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Healing Touch is a holistic energy therapy that emphasizes compassionate, heart-centered care in which the Healing Touch provider and client are equal partners in facilitating health and healing. Healing Touch providers use gentle, non-invasive touch to influence and support the human energy system within and surrounding the body. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony, energy and balance within the human energy system. This goal supports the client's self-healing process of becoming whole in body, mind, emotion and spirit. The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists the primary definition of "Healing" as "to make or become healthy, sound, or whole". Healing Touch complements conventional health care and is also used in collaboration with other approaches to health and healing. The mission of Healing Touch International is spreading Healing Light worldwide through the practice and teaching of Healing Touch while addressing the needs of its members. This mission will be fulfilled through the following objectives: To provide an international standard of excellence by which to qualify and certify the practice and teaching of Healing Touch. To support standards of excellence in practice through an international code of ethics for practitioners, instructors and Healing Touch centers. To promote and provide resources in the area of research. To expand the teaching and practice of Healing Touch throughout the world by supporting practitioners and classes in all countries interested in this work. To hold the vision of heart-centered healing using the energies of love. Healing Touch International, Inc. has a threefold purpose: 1. To meet the needs of all of its members including nurses, other health care professionals and lay persons who are dedicated to provide heart-centered care. 2. To offer Certification of Healing Touch Practitioners & Instructors, to set International Standards of Practice and establish an International Code of Ethics for Healing Touch Practitioners, in order to ensure the public a means to judge the training and professionalism of its practitioners and instructors. 3. To provide a mechanism for the scholarly development of Healing Touch care. To reach this vision, the following beliefs serve as the foundation of this organization: As an international organization, we value the role of providing certification for Healing Touch Practitioners and Instructors around the world. Certification is an extremely important process of quality assurance for those practicing Healing Touch and to the public who desire assurance of the competency of the persons practicing and teaching Healing Touch. Certification sets Standards of Practice and then provides a measure to discern whether or not a practitioner meets that standard. The Standards of Practice includes a predefined level of skills and knowledge, which embodies the principles and theoretical constructs of the Healing Touch Program. As health care delivery continues to evolve, we believe that complementary healing modalities will be included as viable, cost-effective medicine. To meet this belief, Healing Touch International, Inc. is com-mitted to research and documentation of the impact of Healing Touch on the client specifically, the practitioner, and the health care system generally. With the evolution of managed care in the health care field, the modalities selected for insurance reim-bursement will come under close scrutiny. The Healing Touch Program has established itself in the health care community as a highly ethical, credible program. This program has been proven to train highly skilled practitioners who have committed to a rigorous course of study to complete the practitioner level of education. Those who complete certification have "gone the extra mile" to measure up to an International Standard of Credentialling and Code of Ethics. Credentialling is an essential and accepted part of managed care participation now and in the future. The role of Healing Touch International, Inc. is to be recognized as the official body to ensure to the public that this level of practice and instruction is achieved. Healing Touch International, is the trademark of Healing Touch International, Inc.