Explore your inner self
Learn the hand-heart connection
Create imagery for your TT sessions
Enhance your TT sessions through practice
Therapeutic Touch is a conscious, mindful process. During this Transpersonal workshop you will gain awareness about your inner self and how it relates to Therapeutic Touch and the sessions you offer your Healing Partner. As we create images, direct energy, assess the energy fields, connect compassionately (heart-to-heart) and give distant TT sessions, we are going beyond our everyday existence as we work with our Hp in a holistic and transpersonal way.
We invite to join us in deepening our TT practice with this Transpersonal workshop.
This course will take place over two virtual Zoom sessions – eight hours each day. The sessions will include practice, feedback and the opportunity to apply your Therapeutic Touch® learning.
Date – January 14 & 21 2024
Time – 9:00-5:00 EST
Cost – $175.00 CAD for members of a Therapeutic Touch Network, $185.00 CAD for non-members
Classes will be limited so register early.
Email Alison at adcooke141@gmail.com to register and hold your place.
Objectives:
- Engage in contemplative practices which deepen knowledge and awareness of the inner self.
- Describe the relationships between the practitioner’s shifts in consciousness and the elements of the Therapeutic Touch process.
- Provide Therapeutic Touch sessions with the compassionate intent to assist the healing partner (Hp).
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the Transpersonal Nature of Therapeutic Touch to the development of a TT practice.
- Learn how to use imagery using colour, sound and all of the senses during your TT sessions.
- Learn the compassionate technique called the Hand-Heart Connection.
Instructors
Paula Neilson, BA, RT, QTTT
Paula has been active in Therapeutic Touch® for twenty years and is both a Recognized Practitioner and Teacher with the Therapeutic Touch International Association and the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario. Over the years, she has provided TT sessions to hundreds of people and has taught healthcare practitioners, long-term care professionals, volunteers, and interested people this gentle energy healing technique to help themselves and others heal. Since the pandemic, she has been facilitating the East End Toronto Branch via Zoom, and more recently has added an in-person TT Branch for practice . Paula teaches Foundations and the Transpersonal Nature of Therapeutic Touch. For the past six years, she has been teaching Therapeutic Touch for Self-Care on a weekly basis to members of Better Living Health and Community Services in Toronto. In November 2024 she began teaching Therapeutic Touch for Self-Care at Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto.
Alison Cooke BSA (Hon), BED, RT, QTTT
Alison Cooke, BSA (Hon), BEd, has been practicing and teaching Therapeutic Touch® (TT) for more than 25 years. Alison is the co-author, with Crystal Hawk, of Be Your Own Healer: Self-Care with Therapeutic Touch. This book provides a step by step way to learn to give yourself Therapeutic Touch. Crystal and Alison hope to bring TT to the world with this program through the accompanying YouTube channel. In her practice, Alison works for the Stirling Manor long term care facility, providing Therapeutic Touch as part of their Life Enrichment Program. She is also on the pastoral care team for Eastminster United Church, supporting her fellow parishioners in their grief, through surgery and in palliative care settings. Alison facilitates the TTNO Virtual Branch meeting monthly on Zoo. She is qualified to teach Foundations of Therapeutic Touch and the Transpersonal Nature of Therapeutic Touch with the TTNO and the TTIA. Alison brings to her teaching over 20 years of experience in both high school and elementary public school systems. Her passion is to bring TT to as many people as she can!!