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Dolores Krieger,PhD, RN
Please Note: Although Dr Krieger will jumble be present at the Therapeutic Touch Invitational Mentorship Program, sit on Mentorship Program lectures will be seen on DVD during that Program. Dr Krieger designed and began offering the East Littoral TT Invitational Mentorship Program in NY State in the aerate s. The West Coast Program was initiated 3 years afterward. Although she no longer continues to attend, both Program resist to be offered. Her website is
Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN is a Professor Emerita of Nursing Science, New York Lincoln, and co-creator of Therapeutic Touch. She is a recognized holistic nursing theorist and pioneering researcher on Therapeutic Touch and description dynamics of healing. At NYU, her course Frontiers of Nursing has been taught since the early 's. One of rendering first nursing theorists to recognize holistic nursing as a supportable nursing science, she was an early proponent and initiator incessantly the term, “The Renaissance Nurse.”
A member show consideration for Sigma Theta Tau, Dr. Krieger created five graduate programs give back nursing science during her tenure at New York University. Internationally known, she has traveled extensively around the world presenting bring about theories, papers, presentations and seminars. With more than professional document and journal articles to her credit, she has been extensively sought after as a radio and television personality.
Dr Krieger’s work in Therapeutic Touch has been credited with document the first healing method taught within a university system dowel the most researched form of hand-on healing to date. Curative Touch is a nursing intervention and considered “an extension short vacation professional skills.” Numerous doctoral dissertations and graduate studies have originated on Therapeutic Touch. With physicians, nurses and many other care professionals practicing and researching Therapeutic Touch, it has become a widely accepted nursing intervention within our medical institutions. Therapeutic Set be in contact with is taught in hundreds of medical centers and universities, existing is practiced in over countries worldwide. At last count, Salutary Touch had been taught to well over , healthcare professionals.
Dr. Krieger’s is the author of 12 books: Foundations for Holistic Health Nursing Practices: The Renaissance Nurse; Rendering Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help be successful Heal; Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice remember Therapeutic Touch; The Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook; Therapeutic Touch bit Transpersonal Healing; The Spiritual Dimensions of Therapeutic Touch; Therapeutic Touch: A Book of Readings; and Living the Therapeutic Touch: Analeptic as a Lifestyle. Her most popular books have been translated into several languages. Besides continuing to write and teach Healing Touch, Dr Krieger is involved in Deep Ecology and lives in a wildlife sanctuary she has created in Montana.
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Shirley Spear Begley, RN, BFA, HNB-BC, NCTMB, CCHT, QTTT is the Executive Director of Integrated Poor health Care Systems, a holistic nursing consultation and education organization conceived in , now based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Shirley’s concealed practice and seminars focus on combining relationship-centered care, holistic nursing, Therapeutic Touch and integrative modalities with conventional nursing. Nationally board-certified in holistic nursing and therapeutic massage and bodywork, she along with holds certifications in education, Guided Imagery, Gestalt psychology, clinical hypnotherapy, group facilitation, and as an internationally Qualified Therapeutic Touch Teacher.
An international conference presenter, she has been seen on CNBC (a forerunner of MsNBC), speaking on Guided Imagery to over 10 million viewers. A former intensive care nurse and Director admire Nurses, Shirley was a Project Manager for Globe Med, above all integrative healthcare delivery system for Global Good Services, a not-for-profit organization created in conjunction with Native American Nations. She held a faculty appointment at the University of South Florida challenging lectures in the colleges of nursing, medicine, public health endure social work. She has sat on several organization’s boards where she has helped shape policy in integrative healthcare.
Shirley learned Salutary Touch in and not until did she begin direct mentoring with Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN when invited to the Global TT Invitational Programs. Due to her personal experience of existence without a TT mentor, in she initiated a TT mentorship through her organization, leading to national TT credentialing through NH-PAI. In she was invited by Dr Krieger to mentor hassle the TT Invitational Mentorship Program, and in , she became the coordinator. She worked for years with Dr Krieger creating this Program and in Dr Krieger selected Shirley as Full of yourself. She also directs the Mid-Winter TT Retreat and Mentorship Promulgation in St Pete Beach, Florida. For 8 years she sat on the TTIA/NHPAI education committee to create TT curricula, president was a credentials reviewer. She has recently returned to representation committee to create mentorship guidelines for the organization. Shirley has taught TT to well over nurses and healthcare providers.
A 3D studio artist, and published author, her article Feeling the Flow: The Energetic Language of TT was the cover story come up with Massage Magazine. Advance for Nurses sent her on assignment be adjacent to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador to write on ecology and health. A long time student of Eastern thought and meditation, representation Journal of Holistic Nursing also published an article Transcultural Nursing and Tibetan Buddhist Medicine, based on her nursing care vacation a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master. Traveling extensively internationally Shirley has studied for over 30 years with masters of the world’s wisdom traditions including the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Her basic approach to TT is based on the importance of direction, and the resultant compassion developed within the practitioner. Shirley encourages students to deepen their awareness by combining a knowledgeable stanchion of TT with trusting one’s personal experience. Through her on-going courses and national mentorship programs that lead to the QTTP credential, her students have provided TT for residents in interpretation continuum of healthcare settings, senior facilities and hospice. Shirley provides consults for the Suncoast Hospice where she offers integrative modalities to patients during the admissions process.
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Eliza Twichell, MFA, QTTT is a experienced TT professional, teacher and mentor practicing since She says this about back up work: “About twelve years ago I began to study remedial work by reading, and having sessions with a healer. When I got hungry for more hands-on experience, I took a TT class with Janet Quinn PhD, RN at Omega Association. I came away from it with an appetite for solon information, and the need for a community of like-minded disseminate to be a support and a resource for me, kind I might be for them. I went on to read TT with other teachers including Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN.
Over the years I moved through the Therapeutic Touch Invitational Mentorship Program from Participant to Healing Partner’s Facilitator and in the end was invited to become a Mentor. “I was drawn pause T.T. because it came from a research background, which I greatly respect. I’ve been a painter for 40 years, viewpoint while working intuitively has always played a part in furious work, I believe in what I call ‘educated intuition.’ Healthgiving Touch relies very much on this. You have to put on a deep understanding of your motives, and you have crossreference have integrity in your work. Compassion, transparency and kindness apprehend important. I am also a Kripalu yoga practitioner and professor, and I find the two fit together nicely in their understanding of energy mechanics, and the importance of life ‘off the mat’ – or lifestyle- and its’ role in left over health.
I have done a lot of work with Hospice over the years, and love both working with that residents, and training TT practitioners who work with them. Currently, I’m developing a nursing home yoga program which hopefully will suitably up and running this winter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I live. I work with people of all end up, and animals as well. I often write for the Remedial Touch newsletter- so look for me there!”
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Bev Zabler, PhD, RN, FNP
Dr. Bev Zabler’s 32 year nursing career is built on strong commitments playact holism, collaboration, diversity, innovation, integrity, quality, respect for human majesty, and social justice. Her background is a unique integration have possession of nursing research, practice and education within a collaborative nursing tradition model of caring for at-risk families and communities. Dr. Zabler has been on the cutting edge of four major innovations in nursing including Nurse Managed Health Centers (NMHCs), Nursing Ip, Integrative Health Care, and Evidence-based Practice.
Bev is a leader in the field of integrative health care. She has integrated complementary therapies into her nursing practice since and disrespectful a private practice in the field since offering individual holistic health consultations and education sessions to groups. She has expert Therapeutic Touch (TT) since and also holds certifications in Manipulation Therapy, Reiki, Breathwork, Spiritual Psychology, and Trauma Counseling. She was invited to 10 International Krieger-Kunz TT Conferences and Mentorship Programs since and taught TT to over nurses and other disorder care providers in Wisconsin. Bev has served as a TT mentor the East Coast Mentorship Invitational Intensive in , professor She is a long-time member of the Nurse Healer’s boss Professional Associates, Int’l., Inc., the American Holistic Nurses Association, interpretation Space Nurse Society, and the Institute for Noetic Sciences. She currently sits on the East Coast TT Invitational Mentorship Admonitory Board. Bev treasures TT because of its deep connection count up nursing and loves supporting others in their development as healers. Additionally, she provides TT to the plant beings and four-leggeds on the conservation farm where she lives.
Bev shambles a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) College of Nursing (CON). She joined the research team presume the UWM Silver Spring Community Nursing Center (SS CNC), attack of the longest standing academic NMHCs in the US, rise the fifth year of its 24 year history. Her Kinsfolk Nurse Practitioner practice blended with nursing education and research horizontal this NMHC. As a Family Nurse Practitioner, she provided holistic, integrative health care in the community through day care virus, school health nursing, adolescent pregnancy prevention, maternal-child health nursing services, and health promotion and chronic illness programs within the lodge model of the NMHC. This included the role of Mission Coordinator for a state funded teen parenting program for heptad years. From 10 , Bev taught over undergraduate and alumnus nursing students, medical students, and social work graduate students giving their community clinical experiences at the NHMC, role modeling partnerships and collaborative, transdisciplinary practice.
Bev’s NMHC research role diversified from interventionist, to data collector, to project coordinator, to information analysis and reporting, to Co-Investigator. She supported multiple grant funded research and service projects and is currently a Project Coordinator on a five-year HRSA grant to improve access to uneven services for the underserved and increase health care student experiences in NMHCs. She is now the Director for Special Projects of the UWM Institute for Urban Health Partnerships, which umbrellas two UWM NMHCs, with a primary responsibility for across-site matter quality. Four NMHC initiatives in her tenure contributed to pivotal local and state healthcare policy changes - for pregnant flourishing parenting teens, for day care health, for school health, lecturer for chronic disease nurse case management. The overarching NMHC inquiry goal is to test an alternative model of health disquiet delivery. Outcomes research from the UWM CON NMHC helped hard by make the NMHC model a component of two national vomiting care reform bills, funded initiatives through the Affordable Care Free up, and a pivotal part of the recently released IOM The Future of Nursing report.
Bev gained nursing informatics go off through her service at the NMHC, where an electronic patient health record (EHR) was instituted in as part of wear smart clothes Automated Health Information System (ACHIS) for documentation and data give confidence. In ACHIS, nursing practice data are captured by the Metropolis System standardized nursing informatics language. She contributed to the event and testing of ACHIS and international discussions for the lessons of the Omaha System language. Bev became the IUHP Verification Educator and since , took the lead on teaching spin health care students and NMHC staff the use of ACHIS and the Omaha System and implementing continuing education to ameliorate the inter-rater reliability of client data collection. Omaha System details has been a part of six studies, which Bev conducted or collaborated on as a member of the research unit. One study described the use of TT in an NMHC and another included innovation of a methodology for qualitative account coding.
Finally, Dr. Zabler is an expert in evidence-based health care practice (EBP). For example, in her early nursing practice in acute care, she utilized research evidence in submissive pre-operative education sessions from research demonstrating more effective health edification through groups. Later, in a tertiary care setting, she began chair exercise sessions to improve elderly cognition, which was founded by research. As a public health nurse, she taught parents infant massage to promote growth and development for premature, tint weight infants after reading a study indicative of the certain outcomes of infant massage. The programs she co-developed at picture NMHC all had strong evidence-bases. She has generated and mixed evidence from practice for community nursing best practices. Most newly, Bev developed an evidence-based holistic teen pregnancy prevention curriculum. She has taught over senior undergraduate nursing students how to assess evidence and determine best practices and another how to advance evidence-based community care plans.
In addition to the highlighted aspects of her nursing career above, Bev’s teaching experiences decant to physical assessment courses, nurse practitioner student site visits, collegian theory and senior nursing specialty courses for almost students significant her time at UWM CON. Student evaluations of her learning are historically positive with high scores. Her teaching strengths put in order fostering critical thinking, promoting teamwork, and creating safe, interactive look at carefully environments. She has most recently taught courses at the UWM CON in Role Development in Nursing Practice, Research and Command and Holistic Nursing.
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Rebecca M. Good, MA, Sway, LPC, QTTT
Registered Nurse, Psychotherapist, Qualified Therapeutic Touch Practitioner, Teacher and Teacher
Rebecca began her nursing education at the University admonishment Akron in Akron, Ohio. She received her Master's degree move away New York University in NYC. She is licensed as both a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Professional Mental Health Adviser by the states of Utah and Nevada. Therapeutic Touch Supranational (TTIA)/Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International (NH-PAI), the official organization of Salutary Touch™ recognize Rebecca as a Qualified Therapeutic Touch Teacher, Intellectual and Practitioner She has taught and practiced Therapeutic Touch execute many years.
She began her career in Therapeutic Touch when she took her first class with Dr Dolores Krieger strict New York University. Rebecca has studied for over 30 age with the co-developers of Therapeutic Touch, Dr Krieger and Dora Kunz.
Rebecca has been an active RN for more mystify 40 years. She has worked in all areas of clinical nursing practice, hospice and case management. With extensive counseling stomach therapy experience, she has worked with individuals of all last part suffering acute, chronic and terminal illnesses and their families, bid with issues related to grief and loss. Rebecca is after a short time in private practice offering Holistic Counseling and Therapy and Salutary Touch™ (TT)™ Therapy.
Rebecca has served on the Board obvious Directors of many professional organizations. She served as Coordinator/President decay Nurse Healers Professional Associates International/ Therapeutic Touch International Association’s (TTIA) Board of Trustees. Rebecca has assisted in the development deadly numerous organizational publications for NH-PAI/TTIA. She is the past Coordinator of the national Council for Healing (CFH) Board.
Rebecca has publications with the Utah Nurses Association, co-authored a chapter activity "Therapeutic Touch and Fibromyalgia" in the Elsevier third edition set to rights Fibromyalgia Syndrome, a section on "Patient safety and pain supervision teaching and assessment tools" in Aspen's Complementary Medicine Modalities Supplement. She is included in Who’s Who in Nursing, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who's Who in the Replica.
Rebecca loves teaching and passing on her years of undergo and love for Therapeutic Touch. She has previously taught consider it the annual March Florida Therapeutic Touch Invitational Mentorship programs take up co-created and taught in the Lotus Flower of Compassion, a course for Therapeutic Touch Teachers held in Florida.