Healing Touch Course 1

WHAT IS HEALING TOUCH?

Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing, heart-centered energy therapy that uses gentle, intentional touch that assists in balancing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Classified by the National Institutes of Health as a biofield therapy and nursing intervention, Healing Touch may be used to address the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA-1) diagnosis of “Imbalanced Energy Field.”

Healing Touch is a collection of standardized, noninvasive techniques that clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields. Healing Touch assists in creating a coherent and balanced energy field, supporting one’s inherent ability to heal. It is safe for all ages and works in harmony with, is complementary to, and may be integrated with standard medical care.

Participants learn about the research basis that suggests Healing Touch is beneficial in calming anxiety and reducing symptoms of depression, decreasing pain, strengthening the immune system, enhancing recovery from surgery, complementing care for neck and spine problems, deepening spiritual connection, supporting cancer care, creating a sense of well-being, easing acute and chronic conditions, and supporting resiliency in health care providers.

HOW CAN HEALING TOUCH BENEFIT YOU?

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• Reduction of stress
• Improving anxiety and depression
• Decreasing pain
• Immune function
• Enhancing recovery from surgery
• Deepening spiritual connections
• Supporting cancer care

Research continues to build the evidence base of positive outcomes in response to Healing Touch. However, it should be noted that individual experiences may vary.

WHERE IS HEALING TOUCH USED?

Healing Touch is used in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, private practices, hospices, and spas. Healing Touch was founded in 1989 as a continuing education program for nurses, massage therapists, other health care professionals, and lay persons. Today, Healing Touch is taught in universities, medical and nursing schools, and other settings around the world.

Instructor Bio and Disclosure:

Kathleen Scacciaferro, R.N., M.S.A., Certified Healing Touch Practitioner /Instructor of Courses 1-5. Kathleen has over 40 years of Holistic Nursing practice in Critical Care and Community School Health. She led nine Educational Travel Courses to Cuba and Mongolia, as credit courses for the University of Vermont. Through her business, Healing Journeys LLC, Kathleen leads Sacred Healers Tours to New Zealand, Egypt, Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska. Through lectures, discussions, experiential learning with Indigenous Healers, cultural immersion, and daily self-care practices in a cross-cultural context, participants explore optimal health care practices for themselves.

Disclosure: Kathleen is an Instructor of the Healing Beyond Borders HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program and has the right to use the intellectual property of the Healing Beyond Borders HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program Course of Study