2025 Annual Conference
September 4-7, 2025
Bloomington, Minnesota
29th Annual Energy Healing Conference and Leadership Meeting
"Standing in Our Power. Healing in Action."
Hyatt Regency in Bloomington, Minnesota
CONFERENCE
We are so very grateful for your presence at our 29th annual conference! It was a true pleasure to see folks gather in person, share the Attributes of the Heart, and hold space in community.
As you process all the information you collected, please be mindful and respectful of the intellectual property of the speakers and their hard work. If you took photos of slides, please do not post those to social media or distribute to others. Your personal use for your own deepening understanding is fine.
Handouts used with permission will be posted online soon on the Healing Beyond Borders website. We will be sending you a link to these, again, for your personal use.
We'll also be sending you a link to the online evaluation as soon as it becomes available from the evaluation team. We will ask that you complete the evaluation within the next several weeks while it is fresh in your mind.
Lastly, the office staff will be taking a well-earned break through minimizing their availability over the next several weeks.
We wish you all safe travels home.
With deep appreciation,
Healing Beyond Borders Board and Staff
View the conference material in our brochure.
ABOUT OUR THEME
Power:
In Power vs. Force (1985), Hawkins notes, “Force is a finite 'pushing against' that requires external energy that will eventually run out (e.g., fuel or a battery), whereas power is self-generating and self-sustaining as the result of its essence.”
In The Art of Power(2007), Thich Nhat Hahn writes, “Vast inequality between people and groups makes power unstable. But when power is seen as legitimate and comes with spiritual authority and is a manifestation of love, wisdom, and freedom from afflictions, it can establish justice, order, and withstand challenges peacefully, without resorting to violence or oppression. It is appreciated and even revered.”
In Healing Touch, power is rooted in healer preparation, through being grounded, centered and committing to the attributes of the heart as identified by Brugh Joy: Compassion, Unconditional Love, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony, and Selfless Service.
Healing:
The root/origin of the word “heal” is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word “haelen” which means to be, or become whole. Nurse theorist and researcher Janet F. Quinn PhD, RN, FAAN defines “healing” as the emergence of right relationship at one or more levels of the body-mind-spirit system. (1977, Quinn, J.) “Healing: A Model for an Integrative Health Care System,” Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly 3, no. 1 (1997): 1-7.
Healing begins with the self and is a prerequisite for offering service to others. Healing in Action implies a process toward wholeness. What actions will engage to support wholeness for yourself, patients, community and planet?
References:
Hahn, T.N., (2007) The Art of Power. Harper Collins. NY: NY.
Hawkins, D.R. (1995). Power vs. Force. Hay House, Inc. NY: NY.
Quinn, J.“Healing: A Model for an Integrative Health Care System,” Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly 3, no. 1 (1997): 1-7.