Dawn Bennett

We need touch to thrive individually and communally, but it's not simple in a culture where the topic has become triggering, confusing, and even taboo.Having grown up in an era when it was okay to give hugs to teachers and where touch warnings were only about getting into trouble sexually, Dawn Bennett intuitively knew the healing power of touch and pursued a career in massage and the healing arts. After eleven years of serving touch-deprived and -traumatized clients, and building an award-winning practice in a touch-focused industry, Dawn suffered a painful touch incident of her own. In The Touch Crisis, Dawn shares her personal journey to healing, the startling research she found along the way, and the abundant tools she has collected to give readers a new pathway to personal and collective healing in their families, workplaces, and communities. By the end of this book, you will have the opportunity to: -Uncover the roots of your touch experience and needs -Strategize ways to add healthy touch into your daily life -Develop boundaries to honor your wants and needs and help you heal old touch wounds -Practice consent and communication with loved ones in a playful and positive way -Increase levels of trust, collaboration, and even productivity in your personal and professional relationshipsIf you are craving healthy touch, or looking for "that missing piece" in your attempt to improve relationships and results with your loved ones, peers, or clients, this book will answer questions you don't know you have and empower you to catalyze deeper connections with everyone whose life you touch. "No-Touch" policies are not the answer. Together, we can use the power of touch to heal and change the experience from taboo to transformational.

Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Bringing Healthy Touch Back to Our Culture

The Touch Crisis

Naomi Sunderland

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Anne Power

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally. With a focus on service learning, each chapter provides concrete examples of how arts-based, community-led projects can enhance and support the quality and sustainability of First Peoples’ cultural content in higher education. In partnership with communities across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and the United States, contributors reflect on diverse projects and activities, offer rich and engaging first-hand accounts of student, community and staff experiences, share recommendations for arts-based service learning projects and outline future directions in the field.

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