My Experience Offering Introduction to Healing Touch Presentations

During the second day of my Healing Touch Level 1 class in Cincinnati in August 1997 I knew this was the work I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life. I wanted the world, most particularly Northeast Ohio, to know about this wonderful holistic modality. I was accustomed to speaking engagements in my role as a clinical trials coordinator for Alzheimer’s research at University Hospitals of Cleveland. In fact, I once substituted for the Director of the Alzheimer’s Center when he was unable to keep an appointment to tape an interview, at a Cleveland television station, about the first drug that was being studied for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.  

Shortly after attending Level 2 in September 1997 and for the next ten years I offered Introduction to Healing Touch presentations at every opportunity - to church and community organizations, to the staff of nursing homes, to teachers, to the nursing staff at Akron hospitals, and at several VA hospitals throughout Ohio as part of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) initiative by the VA’s Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. [Read more]