On June 25, Tracey Adams-Thibodeau, Activations director for Fieldstone Commons long term care facility, Crystal Hawk, Alison Cooke, Joseph Mcaleer, and Paula Neilson introduced Therapeutic Touch to the executive directors of the central region Sienna Living Long Term Care facilities. Tracey began by sharing how Fieldstone Commons came to the decision to include Therapeutic Touch in their nursing and activations programs. Crystal followed, giving the history of Therapeutic Touch and the TTNO. Alison then described how the changes noted in residents receiving Therapeutic Touch at the Stirling Manor Nursing Home led to their hiring her, twelve years ago, to provide
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On March 25, 2015 a small group from the Whitby Therapeutic Touch Practice Group attended the Huntington Society of Canada Support Group in Whitby. Huntington Disease (HD) is an inherited, progressive brain disorder that affects physical, cognitive, and emotional functions.  Support is offered to "individuals with Huntington Disease, persons at-risk, persons who are gene-positive, caregivers and family members".   The KoKreative Therapeutic Touch DVD was shown followed by a demonstration of a Therapeutic Touch session.  Afterwards all participants received Therapeutic Touch. Subsequently we were invited to participate in the 2nd Annual Durham Region Walk to Cure Huntington Disease on Sunday May 24,
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The Whitby Therapeutic Therapeutic Touch Practice Group is a very active group! They have been involved since the Whitby Health Fair’s inception 8 years ago. On Saturday February 28, 2015 they offered Therapeutic Touch® from 10:00 am to 2:00pm.  They had a poster board and distributed the TTNO brochures and business cards for their Therapeutic Touch clinic at St. Mark’s United Church.  Most people were keenly interested to hear more about Therapeutic Touch and about the clinic.  Nine practitioners offered Therapeutic Touch sessions to the public in the peaceful sanctuary.   This year they saw a greater number of men
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Eight Therapeutic Touch practitioners from the Huntsville Practice Group - Chris Wall, Gwen Jones, Ruth Brandt, Shirley Goyea, Tammy Chochlowsky, Debbie Brear, Cathy Powley and Shirley Boon attended the Health Show at the Huntsville Place Mall January 23 to 25, 2015. They had a display board up and talked to people about Therapeutic Touch. Therapeutic Touch mini sessions were available for a donation to their "Toonies for Therapeutic Touch" box. Forty people took advantage of these mini sessions over the three days.  
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Clinical Practice and Education Department Skills Days November 27 & 28 and December 1,2, and 3 Laura Pokoradi, RN, RPT, QTTT, reports that there was a great reception for the Therapeutic Touch display! The Annual skills Review Day is held for the staff to review skills and keep up to date on current developments in health care service and products. We ran a Therapeutic Touch display and it was a success. Approximately 100 people stopped by our display and many of those received a demonstration session. “I enjoyed it! Interesting and feels better!” and “It was very interesting and unique”
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The Carrying Place Practice group, joined by members of the Belleville Practice Group, once again provided Therapeutic Touch sessions for the participants at "Rediscover Me" in Picton, October 2 This day, hosted by The Alzheimer Society of Belleville-Hastings-Quinte gave  caregivers a chance to relax and forget about the stress and strain of looking after their loved ones with the disease. Attendees enjoyed several optional activities: expressive art, jewellery making, reflexology, Therapeutic Touch, scrabble or just chatting with friends in the common room. For more information phone 613-962-0892.
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Eight of our practitioners in Huntsville offered short Therapeutic Touch sessions at the North Simcoe Muskoka Hospice Palliative Care Network's  (NSMHPCN) 14th Annual Palliative Care Conference in Huntsville, October 21.  The theme was "Consent, Capacity and Compassion Fatigue" and focussed on self-care.  Along with four Reiki practitioners, we offered short sessions at registration, all breaks and lunch hour.  The bonus was all the practitioners got to listen to all the speakers and have lunch and snacks as well.  What a wonderful day! The registrants signed up for specific times with specific practitioners.  It was very well organized.  A quiet room
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Alison Cooke has been teaching Therapeutic Touch to the staff at Ellesmere Leisureworld Nursing Home in Toronto. This is the second group, mainly nursing staff, to take Levels 1 & 2. Recognized practitioners Paula Neilson and Joseph McAleer have been hired to give Therapeutic Touch to their residents regularly. Both helped out with the two days at Ellesmere. The staff at Leisureworld came to us through our new website. They were looking for a complementary therapy they could incorporate into their Activation and Nursing programs. They had thoroughly read the site before deciding to bring Therapeutic Touch to their establishment.
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