This is the description of concurrent sessions offered through the two day conference.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 - MORNING
A1 Marleene Burfield/Helen Kuttner: Mentoring Therapeutic Touch Practitioners in Hospital
In this step-by-step session, discover the necessary tools to facilitate and supervise a productive, professional Therapeutic TouchTM mentoring program within a hospital setting. Learn how this unique Therapeutic Touch volunteer program evolved at Toronto East General Hospital, the protocol followed to ensure practitioners are confident and competent, and how the hospital administration supports our efforts. This approach can be modified for use in nursing homes, hospices, palliative care units and clinics.
Marleene Burfield is a Registered Nurse and a Recognized Practitioner and Teacher with the TTNO. She is co-team leader of the Volunteer Therapeutic Touch Practitioner Team at Toronto East General Hospital. She is also responsible for the mentoring of new volunteers on the team. Marleene was involved with the Therapeutic Touch clinic at TEGH and continues to promote and support Therapeutic Touch throughout the hospital.
Helen Kuttner is a Recognized Practitioner of the TTNO. She has been a member of the Toronto East General Hospital Volunteer Therapeutic Touch Practitioner Team since September 2001 and is co-team leader. Helen has worked in hospitals as a Pharmacist and has volunteered for the past 12 years on the palliative care unit within the Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System.
A2 Martha Hoey: Overload for Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
This presentation explores various aspects of energy overload as it relates to the HSP. We will discuss touch and non-touch, appropriate working distance and speed of hand movements for the HSP. This workshop will include information on the Field Theory for HSP's and investigate how to assess their special needs to develop strategies that help them to stabilize. A practicum and discussion will help participants bring more awareness to their assessment skills.
Martha Hoey, a Recognized Teacher of Therapeutic Touch, is the founder of Elm Tree Centre, located on her 89-acre farm near Guelph. As a Stress Management Therapist, she uses her knowledge of HSP to re-connect her clients with the personal values and life choices that fulfill their purpose.
A3 Lillian Hutchinson: Simple Relaxation Techniques
This workshop presents a series of simple body movements that may be done in a chair for those who can do very little yet would like to maintain what flexibility and muscle tone they can. This movement is done gently and respectfully in coordination with the precious gift of our breath. These movements may be done individually or as a gently flowing series. This body relaxation technique also speaks to pain management and encourages more comfort in breathing.
Lillian Hutchinson attended her first Therapeutic Touch workshop, taught by Mary Simpson, in the spring of 2003. This was Lillian's baptism into the field of energy work. From here her experience grew through Level Three, the workbook and Level repeats, as well as Therapeutic Touch-Specific workshops and retreats to achieving RP status in January 2007. The local Practice Group held at a retirement village in Brampton and the pre meeting treatments for the residents is her mainstay for Therapeutic Touch application.
A4 Regina Sheere: Dance Your Sacred Rhythm
Based on the work of Gabrielle Roth, through a dance-centering meditation we will explore five body rhythms. Anyone can participate and knowledge of dance is not necessary. It is about connecting with the physical, emotional and spirit of the whole body, the rhythms of which allow us to become aware of the patterns of energy that make up the field.
Regina Sheere is a Recognized Therapeutic Touch practitioner and is active in private practice and as a hospice volunteer. Her life experiences have been both challenging and diverse. Joy in her animals, participation in dream analysis and guided silent retreats have helped her on her spiritual journey and she is ready to share this with others. The creation of her company SheereSource is her way to promote healing.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 - AFTERNOON
B1 Mei-fei Elrick: Developing Relationships, Developing Teaching
Your teaching changes and improves as you develop relationships with yourself, your students and your colleagues. The goal of the session is to explore the rationales for nurturing these three relationships and to consider strategies, based on observation and educational research, which enable you to pursue excellence in your teaching. The session's objectives are: identify teaching strategies and qualities that promote learning, use the Experiential Learning Cycle to make a plan for change and use/ evaluate a structured feedback instrument.
Mei-fei Elrick has a PhD in Education from the University of Toronto. She has taught at the University of Guelph and worked with faculty and graduate students to develop their teaching. When she retired, she learned Therapeutic TouchTM and is now a volunteer with Guelph-Wellington Hospice where she offers Therapeutic Touch to Hospice Clients. She presently is on the Board of the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario and writes the research column for in touch.
B2 Alison Cooke: Dolores Krieger's Four Dragons
In this workshop, Alison will lead us on an exploration of the shadowy world of Dee's dragons: exaggeration, fantasy, impulse and wishful thinking. As we try to interpret what Dolores means by these dragons, their offspring and how to resolve them, we cannot help but become better practitioners in the process. Come and join the fun - name your own dragons and find out how to use them to lead you to a better understanding of Therapeutic Touch.
Alison Cooke became involved with Therapeutic Touch in 1992. Since that time she has studied with many teachers, including its founders. She began teaching Therapeutic Touch in 1995 and presently, she is the secretary and Webmaster for the TTNO Board of Directors. She works on contract for the Stirling Manor and Plainfield Homes and is a Pastoral Care worker for Eastminster United Church in Belleville, providing Therapeutic Touch for these populations. Alison also runs a regular drumming program for the residents of the Stirling Manor, fulfilling her passion for drumming to her own rhythm while having fun!!
B3 Maureen Smith: Getting Comfortable With Distance Healing
Getting comfortable with distance healing is simply discovering it is possible, as one of the Therapeutic Touch tools, and utilizing it. This is an experiential session. A brief introduction is followed by a practicum, with a large amount of time allotted for sharing the experience of both giving and receiving a distance treatment and the potential that it offers the practitioner.
In 1971, Maureen graduated from St. Joseph's Hospital, in Hamilton, Ontario, as an R.N. Since 1987, she has been working full time as an office administrator, with her husband in his architectural practice. Her first class in Therapeutic Touch was in 1999, and she gained RP status in 2001. As an active member of the Toronto East General Volunteer Therapeutic Touch Team, she had the opportunity to do "intraoperative Therapeutic Touch". Getting comfortable doing distance healing was a way for her to use Therapeutic Touch, with distant family and friends.
B4 Maria Rossiter-Thornton and Susan Phillips: Creating a Personal Mandala
This experiential presentation will help develop ones creativity, intuition and healing abilities and gain a deeper insight into the practice of Therapeutic Touch. It includes lecture, centering exercises and the opportunity to create a Personal Mandala. Non-toxic art supplies provided. No previous artistic experience needed.
Maria Rossiter-Thornton began practising Therapeutic Touch in 1984 and continues to incorporate it into her professional practice today. She has studied with the founders of Therapeutic Touch, Krieger and Kunz, and began teaching in 1992. She is the author of "Therapeutic Touch an Introduction for Beginners".
Susan Phillips began TT in 2003 and has studied with Dr. Dolores Krieger at Indralaya. Over the past two years Susan has been working with patients at the Toronto East General Hospital as a volunteer with the Therapeutic Touch team.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 - MORNING
C1 Arlene Cugelman: Silent Mind, Powerful Mind
This session will explore the pull of illusion in everyday life and how that separates us from our inner being. We will discuss both concepts - the inner and the outer - how they manifest in our bodies, mind and hearts. Exercises will bring these different states into clarity through personal experience. Some have said the mind is the last frontier. Dolores Krieger speaks of going "inth" as a dimension to explore. Dora Kunz says "we can draw upon an almost limitless potential of higher energies within us .... they are part of our human heritage"
Arlene Cugelman, an RN, is a nephrology specialist. Trained also in midwifery, she has studied widely in complementary therapies, including seven summers at the Intermediate and Advanced Invitational Retreats with Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz. In 1996 she qualified as a Recognized Teacher and Practitioner of Therapeutic Touch. She has taught in several hospitals in Toronto, Simcoe-Muskoka County, Georgian College, ATTN Spring Conference 2007, and continues to teach in the community. Therapeutic Touch has played and continues to play an important role in the life of her family.
C2 Jitka Malec: The Role of Detachment in Therapeutic Touch Treatment
This session will provide an in-depth look at Detachment as essential to the process of Therapeutic Touch. It is considered one of the prerequisites for a successful treatment. This will be an interactive session and will include an opportunity for experiencing the Healers Meditation.
Jitka Malec has been practising Therapeutic Touch since 1993. Teaching Therapeutic Touch to health professionals is high on her priority list, as is the integration of this modality into nursing care. From her own experience, she knows that has a positive impact. Jitka is a Therapeutic Touch Therapist/Volunteer at the Hospice of London, Wellspring of London and AIDS Hospice of London. Learning never stops for her and she feels that Therapeutic Touch is a very important part of her life.
C3 Heather Gurd: The Gypsy Meditation
This unique meditation for self care was developed over a period of 9 years, starting in The Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
Over time, a set of 4 keys (or initiations) was given:
1) The key to master detachment.
2) The key to banishing separate consciousness through the Chakras
3) The key H and P words.
4) The key symbols.
Each key will be introduced, explained, and then the full, guided meditation will follow.
Heather Gurd has a BA in Drama and Communications from University of Waterloo, a Business Diploma from WLU, an International Championship in Improvised Comedy, was a certified Reflexologist for several years, completed a 10 year course and became a Reiki master in 2004, has practised Therapeutic Touch since January 1993, and is now teaching Therapeutic Touch and Star Sacred Sexuality courses through Holly Oaks in Waterloo. Primary influences include farm life, family, friends, the arts, Therapeutic Touch, Chopra, Tolle, Millman, Myss, and travel: Egypt, China, Europe, and North America. Heather has been practising chakra meditations since 1977.
C4 Crystal Hawk: Is Your Dragon Dragging You Down?
We've been introduced to Dr. Krieger's Dragons so we can watch out for them. I've noticed several others lurking around unsuspecting Therapeutic Touch practitioners, interfering with the delivery of their sessions. So let us bring these Dragons to this workshop where we can humorously, and always kindly, expose some of these dastardly creatures. Let's all together find ways to banish them back, hopefully once and for all, to their caves, far away from us. All Dragons and Therapeutic Touch practitioners are welcome.
Crystal Hawk has been a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto for 38 years. During these years she has continuously explored physics and consciousness. A co-founder of the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario, she has filled several positions on the Board and has been unflagging in her support and enthusiasm of all aspects of Therapeutic Touch.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 - AFTERNOON
D1 Mary Simpson: Decoding "Transpersonal" in Therapeutic Touch.
Transpersonal healing leads its practitioners to a deeper dimension of themselves, and it is out of these levels of consciousness that Therapeutic Touch arises (Krieger). We will explore these concepts so that we can become aware of, and appreciate the changes that have happened within ourselves, as well as the possibilities for our continuing development as transpersonal healers through Therapeutic Touch.
In 1980 Mary's life led her to Therapeutic Touch, which she has been teaching since 1985. For many years she studied with Krieger and Kunz at Pumpkin Hollow. With Crystal Hawk, she founded The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario and with her, facilitates the Ontario Therapeutic Touch Retreat. Mary recently retired as Editor of in touch.
D2 Diane May: The Dance of the Inner Selves
Every Therapeutic Touch Therapist continually explores the most effective ways to connect with both their own Inner Self and the Inner Self of the client in order for their practice to grow and evolve. This session allows you to experience some ways of understanding how and why the dance of the Inner Selves occurs and how to consciously deepen that connection. The addition of this skill will move your Therapeutic Touch practice to another level.
Diane May, a Registered Nurse since 1973, is a true healer for our time. She has practised and taught Therapeutic Touch internationally for 25 years .A dynamic public speaker, Diane has appeared on national television in Canada, and been frequently interviewed in both Canada and the US. She has written numerous articles on Therapeutic Touch published in a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals.
D3 Donna Logan van Vliet: The Spiritual Practice of Saying Yes
As we live in a sea of divine unconditional love, are you allowing it in, or resisting it. You feel places of allowing and places of resisting with each Therapeutic Touch session. Consider where you have been and where you are on this continuum in your daily life. Are you saying no, or yes. If it is not yes, why not? "All I ask is that the present moment be postponed until I am ready for it." Ashleigh Brilliant, Pot Shot no. 1103.
Donna Logan van Vliet was teaching Therapeutic Touch in 1986 before the TTNO existed, after completing over 400 hours of academic and clinical hours with two of the original Kriegers Krazies from NYU. She has travelled and studied many other healing modalities with their originators, but her first love is still Therapeutic Touch. Perhaps it is because she loves simplicity, and "effortless effort" to quote Dee Krieger.
D4 Cherry Whitaker: Assumptions - Have you brought them out of the closet lately?
Along with the basic Four Assumptions upon which Therapeutic Touch is built, we make our own assumptions about how energy works which greatly affect our perception, reception and interaction with energy. How you perceive energy, and what you assume it does determines your reaction to it, your ability to do treatments on others, your ability to detach from outcome, and affects many other aspects of your treatments and your life.
Cherry Whitaker was a public school teacher for 30 years. In 1997 she became
interested in Therapeutic Touch initially as a healing modality because it is a simple, effective and straightforward method. She loves Therapeutic Touch because it is a gentle way to assist others and a treasure house of unending pleasure, learning and a foundation for self-growth. Cherry is a Recognized Teacher with the Atlantic Network.
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