Nicole McConnell RN

Edmonton

Email: misteire@yahoo.ca

Anne Lai LPN

Courtenay

Phone: 250-334-9415

Email: alai28@telus.net

Healing Modalities:

Healing Touch

Specialization Committee looking to expand

The Specialization Committee is preparing for its future needs. We have worked extremely hard over the past few years and would like to expand our Committee by inviting enthusiastic members who have completed Level II of the Specialization Program to come on board.

Opportunities are available for those interested in Teaching, Mentoring, or expanding your professional knowledge serving in the Role of Chair.

Those interested please contact Debbie Freeman 403-266-2362 or dlfreem@shaw.ca

Updates Now Available by Email

Both CHNA members as well as prospective CHNA members can now receive periodic site updates via email. If you would like to receive future updates please sign up on the home page of the site

Criteria for Submission of Articles:

The executive of the CHNA will soon be meeting to discuss criteria for submission of articles for appearance and access from the CHNA web site. When the criteria are set, they will replace the material here.

We will be considering our readers and those whom we hope to attract and serve. The points we need to discuss will relate to the following:

Above all, we are a professional nursing organization and the articles on this site will reflect that professionalism

CHNA is specifically related to Holistic Nursing from the basis of Martha Rogers theory and philosophy. How can the articles be reflective of, supportive of and/or applications of that perspective of energy nursing?

How can our articles be most informative for nursing students who wish to learn more about CHNA and holistic nursing, and perhaps use the material for assignments and papers?

Many of our members have not studied either level 1 or 2 of the Specialization program and may wish to become more informed. How can our articles serve them and perhaps even help recruit members to take the program?

Some members have taken Level 1 and even Level 2. How can these articles help current Specialization students piece together and apply the complexity of the theories and practice of energy nursing?

Registered Nurses who are not members may be interested in reading more about Energy Nursing. How can the articles help with encourage Nurses to learn more about this field of nursing practice and perhaps join CHNA?

Other health professionals may be interested in learning more about energy nursing. Clients or potential clients may wish to become more informed about energy nursing as they take responsibility for their own health and consider using more complementary therapies. How can our articles serve these people?

Considering serving those who visit our website, the Executive will be put together requirements for article submission. Keep checking this site for more details later in the winter and spring.

Marie Knapp
CHNA President

Past Newsletter Archive

The newsletter archive will be updated shortly with CHNA newsletters.

The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci (book review)

Power of Kindness: the unexpected benefits of leading a compassionate life by Piero Ferrucci. 2006.

Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. New York

Foreword by the Dalai Lama

I was first introduced to Ferrucci when studying Psychosynthesis in Graduate school . Now twenty years later his newer book has crossed my path. The message was so important I have used it as the basis of 2 retreats I have led.

The author’s words, “Kindness derives its purpose from itself, not from other motives” p 3 clearly remind me of the variety of benefits we receive by being kind when these benefits were furthest from our minds in the act of kindness itself.

Many times in my nursing career I have witnessed, in myself and in others, the attempts to fix, solve problems and take over to make better the challenges being faced by another. Ferrucci teaches us true kindness as warmth, tenderness, and compassion. Beyond the introductory chapters he guides the reader to an understanding of the many faces of kindness in ways that make kindness more nourishing and less depleting for the one being kind. Each chapter is titled by the quality of which it speaks. Titles such as trust, honesty, forgiveness, respect, flexibility, service, all as means to kindness.

I highly recommend this book as part of a practitioner’s reflective learning. It may serve as a guide for self care or client care. Ferrucci ends his book with the following words:
“Ultimately, it is all very simple. There is not choice between kind to others and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.”