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Volume XXI, No. 4 Donation $6.00 Winter 2009 in This Issue Volume XXI, No. 4 Donation $6.00 Winter 2009 The Quebec Therapeutic Touch Network Board of Directors Susan Hamilton, Monique Gregory, Leo Gregory and Irma Bubolic In this issue ... in touch wants you! 2 Conference Kudos 14 Reports from Networks Across Canada 3 Current News & Views 15 A Canadian Therapeutic Touch Network? 4 The Practice Group Corner 16 TTNO Information Page 5 The Word on WORD 16 Practitioner Liaison Committee Report 6 So Many Websites... How to Tell Good from Bad 17 Upcoming Practice Days 6 Questions and Answers about Therapeutic Touch™ 18,19 Teachers Liaison Committee Report 7 The Therapeutic Touch Word is Out! 21 Winter Issue Donation Report 7 Our Experiences with Therapeutic Touch 22 Treasurer’s Report 8 TTNO Volunteers - Our Greatest Asset 23 Meditation 8 Hospice Peel is now Heart House Hospice 23 Issues of Relaxation 9 Therapeutic Touch Research 24 TTNO Workshop List 10 Our Vision & Reality Conference, 2009 25 Therapeutic Touch Workshops for Continuing Education11 Ramblings 25 The Ethics Statement: Safety Net for TT Practitioners 12 Canadian Networks’ Information 26 So Many Books, So LIttle Time 13 Canadian Teachers and Practice Groups 27 Moving in to the Silence 28 in touch is the newsletter of The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario wants you! P.O. Box 156, Station U in touch Etobicoke, ON M8Z 5P1 The goal of in touch is to keep us in touch. This happens as we share our knowledge, concerns, ideas, Email: [email protected] and thoughts as well as the excitement of being part of www.therapeutictouchontario.org the Therapeutic Touch™ family. The opinions and ideas expressed by the To fulfill its goal, in touch asks you to contribute to writers in this publication are their own the newsletter by submitting articles, by responding to and are not necessarily endorsed by “Questions and Answers About Therapeutic Touch”, by The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario. sharing what you are reading and finding stimulating for “so many books, so little time”, and what you are ADVERTISING RATES doing for “The Therapeutic Touch Word Is OUT!” Size Dimensions Cost GST Total Articles should offer true observations about an experience you had, for example, in a workshop, 1/3 page Horiz: w 7.5” x h 3.25” $60.00 $3.00 $63.00 retreat, when offering a session (e.g. client Vert: w 2.5” x h 9.75” $60.00 $3.00 $63.00 responses), or providing one in a difficult situation. 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If you would PUBLICATION DATES AND DEADLINES like to contribute to the newsletter but feel unsure of how to go about this, contact the editors through the Publication date is the (Solstice) 21st of TTNO office, and they will assist you. • Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter Send your submissions to the Next Issue: Spring 2010 TTNO([email protected]). If it is a response to Q&A, send to Helen Will (helenwillart@ Deadline for submissions: Feb 15/10 yahoo.com) or if it is news of your activities for “The Late submissions may be held for the following issue. Therapeutic Touch Word Is OUT!” to Jodi Cole (jodi. [email protected]). Submissions may be edited for Please send submissions to the TTNO office with clarity and length. If significant changes are made, the “Newsletter + which issue + the nature of the article will be returned to you to ensure your contribution submission” in the subject line; e.g. “Newsletter remains true to your intent. The copy editors will follow Spring 2010 – Report from….” the style manual adopted by the TTNO Board. If you are interested in receiving the style manual, email or in touch, the newsletter of call the TTNO office. The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario, is mailed to members of the TTNO, subscribers While in touch receives many submissions of poetry, in other Canadian Networks and countries, and both new and previously published, established policy to selected organizations and institutions dictates that no poetry is accepted for inclusion in the throughout the world. newsletter. Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #40034150 Page 2 in touch, Winter, 2009 Reports from Network Coordinators Across Canada Atlantic Therapeutic Touch Network TTNQ President Our teachers are again holding classes, and four of our Monique Gregory administers Therapeutic teachers—Cherry Whitaker, Evelyn Mitchell, Charlotte Touch™ at the August Quirk and Barbara Stone—represented ATTN by attending Health and Wellness the Fall Conference in November. Cherry lead one of the Fair in Ste. Anne-de- concurrent sessions at the Conference. Bellevue . Our 2010 ATTN membership renewals have gone out to all those who have Internet connections. Those who do not have Internet or wish to have their own copy will be Community Work and Practice Groups Susan Hamilton, our Vice-President and Secretary, has sent same. We hope that this will cut down expenses in been successfully teaching Therapeutic Touch at John postage. At least, we are going to give it a try. Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue since 2007. Her new student enrolment continues to grow. The Practice Groups are up and running. There seem to be quite a few that are having very interesting topics to Our Practice Group meets on the last Tuesday of each discuss. The Therapeutic Touch™ sessions are always month and has recently moved to a new Holistic Center fabulous, and our new RPs are helping out their colleagues located at 113 Ste-Anne Street in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue in in their groups. So in some instances we may be small in the West Island. numbers, but our quality is first-rate. Irma Bubolic, CTTN Rep., continues with her Practice There is quite an interest in having more Practice Days. Group every second Tuesday of each month in N.D.G. We Everyone seems to enjoy them. The Education Chair and now officially also have a new Practice Group on the South her Committee are planning at least one in January with the Shore. Contact Marie-Claude Poupart at 450-671-2223. possibility of another one later on. Since January 2003, Monique Gregory has been working Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. at the West Island Palliative Care Centre as a nurse’s aide, giving Therapeutic Touch care to cancer patients at end of Love and Light, life. As of September of this year, the new West Island Barbara E. Stone, Coordinator ATTN Cancer Wellness Centre is actively promoting Therapeutic Therapeutic Touch Network of Quebec Touch as part of its Holistic Treatment Program. Monique Gregory volunteers Mondays and Wednesdays. Annual Wellness Day On August 22nd, 2009, the Therapeutic Touch Network Practice Day of Quebec participated at the Annual Wellness Day in Our Practice Day was held on October 24th, with 14 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Practitioners Susan Hamilton, practitioners in attendance. The event began with a guided Monique Gregory, Mary Drienovski, Dusica Jurisic, Urszula meditation by Monique Gregory, and Susan Hamilton, Konieczny, Eileen Langevin, Leo Gregory, Pat Jones and RT, started the morning session on the topic of Intuition/ Dolores MacKenzie giving Therapeutic Touch sessions visualization along with some exercises. The afternoon throughout the day. began with Tracy Shafter, Laughter Therapist, who taught us how to laugh. This energizing exercise really expanded What a beautiful sight to behold; it truly warmed my heart the heart center. The day ended with Irma Bubolic, RT, to see several of our practitioners offering sessions to leading a practicum and finishing with a blessing. This clients at the same time. We all learned that we could stay event was very successful, and we are looking forward to centered and grounded throughout the day in an open-air more Practice Days and Workshops in 2010. environment even though we were surrounded by a loud and noisy drumming band next to our booth. This certainly New Teacher with TTNQ boosted our confidence. What a gift we all received that The TTNQ is proud to announce that Susan Buscemi, day. Well done, practitioners. We treated well over 50 Recognized Teacher has joined our Network. TTNQ is people that day. It was indeed a successful day, and we constantly growing and expanding in Quebec. look forward to participating again next year. Monique Gregory, President Therapeutic Touch Network of Quebec in touch, Winter, 2009 Page 3 A Canadian Therapeutic Touch Network? We hope so…. Every year at the time of the Vision and Reality Conference in Toronto, Canadian members who have attended from outside Ontario have met to discuss the development of a Canadian Therapeutic Touch Network. The initial meeting saw the formation of a steering committee, and one very important result came out of this: Peter Andrewes, a member of the Atlantic Therapeutic Touch Network and Secretary of the Steering Committee, was able to secure a trademark designation for the words “Therapeutic Touch”.
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