About Therapeutic Touch Dialogues
Research
In support of our clinical interests, we have completed two exploratory studies:
“Looking over Your Shoulder during Therapeutic Touch Practice: A Study in Mindfulness”
“Healing-At-A-Distance: An Exploratory Study”.
In addition to exploratory studies and research in the Therapeutic Touch process, we are collaborating to develop a universal theory of healing. We also actively engage in conversation with organizations with mutual interests.
Understanding and exploring
Through the Dialogues, TT therapists have a unique opportunity for understanding the transpersonal nature of the healing moment. TTDialogues are more concerned with the search for meaning; looking beyond simply sharing of opinion, lecture or discussion.
The TTDialogues nurture discernment, compassion, spiritual drive, and purposeful engagement in the healing moment. At least 3 years’ experience in TT practice is a pre-requisite for participation in the TTDialogues.
Therapeutic Touch
Therapeutic Touch® is a holistic, evidence-based practice that incorporates the intentional and compassionate use of universal energy to promote balance and well-being.
Therapeutic Touch (TT) is based on the idea that human beings are energy in the form of a field. When you are healthy, that energy is freely flowing and balanced. In contrast, disease is a condition of energy imbalance or disorder. The human energy field extends beyond the level of the skin, and the Therapeutic Touch practitioner connects with that energy using the hands as sensors. TT Practitioners are conduits of energy – the Healing Partner does the work.
The Four Major Assumptions Underlying the TT Process
1. Healing is a natural human potential that can be actualized under appropriate circumstances.
2. The enactment of the Therapeutic touch healing process from the “within” of the Therapeutic Touch therapist is transpersonal.
3. In grave illness and trauma, a person’s destiny may delimit the possible effects of treatment with healing.
4. There are intangible networks of intelligent and dynamic forces that underlie normal human functions as they relate to the healing process.