Septmeber 2007 Issue no. 16. magazine. The Official Publication Of Healing Touch Program

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1 Septmeber 2007 Issue no. 16 magazine The Official Publication Of Healing Touch Program

2 Table of Contents We are excited to announce that the theme of this month s issue, Healing Touch in Health Care Facilities, will also be continued next month in the October issue of Energy Magazine! HTP Contact Directory A Letter from the Program Director Our Contributors Reader Comments Jean Watson s Caring Theory Healing Touch at Greenwhich Hospital Astonishing DNA Experiment Healing Touch Celebrations on the Beach in the Netherlands Yuma Regional Hospital Money as Energy Grant Medical Center and Healing Touch Healing Touch Healthcare Facilities Program Healing Touch Healthcare Facilities List The New Healing Touch Presentations Class Healing Touch Efforts After the Earthquake in Peru The 2007 Healing Touch Class Schedule September 2007 Energy Magazine 2

3 HTP Contact Directory General Info Classes in your area Student Questions Web Support P.O. Box Golden, Colorado Phone Fax Web Site: Contact your Instructor or any Certified Healing Touch Instructor Instructor/Coordinators Info Scheduling Classes HTP Sponsored Classes Web Scheduling Changes Class Supplies Ordering Certificates Instructor Agreements Instructor Support Instructors in Training Instructor Advancement Introduction Classes Instructor Quality Assurance Healing Touch Curriculum International Instructor Support International Business Support Energy Magazine Contact Info P.O. Box San Antonio, TX office & fax Billy Courtney, Editor Nancy Strick, Assistant Editor Energy Magazine would love to hear your comments! September 2007 Energy Magazine 3

4 Above: (from left to right) Judy Turner, Jean Watson, Lisa Mentgen Gordon, Cynthia Hutchison, Bill Mentgen Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison, Healing Touch Program Director Dear Healing Touch Community, Welcome to the September 2007 issue of Energy Magazine! This issue s theme is Healing Touch in Health Care Facilities and Organizations. Because of the large volume of article submissions received for this issue, this theme will continue into the October issue. The authors of the articles will inspire you with their stories. Please keep in mind that HT is growing in acceptance in mainstream health care circles and that these stories represent only a fraction of the actual ways that HT is being implemented in the world of health care. A wonderful co-incidence of this theme and a serendipitous event recently occurred. This event brings to HT a huge boost for our exposure to hospital systems and nursing schools around the world, a boost or momentum that we ve been waiting for, hoping for, anticipating, feeling in the ethers It is with immense joy that I share the news that Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-bc, FAAN has joined the HT Program Advisory Board as of this month. Many of the nurses in HT know Jean to be a Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She holds a Murchinson-Scoville Endowed Chair in Caring Science. Jean has developed the theory of Caring Science over 30 years and is one of the best known, most highly respected and loved nurses in the world. She has served as Keynote Speaker twice for HT conferences, most recently last April in Ontario at the Canadian HT Conference. Jean has affiliations with health care centers, nursing schools and hospitals all continued on page 5 September 2007 Energy Magazine 4

5 Letter from the Program Director over the world where her Caring ( Caritas ) Theory is being implemented to bring back the heart to nursing and health care. Jean sent the statement below for this announcement to describe how she views the connection between Healing Touch and her Theory of Human Caring-Healing. Healing Touch represents the consciousness, the informed and practiced intentionality of the energetic field of Caritas (Love and Caring energy radiating out in our work and our world). This work in the world is congruent with both a model of Caring Science and the Theory of Human Caring-Healing. At many levels, HT practitioners are doing the work that I have been writing and presenting at another level for 30 years. Having the two converge at this point in time is an awakening and affirmation for both Caring theory and practice, and an opportunity for both Caring Science and HT to emerge in their distinct full maturity for this era in human history. -Jean Watson, August 13, 2007 Caring Science is an evolving new field that is grounded in the discipline of nursing and evolving nursing science, but more recently includes other fields and disciplines in the Academy, for example, Women/Feminist studies, Education, Ecology, Peace Studies, Philosophy/Ethics, Arts and Humanities, and Mindbodyspirit Medicine. As such, caring science is rapidly becoming an Interdisciplinary or Transdisciplinary field of study. It has relevance to all the health, education, and human service fields and professions. (See Dr. Watson s website, section on Implications of Caring Theory). Because of this, Watson s theory is applicable to all HT practitioners, whether they are nurses, allied health care professionals or lay practitioners. merges into a new paradigm for this millennium. To explore the many possibilities of how Jean Watson and HT Program can work together, Jean has offered to spend December 5-7 in the Boulder, Colorado area with myself and a small group of HT practitioners and instructors who have a working knowledge of her theory as a time to brainstorm (and heartstorm!). With three full days of heartcentered creative time, we hope to devise a variety of ways to converge HT and Caring Science theory and practice in ways that enhance and professionalize the HT program and curriculum. We have no idea what that will look like, but we feel confident for an outcome that will be inclusive to the entire HT community in a way that embraces all and gives us knowledge and tools to more fully bring HT to the world. For more information about Jean Watson and Caring Science the Theory of Human Caring and Healing click here to Jean s university website at www2.uchsc.edu/son/caring. One section of her site includes a list of 200 publications, monographs and multimedia presentations that Jean has authored and in which she has participated. In closing, I smile as I think about using Jean Watson s quotes in my doctoral dissertation on caring behavior 21 years ago.and how another full circle has manifested in my life, this time in a way that holds great potential for benefiting our worldwide HT community and beyond. Life is good. With blessings for the month of September, Jean has already created an International Caritas Consortium worldwide, consisting of hospitals, health systems, nursing programs and key individuals. Healing Touch joins Jean in supporting this planetary movement toward clinical CARITAS, a framework that has a decidedly spiritual dimension and an overt evocation of love and caring that September 2007 Energy Magazine 5

6 Our Contributors Paula Kobelt, RN, MSN, is a Healing Touch Level 3 student and is looking forward to Level s 4 and 5. Her vision is to have Healing Touch easily accessible to hospitalized patients and is working to make this happen at Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. Her article, Grant Medical Center, shows the wonderful ways Grant Medical Center has integrated Healing Touch into their Hospital. Kathy Lynch, RN, works on a Medical unit with a Renal and Infectious Disease specialty at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Her artilce, Jean Watson s Caring Theory, asks you to imagine a hospital where the philosophy guiding nursing practice includes, Creating a healing environment at all levels. Implementing Jean Watson s Caring Theory as part of that journey can help you get there. Wietzke van Oene, CHTP/I, with her roots in the Netherlands and New Zealand, is a Biodynamic Psychotherapist and Bio-Release Instructor, certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor. Her article, Healing Touch Celebrations on the Beach in the Netherlands, will give you an update on Healing Touch Netherlands, "HTN", and their celebration of its 12th anniversary on the beach of Zandvoort. Pat Roland, RN, BSN, CHTP, has have been creating structure around the application of Healing Touch at Yuma Regional Medical Center for the last two years. Her artilce, Healing Touch at Yuma Regional Medical Center, shows how the center has integrated Healing Touch into part of thier care. They even show the HT DVD, An Introduction to Healing Touch, to the Medical Center s television channel dedicated to patient education. Marilee Tolen, RN, HNC, CHTP/I, is the author of our monthly column, Money as Energy. In this month s column, Marketing Yourself and Healing Touch to Health Care Facilities, Marilee gives real ways to develop a practice in a conventional health care facility, even if you re not a nurse, and make money as well. Beth Wright, is a Healing Touch Practitioner, who will be applying for Certification this fall. She is the Healing Touch Facilitator at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT and serves on the Auxiliary Board of Greenwich Hospital. Her artilce, Healing Touch at Greenwhich Hospital, tells of how the hospital has integrated the use of Healing Touch into their care by using volunteers trained in Healing Touch. September 2007 Energy Magazine 6

7 Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN, HNC, CHTP/I Founder of Healing Touch In commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of Janet Mentgen s passing, September 15, Just do the work Janet Mentgen September 2007 Energy Magazine 7

8 Until one is commited There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, Always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative [and creation] There is on elementary truth The ignorance of which kills countless ideas And splendid plans: That moment one definitely commits oneself Then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one That would never otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issue from the decision Raising in one s favor all manner Of unforseen incidents and meetings And material assistance Which no man could have dreamt Would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe September 2007 Energy Magazine 8

9 Reader Comments Healing Touch readers share their comments and experiences. I just finished reading the latest issue of Energy and wanted to congratulate you on all the wonderful and helpful articles. Seeing Anne Day, Myra Tovey and Judy Turner very active in HTP made me feel like seeing old friends. I haven t been to conference for a while and haven t coordinated classes for several years (long story) but reading the last issues of Energy has been inspiring. I and a few others have just started a Southwestern Wisconsin Healing Touch Practice group. This time around I think it will last and grow. We now have several CHTP in the La Crosse area and one of the clinics now has an Integrative Center for Health and Healing so it can only continue to grow. A long cherished dream of mine to bring the energy of Healing Touch to this area. I think the influence of the Energy magazine has been wonderful and I want to thank the producers of this online journal and the contributors. I may offer an article eventually myself. In gratitude -Joan Keller Maresh Energy Magazine would love to hear your comments! Please them to energy@healingtouchprogram.com September 2007 Energy Magazine 9

10 Jean Watson s Caring Theory by Kathy Lynch, RN Imagine a hospital where the philosophy guiding nursing practice includes, Creating a healing environment at all levels (physical as well as nonphysical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness), whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated. Sounds like the place where you would want yourself or a loved one to be cared for, right? Perhaps it also sounds like a place where you could grow your own practice and career as well. Truly, what practice model could be more congruent to Healing Touch than one guided by a theory which explicitly embraces the subtle environment of energy and consciousness? But how? How can you institutionalize opening and attending to spiritual mysterious? The examples are many, creative and nourishing, spiritual and truly connected in their approach. Resurrection Hospital in Chicago, IL uses their computerized documentation system to prompt nurses to assess for Risk for compromised human dignity and document an intervention based on Watson s Caring Theory. It is one of the most commonly used nursing diagnoses by their staff, and offers allowance for miracles as one of the nursing interventions. Hospitals around the world that have adopted Dr. Jean Watson s Caring Theory to inform their practice are doing just that creating true and transcendent healing environments for their patients and staff. Jean Watson, RN, PhD, AHN_BC, FAAN is Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, and her Caring Theory (evolving to Caritas Consciousness) makes explicit the values, knowledge and practices not just of nursing but of all healing arts. Many hospitals that have achieved Magnet status (a marker of excellence in nursing), implemented Caring Theory as part of that journey. INOVA Health in Falls Church, Virginia created Centering Lounges/Nurse Sanctuaries where their staff can find sacred space to heal their own spirit and center before they go forth to make authentic connections with their patients healing process. The theory is fluid enough to allow for implementation that continued on page 11 September 2007 Energy Magazine 10

11 Jean Watson s Caring Theory reflects the culture and needs of the unique hospitals, units and individuals who have chosen to adopt it to guide their practice. How can administration in the institutional setting possibly measure or evaluate whether their health care providers are being authentically present? John Nelson, RN, MS was a co-creator of a Caring Factor Survey (CFS) based on Watson s work. He is currently using the CFS in international multi-site research to evaluate patient perception of being cared for. This work has been used to create a profile of a Caritas Nurse; a nurse who is reported by his/her patients to be a caring person. In addition, his Healthcare Environment Inc. ( group is using the survey along with HeartMath and biochemical measurements to assess the physiological effects on patients of healthcare providers performing their interventions with loving-kindness and healing intentionality. more about Caring Theory and Caritas Consciousness, find articles for download and organizations near you engaged in the work. You can also look forward to the upcoming release of the revised 2nd edition of Watson s seminal work Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring which will be available in the spring of All of her books, including that upcoming release, can be purchased through Amazon.com or the University of Colorado bookstore ( (800) ). Have more questions or want to find ways to get in involved? You can contact me, Kathy Lynch, RN at Kathryn.Lynch@UCHSC.edu. Namaste! E The work continues to grow, and as it evolves the International Caritas Consortium (ICC) has taken form. The ICC ( is a small and esteemed group of educators, researchers and practitioners who are engaged in the authentic exploration of Caring/Caritas Theory. One of the manifestations of their work is the development of a multi-site database of measured Caring Behaviors. Dr. Joanne Duffy, RN, PhD, CCRN ( is spearheading the initiative that will use her reliability and validity-tested Caring Assessment Tool to gather data from multiple institutions, providing a way to benchmark the level to which patients perceive their nurses to be engaged in the expression of Caring Theory. There are many examples across hospitals, clinics, schools and universities where Watson s Caring Theory is the guiding light for patient and multidisciplinary healer self-care. Visit to learn continued on page 12 September 2007 Energy Magazine 11

12 Jean Watson s Caring Theory Jean Watson s Caring Theory *original Caring Theory in italics, evolving Caritas Consciousness in bold 1) Formation of humanistic-altruistic system of values Practice of loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring consciousness; 2) Instillation of faith-hope Being authentically present, and enabling and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self and one-being-cared- for; 3) Cultivation of sensitivity to one's self and to others Cultivation of one's own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self; 4) Development of a helping-trusting, human caring relationship Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship; 5) Promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings Being present to, and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the one-being-cared-for; 6) Systematic use of a creative problem-solving caring process Creative use of self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; to engage in artistry of caring-healing practices; 7) Promotion of transpersonal teaching-learning Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and meaning attempting to stay within other's frame of reference; 8) Provision for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment, Creating healing environment at all levels, (physical as well as non-physical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated; 9) Assistance with gratification of human needs Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness, administering human care essentials', which potentiate alignment of mindbodyspirit, wholeness, and unity of being in all aspects of care; tending to both embodied spirit and evolving spiritual emergence; 10) Allowance for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious and existential dimensions of one's own life-death; soul care for self and the one-being-care-for. continued on page 13 September 2007 Energy Magazine 12

13 Jean Watson s Caring Theory Jean Watson s Bio: Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and is a Past President of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing and holds her PhD in educational psychology and counseling. She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. She holds six (6) Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 3 International Honorary Doctorates (Sweden, United Kingdom, and Quebec, Canada). She has been Distinguished Lecturer and Endowed Lecturer at universities throughout the United States and been around the world several times. Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. Dr. Watson s caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide. Watson has been featured in numerous national videos on nursing theory and the art of nursing. She is the recipient of several national awards, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing; maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Nursing; the highest honor accorded its Workshops are continually being updated. Visit our website for a complete and current listing LEVEL 1 Mar 2-4 Memphis,TN Mar 2-4 W. Palm Beach, FL Mar 9-11 Denver, CO Mar 9-11 Philadelphia, PA Mar Cleveland E., OH Mar Atlanta, GA Mar Norfolk, VA Mar 30-Apr 1 Los Angeles, CA Mar 30-Apr 1 Cincinnati, OH Apr Minneapolis, MN Apr Kansas City Metro Apr Calgary, AB May 4-6 Boston Area, MA May 4-6 Charlotte, NC May Baltimore, MD May Chicago, IL May 24-25, 27 Amhem, Netherlands June 1-3 Eau Claire, WI June 8-10 Salt Lake City, UT Sept Philadelphia, PA faculty for scholarly work. In 1999 she assumed the Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science, the nation s first endowed chair in Caring Science, based at the University of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center. As author /co-author of over 12 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing. Her most recent book is Caring Science as Sacred Science (2005) Philadelphia:FA Davis. These latest works, both AJN books of the year awards, seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21st century. A new revised edition of her first book, Nursing The Philosophy and Science of Caring will be published in (jwfeb2006) Kathy s Bio: Kathy Lynch, RN, works on a Medical unit with a Renal and Infectious Disease specialty at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. She completed her undergraduate education at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where she remains a Regular Fellow and Research Assistant to Jean Watson. Kathy has an interest in CAM and Caritas modalities for geriatric care, and is currently enrolled in the BSN-PhD program at Rush HEALING TOUCH FOR ANIMALS WORKSHOP SCHEDULE BRIDGING HOLISTIC ANIMAL HEALTHCARE WITH TRADITIONAL VETERINARY MEDICINE Give your animals the precious gift of health! For More Information or to Register Online, please visit Oct Nov 2-4 Baltimore, MD Denver, CO 2007 LEVEL 2 April Cleveland E., OH May 4-6 Denton,TX May 26,28 Amhem, Netherlands June 8-10 Atlanta, GA June Denver, CO June Cincinnati, OH July Baltimore, MD July Philadelphia, PA Aug Calgary, AB Oct 5-7 Norfolk, VA Oct Memphis,TN 2007 LEVEL 3 Jun 1-3 N. Canton, OH Aug Denver, CO Aug Cincinnati, OH Sept Baltimore, MD Nov 9-11 Atlanta, GA 2007 LEVEL 4 Mar Baltimore, MD Apr Denver, CO Sept N. Canton, OH Oct Cincinnati, OH September 2007 Energy Magazine 13

14 First Annual HTP/HTIF Grant and Research Fundraising Own a copy of Janet s Legacy Are you thankful that Healing Touch has come into your life? Would you like to be reminded of Janet s frequent saying Just Do the Work by having a copy of the poster that Karla Greene gifted to Janet in 2005? The poster has the saying written multiple times along the tree trunk, branches, crystals and earth on this beautiful piece of energetic artwork created for Janet. Greeting cards of the same artwork are also available with blank insides to use as you wish. You can be reminded to Just Do the Work by participating in this fundraiser honoring Janet s Legacy through purchase of the art print or note cards. Today, the Janet s Legacy original framed print hangs in the office of Cynthia Hutchison, HTP Program Director. She says it brings her much inspiration in her work and life. It is a wonderful reminder of Janet s vision for us all to spread the work of Healing Touch. Janet s Legacy by Karla Greene The note cards, printed on recycled paper, are a lovely way to send a greeting or thank you and also are a great gift! The poster is on poster weight paper and standard framing size or can be hung as is. How does your purchase help others? 50% of the proceeds go to HTIF. This money will help fund HTIF grants for research and outreach programs. Each January, HTIF awards monies it collects the previous fall. Our goal is to increase the amount of monies available so that more people can benefit from Healing Touch. Ordering: Orders will be taken now until September 30. Posters and note cards will be shipped out October 22, Posters (18 x 24) are $20 each and note cards (5 x 7) are $20 for each set of 8 including white envelops. Healing Touch International Foundation (HTIF) HTIF s mission is to receive and distribute funds. Also to assist, encourage and advance the philosophy, objectives and techniques of Healing Touch. HTIF gives grants for the purpose of research into Healing Touch and outreach programs which provide Healing Touch to disadvantaged people. Easy to order: 1. Online at 2. Phone call Fax print the order form at and fax order form to Mail order form to: Healing Touch Program P.O. Box 16189, Golden, Co September 2007 Energy Magazine 14

15 inpatients on most of the units in the hospital. The program began in 2005 and we are in our third year. We presently have 85 active volunteers. We chose Healing Touch after carefully evaluating other energy medicine modalities. We were impressed by Healing Touch s support, standardization, research, the fact that is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association and particularly the inclusion of lay personnel. We believed that in order for the program to have a significant impact on Greenwich Hospital we would need many dedicated participants. We felt a volunteer approach would fit the scope of the Healing Touch program we were envisioning to provide Healing Touch five days a week throughout most of the 175 bed hospital. GH Healing Touch at Greenwhich Hospital by Beth Wright, HTP Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut offers a formalized Integrative Medicine Department. Our department offers a holistic approach to patient care. We strive to combine the best of conventional and complementary medicine. Healing Touch is one of the holistic services we offer. The Healing Touch program at Greenwich Hospital is an in hospital volunteer program. Our volunteers offer Healing Touch free of charge to We began the program by interviewing and training 40 volunteers in March of We provided Level 1 & Level 2 training at the hospital with no cost to the volunteers in exchange for 4 hours of their time per month. These volunteers report to the Integrative Medicine Department unlike other volunteers in the hospital who report to the Hospital Volunteer office. All the volunteers are tracked by a computer program called Volunteer Works. Initially, the volunteers worked on four of the units in the hospital. We have expanded to include most units in the hospital and fill special requests throughout the hospital. We provide Healing Touch for Radiation Therapy patients as well. In the beginning we were allowing volunteers to schedule their time freely, as long as they could commit to 4 hours a month. continued on page 16 September 2007 Energy Magazine 15

16 GH We hoped to allow the volunteers maximum flexibility. The problem was that some days the hospital was swarming with volunteers and other days there were none. The volunteers were spending a lot of time going from unit to unit to find patients with whom to work on popular days. The only record of which patients received Healing Touch was in the individual patient s Progress Notes. There was no easy way to know which patients had received treatments on a given day. During that first year it became apparent that we would need to make some changes before we could grow the program and incorporate the next group of volunteers in the spring of We were losing volunteers because they were becoming frustrated. I offered to help with the organization of the program and agreed to be the Volunteer Facilitator. Volunteers were asked to choose a specific unit and day in which to fulfill their volunteer commitment. We asked them to communicate with each other and work as a team to provide coverage on their unit and on their particular day. We also created a Communication Binder to be left in each unit. In this binder we list patients that received Healing Touch and more importantly patients that would like to receive treatments. The binder provides the volunteers a way to communicate the patients needs and get an overview of the Healing Touch activity in a specific unit. We continue to log in the Progress Notes section of each patient who receives Healing Touch. With these modifications in place we trained 40 more volunteers in the spring of Interestingly, we found that this group was less comfortable going onto the units and doing Healing Touch. Realizing this we did two things; we assigned experienced volunteers to guide the new volunteers their first few times and we encouraged the new volunteers to work in pairs. This proved to be helpful. Working in pairs has proven to be a good way for some of the volunteers to continue their 4 hour monthly commitment. About 30% of our volunteers work with a partner. Creating a connection among the volunteers is important. We believe connection and communication are our best tools for keeping volunteers. We hold dinner meetings every four months to give all the volunteers a chance to get to know each other. We call these meetings The Healing Touch Greenwich Hospital. They are educational and informational sharing dinners with the goal of keeping the volunteers connected to each other, to the program and in turn to their volunteer commitment. In our mission of keeping the volunteers connected we offer educational workshops to expose the volunteers to other like minded modalities such as meditation, aromatherapy, yoga, reflexology, acupuncture, breath work and others. Many of the people who present these miniworkshops are already associated with the hospital. We want our volunteers to feel they are part of a larger community and become more spiritual and open minded. We provide monthly practice sessions for the new volunteers. This is run as a clinic for outpatients. The practice sessions are lead by Healing Touch Practitioners who have completed Level 5 and are soon to be certified. During the practice sessions we address hospital specific questions, reinforce our Code of Ethics, give the volunteers a time to practice techniques and share their experiences. We hold a Healing Touch Day for nurses during National Nurses Week. This is bonding time for the volunteers and the staff alike. It gives the Healing Touch Program exposure and visibility among hospital staff. We participate in other community events such as Relay for Life, American Cancer Society and wellness fairs. During these last three years we have learned a lot and we have more ideas that we are in the process of implementing to make our program better as we grow and move forward. Keeping the volunteers committed has been one of our biggest challenges. The cost of training each volunteer is continued on page 17 September 2007 Energy Magazine 16

17 GH high. If we lose volunteers we have paid to train, it is very costly to the program. Instead of giving Level 1 & Level 2 training to the volunteers from the start we now offer Level 1 initially; after the volunteer has shown commitment we offer them Level 2. In addition, between Level 1 and Level 2 we have new volunteers work with a partner. Our second challenge has been to maintain professional consistency among the volunteers. All the volunteers need to conform to the professional standards in both the Healing Touch Code of Ethics and Greenwich Hospital Code of Ethics. They need to give excellent patient service and have good rapport with the staff. There is a lot for the volunteers to remember and of which to be mindful. We are creating a booklet specifically for Healing Greenwich Hospital. This will give the volunteers answers to their hospital specific questions and help them be more professional. This booklet is a joint effort of all the current volunteers. We hope that it will be helpful to the future volunteers. This booklet is another way to connect the volunteers as they will be quoted and named throughout the book. We have committed to Healing Touch both by investing time, money and energy to our Healing Touch program. We are always looking to improve The Healing Touch Greenwich Hospital and hope that the information we have provided may be of help to others looking to start or grow a Healing Touch Program within their hospital. E Beth s Bio: Beth Wright is a Healing Touch Practitioner, who will be applying for Certification this fall. She is the Healing Touch Facilitator at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT and serves on the Auxiliary Board of Greenwich Hospital. She is a Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki I & II. In addition, Beth leads women s spiritual retreats and has volunteered extensively with many organizations over the years. September 2007 Energy Magazine 17

18 Astonis hing DNA Experim ent researcher had been trained how to generate and FEEL feelings, and they each had strong emotions. What was discovered was that the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers: 1. When the researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA responded by RELAX- ING and the strands unwound. The DNA became longer. 2. When the researchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by TIGHTEN- ING UP. It became shorter and SWITCHED OFF many of our DNA codes! This article was published by the Institute of HeartMath and has been reprinted with permission. Below is an experiment which proves that DNA can heal itself according to the "feelings" of the individual as reported recently by Gregg Braden. He says living cells communicate through an energy not affected by time and distance, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time. The experiment was done by the Institute of Heart Math. This is the experiment that relates directly to the anthrax situation. In this experiment, some human placenta DNA (the most pristine form of DNA) was placed in a container from which they could measure changes in the DNA. Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given (one each) to 28 trained researchers. Each If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down too. The shut down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were felt by the researchers.this experiment was later followed up by testing HIV positive patients. They discovered that feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation created 300,000 TIMES the RESISTANCE they had without those feelings. So here's the answer to what can help you stay well, no matter what dreadful virus or bacteria may be floating around, stay in feelings of joy, love, gratitude and appreciation! These emotional changes went beyond the effects of electromagnetics. continued on page 19 September 2007 Energy Magazine 18

19 DNA Experiment Individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of their DNA. Gregg Braden says this illustrates a newly recognized form of energy that connects all of creation. This energy appears to be a TIGHTLY WOVEN WEB that connects all matter. Essentially we're able to influence this web of creation through our VIBRATION. This is the science behind how we can choose a timeline to stay safe, no matter what else is happening. As Gregg explains in The Isaiah Effect, basically time is not just linear (past, present and future), but it also has depth. The depth of time consists of all the possible prayers and timelines that could ever be prayed or exist. Essentially, all our prayers have already been answered. We just activate the one we're living through our FEELINGS. THIS is how we create our reality - by choosing it with our feelings. Our feelings are activating the timeline via the web of creation, which connects all of the energy and matter of the Universe. Remember that the law of the Universe is that we attract what we focus on. If you are focused on fearing whatever may come, you are sending a strong message to the Universe to send you whatever you fear. Instead, if you can get yourself into feelings of joy, love, appreciation or gratitude, and focus on bringing more of that into your life, you are going to avoid the negative stuff automatically. You will be choosing a different TIMELINE with your feelings. You can prevent getting anthrax or any other flu, virus, etc, by staying in these positive feelings, which maintains an incredibly strong immune system. and the critical link between emotions, heart-brain communication, and cognitive function. An additional line of inquiry aims to further the scientific understanding of the human biofield, intuition, and emotional energetic system. HeartMath's research, with the insight of founder Doc Childre, formed the foundation for the development of practical, scientifically validated tools and technologies that empower people to reduce stress, fine-tune performance in all areas of their lives, and foster greater health, well-being and their innermost sense of self. HeartMath's work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, Preventive Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. So here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour if possible, moment-to-moment, even if only for a few minutes. E About the Institute of HeartMath: Since 1991 the Institute of HeartMath, a non-profit research and education organization in California, has been dedicated to helping people find balance between their mind and heart in life's activities. They are recognized as a global leader in researching heart intelligence September 2007 Energy Magazine 19

20 Healing Touch Celebrations on the beach in the Netherlands by Wietzke van Oene, CHTP/I On June 16th, 2007 Healing Touch Netherlands, "HTN", a non-profit organization, celebrated its 12th anniversary on the beach of Zandvoort. Over 30 members of the community, of approximately 200, came through wind, some rain and sun to share an afternoon of pleasure and healing. HTN organized 2 workshops one where we played with the Bovis meter to measure the quality of healing energy and the other, an hour of Kundalini yoga. The food and atmosphere were as we know it within our Healing Touch community and classes a balance of pleasure and seriousness. This was also time for the president, Wietzke van Oene, CHTP/I to step down after more than 6 years of service. Wietzke has been a dedicated mover and shaker, helping HTN to grow and do the work. This would not have been possible without Ben Lochtenbergh and Annie Soppe, who also stepped down after more than 3 years of dedication as secretary and treasurer of HTN. Wietzke plans to continue her private practice in New Zealand for the next 6 months and hopes to teach some Healing Touch workshops through Healing Touch New Zealand and join the festivities at the HT Australia gathering at the end of November. She will return to the Netherlands in April Wietzke's new address is: healing4eu@aol.com The remaining board member, Peter de Klerk, has become our new president. Peter, a HT Practitioner Apprentice, intends to take level 5 in the Netherlands in June 2008, just prior to the HT Europe conference. HT Netherlands is delighted that Peter has accepted this new task, and we are most happy that Ate de Vries has agreed to be our new treasurer and Deva Rashida our new secretary. They are enthusiastic leaders, each capable of adding to the future of Healing Touch within the Netherlands. You will hear more from them, as next year this same board will be organizing the HT Europe continued on page 21 September 2007 Energy Magazine 20

21 HT Celebrations conference in the green center of their country, with many HT classes and workshops. The new Level 2 Notebook This is an opportunity for you to travel internationally for your classes, meet your overseas Healing Touch community and experience their culture. The EU Conference is planned for June 20-22, Levels 3, 4 and 5 will be taught the weekend and week prior to the EU Conference by David Rabinowitsch, Ines Hoster, Judy Turner and Cynthia Hutchison. Mark your calendar now and visualize your participation during this special week in the heart of Europe. We will be happy to share information, healing and inspiration with you and especially happy to meet you there 'tot ziens'. E Photo on previous page: Peter de Klerk, president, Ben Lochtenbergh, CHTP, Ate de Vries, treasurer, Wietzke van Oene, CHTP/I, Annie Soppe, Deva Rashida, secretary Wietzke s Bio: Wietzke van Oene (51), with her roots in the Netherlands and New Zealand, is a Biodynamic Psychotherapist and Bio-Release Instructor since 1986, certified Healing Touch Practitioner since 1996, and certified Healing Touch Instructor since Everything she has done and experienced added to who she has become and who she truly is: a heart centrered therapist with an expert eye on energetic patterns and energy flow, in and around our bodies. Connecting to the energetic conciousness of every cell within our selves/cells, with the aim to bring more balance, peace and healing in our lives and consequently for those around us. To contact her directly, please sent your to: healing4eu@aol.com The new Level 2 Notebook is due back from the printer on September 17th. After listening to comments and feedback, we made efforts to minimize the pages and save paper. We revisited our layout and found ways to eliminate about 20 pages, yet keep plenty of space for student notes and a professional looking layout. The notebook is printed with soy based inks. In addition, we hope to have a release soon from our printer outlining the ways in which they follow environmentally friendly practices internally. We are offering all existing Level 2 students or above, the opportunity to purchase the new Level 2 notebook at wholesale pricing until October 30th. The retail price of the Level 2 Notebook is $30. Any student that has taken Level 2 can purchase the notebook at the wholesale price of $22.50 anytime before October 30th. An order form can be downloaded from the HTP website at bookorder.pdf It can be ed or faxed to the HTP office with credit card information. If you prefer, you can call the office at to place your order. Level 2 Notebooks will begin shipping on or around September 17th. September 2007 Energy Magazine 21

22 Healing Touch at Yuma Regional Medical Center by Pat Roland, RN, BSN, CHTP Healing Touch at Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) began in 1997 as Level 1, 2 and 3 classes, sponsored by the Educational Services Department primarily for nursing staff who were interested in continuing education. During those early years, many hospital employees, as well as non employees took the classes, including several of our Chaplains. However, the training did not encompass a vision. In short, the training was done in isolation. Nevertheless, several of those early class participants went on to become Certified Healing Touch Practitioners, myself included. Since then, we have done some creative work. For example, during the past two years, I have been creating structure around the application of Healing Touch. As of today, our Staff Chaplains have all taken, at minimum, Level 1 classes and all of the Chaplains here at the Medical Center, have used Healing Touch as a part of their hospital ministry. Also, our department (The Department of Spiritual Care & Patient Advocacy) has an accredited ACPE program that trains ministers to be hospital chaplains. This year, for the first time, the Chaplain Residents will have Healing Touch as part of their required curriculum. Our department frequently receives requests for Healing Touch to assist patients with pain management and anxiety issues. In addition, outpatients may also make appointments for Healing Touch. For these sessions the department asks for a donation to the YRMC Foundation, a fund raising philanthropic organization. Donations are made in the name of the Department of Spiritual Care under the Healing Touch category. Folks can donate any amount; however, the suggested amount is $ The Medical Center also has a television channel dedicated to patient education. It is loaded with patient education videos from Channing and Millner-Fenwick companies as well as information about our hospital services and our affiliate Yuma Rehabilitation Hospital. Every patient has access to the education channel in their room. Also, I am excited to share that recently, we were given permission to add the DVD An Introduction to Healing Touch to the selections on our system. Having the DVD on the education channel will provide consistency in the information given to patients' about Healing Touch and allow patients to view the information at a time that is good for them. Another new development which is unfolding is that staff may soon be able to receive Healing Touch treatments for their aches and pains through a free on site CAM therapy clinic. This idea is in the early stages of development, but looks like a promising way for Yuma s Healing Touch Practitioners and students in training to get together more consistently. Additionally, I just learned that another Patient Advocate will be added to the department to help handle care concerns and complaints. As a result, we will be able to devote additional energy to creating our Integrated Therapy Program that includes Healing Touch for both inpatients and outpatients. Needless to say, I m excited to be a part of the future for Healing Touch here at Yuma Regional Medical Center. E September 2007 Energy Magazine 22

23 AS by Marilee Tolen, RN, HNC, CHTP/I Marketing Yourself and Healing Touch to Health Care Facilities Hospitals, nursing homes, and rehab facilities typically do not employ energy healers. Progressive institutions that have Wellness Programs or Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) departments may offer energy therapies such as Healing Touch, but probably through one of their licensed health care professionals, usually a nurse, already on staff with a full job description. Most likely that nurse was responsible for introducing Healing Touch to the facility. In an ideal Healing Touch world, Health Care Facilities would employ Healing Touch practitioners - patients would receive healing work as part of their care plan and practitioners would have jobs doing what they love the most we re getting there, but we re not there yet. So can a Healing Touch Practitioner practice HT in a conventional health care facility? Can they earn income in this role? If so - how? Yes, yes. With three basic principles: --Do your 100 sessions for course completion on staff at a local hospital --Offer to do a Healing Touch Introductory lecture as an inservice --Get involved with their Wellness Programs --Specialize in a certain patient population and attend their support group --Connect with the Pain Management Department --Introduce yourself to the Nursing Department and share information about HT --Set up a volunteer program, teach volunteers HT or encourage them to study HT and offer it to facilities You can manifest income from some of these ideas (if you are willing to charge and allow yourself to receive). Money may not come directly from the health care facility but through the opportunity that you create at the facility. It might be from the staff themselves, staff referrals, or patients you encounter who may become private clients in the future. If you don t get remunerated, you will at least get exposure and gain experience two important pre-requisites to receiving payment for your services. 1 - Allow yourself to think creatively 2 - Make relationships that count 3 Be willing to put yourself out there Another way you could make money (if you get your foot in the door) is to set up a full HT course onsite as either the coordinator or instructor. Mix these principles with any of the following ideas and you will have the recipe for practicing Healing Touch in mainstream health care arenas: Although Healing Touch has been around for over fifteen years, the work is still young enough that those of you out there on the front line need to be the planters of the seeds. You are the teachers of the work everywhere continued on page 24 September 2007 Energy Magazine 23

24 Money as Energy you go. Health care facilities need to be exposed to Healing Touch. Bring Healing Touch to their awareness through your offerings. Even if you don t get immediate financial returns, you will be gaining experience and getting exposure as you spread the light where it is desperately needed in health care facilities. E Marilee s Bio: Marilee Tolen is board certified in Holistic Nursing, a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor (10 years), and a former board member of Healing Touch International. She is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing Science and completed Intuition Training with Caroline Myss. Marilee has integrated abundance and prosperity principles into her professional life for over twenty years. Her studies of the energy of money became her specialty at the Brennan School in 1996 as demonstrated in her thesis Currency As Consciousness. She is a contributing author to the recently acclaimed award winning book Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life (Bartlett and Jones) writing the chapter on Financial Health. Marilee is currently packaging her years of experience and knowledge as a Nurse Healer to teach the people about self care and natural ways to heal which includes Healing Touch. She is marketing this information through the internet as Home Spa Lady and is having a prosperous blast. She loves to teach people how to do this and much more. To learn about what she offers sign up for her Free Tips of the Week at Worldventures is an online travel agency with vacation packages including: spa, golf, family, adventure, honeymoon, luxury and more. Go to to see all of our vacation packages. September 2007 Energy Magazine 24

25 Grant Medical Center by Paula Kobelt, RN, MSN Special of the Day: Healing Touch Cost: No Charge Patients at Grant Medical Center, a 650 bed Level 1 Trauma Center in Columbus, Ohio, can receive a variety of Complementary Therapies in addition to receiving excellent medical, surgical and trauma care. Free of charge and available at the bedside, the selection includes massage therapy, drumming, guided imagery, relaxation music and scenery, a visit from our Welcome Waggin animal assisted activity dogs and last but certainly not least Healing Touch. for a patient, family member or each other. More than 35 patients each month choose to add HT to their traditional medical care for a variety of reasons. At Grant, our staff has seen first hand how Healing Touch can help a patient sleep better, breathe easier, and relieve pain, tension, anxiety, headaches and nausea. This is why they continue doing it for patients and each other. The Grant Healing Touch program began in 2003 when a small network of compassionate nurses started offering HT in the critical care units for patients, staff and each other following attendance at HT workshops. Despite the skepticism of their peers, these nurses continued to gently demonstrate the effectiveness of Healing Touch to non-believers. At any given time, one of more than 100 multidisciplinary staff members may be summoned to do Healing Touch As more nurses, physicians, residents and others either experienced HT first hand or witnessed the positive continued on page 26 September 2007 Energy Magazine 25

26 Grant Medical Center results...interest in Healing Touch began to grow. Some of the amazing examples of the power of HT include a patient with unrelieved, pain despite large doses of pain medication, resting comfortably following 5-10 minutes of HT; a patient with severe dyspnea talking in short sentences after 5 minutes of Magnetic Clearing; a CCU nurse becoming headache-free and able to continue working the rest of her evening shift after receiving one of the headache techniques. Karen Lynch, RN, BSN, is one of our main HT nurses at Grant - she mentors staff and performs the HT techniques on patients she sees for pain consults. They are some of the most medically complicated and challenging patients due to their current pain and pain histories. She explains how she first became interested in Healing Touch. When I first saw it being done by a nurse, I thought it looked kookie. I thought it was not for everyone. One year later, when I was in severe pain, the Healing Touch techniques were performed on me by the same nurse. I received, almost immediately, 100% relief from my pain. That's when I realized something was really going on with this work, I wanted to learn more. In 2003 a Level 1 Healing Touch class was offered outside of the hospital and was well attended by nurses and interested staff. Despite their initial skepticism, all were immediately sold on the benefits of Healing Touch. With the support of our Complementary Therapies subcommittee, Nursing Administration agreed to support a Level 1 HT class offered through our Education Department. Initially, staff paid a minimal fee to attend the two day program. Soon after, with the strong support of Nursing Administration, all staff were able to attend the classes at no charge. Since 2003, more than 175 multidisciplinary staff, which include nurses, pharmacists, physicians, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, chaplains, patient care technicians, case managers, and others, have attended Level 1, 2 or 3 Healing Touch classes. Thanks to the ongoing support of Nursing Administration, classes continue to be held biannually in the spring and fall, at no charge for Grant employees. The expectation for those who attend a Healing Touch class is to try to integrate what they have learned into their specific clinical practice at Grant. To facilitate this, nursing staff are encouraged to attend the HT class with a friend or someone with whom they work closely on their unit so they can buddy up and work together on patients. This has proven to be very effective and time saving. Karen Burke, RN, BSN, Pain Consult Team member, states, Frequently, after doing Healing Touch with another practitioner for only minutes, the patient may fall asleep, report feeling better and may require less pain medication. In addition, the nurse feels more relaxed and centered and better equipped emotionally to finish working the rest of his/her 12 hour shift. When you have a small network of nurses on a unit doing Healing Touch it builds support for each other. Today, nurses on the clinical units at Grant know who can do HT on their units. They may ask them to do HT for their patients or more importantly for themselves when they have a headache, cold symptoms or to help them through a difficult time. It is not unusual to hear one nurse ask another for Healing Touch to help relieve a headache or backache. Nurses can be identified by their gold pin and purple lanyard which reads I DO HEALING TOUCH. When a patient asks for Healing Touch or a physician orders HT, a consult is placed in our computer system. The HUC (health unit coordinator) will ask if a staff member currently working can do the treatment. If no one is available, a member of the Pain Consult Team, made up continued on page 27 September 2007 Energy Magazine 26

27 Grant Medical Center of two registered nurses and two pharmacists, is paged to do HT. For weekend and night consults, the evening/night nursing administrators have a list of all staff capable of doing HT. Recently, an evening/night nursing administrator and a night shift Response Team technician completed a Level 1 class together so they could assist with the night consults. A list of Healing Touch consults is also generated from the computer system by the Pain Consult Team and used during their daily pain management rounds. The Pain Consult Team members actively participate, not only coordinating, but also doing HT at the hospital. When coordinating a pain relief treatment plan for their pain consult patients, they use HT whenever possible. In addition, the Pain Consult Team members regularly mentor other staff members in the clinical settings until the new students of HT are comfortable doing treatments on their own or with a buddy. We have found it necessary to shorten the Healing Touch techniques when doing them in the clinical setting. It is not realistic to spend minutes doing a Chakra Connection and Mind Clearing on one patient, plus complete a full assignment of patients on a Medical-Surgical unit. We encourage and mentor our staff to use proper technique but for shorter intervals, finding that 5-10 minutes of either Mind Clearing, Chakra Connection, Magnetic Clearing, Magnetic Passes: Hands in Motion or Magnetic Passes: Hands Still can have dramatic results for a patient. Frequently our patients fall asleep during the shortened sessions or report pain relief or reduction. By having patients complete an informal survey following the HT session, we have learned that their pain is reduced by up to 5 points on a 0-10 scale and their relaxation is increased by greater than 5 points on a 0-10 scale. Above: a patient at Grant Medical Center recieves Healing Touch. Grant Medical Staff approval was obtained for the hospital Complementary Therapies policy which includes Healing Touch and an informational brochure that explains HT to patients and visitors was created. The brochures, along with informational cards for all of the Complementary Therapies, are prominently displayed on the clinical units for the use of patients, visitors and staff. Volunteer Services replenishes the card supply which are made by the hospital print shop. We found the best way to gain understanding and support of Healing Touch in the clinical setting was to encourage as many clinical and non-clinical staff as possible to experience HT. By having an understanding of how a patient may feel following a treatment, a nurse or physician is more likely to order it or offer it to a patient. In addition, this enables the staff to coordinate care, allowing the patient to get the most benefit from the session and prevent the patient from being disturbed after the session if he or she is resting or has fallen asleep. In addition, the Health Unit Coordinator and Unit Assistant are able to direct patients and families to resources if they have first hand knowledge of the benefits of Healing Touch. continued on page 28 September 2007 Energy Magazine 27

28 Grant Medical Center In order to familiarize as many hospital staff as possible with Healing Touch, we tried several strategies. We offered monthly Complementary Therapy sessions in our hospital auditorium during the hours of 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Staff was encouraged to drop in on their way to or from the hospital cafeteria and select either a 10 minute massage or Healing Touch session while listening to Guided Imagery for Stressful Times, by Dianne Tusek, RN. Each Complementary Therapy session was attended by approximately 40 participants from various departments in the hospital. At the conclusion of the treatment, participants were asked to complete a short informal survey about their experience. The survey asked the participant to identify the therapy they selected and to rate their level of pain and relaxation before and after the experience. The survey results showed participants felt more relaxed and experienced less pain/discomfort after the mini sessions. In order to reach staff unable to leave the units for breaks and lunch, we visited each of the clinical unit s staff Here are some helpful tips on holding Healing Touch programs at your hospital: Meet with a small group of interested nurses and other staff. Advertise 2-3 months in advance of the scheduled class. Encourage nurses to attend with a buddy or someone with whom they work on the unit because they are more likely to use Healing Touch on their patients after attending a Level 1 class. Assign a mentor to each new Level 1 student to help build confidence. Schedule classes in the spring and the fall to avoid most vacation and holiday times. Plan workshops on a Friday and Saturday and advertise at least 2 months in advance. We typically get nurses or staff to attend as they have time to ask for time off well in advance. To decrease expenses, hold the classes in the hospital or off-site at a hospital affiliated center where you will not have to pay for the room. Prohibit cell phones and discourage staff from dealing with work related issues during the two day workshop so they understand that this time is for their well-being. Ask participants to contribute to the snacks for the day, such as fresh fruit, cheese, crackers, water, coffee, teas, chocolate, breakfast breads, etc. Munchies are important to keep the energy level up and reduce the number of breaks needed. To attract outside participants, advertise classes through HTP and HTI. Above: Paula Kobelt standing next to the HT brochures, along with informational cards for all of the Complementary Therapies, which are prominently displayed on the clinical units for the use of patients, visitors and staff. continued on page 29 September 2007 Energy Magazine 28

29 Grant Medical Center lounges, offering them Healing Touch and massage. We found this method to be useful in reaching more of the nursing and medical staff. (Visiting each of the clinical units with HT mini sessions is also a good idea to implement a few months before holding a HT class, to increase interest and awareness of the program. Biannually, student nurses have the opportunity to attend a 40 minute lecture followed by mini Healing Touch sessions to increase their knowledge of the benefits of HT for themselves and their patients. Following the lecture, participants are encouraged to experience HT from one of our staff. The nursing instructors and students find this to be a very informative and relaxing experience. Awareness of the benefits of Healing Touch and the program at Grant continues to grow. Nurses inquire when the next HT class will be held. Patients call us in advance of their surgery to schedule HT pre and post operatively. Family members call and ask how they can obtain HT at other hospitals. Several physicians order HT for their patients. These physicians include pain management, trauma, surgeons, neurosurgeons, family practice and others. members about the benefits of Complementary Therapies especially, Healing Touch. Attendees always take advantage of the mini treatments we offer following the presentations. We have received some of the most wonderful and loving comments and feedback during these sessions. As we who do Healing Touch know it works on a physical and emotional level to help others and is an easy, simple but powerful way to give love and comfort to others. In a relatively short time, the Healing Touch program at Grant has evolved from a small network of compassionate nurses to more than 100 multidisciplinary staff members. As the demand for HT continues to grow, we will continue to encourage more staff to become involved. In addition, we look forward to conducting research studies to add to the scientific body of knowledge in support of the benefits of Healing Touch. Healing Touch at Grant is no longer the Special feature of the day it has become the House Specialty! E Elaine Glass, RN, MS, Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care, states We ask each of our palliative care patients if they would like Healing Touch. If they agree, then we order it for them. We have found in general it really helps with symptom control and also helps to relax patients. Healing Touch has also drawn nurses back to Grant. One nurse, who after retiring following 30 years of service at Grant, returned to specifically do HT for patients through Volunteer Services. She has attended Levels 1-3 and volunteers once a week. She is a true angel and an inspiration to all of us. Healing Touch also provides many opportunities for us to give back to our community. Various community groups affiliated with local churches, support groups and extended care facilities have invited us to speak to their Paula s Bio: Paula is a Healing Touch Level 3 student and is looking forward to Level s 4 and 5. Her vision is to have Healing Touch easily accessible to hospitalized patients and is working to make this happen at Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. Paula and her family, husband Paul and three children Peter 16, Maddie 15 and Alex 10, live in New Albany, Ohio. Paula practices pilates, yoga and meditation. The Kobelt family members all play tennis and love getting Healing Touch from mom. Paula s 27 years of nursing includes work in the Emergency Department, Instructor of Nursing, Staff Education and research. She has spent the last 8 years as an Education Specialist in Pain Management and coordinating the Complementary Therapy programs and services at Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. She has presented topics in Pain Management and Complementary Therapies as a guest lecturer for universities, as well as nursing, church and community groups. September 2007 Energy Magazine 29

30 The Healing Touch Healthcare Facilities Program Healing Touch Program has put together a packet of material to help promote Healing Touch in Healthcare Facilities. This packet contains information on What is Healing Touch, How Can Your Facility Benefit?, Healing Touch Research, Healing Touch Healthcare Proposals Where Healing Touch is Being Embraced. It includes sample brochures, Embracing compassion in health care and Creating Healing Relationships through Healing Touch, the DVD What is Healing Touch and sample forms as appropriate. Everything is packaged in a professional folder with the HTP logo. The Healing Touch Healthcare Proposals outlines three choices, holding independent classes, asking HTP to sponsor and promote a class and a flat fee for a large class. In all cases, Healing Touch Program is looking to promote and/or use local instructors and practitioners. If you would like to request a packet or have questions about the program, contact Margaret at Margaret@HealingTouchProgram.com. We welcome your feedback and ideas on how to continue to improve and implement this program. E These packets are being sent out upon requests from those looking to have a professional packet to introduce Healing Touch in their facility. We are currently getting requests from nurses, practitioners and facility administrators. Some requests involve facilities who are looking at Healing Touch as a possible CAM therapy and want information on costs to include in upcoming budgets. September 2007 Energy Magazine 30

31 Healthcare Facility Directory The new Healthcare Facility Directory is now posted to the HTP website. HTP is providing this Directory as a central information source for those interested in information about facilities who offer Healing Touch. We hope that this site will also allow facilities to network and discover new opportunities to provide Healing Touch and other CAM modalities. Surveys continue to come in and will be posted as they arrive. Below is a list of the Healthcare Facilities who have currently participated. The directory can be viewed at Hospital Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota Alamance Regional Medical Center, Burlington, North Carolina Barnes Jewish, St. Louis, Missouri Bethesda North/Hospice of Blue Ash Bon Secours DePaul, Norfolk, Virgina Childrens Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN DePaul Health Care, Bridgeton, Missouri Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center (EGSMC) Lafayette, Colorado Franciscan Skemp Healthcare, LaCrosse, Wisconsin Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut Memorial Hospital of South Bend, South Bend, Indiana Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California Yuma Regional Medical Center, Yuma, Arizona Hospice Horizon Hospice, Chicago, Illinois Other Atlantic Hemotology Oncology Group, Galloway, New Jersey Catawba Valley Living at Rock Barn, Claremont, NC Health Sphere Wellness Center, LLC, Brentwood, Tennessee Kapi olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Honolulu, Hawaii Saint Francis Home of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia Witherell Chiropractic Health Center, Homestead, Florida September 2007 Energy Magazine 31

32 The New Healing Touch Presentations Class The Healing Touch Program has been working on a new Introduction to Healing Touch Presentation Class since October This 8 hour class is called Healing Touch Presentations. The purpose of this new curriculum is to provide a standardized and professional one hour and three hour presentation class to introduce HT. This class is designed to provide support and guidance for presenters who desire to spread Healing Touch in their communities or health care facilities. Level 4, 5 and 6 students, Practitioners and Instructors will learn how to introduce HT in a positive, professional manner and to speak confidently to individuals and groups from all walks of life. This class incorporates a practical, educational understanding of the learning styles described in 4MAT, a research-based educational organization. Learn more about 4MAT at The first Healing Touch Presentations pilot class was taught in San Diego, CA on July 21, 07 and the second was taught in Denver, CO July 25, 07 by Kathy Allan RN, HNC, CHTP/I, SEP. They were well attended by local instructors, practitioners and Level 4/5 students who were excited to learn how to enhance their knowledge of sharing HT with new groups. The overall feeling received from this class was one of confidence that attendees could use the knowledge they gained to share Healing Touch to groups and individuals in many different situations. Part of their excitement was over the new professional tools available. Feedback on using 4MAT as a theoretical model for adult learners was overwhelmingly positive. Healing Touch Program intends to launch this program nationwide this fall. It will include professional tools that we have created for you to introduce, share and spread Healing Touch. They include a power point, flip chart, a Presentation Brochure and several others. The intention of the tools is to have specialized items at presenters finger tips that are easy-to-use and give a professional appearance. Who should attend the new Healing Touch Presentations class? Any Level 4/5 students, Practitioners or Instructors who want to enhance their ability to speak about HT or who are interested in learning various recommended methods to spread the word about Healing Touch. HTP will be offering the Healing Touch Presentations class this fall and winter. Check the HTP website schedule for upcoming classes. If you are interested in this class being offered in your area, please send an inquiry to classes@healingtouchprogram.com The Presentations class will be supported by a new website section this fall. This site will include a place for people to find out about Healing Touch and where they can attend a class. All qualified presenters will be listed in this section for Instructors or other groups to call and hire presenters to speak. Qualified Presenters are those continued on page 33 September 2007 Energy Magazine 32

33 HT Presentations Class students, practitioners or instructors who have completed the Presentations class and have submitted their (no fee) application to HTP to be a Presenter. HT Program will create a support section on our website this fall for those who are registered presenters. Qualified presenters can be hired to do presentations by Instructors or other groups. Courses taught by HT Practitioner Apprentices, HT Practitioners and CHTPs will feed into the numbers of people who choose to attend Level 1 classes, thus providing support to CHTIs who teach the curriculum for the HT certificate program. HT Presentations will increase your community s awareness of you as a Healing Touch Practitioner and presenter. It is a perfect way to tell the world who you are and what you are doing. Here are some comments from the students: Thank you for providing a structured format to present Healing Touch in a variety of settings! A valuable tool to spread the light and work of Healing Touch with one voice! -Vickie Smith, LMT, CHTP, NCB. July 2007 I really enjoy Kathy s energy. This would be a valuable class to take again after starting to make presentations. Thank for a painless introduction to making presentations! It was informative, supportive, fun! A good opportunity to network and connect, too! -Student, San Diego July 2007 Above: Lauri Pointer, CHTI and Cynthia Hutchison, Program Director, practicing during the HT Presentations class. This class was excellent in giving a framework to presenting an Introduction to Healing Touch. Kathy Allan was an excellent instructor clear, concise with laughter. I am learning this class feeling confident that I can do this. With the support of HTP program materials Carol Jannain, CMT, CHTP, July 2007 E Benefits of the Presentations Class Professionally presented and creative standardization of introductory HT classes creates a unified and clear message to the world about what Healing Touch is. A clear basic presentation of HT facilitates the participants experience of energy awareness at multiple levels and may better prepare attendees for a Level 1 class. Attendance at the class can increase confidence levels for those who desire to speak to various individuals or groups about Healing Touch. Putting yourself out in the world with presentations is a service to your community and an exciting way to share the benefits of Healing Touch. Above: other participants practicing during the HT Presentations class. September 2007 Energy Magazine 33

34 Healing Touch Efforts after the Earthquake in Peru The following is an we recieved from Marg Kehoe and Eileen Kearney about their efforts to help the victims of the earthquake that hit Peru. The 8.0 magnitude quake that struck the coast of Peru on August 15 killed over 500 people and left tens of thousands homeless. In a vast disaster area surrounding the cities of Pisco and Ica, the survivors, many of them living on the streets, are now desperately waiting for help. More than 56,000 houses were destroyed by the quake and several powerful aftershocks. Loving greetings and thanks from Eileen and myself. As you can see from the photos we had the chance on Friday to go to the earthquake zone itself which is about three hours south of Lima. One of our Energy therapists organized a big bus and we went off in the early hours of the morning on Friday. About 40 minutes from Lima the terrible destruction began. We drove for three hours through total destruction. It is just enormous the amount of homes destroyed and the number of people out in the streets or in the parks in tents or make-shift homes. We went down with a lot of food, blankets, warm clothes, water, fruit etc. the bus was filled with donations which we had managed to buy and that people from our area had given. About 20 of us went down. We were all energy therapists hoping that we may be able to help the people by giving therapies to help calm them emotionally. However it was just not the moment, the people were just wanting food and survival help. So we went to Pisco itself and found that most of the place was in ruins and most families had been moved out of the center of the city. The main plaza was not accessible at all. It was totally destroyed. We found people abandoned, cold and hungry. We spoke to some of them and tried our best to distruibute the aid we had in our bus. There has been a lot of foreign aid and most of the people we met had received aid and were receiving more. continued on page 35 September 2007 Energy Magazine 34

35 Earthquake in Peru We stopped along the road as there were a lot of people begging for food. We then went on to Chincha and went right inside to find the most abandoned and forgotten. When we did get there, the people were very grateful. Their homes were all made of adobe (mud-brick) and so the whole of their little villages were totally destroyed. The lines and lines of people and when we went to the last place the line seemed to be never ending. We just kept giving out the food and the clothes and the water. Eileen and myself were inside the door of the bus passing the aid from inside the bus. Finally we said 'there is no more' and when we looked out the window of the bus we saw that there were no more people in the line! What a miracle. We felt really happy and then we went to have our meal with the people to give thanks. We had a few tins of fish and the people gave us boiled potatoes and we all sat around in the candle light at the end of a long long day and had our meal. It certainly was a day of the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. When life is a little bit calmer I will write some more. We are still getting earth shakes but not as strong as the first week after the earthquake. I just wanted to thank you all for your phone calls and for all the prayers. There is aid for rebuilding according to the government but how far it will go is yet to be seen! I think Nano Nalge is with us here very much. The two houses Nano Nagle Center and Nano's heart were the places where the donations were received. also when we got to the last place to give out the food, a tiny little girl who is two going on three, ran up to me calling my name. (Her grandmother lives in our area and sometimes the little one comes up from Chincha to visit her so she knows us). I picked her up (Her name is Fatima) and asked her how she was. (Her house had been totally destroyed and her parents and their tiny baby were living in a kind of a tent in the park.) She looked at me and her first question was 'Y las Nana Nagles?' Simply translated as 'how are the Nano Nagles?' Many many blessings on you all and thanks again. - Love Marg and Eileen E If you wishe to contribute in any way, please contact Eileen Kearney or Marg Kehoe at nagle@qnet.com.pe. Above: (top to bottom) Sister Eileen Kearney, originally from Ireland has worked in Peru for many years, standing behind the the bus; victims begging outside the bus; the therapists aiding the victims of the earthquake, including Eileen Kearney, CHTP/I, and Marg Kehoe, CHTP/I. Previous page: (top to bottom) the destruction in Peru from the earthquake; makeshift tents. September 2007 Energy Magazine 35