Healing Touch Classes At McHenry County College

Those looking for a rewarding career or want to enhance their healthcare skills to impact the body, mind, spirit and wellbeing of others may consider the holistic practice of Healing Touch. McHenry County College (MCC) will offer Beginning Healing Touch Level 1 certificate class from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on March 7 and March 8 in Room E100.

Healing Touch helps people embrace compassion in their work and in the world. With Healing Touch, one can gently, and significantly, impact the body-mind-spirit wellbeing of people in their life and practice. After the first Healing Touch class, participants will possess a life-changing gift that they can offer over and over again to support health and facilitate the healing process for their patients and loved ones.

Healing Touch is a gentle, complementary energy-based approach to health and healing. The goal is to restore harmony and balance to the human energy system through a heart-centered caring relationship and the use of contact/non-contact touch. This can greatly assist the body and mind in its natural ability to heal.  Healing Touch is an evidence based practice that offers continuing education for nurses and massage therapists.

Healing Touch utilizes off body or light touch methods that clear congestion, relieves pain, facilitates balance and promotes mind-body-spirit healing.  It is an international certification program that is holistic and demonstrates Caring Science/Caring Theory, developed by Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN.  The program is research based, integrated in over 40 hospitals, taught in over 30 countries, and is endorsed by American and Canadian Holistic Nurses’ Associations.

Add this life-changing gift to your skills to help others as you deepen your personal and professional growth. The course offers 16 continuing education contact hours for nurses and massage therapists.  Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA.

This course will be taught by Ellie Stewart, MHPE, HTCP, ACM, CCA.  Stewart has more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare, including 18 years as director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, where she oversaw the medical practice, residency education, and clinical education initiatives for all faculty and staff at a major teaching hospital in Chicago.

Cost is $525. To register, call (815) 455-8588 and reference course ID: UHL U17-001 or register online at www.mchenry.edu/myMCC and select “Register for Workforce and Community Development Classes.”

For more information, contact Ruth Kormanak at (815) 479-7879 or email her at rkormanak@mchenry.edu.