean DuBrey. 7 HTPA members volunteered at St. Mary's Healthcare providing 15 minute chair treatments to 54 SMHC associates from five hospital departments at an activity called: Associate Wellness Through an Energetic Approach - Healing Touch in the Workplace.
| Southern Chester County PA - Chari: Victoria Stewart. There were no official HPTA chapter meetings - Victoria's husband died in early August, and the thoughts of the Healing Touch community are touched by the honesty and reality of all that Victoria is facing and sharing with her loss.
| Oregon Chapter - Chair: Maria Anderson. They had their 2nd annual Summer Gathering, and also volunteered at the Clark County Stand Down, and continue to plan how to serve the VA in upcoming Stand Downs.
| Western North Carolina - Chair: Mary Selby. Guest speaker Rochelle Sweet, a Master Reflexologist to explain and demonstrate Reflexology. They now have access to a large and flexible classroom at The Cancer Center which has offered them space for their montly meetings and possible weekend workshops. Collaborating with the local AHNA chapter to work the local Stand Down.
| Western Washington Chapter - Chair: Dawn Warnaca, In September a Potluck and Poetry Workshop. With no registration required ten of us gathered from all across the state to get to know each other just that much better. One of our own, Sharon Fletcher led a deep and meaningful workshop about Poetry as Healing.
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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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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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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.
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Website: www.HTProfessionalAssociation.com
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