We would love to have you to attend the 2025 RNAO-CTNIG AGM
Date: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 via Zoom
Time: 7–8:30 p.m. ET
Register in advance for this meeting via this weblink:
https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuceqrrDIqGtES5cc0c-kgms1wYjBUbl6Z
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Wishing you a warm and joyful holiday season from all of us at CTNIG! ✨
We're excited to share our Winter Newsletter with you, packed with the latest updates, inspiring stories, and valuable insights.
May your holidays be filled with peace, love and happiness. Thank you for being a part of our community.
Stay warm and stay connected!
Best wishes,
CTNIG
Special thanks to our amazing newsletter team, Darka, Sandra & Elaine, for their wonderful work!
Save the date for the CTNIG AGM!
We would love to have you to attend the 2024 RNAO-CTNIG AGM (being held in 2025).
Date: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 via Zoom
Time: 7–8:30 p.m. ET
Register in advance for this meeting via this weblink:
https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuceqrrDIqGtES5cc0c-kgms1wYjBUbl6Z
Dear CTNIG members,
Another glorious autumn is upon us, and we have a wonderful newsletter for you to view. This is a benefit of membership to keep you abreast of current information of interest to our community.
Some of the pieces for you to peruse at your leisure are:
Do you enjoy speaking out for nurses, health and health care? Would you like to assist us in our mission to recognize that nursing involves a holistic approach whereby all persons are an integrated mind-body-spirit entity, the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) promotes the practice of CT as part of nursing practice. We are looking for members to join us.
The CTNIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:
Hello all,
We hope that everyone had a wonderful Nursing Week and are taking the opportunity to end the warm weather that this spring is bringing us (and the flowers that are already showing up in gardens everywhere).
Attached please find our spring newsletter. In it, you will find the following features:
Happy Nursing Week from CTNIG!
Thank you for all your work serving people and making positive changes across Ontario!
We are so proud to be in community with you!
We want to hear about what CT means to you.
This might be how you practice CT, as part of your nursing practice experiences, or using CT to nurture your personal wellness. It might even be about your journey of learning and exploring CT. How is CT impacting your life? We want to hear about it.
Dear CTNIG members,
The CTNIG is looking to create a compendium of complementary therapies (CT) for our website in an effort to provide nurses, other healthcare professionals and the public information about a variety of Complementary Therapies. Each CT would have a short summary including description, background, benefits/effects, process and any links to CT organizations.
Do you enjoy speaking out for nurses, health and health care? Would you like to assist us in our mission to recognize that nursing involves a holistic approach whereby all persons are an integrated mind-body-spirit entity, the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) promotes the practice of CT as part of nursing practice. We are looking for members to join us.
The CTNIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:
Healing Beyond Borders
HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program: Foundations of Healing Touch 1
London, Ontario
Dates: Saturday, April 6 – 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 7 – 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: King’s University College
Monsignor Wemple Hall, Vitali Lounge, W120, London, ON
Opportunity for members to submit or suggest topics for the CTNIG newsletter - spring issue
by Sunday, March 10, 2024
We value our members and like to offer ways for you to engage in various CTNIG activities. Suggesting or providing content for the newsletter is an opportunity for you to do so.
Dear Members,
The Community Health Nurses’ Initiatives Group (CHNIG) would like to welcome everyone into 2024 by offering FREE membership to undergraduate nursing students who sign up during the period from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, 2024! Please be sure not to miss out on this great opportunity to support CHNIG in amplifying the voices of community health nurses across Ontario.
Hello CTNIG collective,
We hope that your 2024 is off to a great start!
Based on feedback, CTNIG is focusing on wellbeing throughout 2024 and beyond. We are grateful to have guest speaker Sherry Brouzes joining us for our Annual General Meeting. Please see the attached flyer for details, and sign up to join us by registering HERE.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
All the best!
Your CTNIG executive
Attention all Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) Hamilton Chapter and CTNIG members - please save the date for this incredibly exciting dinner event, sponsored by Thrive Group Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Innovation, in your calendars. We are so excited to have the one-of-a-kind Alvin Pilobello joining us on Jan. 30 to lead the session.
Dear CTNIG members,
Wishing you and yours the best the season offers in the way of celebrations and spiritual practices.
You will find this winter newsletter is a little different in content from our usual format, as we wanted to bring you items that may inspire you and lighten your spirit in some way, personally and professionally.
Several of our members have graced us in sharing their journey and insights with stories that may inspire the rest of us. We hope you will take time during this busy season to read these and the rest of the newsletter offerings.
Dear member,
Interested in learning an energy modality? There is an opportunity to take the first level of Healing Touch in London and Toronto in November. Please see details below:
HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program
Foundations of Healing Touch 1
London, Ont. - Nov. 18 and 19, 2023
Toronto (GTA), Ont. - Nov. 25 and 26, 2023
Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing energy therapy that:
Hello CTNIG team,
We hope your fall is going well!
Our executive is planning exciting events and learning opportunities for the year, and we want your guidance on what will benefit our membership (you) most.
Please join our executive meeting on Monday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET to say hello, meet the team (perhaps even lend your talents to our executive - we still have a couple of positions open, and no CT experience is necessary to be on the executive) and let us meet you and get to know you.
Hello Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) collective,
We are opening up our executive team meeting this coming Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET on Zoom.
Please pop in and join us to meet your executive team, let us get to know you, and provide input on CTNIG initiatives.
You will then enter a waiting room space and be invited into our meeting shortly after that.
Zoom info will be sent to you once you register.
Hello to all Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) members...RNs and nursing students.
We have a wonderful summer/fall newsletter for you to peruse at your leisure.
Hopefully there is something of interest for everyone from an article on feng shui, colour and use of essential oils, to one nurse's perspective on self care, to current research on complementary therapies (CT).
We haven't forgotten about our student nurse members – we have some study tips for the upcoming school year as well as self-care ideas.
Do you enjoy speaking out for nurses, health and health care? Would you like to assist us in our mission to recognize that nursing involves a holistic approach whereby all persons are an integrated mind-body-spirit entity, the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) promotes the practice of CT as part of nursing practice.
We welcome members to join us.
The CTNIG is seeking nominees for the following positions: