Free intro zoom webinar – taster, to see if you want to enrol. PM me for zoom link on +447508843232, 6pm UK time, Monday 6 January, 2025.
You can attend 2 3-day face to face blocks (next F2F block in 2025) and get access to all the online resources, or access the extensive online package only – including over 100 hours of lectures and resources to watch / read!
To attend the face to face blocks, start your guided online journey in January, 2025, and then come along to Nelson, BB9, in February and July, for the in person face to face practicals.
Dates: 21-22-23 February 2025, Practical version
11-12-13 July, 2025. Nelson. Practical version.
Tutorials in 2025 for the practical version / osteopaths on the online only programme (other practitioners doing the online only don’t have tutorial included). 27 Jan, 10 February, 3 and 24 March, 14 April, 12 May, 9 and 23 June. All 6pm UK time, via zoom.
FACULTY TRAINING FOR A NEW PROGRAMME TEACHING OSTEOPATHY! Complete this programme in 2024-2025 to be eligible to apply to teach on an exciting new undergraduate programme planned for 2025-2026!
WHATS RIGHT WITH OSTEOPATHY? COME AND FIND OUT!
Philosophy and Principles for the 21st Century.
PAYMENT OPTIONS TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE – AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM THIS PROGRAMME?
- 6 DAYS OF INTENSIVE PRACTICALS (included for those enrolling for the Osteopathic Certificate / you must be an osteopath for the practical part).
- 8 one-hour live zoom tutorials with Caroline, to help you manage the material and prepare for the practicals.
- PLUS: all the online components (and you can purchase this option / theory option as a stand alone without the practicals, and any therapist can learn about osteopathy – think of this as a video book!)
- the online components:
- osteopaths enrolled as online / theory only can attend the live zoom tutorials also.
- Library of resources and pre-recorded lectures also available via online resources (available for those on the 5 day block as well as those doing the online only option):
- Extensive review of traditional osteopathic history and philosophy
- ‘translated’ into current terminology and backed up with evidence review to explore these concepts and practice
- break down of original osteopathic thinking, and exploration of what the early osteopaths were aiming at
- understand why traditional osteopathy IS evidenced
- appreciate why PALPATION IS VALID
- learn how to reframe your thinking and get you beyond simplistic and mechanistic manual therapy
- learn some ACTUAL OSTEOPATHY!
- Includes how to understand 3 dimensional mechanics and how physiology works with posture
- includes concepts of osteopathic barriers – neural, chemical and mechanical
- includes understanding of the fluid-body and fascial-fluidic – biotensile and metabolic dynamics
- enables you to understand ‘cranial rhythms’ as ordinary biological events
- debates coupled motion and spinal mechanics in the concept of the whole
- explores the alternative paradigms to biomedicine – and, OSTEOPATHY IS NOT A BIOMEDICAL PRACTICE!
- includes systemic approaches to neuroendocrine immune system, men’s health, women’s health, intro to paediatrics, to respiratory and circulatory care, to digestive complaints and urinary / fluidic considerations, TMJ / Dental / stomatognathic understanding, plus lots more.
- enables you to work in the head without using the IVM
Assessed via learning diary / portfolio, and within practical classes if you are doing the full Certificate Version.
Venue – Nelson, BB9 (some accommodation may be available at very cheap rates, please enquire). The guided online / tutorial sections start in January, 2025, and the first practical is on February 2025. Tutorial follow approximately fortnightly on various Monday evenings, and the second practical session is to start the online elements, supported by monthly zoom tutorials, and then attend the 5 day practical dates 18-22 Feb 2025 – the online only version is still available (you get a CPD attendance award for online only).
OSTEOPATHIC CONCEPTS CERTIFICATE: You get a range of items included:
32 1-3 hour units of pre recorded videos of live broadcast mini lectures. Also included are a large number of papers, articles, links and other resources to supplement your learning. Elearning access is available on registration, and you can register anytime up to the February block start date, although early bird discounts end before then. 6 intensive days of lectures (in 2 3-hour practical sessions) synthesising the online material with lots of hands on each day). Lots of immediately clinical applicable dynamics.
PRICE / PAYMENT:
The 20% discount (ending needs to be paid via bank transfer – you need to pm Caroline on +447508843232, to check your details, and to get bank info. The buttons below are for the full price. Ends 6 January, 2025, after which full fee applies. All enrolments for the practical certificate version must be completed by end of January, 2025.
Online only option – flat fee of £750 (full price), join any time, use button below.
Full 6 day face to face, plus all online resources and guided tutorials on its contents, £1500, full price. Enrolment open, monthly tutorials on content starts January 2025.
Continuing the legacy of Still and Littlejohn, and covers a wide range of osteopathic history, and brings it into a 21st century context. Looks at how modern osteopathic academic bias has eroded osteopathic concepts currently taught, and explores the validity of traditional concepts and looks at how an evidence frame exists for these original dynamics. It explores how we can move forwards whilst carrying these concepts forwards and discusses how the misplaced drive for ‘evidence’ that does not actually explore osteopathy can be viewed in a more critically realistic manner. Bringing early concepts to life in 5 days of practicals also enhances how osteopaths now can still learn to bring osteopathy back into their practice! Lets keep digging!
There are no refunds for covid or other unforeseen circumstances, as the majority of the programme resources are online, and the practical dates will be rescheduled if I have to postpone any for unseen circumstances / you can attend later sessions if you need to postpone. Payments is by bank transfer, or use payment button on course page (See forms and fees page) or payment button below. Please complete and send student agreement and application form by email at the time of your payment. Payment infers acceptance of terms.
COURSE CONTENT SUMMARY:
| MODULE | TITLE | INDICATIVE CONTENTS |
| 1A | WHOSE OSTEOPATHY IS IT ANYWAY? | A.T.Still and early players. |
| 1B | Developing the concepts of lesions and body contributions to health | |
| 1C | Lesions, posture, neural, fluidic and biomechanical dynamics | |
| 1D | Current practice – is it osteopathic? | |
| 2A | FUNCTION AND PHYSIOLOGY | FINDING HEALTH – ‘seeing’ |
| 2B | Littlejohn’s sensory concepts and equations | |
| 2C | Hydrostatic skeletons, our coelomic posture, Biotensegrity and cellular level health | |
| 2D | Axial and appendicular dynamics | |
| 3A | HOW THINGS MIGHT WORK – OSTEOPATHY AND PATHOLOGY | Communication and barriers – releasing health |
| 3B | Techniques that communicate or release communicative channels | |
| 3C | Body impacts on self-regulation | |
| 3D | Practitioner or patient delivered therapy – the role of touch and passive movements; why we all palate it differently | |
| 4A | LESION TRACKING – WHAT DOES IT MEAN? AGG-REL AND MAINTAINING FACTORS | Viscero-somatic / somato-visceral, maps, topography, where is the ‘segment’, cutaneous reflexes and nuclei – what is driving what? |
| 4B | Myofascial ‘lesions’ – what are they? | |
| 4C | The primary lesion – does it exist | |
| 4D | Models – still lesion unwinding, Lovett brother, SAT, SOT, Littlejohn’s curves, ilial lesions, global patterns – what is all this stuff – does the number crunching latter? | |
| 5A | FOUNDATIONS – RATIONALITY, PLAUSIILITY, DEFENSIBILITY | Is there any evidence? |
| 5B | Postural models and the BSP debate – where to go with this story | |
| 5C | Other models – the 5-model model and the Embodied embracing model. Lets think integrated function and physiology | |
| 5D | Immune dynamics – exposure, allostasis, dysregulation – can bodywork work? | |
| 6A | PAIN, PERCEPTION, INTERPRETATION | What is relevant in pain? |
| 6B | Complex and chronic pain – an osteopathic interpretation | |
| 6C | Retracing osteopathic exploration – ‘seeing’ your patient | |
| 6D | Analysing patients – why technique can’t and shouldn’t be taught | |
| 7A | CAVITIES AND CONTENTS – SPINAL AND APPENDICULAR INTEGRATION | Spinal and cranial cavities, and the CNS and dysfunctions |
| 7B | Abdominal cavity and its dysfunctions | |
| 7C | Pelvis and its dysfunctions | |
| 7D | Thoracic cavity and its dysfunctions | |
| 8A | CONCEPTS OF CARE – 21ST CENTURY OSTEOPATHY | Modern osteopathy revisited |
| 8B | Keeping it real | |
| 8C | Being osteopathic | |
| 8D | Reflections | |