19th Annual North Central Healing Touch Community Gathering
“Many Hands, Many Healers,
Revitalizing Community to Nourish our Hearts”
March 24-25, 2023
We are so pleased to announce that this year we have 3 keynote speakers:
Dr. Shamini Jain, PhD
What do so-called "baffling" phenomena such as placebo, spontaneous remission, and biofield healing have in common? While these areas have been unpopular among "mainstream" science and medicine, groundbreaking research in each of these areas speaks to the power of consciousness to heal - from the spiritual to the physical. In order for us to fully understand and embody the powerful healing effects of consciousness, we must embrace both the masculine and feminine approaches to health.
In this presentation, Dr. Jain will share the most cutting edge research in biofield science, while offering perspectives on the SMART and HEART approaches to healing — so we can all stay empowered in the evidence, while unapologetically sitting in the Great Mystery of Healing.
Jacquelyn Fletcher Johnson, MFA, CHTP
As healers, it’s easy to focus on problems. Our clients bring to us their struggles, their depression, and their darkness. So how do we stay grounded and uplifted ourselves, while helping to bring light into our client’s worlds? Community is a powerful way to let the light in. In this interactive session, you’ll hear stories that prove the goodness in the human heart and showcase the healing power of community.
Robyn Scherr, CMT, CST-D
Being present and caring for others can be depleting when we aren’t also present for ourselves, fully at home in our bodies as we work. In this mostly experiential ninety minutes together, we’ll discuss ways to recognize when we are “at home" and when we may be using our reserves to serve, draining our own wells. Robyn will lead us through practices she uses to stay present with herself as she remains attuned to her clients, allowing her to end her day feeling more energized than when she begins. You’ll leave with a batch of new techniques you can use in your own healing practice.
Additionally, this year we will have the opportunity to listen to one of our 3 Breakout Speakers:
Melissa Hansen and Lauri Wollner, HTACP, CHTP/I
Working With Animals: One of our main principles in Healing Touch is to have the intention of highest good for whoever we’re working with. This is easily transferable to working with animals. Healing Touch practitioners already have the basic knowledge and skills to be helpful with animals. This session, and your future interactions with animals, will support the shift to enhancing your growth - both personally and professionally.
Susan Kuske, RN, BSN, CHTP/I
Structural Chakra Connection Technique: Learn a new version of a classic technique. The Structural Chakra Connection technique was developed by Bonnie Johnson, RN, MS, BC-HN, CHTP/I and presented at the Healing Beyond Borders International Conference 2018. (www.healerjbonnie.com) In this session, you’ll learn to use this technique to rebalance energetic patterns of over-energized upper chakras and fields and under-energized lower chakras and fields. You can also use it to strengthen and repair weak energetic structure in lower chakras and fields. You’ll see how to assess the energy field to identify the unique pattern of the patient’s field, understand the reasons for and practice of the Structural Chakra Connection, and how to evaluate the results.
Stacey Quade, COTA/L, CHTP/I
A Spirit Walk with the Plants: In this session, clinical herbalist and healing touch practitioner Stacey Quade helps you work with heart healing energy and the spirit energy of the herbs to access energies that not only help the individual but also help heal the entire planet. You’ll learn to grow your understanding and skills around connecting to the energetics of the herbal kingdom. You’ll increase your understanding of accessing the plant communities of the Earth to ask for guidance and assistance when working with others. And you’ll discover how to access a plant spirit guide for your own individual growth process.
March 24th IN PERSON Gathering. We are so excited to welcome you to the 2023 NCHT Community Gathering! This year is gifting us with many opportunities to expand and shift with not only multiple keynote speakers, but 3 very special break-out speakers as well.
We are so elated to finally have the opportunity to offer more depth, more knowledge and more speakers at our gathering! This year will be a truly unique one for our annual gathering, a true testament to how valuable our community is.
We will be recording the main-stage, but not our 3 keynote speakers of the gathering. If you know you will not be able to attend; continue to the registration page and select the 2023 Recording.
If you are attending and would like to book with the hotel;
Click below for the Online Reservation Booking Link
Note: Please follow these instructions:
Click on the Link
Enter Both their Arrival & Departure Dates into the Grid and click “Enter” – The $109 Group Rates will populate.
Select a Room Type and complete the reservation.
Call-in Reservations
Individuals may call in to make hotel reservations. You can call IHG Central Reservations at 1-855-914-1303 or the Crowne Plaza hotel directly at 763-559-6600 and request the North Central Healing Touch Room Block to receive the discounted $109 group rate.
Group Rate Expires March 2, 2023
If you have any difficulties with the online booking, please feel free to call the Hotel Directly.
Click the links below to download or print your own copies for the Gathering.
2023 Schedule
Friday, March 24, 2023
4:00pm Vendor & Registration Tables Open/Practice Room Opens
4:00pm Vendor Shopping/Networking/Registration
6:15pm Main Stage doors open with Music by: Arin Crandell
6:30pm Welcome, Opening Meditation & Pinning Ceremony
7:15pm Ignite the Power of Community by: Jacquelyn Fletcher Johnson, MFA, CHTP
9:00pm Closing Remarks and Meditation/Vendor Shopping/Networking
10:00pm Vendors Close
Saturday, March 25, 2023
7:00am Vendor & Registration Tables Open/Practice Room Opens
TBD Yoga with Deb Anderson
TBD Breakfast Served
8:30am Main Stage doors open with Music by: Arin Crandell
9:00am Registration Closes/Welcome & Opening Meditation
9:15am Disruptive Healing: Honoring the Feminine-Masculine Balance for Health by: Dr. Shamini Jain, PhD
10:45am Break
11:00am Community Panel Discussion with: Lynn LeMere, RN, BSN, CHTP/I; Barb Schommer, RN, MS, PHN, CHTP/I; Lauri Wollner, HTACP, CHTP/I; Krista Martini, CPA, CHTP
12:00pm Lunch/Vendor Shopping
1:15pm Breakout Speakers
2:15pm Break
2:30pm Rested, Aware, Ready by: Robyn Scherr, CMT, CST-D
4:00pm Prize Drawings/Closing remarks/Meditation
4:15pm - 6:00pm Vendor Shopping/Networking
100+ Attendees
Vendor Table $
Questions? Suggestions?
Contact us at: nchtcommunity@gmail.com