Future Healing Centre - Case for Support
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1. Introduction
Gentle Touch Healing (GTH) is a group of people who are spiritual healers lead by their founder Ray Wilson. The group objective is to provide healing to all who need it free of charge. Gentle Touch Healing aims to provide this service in an environmentally friendly, purpose built healing centre. The purpose of this document is to explain the Case for Support for this project.
This document needs to be read in association with their Project Plan and Business Plan, both available upon request from GTH or can be downloaded from their website www.gentletouch.co.uk
2. Background
Gentle Touch Healing (Founder Ray Wilson)
From early childhood Ray Wilson realised he had some special gifts. In adulthood he began to recognise the nature of these gifts and how to develop them. He then realised he was a healer.
In 1990 he did his basic training at The School of Psychic Studies in London. In 1992 he became a student member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (NFSH) and a full healer member in 1994. Subsequently he became Chairman of the local NFHS healing centres for Dunstable and Luton. Since 1997 he has been a mentor to many local student healers.
In 1996/7 Ray was very much in demand as a healer and decided to dedicate his life to healing. He wished to continue to give healing without any charge. His ultimate goal was a purpose built healing centre where people could come for healing free of charge on any day.
He brought together a group of like-minded people who decided their initial step would be to look for a way of funding their work of healing. This evolved into developing a range of self-healing tools. The aim was to sell these tools to the public so that they would be helped to heal themselves and at the same time this would be a source of funding.
Gentle Touch Healing Limited
Gentle Touch Healing Limited was set-up in October 1998 to further the objective of providing free healing and to sell their range of products. After four years of having stands at many national exhibitions, they now sell these products through their website and at appropriate local shows and exhibitions. The company objective was changed, when the GTH charity was formed, to “raise funds for the use of Gentle Touch Healing Associates”.
Charitable Status
In September 2004 Gentle Touch Healing Associates was set-up and achieved charitable status. This was the result of an exhaustive exercise into every area of GTH’s work and practice. The satisfying end result was an organisation with clear objectives and continued monitoring of standards, linked with an ongoing development programme.
The Objective
Ray Wilson and Gentle Touch Healing Associates continue to subscribe to their original objective:
“All people who are in need of healing should receive healing free of charge”
Developing the Objective
Gentle Touch Healing is convinced that healing would be best delivered in an environmentally sound and purpose built building.
In order to fund the free healing in this type of building Gentle Touch Healing has developed a clear plan. This plan allows for profit generation from a variety of sources – please see GTH Business Plan. Each of these sources has been researched and shown to be both in demand in every market place and also to be conducive to a healing environment.
The Building
The proposed building has been designed Ray Wilson with the help of Jon Allen. Jon Allen is a renowned architect, specialising in community buildings, which are designed specifically to co-exist in their environments. Amongst his many testimonials he is proud to have worked for a number of years for HRH Prince Charles’s Foundation. For design overview see Appendix 1.
The building complex has been designed with a footprint of 6 hectares. The building itself is a hexagonal pyramid around a central atrium. It comprises 7 healing rooms, 4 therapist rooms, a seminar room, a library, a quiet room, children’s room, lavatories and a small amount of storage. There is also allocated space for a shop and a café.
Externally it is planned to have various gardens and an energy labyrinth designed to help the healing process and to attract a paying public. Herb and sensory gardens, in the initial planning, together with fruit and vegetable gardens and the necessary car parking, will be income generators. The fruit and vegetable gardens will be suppliers to the café and the public, for further income generation.
3. Case for Support
Is Healing Beneficial?
Healing is thousands of years old and recognised by the UK Government, BMA and NHS. However, there is no clear evidence that healing works and, due to the nature of healing, is often given along side other treatments so there may never be clear evidence. The evidence that healing is beneficial is demonstrated and upheld by public support.
The University of Southampton – School of Medicine - carried out a study in 2010 commissioned by the Harry Edwards’ Healing Sanctuary. As there had not been a UK study on Spiritual Healing, this study was to produce a questionnaire to assist future studies. Due to copyright restrictions GTH are only allowed to publish the study summary – see Appendix 2. A copy of the full study can be obtained from the weblink shown at the bottom of Appendix 2.
Some Healing Organisations ask patients to complete ‘patient surveys’ after healing but healing is rarely instant and the patient is in a relaxed and vulnerable state of mind! The real value of this type of survey is questionable.
Growing Need for Healing
In the UK there is no database of healers so the exact number of healers is unknown. Healers can be a member of more than one healing association, so the figure supplied by the insurance companies of insured healers can only be a guide. The insurance company figures of 10 years ago indicated that there were around 12,000 healers in the UK at that time. Their current figures show about 35,000 healers in the UK. This shows a rapid growth, and an increasing demand for healing.
There are also many more healers working within GP surgeries and also in hospices and hospitals. In the UCL (University College of London) there is now a team of healers on the payroll of the NHS. The NHS is now using more healers and complementary therapists as part of their health care policy.
Holistic Approach
Ray Wilson feels that the future of Health Care is going to be a Holistic Approach. This is where Doctors, Healers, Therapists and other health care workers all work together to heal all aspects of the patient in order to give patients more options and a better health care service. See Appendix 3 for an example of a Holistic Treatment plan.
This approach is built into the project to enable all the health care team to work together, ideally under the same roof. It is hoped that once the benefits of this approach have been proven, it will inspire others to do the same.
Venues for Healing
For over 18 years Ray Wilson has been running Drop-in Healing Centres in the Bedfordshire area at a wide range of rented venues. These venues are often in halls, schools and social clubs with adjacent rooms being used for e.g. line-dancing, gyms and noisy social events, so not fully suitable for healing. These venues often have a lack of car parking, poor heating, poor seating or poor acoustics and often need to be cleared of tables and chairs to make space for healing. They often lack an area where healers can talk confidentially to their patients about their problems.
If a group of doctors came together they would build a purpose built doctors surgery or hospital equipped with the tools they need to carry out their work. Healers require the same, a purpose built Healing Centre so that they can give a better and more comprehensive service to the public.
Ideal Venue for Healing
A purpose built Healing Centre would require the following criteria:
Good Car Parking – ill and vulnerable people need good car parking provision close to the venue, with good lighting and access. The car park also needs to provide designated spaces for the disabled.
Disability Access – need good disabled access to the venue to include walking aids, wheel chairs and wheel chair access.
Reception area – a welcoming reception area. The waiting areas need to be set out so that some visitors can socialise and others can be on their own. Comfortable and suitable chairs and tables are also required along with refreshments.
Confidentiality – confidentiality is very important and healers need rooms within the Healing Centre to talk confidentially to the patients. Often patients need to talk about their problems as part of the healing process.
Healing Environment
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Quiet Environment – Healers need a quiet state of mind to heal. Often opening/closing doors can disturb the healer and patient or outside noise and people talking nearby can be a major problem.
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Adequate Space – Healers need adequate space to work with their patient so need to be separated from other healers and patients in order that no negative energies are exchanged.
Suitable Lighting – Healers need to work in gentle and sometimes dimmed lighting so that they can see the patient auras or create a calm environment.
- Hand Washing – Healers need to wash their hands between patients so that no germs or negative energies are transferred between patients.
- Temperature Control – Healers need to work in a comfortable temperature to suit their needs.
Rest Areas – Healers need somewhere to rest and take a break.
Suitable Clothing – Healers need to change into suitable comfortable clothing for healing. They also need somewhere to keep safe their personal belongings.
Drinking Water – Healers need to regularly drink water to replace the fluid used when channelling energy.
Training Venue – Healers need a suitable venue for training and also for healer get-togethers, where they can exchange ideas and knowledge.
Good Energy Environment – Healers need a venue that has good energy for healing. This will help to enhance the healing process.
Record keeping – Healers need to use their time for healing rather than creating patient records. Having a reception team doing most of the paperwork would free up the healers from doing this.
Patient Refreshments – Patients and visitors need refreshments. Currently GTH offer them water to drink but they may welcome tea or coffee or something to eat.
Education – Healers and Patients need to be educated as to what treatments are available to them, plus have support information.
Donations – Sometimes it is difficult to place donation boxes for GTH’s charity. in a location that the Patient can see and also offers privacy.
Purpose Built Healing Centre
The proposed purpose built Healing Centre would satisfy all the above-mentioned needs as follows:
The Access/Parking – Looking for adequate and suitable road access and parking that has:
- Good lighting so that visitors feel comfortable visiting venue.
- Parking for the disabled offering wide paths to enable wheelchairs to pass.
- Adjacent to the Healing Centre for ease of access.
The Grounds – Looking to build the Healing Centre in nice grounds that will relax visitors. Within the grounds it is planned to have:
- An Energy Labyrinth for visitors to use to help to increase their energy levels.
- Herb and healing plant garden (for healing).
- Sensory garden (to provide plants to touch and smell).
- Quiet garden (for reflection and tranquillity).
- Chakra colour garden (colour associated garden for healing).
- Woodland (for walking and relaxation).
- Picnic area (for family/friends get-together).
- Organic Fruit and Vegetable gardens (for café and fund raising).
- Feng Shui – will be used in the grounds design to ensure gentle energy flow.
Self-sufficient – Looking to make the complex as self-sufficient as possible with:
- Solar Panels for electricity.
- Earth Heat Sensors for heating the building.
- Rain Water from roofs to supply the toilets and the gardens
The Healing Centre – would include the following functionality:
The Building design –to enhance the healing energies by using:
- Six-sided pyramid shape (relates to the Heart Chakra – see Appendix 4) made using wooden beams with copper ends/joints to give a calm but energised environment. One-third of the pyramid will be underground to ensure the healing and therapy rooms are at the best energy level for healing – see Appendix 1 for more details.
- Faceted Glass Ball/Crystal – hanging from the wooden pyramid apex will be either a ‘Faceted Glass Ball’ or a ‘crystal’ to help to evenly distribute the energies coming down from the apex.
- Sacred Geometry – the building design is based on Sacred Geometry to bring the design in line with the ‘Egg of Life’ – see Appendix 4.
- Fibonacci Series – the building proportions to be based on the ‘Fibonacci Series’ to bring the building in tune with nature and its natural surrounds – see Appendix 4. Architects have used these proportions for thousands of years. The same proportions have been used for ‘Eden Project’ and ‘UN building’ in New York.
- Feng Shui – where practical, the building design will incorporate Feng Shui principles. For example: The central healing room area is based on a ‘Ba Gau’ plus the building is designed for gentle energy flow with an East Entrance.
- Hemp walls – the outer walls will be hemp based; this will allow the building to breathe and protect the wooden structure from cracking. Hemp walls are also good for keeping the cold out and the warmth in.
- Glass roof – part of the roof will have solar panels (4 of the 6 top panels of the roof). The other 2 top panels will and the middle section of the roof will be glazed. The glass will be treated to reflect the sun, to avoid a ‘green-house’ effect, and also be treated to be self-cleaning.
- Grass roof – the lower section of the roof will be covered in grass for insulation and to help the building to blend into its natural surroundings.
- Crystal cave – in the basement will be a ‘crystal cave’, partly to help energise the Healing Centre and partly for visitor education and interest.
- Copper for grounding – copper will be used to ground the Healing Centre and the visitors. There will be a copper-grounding square beneath the centre of the building. Copper will be used in the pyramid beams at the ends and joints. At each entrance/exit the floor will also be copper lined
Healing Facilities – within the Healing Centre will be the following facilities:
Seven central healing rooms with the following features:
Sound proofed rooms and silent door open/closure to ensure a quiet environment and privacy
Adequate space for healing.
Fully Equipped with treatment couches and other healing aids.
Suitable Lighting that can be adjusted to suit needs.
Suitable Music that can be turned on/off and sound levels adjusted.
Hand washing facilities for hygiene
Drinking water available on tap to help the healing process.
Temperature controlled to produce a comfortable room for healing.
Entrance/Exit door so that healer/therapist can leave the room in an emergency.
Three therapist rooms to be let long term with the same facilities as the seven central healing rooms as mentioned above. Some of the seven central healing rooms will be used for short-term rents to therapists.
Doctor’s suite that includes:
- Doctor’s room with examination area.
- Nurse’s room with treatment couch.
- Doctor’s reception.
Staff Changing rooms including:
- Secure lockers.
- Staff Toilets.
- Staff Shower
- Washroom
Other Facilities
Reception for visitors to report to and an area where patient records can be created and stored.
Donation/Information room so that visitors can donate to GTH charity in a comfortable manner. There will also be donation boxes at the reception and entrance/exits lobbies. Facilities to donate via credit/debit cards and cheque will also be available.
Interview Rooms for confidential talks to patients.
Seminar Room for use for healer training, group meetings and hire to local community groups.
Library for use by all with books about healing, health and related subjects – GTH have already had over 150 books donated.
Quiet room for use by all – place for reflection and meditation.
Children’s area with sensory stimulation and play equipment.
Café selling healthy and organic snacks.
Shop selling health related products.
Spiral Staircase to provide access to basement and to assist energy balancing.
Other Healing Benefits
Expanding Healing Services – the Healing Centre will enable GTH to expand their current healing services to 5 days/5 evenings each week. It is proposed that the Healing Centre would be using 2 days per week as visitor days – possibly on Wednesdays and Sundays. It is important that the healing centre has visitors to help make the project viable but at the same time the priority is the provision of healing and health care. GTH hope that having open days for the public will give a good balance.
Give more time for healing – this is currently restricted to the rental time available for the hired venues. Having our own premises will give healers more time to donate to their patients.
Enhance the healing process – Healers, having more time and a venue built for healing, would be enabled to give their full concentration to the healing process and not be distracted by outside noise and disturbance.
Bring Harmony – having this specially designed complex for healing, will help to bring harmony within the complex and also to the surrounding area.
Holistic Approach – enable the healers to work closely with other therapists and doctors to enable a Holistic Approach to health care.
Other Benefits/Needs
Community needs – this is very much a community project, a place where the local community can come for healing or to visit, to relax or to help out. GTH are intending to have 3 key staff running the Healing Centre, supported by a team of volunteers from the local community.
Social needs – many people have time on their hands maybe because they are retired or unable to work. By bringing these people to help as volunteers within the healing centre and grounds, GTH hopes to improve the quality of life for those volunteering and visiting the centre. Activities such as gardening can be used as a form of good therapy.
Elderly needs – there are many elderly people who are physically unable to come for healing due to lack of transport or health related issues. GTH would wish to arrange transport to enable this sector of the public to attend the healing centre.
Helping the Planet – By providing an eco-friendly building and also by channelling healing energies through the Earth’s energy system (ley lines) to help our ailing planet.
Future Generation – Ray Wilson is building a Healing Organisation for the future generation of healers to use. Having an eco-friendly and self-sufficient healing centre will help our future generation’s health needs.
As shown in the GTH Business Plan this project is financialy viable with income coming from a range of resources such as:
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Shop Sales
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Café Sales
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Garden Produce Sales
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Rental from rooms
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Donations
With an eco-friendly, low cost healing centre a future generation of healers will have an asset to build upon. – See Appendix 5 for projected profit/loss statement - extract from GTH business plan.
Summary and Conclusion
GTH hope that from this ‘Case for Support’ document you can see that not only is this project viable on the short and long term, but that it will be an asset to the local community and help those who come for healing.
It will also leave a good legacy for future generations who will continue to benefit from the project.
The Healing Centre will be a multi purpose complex that will help to heal many people at many levels, bringing healing into the 21st century and GTH also hope it will help our ailing planet.
