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Florence Gans
Healing Touch
EFT, Life&Health Coach
Pathways to pain free living
FLORENCE GANS LIFE EXPERIENCE PORTFOLIO
SKILL SET SUMMARY
Personality Attributes: Passionate about helping others; Insatiable quest for new
knowledge to help people help themselves; Zest for life; Deep respect for the
sacredness of life; Contagious enthusiasm; Huge laugh; Walk my talk.
Coaching Experience: Graduate Coaches Training Institute. Had own coaching
practice since 2001.
Working with Groups: Twenty-five years experience being a team leader, chief
programmer, project manager, moderator, facilitator and trainer.
Health Care Consciousness: Passionate about good health; Have own Healing
Touch practice; Certified Healing Touch Practioner (CHTP); Healing Touch Certified
Practioner (HTCP); Healing Touch for Animals Certified Practioner.
COACHING EXPERIENCE
04/01 to present Maintained international coaching practice since April 2001.
Clients have included entrepreneurs, high tech and restaurant
managers, lawyers, authors, accountants, and other professional
coaches.
4/07 Speaker NCAPBC meeting: EFT: Releasing the Fears and Beliefs that
Block Success
5/05 Speaker WBON meeting: EFT: Releasing the Fears and Beliefs that
Block Success
5/04 Speaker at 2004 Taking Charge of Your Life Conference
4/04 Speaker at 2004 Southeast Regional ICF Conference
2002 Featured member spotlight Wake County Women Business Owner s
Network http://www.wakecountywbon.org/memberspotlight.asp
2001 Vice President of NC Association of Business and Professional Coaches
(NCAPBC) (www.nccoaches.com). Took organization from random
meetings with scant attendance to solid programs with attendance of 40-
45 coaches per meeting.
01/01 Created PathMakers, Inc. S-Corporation for my coaching business
Memberships Maintained: International Coach Federation (ICF); Healing Touch
International (HTI); Wake County Women Business Owner s Network (WBON); NC
Association for Business and Professional Coaches (NCAPBC); Rhine Research Center
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Florence Gans
Healing Touch
EFT, Life&Health Coach
Pathways to pain free living
WORKING WITH GROUPS
Twenty-five years of experience working with groups as a Software Engineer with three
companies on 14 major software projects in the following roles:
Team Leader, Chief Programmer, and Project Manager on seven major software
projects (6 years).
Software Development Process Coordinator and Methodology Consultant (9 years).
Trainer and Follow-Up Facilitator for dozens of Software Defect Prevention Process
classes in three countries (7 years).
Awards: During 21 years with IBM received 22 Excellence, Management Appreciation,
and other corporate awards between the years of 1984 and 1999.
HEALTH CARE CONSCIOUSNESS
04/03 to present Have private Healing Touch (HT) practice for humans, horses,
cats and dogs
1990 to present Avid fan of Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Mercola, etc.
2006-2008 Companion, assistant and care giver to beloved Aunt Pauline who died
April, 2008.
7/07 Became a Healing Touch for Animals Certified Practioner by
completing all four levels of the Healing Touch for Animals curriculum and
completing their certification requirements.
5/05 Speaker Introduction to Animal Energy at Second Chance.
10/04 Became a Certified Healing Touch Practioner (CHTP) by completing all
five levels of the Healing Touch curriculum and the certification process.
2/04 W atched 4 knee replacement and one broken femur surgeries. (Self
education for several of my arthritis HT clients.)
2003 Took the Experiential Anatomy and Physiology for Healers course in
May and December (http://www.anatomyforhealers.com/).
1997-2000 Assisted Mother in caring for bed ridden Grandmother at home.
Healing Related Conferences Attended: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine s Improving Outcomes Through Integrative Practice ; Mastering
Emotional Freedom Techniques for Serious Disease; Healing Touch Mid-Atlantic
Regional Conference; Healing Touch International s Healing Touch Around the World ;
Duke Center for Integrative Medicine s Women, Wellness, and the Transformation of
Health Care .
PathMakers, Inc. *************@*********.*** 919-***-****
www.PathMakersInc.com
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Florence Gans
Healing Touch
EFT, Life&Health Coach
Pathways to pain free living
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS FROM 21 YEARS WITH IBM
IBM Corporate Achievements:
Technical consultant to IBM LN CoC on development problems using
Domino/Lotus Notes resulting in IBM Corporate License for Ives TeamStudio
(12/97-12/98);
Team Lead for start-up of Integrated Test Tool for Malcolm Kilmer organization
which is now adopted by corporate (9/97-1/98);
Team Lead IBM DPP CoC (96-2/98); DPP methodology adopted by software
organizations across IBM (88-93); NCP received IBM site, division, and
sustained quality awards in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, & 1989;
Review tool adopted by Information Development across Raleigh Programming
Lab (91-92);
Guest Speaker:
RTP Lotus Notes User s Group:
Accessing DB2 from Domino using NotesPump & MQSeries, Spring 1999,
RTP;
Product Updates on Using Ives TeamStudio with Domino, Winter 1999, RTP;
Using Ives TeamStudio with Lotus Notes, Spring 1998, RTP;
TISQA (Triange Information Systems Quality Association), IBM Defect
Prevention Process, Winter 1999, RTP;
SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network), IBM Defect Prevention
Process, Fall 1994;
IBM Worldwide Software Development Conference on Quality and Process
Improvements, Using REVIEW at CPL, Spring 1991, WestLake, TX;
Published: Accessing DB2 Data with Domino, April 1999; Deploying Domino
Web Applications in a Secure Environment, 1998.
EDUCATION
Countless workshops: Meridians, Sound Therapy, Dowsing, Essential Oils, Crystals,
Reflexology, Shamanism, Energy Medicine, Drum Making, Anatomy and Physiology,
Medical Intuition, Tuning Forks, Audiophonetics -2002 through present.
Certified in Healing Touch for Animals (HTA)
(http://www.healingtouchforanimals.com) July, 2007.
Certified in Healing Touch through Healing Touch International (HTI)
(www.healingtouchinternational.org) and Healing Touch Program (HTP)
(www.healingtouchprogram.com) October 2004.
Completed Coaches Training Institute (CTI) (http://www.thecoaches.com/ )
September 2001.
BS (Computer Science) - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - 1981
75% self-financed college degree through work and scholarships. Dean s List
Spring Semester 1978.
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