International Education Grants
2018 – Instructor Training Level 6 in Boulder, CO, USA
Recipient: Gillian Robertson HTCP
Date: September 2018
Amount: $2,700
Final Grant Report
International Instructor Training in Boulder, Colorado, USA, September 2018
The completion of this training would address the critical need for an instructor to continue teaching the Healing Touch Program within Western Australia as the current Instructor, Barbara Rogers, is close to retirement from teaching. Monica Nebauer is the only other Instructor within Australia, and lives on the Eastern seaboard in Queensland. I have worked closely with both of these Instructors and look forward to their mentorship in the future.
Back Row: Dawn Higgins, Jerri-Anne McDermith, Kim McKibben, Elaine Lang, Janna Moll, Karen Hoskyn.
Middle Row: Cynthia Hutchison, Susan Holtorf, Stacy Noel.
Front Row: Jaclyn Chisholm, Gillian Robertson, Nicole Cichocki, Crystal Perry.
I believe the outcome of this course was very successful, and I am proud to share with anyone who listens that I am currently an Instructor in Training and look forward to experience teaching Australian classes in 2019.
The course itself was amazing to attend, the opportunity to network was enormous, and the value of being able to attend a course in the USA should not be underestimated. The true experience of sharing our work with each other and having an instant rapport with a great group of fellow practitioners soon to be instructors was so very powerful for me. I arrived timid and came out confident. I felt comfortable having found the same rapport with course participants in my Level 5 in 2012 at the Black Rock Retreat in Philadelphia – we remain friends and still network together to this day.
Networking, valued learning, peer support, laughter, life-long friends, all of these were enjoyed, savored and salted away for when needed from this course. My fellow participants in this course were Dawn, Higgins, Jerri-Anne McDermith, Kim McKibben, Elaine Lang, Karen Hoskyn, Susan Holtorf, Stacy Noel, Jaclyn Chisholm, Nicole Cichocki and Crystal Perry. I was totally “blown away” by this group’s abilities and the wholesome learning we achieved both from our Instructor Cynthia Hutchison and by sharing our experiences and views within the group.
We were given fantastic opportunities for questions and guidance F2F in ‘virtual’ online meetings with Lisa Mentgen-Gordon, Amelia Vogler of HTPA and Christina and Jennifer of the HTP Office. Janna Moll also joined us for one day, sharing her views and concepts. It was such a wonderful experience.
Our instructor, Cynthia Hutchison, was truly polished in how she developed the class, enabling us to relax and to enjoy the anecdotes we shared, plus advice and guidance for scenarios within the teaching arena. She built the group steadily towards gaining the extra knowledge and awareness we needed to achieve within the class and to complete the requirements for certification. I also feel truly blessed that Cynthia welcomed me into her home for a couple of days after the class, enabling me to cement in a few extra concepts, personal guidance and to be confident in my journey going forward.
The preparation work and networking continue as all of the 11 participants in this course strive to complete the certification pack. I look forward to the first Level 1 workshop in 2019 when I will participate as Instructor in Training – I am so excited!!
Please accept my humble thanks to the Chair and HTWF Committee for enabling me to participate in this important course to encourage and nurture Healing Touch Program’s future within Australia and in support of the worldwide Healing Touch Program community.
Many blessings
G Robertson
Gillian Robertson, HTCP, HTI
2018 – Instruct a Healing Touch Level 1 & 2 classes in Uganda
Instructor: Victoria Stewart, HTCP/I
Amount: $1,350
Victoria taught 24 students both Healing Touch level 1 & 2 classes in March 2018 with the help of an interpreter. The students were amazed to feel energy and are eager to use their new skills for family and much needed community work. The classes were very successful in introducing the community to Healing Touch that they are already hoping to hold more classes soon, including a Level 3. In addition, Victoria has identified 2 students as potential future Healing Touch instructors given their enthusiasm - which would truly help fulfill Janet's intention to "advance Healing Touch Worldwide"! Read the final report.
Final Report
My trip to Uganda to teach Healing Touch Levels 1 and 2.March 13-14, 2018 and March 15 and 17, 2018
This was one of the most profound experiences I have ever had. As a white instructor in a black culture there was trust, love, compassion and acceptance.
The 24 students were eager to learn Healing Touch. I was blessed with having an interpreter and a reader for Healing Touch to be relayed to the students.
Healing Touch Level 1 started on Monday and ended on Tuesday evening. Healing Touch Level 2 started on Wednesday. We skipped Thursday to work at the clinic and I helped the staff who were in class with working two on one. Reminding the students of hand placements. The staff that I worked with also help decide what techniques to use that they had learned. The clients at the clinic were amazed with Healing Touch. Many of them cryed when they were out of pain.
Many of the students were so surprised they could feel energy. When we practiced rubbing their hands together, then pulled them apart, and feeling someone else’s hands on the second day of level 1. They really were surprised.at their growth with feeling energy on the second day so much more than the first day.
On Friday morning 2 gentlemen from the Drug Administration joined the class to see what Healing Touch was about. The students really stepped up and gave amazing testimonies. I did a short exercise with one of the gentlemen. I asked him to see if he could feel me in his energy field and he DID! They were intrigued with Healing Touch. They said “Healing Touch could be everywhere in Uganda”. Hellen Nyilak was extremely delighted by their response. “That is a BIG deal” Hellen said.
There are two women that I would recommend to become Instructors. Hellen Nyilak and Anne Kibirige
I believe that it would be for the highest good for Uganda to continue Healing Touch in their country. Their medical care is beyond dismal. The biggest complaint by the Ugandans are lower back issues and ulcers. Their roads are horrible and they worry because there are no jobs.
With working together as a Healing Touch team and continued support from HTWF for funding travel expenses and funding under privileged areas with Healing Touch workbooks and HTP abating their fees...this could be possible.
I would like to continue to go to Uganda to teach adults. Walle Adams Gerdts is interested to go to Uganda in the fall to teach Healing Touch Level 3.
Hellen Nyilak is well connected to highly respected and educated people. Healing Touch can travel further in Uganda with continued support Hellen.
Below are a few e-mails that I received from one of the students about the Healing Touch work that is being done to support the Uganda people.
"Dear Victoria,
I hope you had a safe journey back to the U.S.
Thank you so much for sacrificing everything to come and train us in this wonderful kind of healing. I was personally blessed and it improved my spiritual life and ministry to a great extent!
I am practicing and reading more to understand it more.
You really sowed a seed in my life and I promise that I will keep the candle burning by teaching others about this great experience.
I hope to become an instructor in future.
Stay blessed.
Regards
Anne Kibirige.
Africa Uganda."
"Dear Victoria,
I hope all is well.
This morning I got a patient who is 6mths pregnant but she had a water discharge. When she went for a scan, the doctors said that her cervix was already open and the contractions had started. Her, the husband and the mother in law were already crying and had completely lost hope. I placed my hand at the sacral and commanded the cervix to close in Jesus name, then I advised the nurses to lay her on the hospital bed. I started with the chakra connection as she laid on her side, then therapeutic touch, then ultra sound around the sacral and finally laser around the sacral again.
By the time I finished, she was calm and even asked for something to eat. That was at midday. At the moment, the discharge has reduced and the doctors said they are taking her back to the scan tomorrow.
I kindly request for more advice in such a case.
Thanks
Regards
Anne (Uganda)"
"Dear Victoria,
Thank you for the advice concerning the cervix closure.
I went and did chakra connection on Tuesday then on Wednesday they did a scan. The cervix had closed but the fluids in the uterus had dried up so they induced her into labour and that is the day she had made 27 weeks. The baby is in the nursery and picking up well and the mother is also very fine. Its now a week. We thank God because the doctors had said that she would not hold the baby in the womb for more than an hour because the contractions had started on that Monday morning when I sent you the email and secondly, they had said that the baby would not be alive for more than 12 hours!!
Its a miracle to the health care practitioners as well!
In a second scenario, a certain patient had been on oxygen for a week due to pneumonia, I found her very weak, worried and breathing badly. She could not talk but just cry when people went to see her. I did chakra connection and immediately her breathing improved. The following day she sent a message that she was discharged! It was a miracle because she looked like someone who was dying anytime.
Another one had started feeling numb on the right hand side of his body from the head to the toe. He is on ARVs and has been down for 5mths. I massaged and chakra connection then mind cleared. The numbness instantly cleared! I will be going back tomorrow because I worked on him last Friday. I will be working on him every Friday until the end of the month.
Thanks a lot for saving God's people.
Regards
Anne
Uganda"
Thank you for the opportunity to serve this community.
Victoria Frush Stewart, HTCP/I
2017 – Instruct Healing Touch Level 1 Class in Madurai, South India
Instructor: Kimberly Kuppenheimer, MA, PA, HTCP/I
Amount: $2,180
Healing Touch Level 1 class was taught to students in Madurai, State of Tami Nadu,South India, in June 2017. These eleven students plan to use their newly acquired HT techniques in caring for the hospice patients at the Akash Home for the aged and dying, and at the nearby Padaman Village Hospital. Kim was also able to introduce HT to over a hundred primary school children in local village schools, where they practiced “Hands Still” on their fellow classmates.
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2015 – Instruct Healing Touch Level 1, 2 & 3 classes in Japan
Instructor: Rumi Hashimoto, MSN, RN,HTCP/I
Amount: $3,000
A special lecture on “Healing Touch and Integrative Medicine”, presented by Rumi Hashimoto, MSN, RN,HTCP/I at Yokohama Minami Kyousai Hospital in Yokohama, was attended by 80 participants. The University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Kitakyushu hosted “An Introduction to Healing Touch” attended by many nurses and educators. A special lecture for nursing students at Yokohama Soei University, School of Nursing, focusing on the “Integrating of Healing Touch into Nursing Practice”, was well received by both nursing students and professors in attendance. Six Healing Touch Program classes, including three Level 1, two Level 2 and one Level 3 were taught at three universities in Japan, training a total of 120 students in Healing Touch techniques. The combined attendance at the various classes and outreach events is estimated at 227 health care participants.
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2015 – Instruct a Healing Touch Level 4 Class in Nepal
Instructor: Tim McConville, HTCP/I
Amount: $2,800
Tim taught the level 4 class held in Nagarkot. Eleven students received certificates moving them closer to practitioner, 2 other students attended a portion of the class. Aparna Bhatta, coordinated the Level 4 class which provided critical professional advancement for her teaching skills and assisted her in her efforts to grow Healing Touch in Nepal.
2012 - Instruct a Healing Touch Level 2 and 3 Class, & Instructor Level 2 in Nepal
Instructor: Tim McConville, HTCP/I
Amount: $3,000
Tim’s mission to Nepal was to help expand the ability to reach more students of Healing Touch. The first goal was to teach Aparna Bhatta Level 2 Instructor Training which began April 4th. Aparna has taught over 150 students in Nepal and India in her first year of teaching!
Two Level 2 classes were taught: April 5-6 in Kathmandu in the surrounding hills, 10 student participated and 9 students completed the second Level 2 held in Aparna’s office in Kathmandu April 9-10th. Many of the students have a medical, mental health or Ayuvedic background and have been actively using the level 1 techniques in their practice with good results.
A Level 3 class was held at Aparna’s office and 8 students completed the class. One of the students had waited five years to take level3! The students came from a variety of ages and backgrounds, most with higher education. This class included and Ayuvedic doctor and Ayuvedic pharmacist.
This teaching experience was a wonderful exercise in flexibility and patience. We had to adapt to very different notions of timeliness and focus more on the core techniques. Often the setting was less than ideal, with only partial access to decent treatment tables and distracting noises in the city. The students are not as likely to read the English language texts and readily gravitate to the table work. We realized the strong need to have the texts, and documentation forms all translated into their native tongue. The Nepali people have a deep spiritual base which made teaching the concepts easy. The students were a delight to be with. It is reassuring that the Healing Touch work bridges cultural differences and can be the same anywhere in the world. I think the culture they live in more readily accepts the alternative therapies such as Healing Touch. That coupled with the lack of good allopathic medical facilities creates a situation which will allow a more rapid expansion of the work and a tremendous opportunity to impact people's lives.
1st Level 2 class practicing
1st Level 2 class practicing
2nd Level 2 class picture
Level 3 class demonstration
Level 3 class students