February 2007: Taking a Healing Touch Level 5 ... - Energy Magazine

Judy Turner and HTP
Janet invited me to go to the first Instructor Training (Level 4)
at Shadowcliff in Grand Lake in 1990 even though I was not
a certified practitioner as yet. She said it would be good for
me to meet everyone and begin to prepare to become an
instructor. It was a life changing event as many can attest to.
Some of my dearest friendships were started at that class. I
subsequently went to the next two Instructor Trainings at
Shadowcliff as I was preparing for my certifications as a
CHTP and CHTI.
My “day job” as she called it was as a Nursing Supervisor on
the evening shift at a nearby Psychiatric Hospital. I started at
a 32 hour a week position so I could develop my HT practice
and I cut back to 28 hours so I could manage the HT clinic
on Tuesday evenings. I suggested to Janet that we have it
every other Tuesday and she said “No, it must be every
week. Be consistent and people will count on it and come”
(Hmmmm, If you build it, they will come). My teaching
assignments started increasing and I was being challenged
to switch week-ends more frequently with my job share partner.
She was good about it but I began to feel guilty. In spring
of 1997, Janet asked if I was now willing to leave my “day
Above: Healing Touch Curies Hawaii January 2005. Janet
Mentgen, Judy Turner, Jack Elisa, Jean Cotten (Janet's sister)
and Myra Tovey.
job” and join her staff full time. I said I’d like to do that and
what would my title be? She said “Program Director”. So
after we agreed on hours, salary and job responsibilities, I left
and told Francina, “I’m the new Program Director”. She said
“No Judy, you can’t be, that is Janet’s title!” So I went back
to Janet and we finally agreed on the title “Program
Coordinator”. I still laugh at that. Janet was so unconcerned
about image and titles.
Above: Judy Turner demostrating a Healing Touch technique to
students in Peru.
My teaching schedule increased and I was gone about twice
a month. Basically our office time was Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday. I was grateful that we had had the earlier years
to build the base of how to teach the program. It isn’t what I
know or what I say but how to teach it in a way that captures
the imagination of the student so that they want to learn
more and more. This I learned from Janet. I was fascinated
by how she did this and I wanted to emulate her. I loved
doing Healing Touch but teaching it so others came to love
doing it (and then maybe teach it as well), was a challenge, a
goal, a mission. Janet was my model, my mentor, my friend.
After several trips and vacations to Sanibel, Florida to visit
my high school sweetheart, Jack, I told Janet I thought I
wanted to move to Florida yet I would be sad to leave the job
I loved. She was very supportive, and said things like “These
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