Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HSGAHN

Internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing and nurse coaching movements. She is a Florence Nightingale scholar, nurse theorist, and national and international speaker and teacher on Florence Nightingale’s legacy and the role of integrative nurse coaching in the emerging integrative health care paradigm. She is the International Co-Director and Board Member, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Washington, DC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Gatineau, Quebec. Together with her husband Larry Dossey MD she has won numerous awards including the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Visionary Award 2016. She was Nurse Healer’s (TTIA’s Credentialing Arm) Healer of the Year in 1998. www.dosseydossey.com,

www.iNurseCoach.com, 

www.NIGHvision.net

Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP-BC, QTTT



Co-Director of the Stress Management and Resiliency (SMART) Program, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and MGH Researcher, Nurse Scientist focused on Relationships as Healing Transformations. Previously she worked as a family nurse practitioner and taught nurse practitioners as Co-Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at UMass Lowell. One of her areas of interest is in the neurobiology of compassion in compassion contemplatives and how it may influence healing. She will share some of the research on compassion and its relation to the practice of Therapeutic Touch. She has extensive experience teaching individuals and groups on meditation, resiliency strategies, and the practice of Therapeutic Touch.

...states of consciousness are actual conditions which are different from one another but not separate--either from each other or the body itself. The subtle fields co-exist within the same space, and influence each other. Their distinctiveness lies in the fact that each has its own unique type of energy and rate of vibration. This makes it possible for the various fields to exert their special effects and at the same time interpenetrate and interact with the other fields without interference.

It is difficult to find an analogy to this phenomena in terms of ordinary experience. Perhaps the whole effect is achieved in somewhat the same way that the unique sound of a musical chord is created by combining different tones, each of which can be distinguished by a trained ear. The experience of listening to music is the best analogy I can think of, because the differences between the subtle fields are essentially harmonic in nature. Each dimension of consciousness has its range of frequencies, and plays a particular part in the total orchestration of a human being.

--Dora Kunz, The Personal Aura page 13.

Charles Elkind put together an informative and fun birthday party for Dora on Sunday, April 28; it would have been her 120th. He featured passages from the second chapter of Dora's book The Personal Aura, as well as excerpts from an audio of one of her talks. We concluded the program with memories of Dora. Thanks Charlie. And thank you Dora!.

Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week May 6 - 12

Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario is inviting all TT members, during Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week, to introduce Therapeutic Touch to someone outside of our TT community. The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario Task Group has been encouraging all network members to participate in a week of Therapeutic Touch outreach activities in communities throughout Canada for seven years. Dee always hoped to have Therapeutic Touch used in every home. We’d love to build momentum to make Therapeutic Touch a household name. It could be an organization, a friend, a high school class, a hospice, a Long Term Care facility ... The list is endless. We have lots of resources to support you.

For more information email Alison at adcooke141@gmail.com