Minnesota
Holistic
Nurses
Association
2015-2016 Gatherings
Theme for the Year: We are all connected!!!
Please join us - Open to nurses and all persons dedicated to
the principles and practice of holistic health care and interested in networking.
Thursday, August 13,
2015
6:00 – 9:00 pm – 1.8 contact hours
Our Minnesota Holistic Nurses
Association Mandala
Ellen Swanson, RN, MA, PHN, HNB-BC
Network Sharing Time
(Please contribute to a Pot Luck Feast)
Saturday, September 19, 2015
9:00 am – 12:00 noon – 2.4 contact hours
Nutrition, Resilience, and Epigenetics
Cathy Bogolub, MD, LN, BCNS
**Silent Auction for Chapter Charlie Challenge**
Saturday, January 23, 2016
9:00 am – 12:00 noon – 2.4 contact hours
Thursday, November 12, 2015
6:30 – 8:30 pm – 1.8 contact hours
Healing Health Disparities with Food/
Agricultural Justice
Karen Clark , RN, NP, MN State Legislator
Medical Qigong Therapy Today:
Bridging Ancient & Modern Medicine
Denise Douglas, DMQ
Saturday, May 7, 2016 *****
8:30 am – 12:30 noon – 3 contact hours
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30 – 8:30 pm – 1.8 contact hours
Connecting Healing Touch & Healing Harp
Tami Briggs, CHTP, MBA and
Barb Schommer, RN, MS, CHTP, CHTI
Daring to Connect Caring Economics
and Health Care
Bill Doherty, PhD, LMFT, LP; Joel Hodruff,
Inventor; and Teddie Potter, PhD, RN,
Co-sponsored by the Holistic Health Studies
graduate program, St. Catherine University
**Note change of place and starting time**
 Please check the back of this flyer for more information about presentations 
Most gatherings are at Spirit United Church, 3204 Como Ave. SE, Minneapolis.
Free parking is available east of the church and on the street
**MAY 7, 2015 at St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph, St. Paul, Jeanne D’Arc Auditorium**
Event fee: $3.00 for members; $5.00 for non-members
Annual dues $25.00 (see MinnHNA brochure)
Send to Mary Johnson, 3459 Orchard Lane, Minnetonka, MN, 55305
For further information or questions please contact the following council members:
Sue Arnold, (612)214-9199; Mary Cowden, (763)551-7997; Janet Dahlem, (651)250-4123; Yolanda Dawson, (612)518-4977; Kathy Enderlein, (651)454-7454;
Carol Geisler, (651)245-3844; Mary Johnson, (952)938-4281; Marcy Lundquist, (612) 998-8811; Stacy Miorana, (952)270-3356; Beth Meighan, (651)739-9127;
Mary Schuck, (612)308-5152; Ellen Schultz, (715)381-2963; Jane Spencer, (612)716-4749; Ellen Swanson, (952) 929-1142
Visit us at www.minnhna.org and like us on Facebook
and LinkedIn
August 13, 2015 – Our Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association (MinnHNA) Mandala
Ellen Swanson, an MinnHNA council member, has developed a new visual depicting a non-hierarchical holistic organizational template where physical, mental, and emotional concepts are enhanced with the spiritual qualities of the mandala
and labyrinth. One Sanskrit root word for ‘mandala’ means “enclosing the essence”. Our organization embraces the
essence of holistic nursing. The multi-entry labyrinth feature provides energetic pathways for entering and flowing to where
one is drawn, thus capitalizing on the basic learning principle that one learns best when motivated from within. The
MinnHNA Council has adopted this model as a clear, meaningful, inclusive way to describe who we are and what we
represent, and worked for over two years to specifically apply it to our organization.
September 19, 2015 – Nutrition, Resilience and Epigenetics
Catherine Bogolub, MD, MS,CNS is a physician nutritionist and health coach in private practice in Minneapolis. She will
once again bring to our group her vast experience in dealing with clients with a wide variety of chronic illnesses and clients
who are concerned about maintaining a healthy life style. In the nutritional field, epigenetics (the study of external or
environmental factors that turn genes on and off and affect how cells read genes) is exceptionally important, because
nutrients and bioactive food components can modify your gene expression thus expressing itself in greater resilience.
November 12, 2015 – Medical Qigong Therapy Today: Bridging Ancient & Modern Medicine
Denise Douglass received her Doctor of Medical Qigong (DMQ) from The International College of Medical Qigong
(ICMQ), Palm Desert, CA and is licensed as a Doctor specializing in Medical Qigong in China. She studied at the International Institute of Medical Qigong, Pacific Grove, CA, and also in Long Hu Shan and Beijing, China. She currently
divides her time in clinical Medical Qigong practice between Bhakti Wellness Clinic in Edina, MN, the Medical Qigong
Institute, in St. Croix Falls, WI and Qigong Medicos in Bogota, Colombia. She also teaches beginners workshops in
Medical Qigong in Colombia and in the US.
January 23, 2016 – Healing Health Disparities with Food/Agricultural Justice
Karen Clark is the Executive Director of the Women’s Environmental Institute (WEI) and a MN State Legislator
representing an inner city Minneapolis District. Karen has practiced as a public health nurse and as an OB-BYN Nurse
Practitioner before her election in 1980. WEI’s mission is “to be a place for women and allies to renew, learn and organize
for environmental justice”. Her presentation will explore the current status of Minnesota’s racial and gender health
disparities and discuss how food justice and agricultural justice work can provide healing opportunities. Official
documentation of health disparities is evolving. Environmental causes are not clearly tracked in Minnesota but could be
improved with public policy changes. The environmental/food/agricultural justice movement offers hope with healing
strategies for change and needs strong public support and involvement.
March 10, 2016 – Connecting Healing Touch & Healing Harp
In this experiential session, Tami Briggs and Barb Schommer will present the first research study combining the two
complementary healing modalities of Harp Therapy and Healing Touch. Tami and Barb will also discuss their work together
at the hospital and hospice bedside. You will learn several Healing Touch techniques for your own self-care practice, as well
as experience the profound benefits of pairing these elements of holistic care.
May 7, 2016 – Daring to connect Caring Economics with Health Care
Co-sponsored by the Holistic Health Studies graduate program, St. Catherine University
William Doherty, Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota believes we must
connect with fellow community members as citizens outside of their role as patients, and we have to invite them to co-produce
innovations in health care, not just be consumers of health care services. Bill has developed an approach to health care
community organizing called Citizen Health Care, and he will illustrate it with the Baby Boomers for Balanced Health Care
Project, which aims to change the cultural idea that more health care is better health care. He will invite us to lead small group
community conversations about this issue, using a process developed by the Boomers Project.
Joel Hodroff, Inventor, Founder of DualCurrency Systems, designer of HealthBucks as a next generation currency to usher in a
Caring Economy and transform healthcare economics states that today all the big financial incentives are for treating illness
rather than promoting wellness. A next generation of money is technologically feasible, commercially viable and economically
necessary. Joel will discuss how new money can forward a Caring Economy.
Teddie Potter, Professor of Nursing at the University of Minnesota and co-author with Riane Eisler of “Transforming
Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care” will offer her
perspective on shifting health care relationships from hierarchies of domination and isolated professions to high-functioning,
collaborative teams ready to be full partners with patients’ families, communities and one another.