Join Us! Gather together for Monthly Online HT Practice Groups

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Healing Beyond Borders's Online Practice Group
An Invitation to Stay Connected
HBB Online Support for our Members, Students & CHTPs

Monthly Practice Schedules
First Monday (12:00 pm Mountain)   Monday Zoom Link  
First Thursday (5:00 pm Mountain)   Thursday Zoom Link  
of Each Month

Dear Members, Students & CHTPs,

During the past several years of pandemic many Healing Touch communities have had challenges with staying connected. Throughout this time the Healing Beyond Borders Board of Directors have taken steps to assist with fostering community engagement. Supportive virtual offerings such as “Staying Connected Through Social Distancing” our Pre-conference Community Meetings and the conference morning “Coffees” and evening “Bedtime Stories” were all created to connect, support and uphold students, practitioners and instructors.

Following this intention of support, we are happy to share that Healing Beyond Borders will be offering a virtual Healing Touch Practice Group. The Healing Beyond Borders Healing Touch Practice Group will be scheduled at times that allow connection with much of our worldwide community. This will be a time to connect, discuss, support and learn together.

As a long-time member of the regional Blue Ridge Shenandoah Healing Touch Practice Group, I value the experience of gathering with like-minded people to share and learn together. I began attending the Blue Ridge Shenandoah Healing Touch Practice Group in 2002, shortly after I attended Course 1: Foundations of Healing Touch. As a newcomer to Healing Touch I really appreciated the support of more seasoned students and practitioners. Hearing their stories of when and how others used the Healing Touch, what they sensed in the field, how they sequenced techniques and what energetic patterns they recognized. This group experience really helped me grow in confidence and understanding of energy work. At the end of the evening the opportunity to both give and receive Healing Touch sessions made all the difference in keeping me move forward with the work. Of course, I had heard my Healing Touch Instructors say “the energy teaches us.” As I attended Healing Touch Practice Group, I came to understand that!

How it will work:

• Members of the Board of Directors have marked off recurring times on their calendars to gather with our members online using Zoom. A link to the meetings will be sent via email.
• The Practice Group will be structured with a time of welcome, sharing, discussing a predetermined Healing Touch Intervention, a voice guided Practitioner Preparation, followed by practicing the intervention as a self-care technique or if you choose, a healing partner in your home. 

We hope that you will join us for the Healing Beyond Borders Healing Touch Practice Group, and we hope that CHTIs will encourage their students to join as an opportunity to meet new people and find out what is going on in our wonderful community.

With gratitude for the Healing Touch Community that has supported me along the way,

Gina Bondurant BSN, RN, CHTP/I
President Healing Beyond Borders

March 6th - Celebrate Healing Touch Day

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MARCH 6, 2026

It's Healing Beyond Borders' 30^th Birthday!
Begin planning your Healing Touch Day event now!

Each year, communities from around the world join together to celebrate Healing Touch.  Join your colleagues by planning an event that will raise awareness and acceptance of Healing Touch in your town or community.  Below is a list of suggested activities for Healing Touch Day 2026!

Ways to promote your event.  See the free flyer downloads below.

• Healing Touch Day Meditation
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 1
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 2
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 3
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 4
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 5 
• Healing Touch Day Social Media Post 6
• Healing Touch Day Press Release Form
• Tell us what activities you have planned and we will post them on our website!

Worldwide Healing Meditation

Whether you are part of a community event, or simply honoring Healing Touch on this day, consider joining with thousands of Healing Touch providers around the globe in a world healing meditation. 

We start by grounding and centering ourselves and connecting with our own heart. Then we expand this heart centered energy to fill and hold all beings on this planet in a space of wholeness and healing. We end by releasing the outcome and disconnecting. Add your own inspiration, images, and content to this meditation to make it sacred or meaningful for you. Official meditation time is noon (your time) on March 6th, but you can participate at any time on that day.  

Community Building Event for Healing Touch Providers
This is a great opportunity to connect with other Healing Touch providers in your area.  Below is a list of ideas that can enhance your event. Choose those that match the size and type of group you are expecting.  

• Invite all Healing Touch providers that you know of in your community. Look on our website for Certified Healing Touch Practitioners that you might not be aware of.  
• Offer food, social time, and a time for sharing as a group.
• If you do not know each other, consider name tags and some type of group introductions.
• Provide space and set up tables for Healing Touch exchanges.
• Ask a local instructor to review the basic Healing Touch sequence for inactive Healing Touch providers.
• Celebrate newly certified practitioners and instructors, and any other milestones.
• Participate in the world-wide healing meditation. 

Awareness Building Event for the Public
Each year dozens of communities around the world participate in Healing Touch Day activities.  Many creative and varied activities occur ranging from month-long schedules of events, city and area wide presentations, weekend retreats, day long gatherings, and presentations and classes, to individual participation and tithing. Below are a list of ideas that can help you put together an awareness event for the public.   

• Find a location that fits your needs and goals such as a community center, nursing home, hospital, or corporation.
• Schedule an Intro to Healing Touch talk or Healing Beyond Borders Powerpoint presentation.
• Offer free Healing Touch mini-sessions.
• Have drawings for free Healing Touch sessions or classes.
• Offer a Healing Touch class.
• Participate in the worldwide healing meditation.

Promote Your Event
Below are some ideas for promotion of your event.  We have a free downloadable poster and a sample press release ready for your use.   

• Download the free Healing Touch Day Flyer. Print it and then add the activities specific to your community in the space provided. You can hand write the information, or type it on your computer and run the flyer back through the printer.  Or, you can print something and then cut and paste it into the flyer.
  • Note: These flyers open and can be edited in Microsoft Word.
• Create a bulletin board display at a local community center, church, etc. Use the Healing Touch Day flyer as part of the display, and consider using a marketing brochure available on this site.
• Write an article about Healing Touch for your community newspaper.  Begin with the sample press release (document link listed at top of page), and add local information and stories of how local people have benefited.
• Call your local radio station and ask for an interview to discuss Healing Touch.
• Ask your mayor to declare March 6th as Healing Touch Day for your town.  Then send a proclamation to the local newspaper with the mayor’s signature on it.
• Participate in an existing community event such as a parade, fair, or other activity with information about Healing Touch.
• Email details of your event to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will post the event on this site.

Professional Tools and Marketing Materials
Healing Beyond Borders produces tools and materials to support your Healing Touch work.  These include professional marketing brochures, powerpoint presentations, a HBB retractable banner, HBB flag, and our longstanding Research Brief.

These products can be purchased in Our Shop.

Opportunity to Participate in Healing Touch Research

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Healing Touch (HT) Research Project An Opportunity to Participate Dear Healing Touch (HT) Community,   This email presents an opportunity for HT practitioners and instructors from across the globe to participate in a HT research study titled, “Analysis of barriers and facilitators to integration of Healing Touch in healthcare organisations: A qualitative semi-structured interview study.”   The goal of this pilot study is to conduct short, semi-structured interviews with participants from various parts of the world and get their perspectives on what factors may have helped the integration of HT into healthcare organisations (facilitators) at places they may have been or hindered the integration (barriers) of HT. It is anticipated that common and/or culturally important themes can be identified, and approaches and strategies can be developed to further integration pursuits. This becomes more relevant as we move towards patient-centred care, non-pharmacologic agents to reduce pain and self-care for healthcare professionals.   To participate in the study, English-speaking, international HT practitioners, certified HT practitioners, and certified HT instructors 18 years or older, who currently, or previously, practised HT in a healthcare organisation as either a volunteer or a paid employee, are invited to participate. Those less than 18 years old and non-practising HT practitioners, HT students, and HT (certified) practitioners/instructors who have not practised HT in a healthcare organisation and cannot speak English are ineligible.   This study will be performed in part as requirements for an MSc program. The MSc student conducting the study acknowledges a confluence of interest as an HT practitioner/instructor and member of the Board of Directors of Healing Beyond Borders. This project, designed by the MSc candidate, has been approved by her supervisor and an Internal Review Board at the University they attend. Ethical guidelines will be honoured to protect participants’ identities and the data collected. Further details will be forwarded to interested candidates.   If interested in participating, please reply by May 26, 2025, to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Thank you for your consideration.   Christa Voorn RN, BScN, CHTP/I, MSc student and Liz Hawkins, supervisor

2026 Annual Conference - Register Online Now!

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~ SAVE the DATE & REGISTER ONLINE NOW ~
30^th Annual Energy Healing Conference
October 7-11, 2026 (Virtual) 

Why A Virtual Conference? FAQ

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Register online now using this link to receive the early bird discount which ends July 31st. Conference brochure coming soon!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Submit your workshop or keynote proposal using this link to Proposal Space.

Continuing Education Information
Historically, HBB has provided an average of 55 - 75 continuing professional development contact hours per conference in the past 5 years.

Once the conference program is finalized, following closure of proposal submission dates (June 15), Healing Beyond Borders will submit the program agenda and content for nursing continuing professional development contact hours. Registered conference attendees will be eligible to earn professional development contact hours by completing online evaluations for sessions attended. One must attend 100% of any given workshop or session to receive continuing education for that particular conference event; there is no partial credit awarded.

ABOUT OUR THEME

"Healing Touch: 30 Years Connecting Heart to Heart"

For the past 30 years our work has been centered in the energy of the heart.

The physical heart has an electrical vibration more powerful than brain waves, transmitting more signals to the brain than it receives from the brain. Additionally, "these heart signals have a significant effect on brain function – influencing emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving. In other words, not only does the heart respond to the brain, but the brain continuously responds to the heart." (HeartMath Institute)

The basis of our healing work includes science, energetics, and attributes of the heart center. Brugh Joy MD believed that the heart center has definite qualities including Compassion, Unconditional Love, Healing Presence, Innate Harmony, and Service, accessing an interdimensional source of energy, a source beyond anything we can conventionally imagine in everyday reality. The heart center is the seat of forgiveness, inclusiveness, empathy and patience, bridging physical and spiritual energies. (Joy, B. 1979)

Barbara Brennan notes, “The heart chakra is the most important chakra used in the healing process. All energies metabolized through the chakras travel up the vertical power current through the roots of the chakras and into the heart chakra before moving out of the hands or eyes of the healer. In the healing process, the heart transmutes the earth plane energies to spiritual energies and the spiritual plane energies into earth plane energies to be used by the patient.” (Brennan, B. 1987)

Community, one of seven core values of Healing Beyond Borders is described as the “interconnectedness we experience with each other and the collective strength that flows from sacred community. Community involves acting in a beneficent way through cooperation, honor, and respect.” (Anderson, Anselme, Hart, 2024)

Connecting Heart to Heart is a moment to moment, lifelong practice.

References:

Anderson, J. G., Anselme, L., & Hart, L. K. (2024). Foundations and Practice of Healing Touch, 2^nd Edition. Lakewood, CO: Healing Beyond Borders.
Brennan, B. (1987). Hands of light. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
Joy, B. (1979). Joy’s Way: A map for the transformational journey. Putman, NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher.