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Permalink Reply by Ronan on October 21, 2007 at 10:14pm

Andie went pretty deep down the rabbit hole during the talk.. deep by my current understandings anyway. I will not be able to do justice to his talk from my scribblings so I would encourage you to watch the video of the talk as soon as becomes available on the BSO computers.

Some concepts I found especially interesting was the idea of an osteopathic approach to psychotherapy and communicating information that was intuitively felt whilst working on a patient - information which could sometimes be extremely personal.

Andie talked us through his tongue-in-cheek model of 10 steps towards osteopathic nirvana. Most students are at the "rubbing things" stage (1) when they qualify and good ones at the "rubbing & stretching things with architectural principles in mind" (3). On the other end of the scale were osteopaths who "appealed to deep cellular integration" (9) working with rhythms and bringing things into harmony at a deep level (cranial?).

Something else worth noting - he talked about how important excellent knowledge of anatomy is. He reckons it is far too easy (pass mark is 40%) at our level and should be much more difficult.

It was fascinating talk - definately check out the video. Who knows.. Andie may join the site (I gave him the address when I spoke to him at the Structural Integration conference in Reading). Then again maybe he has better things to do!

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Permalink Reply by Ronan on November 1, 2007 at 1:04pm

The talk is now available on MOND using a computer at the BSO!

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Permalink Reply by Jody Jakob on May 6, 2008 at 9:01am

Any chance that you can post the video here at SM. Would love to see it.
JJ

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Permalink Reply by Ronan on May 6, 2008 at 10:54pm

At the moment the video is only available internally to people at the BSO. I'll ask if it would be permissible to make it available externally but there may be copyright issues/authorship issues. I'll let you know the response I get.

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Permalink Reply by Blake Vickers on December 13, 2007 at 5:32pm

mmm,... interesting. This reminds me of a passage by Rollin Becker in one of his books where he talks about intentions and depths of treatment. I can't do it justice by writing what I remember so I'll have to dig it out....

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Permalink Reply by Ronan on December 13, 2007 at 5:39pm

Attached is an article I came across by Frank Coulsting DO on intention and healing. Fascinating stuff. I would love to hear Rollin Beckers thoughts on it.

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• article.willtoheal.pdf, 2.3 MB

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