Healing a disconnected world through the gentle power of touch.

'Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart’.
Rumi

The Gentle Touch is a not for profit organisation whose mission is to bring the powerful transformative energy of ‘gentleness’, ‘connection’, ‘belonging’ and ‘touch’ back to society.

The Gentle Touch is a community of volunteers that seek to spread gentleness through the power of a therapeutic hand massage and by truly listening. In doing so they create a safe and healing space for another.

As we emerge from the pandemic, The Gentle Touch restores the power of safe healing touch and connection in human society..

To do this the organisation trains volunteers to become ambassadors of gentleness, to deeply listen and give therapeutic hand massages that can be tailored and adapted to meet any person’s needs.

Therapeutic hand massages are then offered by the volunteers wherever they are needed including, in communal spaces, communities, care homes, hospices, shelters for the homeless and events.

The training days and the massages are all imbued in the energy of gentleness. When people receive the hand massage they are held and heard, experiencing a deep safe space of healing and connection.

The volunteers that train in this will also experience the physical and emotional benefits that living in gentleness and giving and receiving touch offers. So the healing begins from the inside out. The organisation deeply values every individual volunteer and gives a sense of belonging, meaning and purpose.

As The Gentle Touch family grows and touches more lives, it will provide the much needed healing medicine of ‘connection’, ‘belonging’ and ‘safety' to the world.

‘The fittest may also be the gentlest because survival often requires mutual help and co-operation’.
Theodosius Dobhansky (1900 – 1975) Evolutionary Biologist