Therapeutic Touch® Presentations and Training for Care Providers is available and useful for:
Long Term Care Staff
Hospice and Palliative care Providers
Hospitals
Community Agencies
Nursing Agencies
Family Caregivers
WHAT WOULD MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE MEANINGFUL,
MORE PROSPEROUS, MORE PEACEFUL?
The Secret Power of Connection Therapeutic Touch® Workshops teach caregivers of all kinds the new skill of Therapeutic Touch®, a way to help anyone to whom you provide hands on care – from nurses and other health care professionals, to holistic practitioners, to hospice volunteers, to teachers learning to manage the energy in the classroom to Moms’ and Dads’ with their families. Therapeutic Touch training ranges from Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, TT Practitioners Program, TT Teachers Training and a range of Beyond the Basics Workshops that are geared toward anyone who does energy work.
Therapeutic Touch enhances care providers’ ability to manage Compassion Fatigue/Burnout, help them to function centered, focused and present to the clients more consistently. Helpful for those in memory care, hospice, therapists and care staff or volunteers in institutional settings and the community.
WHAT IS THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
It has been said that Complementary Therapies, such as Therapeutic Touch (TT), are the medicine of the future, and that Wellness is a personal responsibility. As Past President of Therapeutic Touch International, Diane May RN, speaker, author and a leading Therapeutic Touch Practitioner and Teacher, advocates that holistic practices and Western medicine function in a complementary fashion.
Therapeutic Touch is a non-invasive therapy utilizing near touch and light touch to support and stimulate the body’s own healing processes. TT has been found most effective in symptom management and in promoting quality of life for those with chronic or catastrophic conditions. TT is not a miracle cure and is not intended to replace appropriate medical care. Yet it serves as one more tool for care providers. Any interested individual can learn this gentle art of stimulating a person’s natural healing potential.
Dolores Krieger PhD, RN, Professor Emerita of nursing fromNew YorkUniversity, is responsible for bringing Therapeutic Touch into the Western medical community, beginning in 1972, and TT is now being taught in thousands of universities and hospitals around the world.
Therapeutic Touch has an ever-expanding research and clinical base (articles and research papers are available) and a growing number of practitioners worldwide (more than 200,000) in over 100 countries.
USES:
Asthma
Confusional states/Memory Care
Palliative Care
Aggressive behavior
Fractures and wound healing
Chemical withdrawal
Stress management/Compassion Fatigue
Prenatal, Labor and Delivery
Pain control, chronic and acute
Newborn Infants, Neonatal ICU
Anxiety
Fever reduction
FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
1. CENTERING
The process of quieting and focusing the mind, which allows the practitioner
(through heightened awareness) to pick up cues from the client’s energy field.
2. ASSESSMENT
The technique of practitioners passing their hands through the client’s energy
field to determine areas of imbalance.
3. REBALANCING
(a) Clearing. Practitioners passing their hands through the client’s
energy field in sweeping motions to disperse congestion.
(b) Energy modulation and direction. Practitioner’s method of adjusting the
flow of energy of the client’s field until balance is restored.
4. REASSESSMENT AND REEVALUATION