T h e r a p e u t i c T o u c h

Therapeutic Basic
“The Benefits “
An Integrative Medicine
Touch Therapeutic Touch Program Offering
in
“The Benefits “ April 2nd and 3rd, 2011
From 8:30 am – 5: 30 pm Basic
Research/Clinical Practice
Location: Therapeutic Touch
Demonstrates Therapeutic Touch:
425 East 25th Street,
at
Promotes Relaxation and Brookdale Campus,
Hunter - Bellevue
Stress Reduction New York, New York 10010 School of N u r s i n g
Continuing Education
Reduces Pain Re g i s t r a t i o n i s l i m i t e d t o
15 par ticipants presented by
Eloise Monzillo, PhD, RN, AHN-BC,QTTT
Reduces Anxiety Pr og ram fee: $185
plus $20 registration fee Target Audience
Contributes to a Sense of
for this two-day wo r k s h o p i n
Peacefulness and Well-being Discounts: 20% for Hunter Students &
Employees; Basic Therapeutic Touch is open to:

Decrease Behavioral Symptoms 10% for Hunter Alumni  All nurses caring for all client
Associated with Dementia populations, and
Call 212.650.3850 or 212.772.4292
 In all Healthcare Settings,
Promotes Rest and Sleep Online: www.hunter.cuny.edu/ce
 All healthcare professionals who
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by would have contact with client
Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing, Hunter College, City Uni-
versity of New York an approved provider of continuing nursing populations, such as:
education by New York State Nurses Association, an accredited Social Workers. & Physical Therapists.
approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Centers Com-
mission on Accreditation for 13 contact hours.
Integrative Medicine combines
treatments from conventional
professional healthcare practice's,
i.e., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, etc.,
and Evidence-Based Complementary
Alternative Modalities ( C A M ) t o
provide the best possible healthcare.
This integration allows us too
develop healing partnerships w i t h
our patients and their families in the
promotion of wellness. One of these
integrative therapies is Therapeutic
Touch.
Therapeutic Touch is categorized by
the National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine of the
National Institute of Health as an
E n e r g y M e d i c i n e modality.
π Centeredness, Intentionality,
Therapeutic Touch Defined:
Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a contemporary
healing modality, in which the practitioner
e n g a g e s in the consciously directed
process of energy exchange, facilitating the
individual’s own natural restorative powers.
It is based on the assumptions that human
beings are fields of vital energy, and in illness
there is an imbalance or block in the flow of
energy in the individual.
π unruffling, directing/ modulating of
Basic TT Program Goal:
The goal of this Basic Therapeutic Touch
program, is to provide an opportunity for
healthcare professionals to be introduced
to the basic concepts , and techniques in-
herent in the practice of Therapeutic
Touch (TT), with an equal opportunity in
hands-on practice experience with this heal-
ing modality.
Basic TT Program Objectives:
At the completion of this two-day
program in TT participants will be
able to:
 Discuss the basic Philosophical &
Theoretical assumptions underlying
the practice of TT.
 Discuss the attitudes & practices
inherent in the TT practitioner
when administrating TT:
wholness, Compassionation,
Non-attachment.
 Discuss consideration and impli-
cations of TT in clinical practice
based on the current research.
 Discuss and demonstrate the
successive phases of the TT
methodology of treatment.
Ample time will be provided for the
demonstration and hands on practice
experience of TT, which will include:
Centering; Assessment; T r e a t m e n t :
energy, rebalancing and re-assessment.
π
Upon the successful completion of this
program’s requirement, i.e., ability to
demonstrating the successes phases of
TT, participants will receive a
“Certificate of Attendance”
meeting Therapeutic Touch International’s
guidelines for Basic Therapeutic Touch.
π
About your Program Presenter
Eloise Monzillo PhD, AHN-BC, QTTT,
w a s o n e of the first health care
practitioners in America to learn TT
over 30 years ago from its founders
D. Krieger and D. Kunz. She has been a
student of TT since 1975 & a teacher of
t h i s h e a l i n g m o d a l i t y s i n c e 1 9 7 6.
Eloise was one of the first health care
providers to incorporate TT into her
delivery of care in acute care settings in
the US, and pioneered its use in Hospice
and Palliative Care settings at major
health care institutions. She is a consultant,
educator and practitioner in integrative
modalities, with the intension of
stimulating, supporting and strengthening
the client’s innate healing potential.
She has a private practice in both NYC
and NJ.
Facility Disclosure: Eloise Monzillo, has declared no
commercial support has been used towards this
program .