Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HSGAHN

Internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing and nurse coaching movements. She is a Florence Nightingale scholar, nurse theorist, and national and international speaker and teacher on Florence Nightingale’s legacy and the role of integrative nurse coaching in the emerging integrative health care paradigm. She is the International Co-Director and Board Member, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Washington, DC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Gatineau, Quebec. Together with her husband Larry Dossey MD she has won numerous awards including the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Visionary Award 2016. She was Nurse Healer’s (TTIA’s Credentialing Arm) Healer of the Year in 1998. www.dosseydossey.com,

www.iNurseCoach.com, 

www.NIGHvision.net

Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP-BC, QTTT



Co-Director of the Stress Management and Resiliency (SMART) Program, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and MGH Researcher, Nurse Scientist focused on Relationships as Healing Transformations. Previously she worked as a family nurse practitioner and taught nurse practitioners as Co-Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at UMass Lowell. One of her areas of interest is in the neurobiology of compassion in compassion contemplatives and how it may influence healing. She will share some of the research on compassion and its relation to the practice of Therapeutic Touch. She has extensive experience teaching individuals and groups on meditation, resiliency strategies, and the practice of Therapeutic Touch.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week May 6 - 12

Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario is inviting all TT members, during Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week, to introduce Therapeutic Touch to someone outside of our TT community. The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario Task Group has been encouraging all network members to participate in a week of Therapeutic Touch outreach activities in communities throughout Canada for seven years. Dee always hoped to have Therapeutic Touch used in every home. We’d love to build momentum to make Therapeutic Touch a household name. It could be an organization, a friend, a high school class, a hospice, a Long Term Care facility ... The list is endless. We have lots of resources to support you.

For more information email Alison at adcooke141@gmail.com