On January 14th, twenty students from Bishop Smith Catholic High School in Pembroke completed their Level 1 Therapeutic Touch® training.  Patricia Tamosetis, RP, gave an introductory talk earlier in the year. Interested students were encouraged to attend the Level 1 workshop. In 2012, teacher Mrs. Carol Plue was looking for someone to speak to her Health Care class about complementary therapies.  The program is offered to Grade 11 and 12 students as a general elective or as part of the Health and Wellness Specialist High-Skills Major program (SHSM) that covers a wide variety of health care aspects both traditional and
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On February 4, Alison Cooke introduced Therapeutic Touch to the Esthetics Class at Loyalist College in Belleville. The students viewed a PowerPoint presentation while learning how to feel their own energy field and that of a partner. The students were surprised by how much they could feel! They also learned how to quiet their minds in a short centering exercise. They were encouraged to continue using the exercise to help them with their stressful lives!
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Therapeutic Touch is very active at Hospice Wellington in Guelph and Wellington County.  Those who volunteer for Hospice Wellington have level 3 TT and take a volunteer course with the organization. On Wednesday, October 16th, this group of volunteers, along with Rachel Stockdale, our staff person, gathered for a meeting, education session and of course, a pot luck dinner.  We were updated with procedures and policy regarding our residential services.  Deb Gould, one of our local TT teachers, gave us an educational component on how to dress for residential clients who have contact precautions.  We learned to dress properly with gown,
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A Morning of Connecting and Learning On September 30, 2019 Trinity United Church Therapeutic Touch (TT) Branch offered the opportunity to all TT practitioners in our local area to share a morning together and hear guest speaker Dr. Nauman Naeem MD, who specializes in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Guelph General Hospital and is the author of the book Healing From the Inside Out: Overcome Chronic Disease and Radically Change Your Life. We had an amazing 100 registrants sign up for this event. Each of the five area TT Branches (Elm Tree, Lilac, Magnolia, Willow, and Trinity) spoke for
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On Thursday, November 7, Alison Cooke introduced Therapeutic Touch to caregivers at the Wellington support group of the Alzheimer Society Hastings-Prince Edward. Alison used a short PowerPoint presentation, followed by a demonstration, to introduce Therapeutic Touch for Self-Care and how to learn to give TT to others through the TTNO Levels 1, 2 and 3. Members were interested in receiving TT and learning TT.
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On October 8, five TTNO volunteers offered Therapeutic Touch mini-sessions to 12 staff members over the lunch hour at Guelph General Hospital as part of Healthy Workplace Month. It was coordinated through Employee Health as an opportunity for self-care.  Some staff were looking for help with sleep and rest while others just came to experience a session.  Many commented on how relaxed they felt.  There are plans in place to consider a similar event next year.
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On Friday October 4th, 2019 there is a book launch for Holistic Healing: Theories, Practices, and Social Change and supporting conference at the Ontario Institute of Education at the University of Toronto (252 Bloor Street West). Participate in a full day (8:30 am until 5:00 pm) of presentations, workshops, and discussions. Roxana Roshon, RP, will be speaking during an afternoon workshop (1:00 – 2:45 pm) that includes discussions on Therapeutic Touch®, Reiki, massage therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and Healing with Nature. This thought provoking and experiential event includes discussions on how holistic healing approaches can be used for individual
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Roxana Roshon, Recognized Therapeutic Touch Practitioner has written a chapter entitled a “A Peek Into The World of Energy Medicine” in the new textbook, Holistic Healing: Theories, Practices and Social Change (2019; Ed. P.A. Dunn).  In the book, over thirty diverse contributors describe individual, family, community, national, and global holistic healing. The inclusion of Therapeutic Touch®, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Indigenous Healing practices, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Massage Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and other complementary healing modalities in a textbook for university students is groundbreaking. Roxana is grateful to be part of this project that promotes concepts and practices of
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We are saddened to announce that our beloved Dr. Dolores “Dee” Krieger, PhD, Professor Emerita, New York University Division of Nursing, age 97, crossed over on June 16, 2019 at her home outside Columbia Falls, Montana. As a Professor of Nursing, Krieger developed innovative curricula. Her graduate course, Frontiers in Nursing, became a model for many other ground breaking classes in the field of healing. Her work as a pioneer and innovative thinker in post-modern professional nursing focussed on a holistic perspective, giving health professionals a broader view of the potential for human wellness. In 2010, Dr. Krieger extended the
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