"When one is touched with a compassionate heart, it creates a sacred moment" -Ann Catlin
Ann Catlin LMT, OTR, Director of Compassionate Touch
Ann Catlin, LMT, OTR is a nationally certified and licensed massage therapist, and owner of Compassionate Touch®, as well as a Registered Occupational Therapist. For 28 years, Ann has worked with people of all ages in facility care who have physical and cognitive disabilities. Her experience includes administrative positions in rehabilitation and long term care settings. She has enjoyed teaching throughout her career and began conducting Compassionate Touch® workshops in 2001. Ann lives in Springfield, Missouri where she is the owner of the Center for Compassionate Touch, LLC, the organization that provides Compassionate Touch® training. She also has a massage practice serving elders in facility care and is a hospice volunteer.
Lisa Curran
Parenteau, LMT, is in charge of marketing and assists with training and
curriculum development for Compassionate Touch®. She shares Ann’s
commitment to working with massage therapists and joining them on their
path of service for this special population. Lisa is also an instructor
at Cortiva Institute-Muscular Therapy Institute in Watertown, MA where
she teaches Business Practices. Lisa has a small private practice on
Cape Cod, where she lives with her husband, and enjoys volunteering at
Hospice and Palliative Card of Cape Cod. Lisa was also recently elected to serve as a 2009 Delegate to the National AMTA conference in Orlando, FL.
Dawn Nelson,
M.F.A., C.M.T., founder, was a teacher and massage practitioner for over twenty
years when she became aware of the issue of touch deprivation among
elders and the ill confined to care facilities. She created
Compassionate Touch for Those in Later Life Stages in 1991. Her
pioneering work started as an outreach program in the San Francisco
area and soon gained wider recognition. We owe Dawn our deepest gratitude for the
ground-breaking work that serves as a foundation for the expansion of
the Center's work today.
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
