Matthew Thie
B.A, English Literature , Minor Spanish, UC Berkeley, 1988,
M.Ed. Curriculum Development & Cross Cultural Education, UCLA in 1990
President, Touch for Health Kinesiology Association;
President, Touch for Health Education, Inc.
TFH Instructor since 1980, IKC TFH Instructor Trainer 2003
IKC Director, Research, 2007; IKC Director of Public Relations 2008

Matthew grew up with Touch for Health (TFH) and Effective Communication skills as part of his everyday family system. Matthew presents TFH as a learning process that anyone can be trained to use for their ongoing, day-to-day optimization of life experience. His emphasis is on immediately putting the simple techniques into personal practice, and making the concepts and techniques personally meaningful. From1996-2005 Matthew worked extensively with TFH Founder , John F. Thie, DC. Co-authoring articles and books, organizing seminars, teaching TFH I-IV, and speaking at national and international Energy & Kinesiology conferences. 2003, Co-authored the TFH Pocketbook with Chinese 5 Element Metaphors and has taught the TFH Metaphor Workshop to over 1000 students, and trained more than 100 Metaphor instructors around the world, making TFH balancing more profound, effective, lasting, and meaningful; helping people to enjoy their own unique life.

Left to Right: Larry Green, Earl Cook,
Carrie Thie  & Matthew Thie

2009 TFHKA, EnKA, & IASK International Joint Conference, Washington DC. Awards for 10 years Master of Ceremony, Extraordinary Service, Lifelong Service and Leadership.