So you're attending a manual medicine workshop?

Clearly heavily paraphrased from Jonathan Clark comes these words from my publicist:

Some people say there is a lot of confusion surrounding our field. Great! In a moment I want to give you 7 criteria or elements you absolutely, positively must consider in any solution you obtain:

1) Make sure the Trainer is certified, has experience and has actually done what you want to be able to do. Clinics do count. [By contrast, you can buy your way up the NLP ladder and reach Trainer status in 5 weeks, but have absolutely no clients or field experience, and never have ran a seminar in your life. Do you really want to be on their first course?]
2) Who developed the body of work you want to dissect? In my own ceaseless learning, I've noticed that the closer i get to the source speaker or reference book, the clearer the message gets. On the other side of the fence, there exist great synthesizers who put together large bodies of work into a truly coherent, functional, reproducible whole. If you can find someone who is both an originator and a synthesizer, go there!
3) What's the only place you can learn R.D.T.s from? Reflexive De-afferentation is like "manual therapy on anabolic steroids!"
4) After listening to, and applying these tools, are you are welcome to contact your Session Facilitator by telephone or email? Doc Strix loves to keep in touch with everyone, especially to hear about their breakthroughs and achievements.
5) If your training keeps demonstrating things as if the mind and the body were not part of one synthesized whole, how much healing can you really do?
6) Malcom Gladwell has indoctrinated me well. Anyone who claims mastery without at least 10,000 hours of experience is someone you should run from very quickly.
7) What is the Trainor's bottomline? What is the main intent? That will tell you very quickly what you'll actually be getting.

*Speaking of masters, Andrew Zoppos, who trained all the trainors of the Bowen Technique in Europe, will be in Manila on the 10th of April.
*We are in no way by funding nor organization related to Bowtech. We just like promoting our friends.
*The next Manual Medicine Workshop will be on February 21, 2010.

God Bless you all.

Yours in the Evolution of the Field,