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Seminars and Workshops
Chiropractic
Philosophy/Principles of Practice Seminars
Arts and Sciences Seminars
Special Programs
Other Programs
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Chiropractic Philosophy / Principles
of Practice Seminars |
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Plateaus Are For Sissies (3 hours)
Thomas A. Gelardi, D.C., and Claude
Lessard, D.C.
Gelardi and Lessard will “inspire
the fire” within you with proven
strategies for being a successful
leader of transformation in your
community and practice. Join them
for an information-packed session
that will show you how to keep
moving in the direction of your
dreams. Chiropractors, staff and
family will be empowered as they
take home lessons learned from
nearly eighty years of combined
experience – all in just three
hours’ time!
Together Everyone Achieves More
(3.5 hours)
Peter Kevorkian, D.C., and Patti
Giuliano, D.C.
This interactive workshop will look
at creating the ideal team in
practice. Kevorkian and Giuliano
will explore relationships with your
team, congruency in procedures,
effective communication and
designing your environment.
Participants will receive tools that
can be implemented in any practice
to enhance the efficiency and
efficacy of a family wellness
practice.
Chiropractic Unbarred, Part II (3 hours)
Dean DePice, D.C.
Validate – don’t defend – your
position in chiropractic through
research and science. During this
program, DePice will review
scientists throughout the history of
health and healing and observe how
they have impacted our minds and
research. You’ll learn how history
reveals itself through research,
study the battle of mechanism and
vitalism, and discover ways to
engage in the 33 principles
practically. You’ll study the public
demand for chiropractic and prepare,
both educationally and clinically,
for the changing demographics of an
aging population. DePice will lead a
market review of chiropractic
patient population and choices in
healthcare and show you how to
position yourself as an authority in
healthcare. Part I of this program
is offered as Thursday's plenary
session.
Systems Are The Solution For
Practice Success (2 hours)
Ray Drury, D.C.
Want to learn how to systemize every
aspect of your office? Drury will
show participants how to develop and
implement systems to “turnkey” every
protocol in their office. Learn how
to eliminate the “yo-yo practice”
and install systems that produce a
constant, predictable, low-stress
growth for years to come.
Communicating the Technology for
Practice Expansion
(2 hours)
Fred Schofield, D.C.
Examine the power of interactive
listening skills and problem solving
and master the inner game of success
with Fred Schofield. Get in tune
with every one of your patients and
deliver an educational experience
that will change their lives
forever. During 25 years of
practice, Schofield Chiropractic
Training has personally coached more
than 6,000 doctors to prosperity.
How To Effectively Manage A
Chiropractic Practice (2 hours)
Susan Schofield, B.S., R.Ph.
Build team spirit and learn to
master all the “nuts and bolts” of a
chiropractic office. Chiropractors
and chiropractic assistants will
learn the fundamentals of
leadership, self-mastery, self
discipline and organization, plus
the secrets of cross-training in
Susan Schofield’s enthusiastic
presentation. Combine training with
old-time principles and excitement
and you’ll get a quality system that
works.
Tuning In and Interacting with
Patients
(2 hours)
Robert Stokem
Don’t miss this important session
that will help you hone
communication skills with patients
and all people. A major focus will
be to understand and utilize
nonverbal behavior and listening
skills that optimize communication
and understanding between
chiropractors, patients and staff.
Twenty Sure-Fire Strategies to
Ignite Your Cash Practice – Today!
(2 hours)
Leslie VanRomer, D.C.
Experience Van Romer’s fire and
passion as she ignites your flame to
create your practice-dream come
true. By following a few of the 20
simple strategies she presents, you
will rock and your practice will
explode!
Women in Chiropractic Jam
Session: Woman to Woman, Adjusting
to Life! (4 hours)
Hosted by Nalyn Marcus, D.C.
The sharing continues! Marcus will
host this amazing session, along
with successful D.C.s representing
more than 75 years in practice. This
session’s roundtable discussion
format offers a source of idea
exchange and insights into practice.
Speed round mentoring and adjusting
from a female perspective will also
be offered. Students, veterans, D.C.
moms, and those brand new in
practice will all find something to
take back to the office and to life
in general! |
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Art and Science
Seminars |
Overview of the Blair Upper
Cervical Technique (3 hours)
Tom Forest, D.C.
Join Forest for his exploration of
the Blair technique and hands-on
demonstrations. His interactive
presentation will address several
Blair concepts, the importance of
x-raying and the expectations of
utilizing the upper cervical Blair
technique.
Chiropractic Care for Children
*SP
(2
hours)
Tonine Gelardi, D.C.
Building on the Sherman Package,
this course will assist you
developing confidence in assessing
and adjusting infants and children.
Through case studies and
demonstration, participants will
explore solutions to the challenges
of determining when a subluxation is
present, how to position a child for
both the check and adjustment, and
how to establish correct depth,
contact, and line of drive.
Advanced Muscle Palpation:
Because Nature and Science Should
Agree (4 hours)
Nick Spano, D.C.
Advanced Muscle Palpation (AMP) is
an elegant form of spinal
examination that determines the
level and direction of the
subluxation. While using simple
static palpation to assess and
interpret deep segmental activity,
Spano will show you how to make an
adjustment based on the most
advanced system of spinal analysis.
Growing Chiropractic with
Reckless Simplicity
*SP (7 hours)
Ron Castellucci, D.C., Bill Decken,
D.C., and Joe Donofrio, D.C.
This informative two-part lecture
and practical instruction session
will show you how to use the art,
science and philosophy of
chiropractic to equip you with the
knowledge and skill necessary to
give lifetime family chiropractic
care in your community and practice.
Castellucci, Decken, and Donofrio
will focus on three generational
types of patient and the unique
analysis, adjusting and
communication skill sets that would
likely be employed for each of them.
Gonstead: Analysis, Adjusting and
Case Studies (4 hours)
Cherie Goble, D.C.
Take home solid information on how
to incorporate philosophy into your
practice as well as the advantages
of using the Gonstead System within
the straight chiropractic practice.
Goble will review Gonstead protocol
with patients of all ages.
Experience the essence of
chiropractic philosophy, science and
art through this session designed to
take you and your staff to greater
levels of understanding that will
ultimately benefit your patients.
Neurology and the Upper Cervical
Spine
(2 hours)
Rob Kessinger, D.C.
Join Kessinger as he illustrates the
anatomical and physiological
function of the medullary lock.
Explore the relationship between the
upper cervical subluxation and
sympathetic dominance.
The Science Behind Vertebral
Subluxation
(2 hours)
Matt McCoy, D.C.
McCoy will provide an overview of
the science related to the concept
of vertebral subluxation. Find out
the challenges facing its scientific
exploration as well as the science
related to maladaptive responses to
vertebral subluxation.
Digital Line Analysis Procedures
– Moving X-ray Analysis into the
21st Century
*SP (3 hours)
Bill Fehl, D.C., and Pat Kuhta, D.C.
Fehl and Kuhta will focus on the
benefits of digital x-ray analysis
that enable greater confidence and
ease through enhanced visualization
of anatomic structures. Digital line
analysis procedures for the
cervical, thoracic and lumbar pelvic
spine will be presented with
emphasis on practical, in-office
application.
Neurology of the Subluxation and
Adjustment (4 hours)
Marc Pick, D.C.
Utilizing the latest in computerized
technology and video dissections,
Pick’s presentation will review
basic human neurology and the
neuronal theory. Join him as he
takes you on a journey through the
nervous system addressing a single
case abstract of a vertebral
subluxation and its probable
contribution to the demise of the
nervous system’s central integrative
state. Completing the journey will
be an investigation into the world
of a chiropractic adjustment and the
process by which it may ensure the
patient’s survivability and neuronal
rehabilitation.
Biologic Concepts of the
Vertebral Subluxation (6 hours)
Jim Demetrious, D.C.
Demetrious provides a physiologic
and biologic rationale related to
the chiropractic vertebral
subluxation. Attendees will receive
an advanced perspective utilizing
clinically relevant MRI/CT findings
with emphasis placed upon
therapeutic decision making.
Demonstrative cases, images and care
protocols provide instructive
insight to common and complex
patient presentations in this
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Special
Programs |
PLENARY SESSION
(Thursday)
Chiropractic
Unbarred, Part I
Dean DePice, D.C.
A call to action means bringing your
mission back to your community and
sustaining your efforts. This means
confronting the challenges of the
profession, both scientifically and
philosophically. You must
acknowledge and respond to the fact
that the public is demanding what
chiropractic offers. This session
will empower the chiropractor and
the entire office. One hour of CE
credit is available. Part II of this
program is offered Friday from
8-11am.
PLENARY SESSION
(Friday )
Speaking on Change
Chiropractic College Presidents'
Panel
Lyceum 2008 features a great
opportunity to learn firsthand what
the leaders of our profession’s
educational institutions are
thinking. Gandhi taught that we must
be the change you want to see in the
world. Our leaders will be
challenged to speak about how they
follow that inspiration in a Lyceum
plenary discussion under the big
top. Join us as a diverse panel of
chiropractic college presidents
respond to the question: “What
changes would you like to see in the
profession, and how do you plan to
go about being that change?”
PLENARY SESSION
(Saturday)
You Send them – I’ll Serve Them!
Tony Palermo, D.C.
This informative and interactive
presentation offers specific ideas,
insights and innovations that
Palermo has created to assist the
doctors and their teammates to
translate the philosophy and the
principles of chiropractic into a
language that today’s health
conscious individuals will
understand, embrace and value. Learn
how to effortlessly educate practice
members and their community about
the life-enhancing benefits of
chiropractic. Create in-office
systems of accountability that will
ensure that each member of the
practice receives the highest
standard of clinical excellence.
Communicate the importance of
wellness-oriented chiropractic care
using language skills that increase
acceptance of care and commitment to
care plans. One hour of CE credit is
available.
Infinite Principles
(2 hours)
Hosted by Alumni Association
President Alan Brewster, D.C .
Join Drs. Brian Dooley, Mark
Fullerton, Theresa Galant, Patti
Giuliano, Peter Kevorkian, Natalie
Kurylo, Greg Stetzel and Larissa
Timper for an intimate philosophical
discussion of eight of the 33
principles of chiropractic Saturday
morning in the Alumni Association
tent.The Heart of Marketing
(not for CE credit)
Kimberly Goreham
Build your practice with “The Heart
of Marketing” techniques. Enjoy
success when your heart is line with
your basic core beliefs. Learn to
identify your unique qualities that
communicate the message of
chiropractic to a skeptical world.
Believe in your capabilities to
provide quality patient care and
value. Victory comes when you
effectively communicate your passion
to the world. Grow your practice
enthusiastically with proven
concepts outlined in The Heart of
Marketing!
Ethics and Jurisprudence (3
hours)
Les Wise, D.C.
Join Wise in this three-hour
workshop which explores the
chiropractic standard of care,
malpractice, and protective
strategies for the D.C.
Adult CPR Certification (2 hours)
Cindy Gibbon, D.C.
Receive adult CPR certification with
Gibbon. Hands-on practice of proper
CPR procedures will be demonstrated
on manikins. Good knees are highly
recommended!
South Carolina Rules and
Regulations (2 hours)
Beth Ehlich, D.C., and Harvey
Garcia, D.C.
South Carolina Board members Ehlich
and Garcia will update you on
current South Carolina rules and
regulations in the areas of
qualifications for licensure, the
complaint process, legal terms,
records and much more as required by
the S.C. Board of Examiners. Become
aware of these guidelines to protect
yourself and your practice.
Student Session: When Love,
Skills and Success Come Together,
You Create a Masterpiece! (not for
CE credit)
Peter Kevorkian, D.C., and Rajeev
Connors, D.C.
Join two passionate chiropractors as
they help you transcend your
clinical skills with heart, clarity
and trust. Learn to live from the
inside-out and practice with
purpose, vision and commitment. In
addition, Kevorkian and Connors will
share with you the basic elements of
success and how to become a leader
within your community.
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Other
Programs |
Academy of Chiropractic
Philosophers
Sherman College is proud to continue
its
Academy of Chiropractic Philosophers
(ACP), a one-
year course designed to enhance the
understanding and depth of
chiropractic philosophy. This
program is designed to challenge the
thinking process and the application
of philosophy in the chiropractic
profession for the purpose of
developing committed communicators
of chiropractic philosophy.
Completion of this 10-module course
awards you with the Academy of
Chiropractic Philosophers
distinction. Lyceum 2008 marks the
beginning of this program’s third
class. The courses offered below
complete module one. Lyceum
attendees are invited and encouraged
to attend.
Modernizing Chiropractic’s Basic
Metaphysical Syllogisms (3 hours)
David Koch, D.C.
Koch will review Stephenson’s 33
principles in light of his recent
work on rearranging, categorizing
and editing the principles for
better logical flow, internal
consistency and more accurate use of
terminology. This work will serve to
better integrate Stephenson’s
principles into a single, three-part
deductive syllogism, and it will
highlight the meaningfulness of the
entire chiropractic metaphysical
model over the isolated
interpretation of individual
principles as they apply to specific
situations.
Chiropractic, Energy Medicine,
and the Future of Healing (4 hours)
Simon Senzon, M.A., D.C.
Explore the history of
chiropractic’s earliest influences
and chiropractic research of the
early 20th century. In this two-part
lecture, Senzon will lead an
exploration of the concepts of
energy medicine and modern research
while linking quantitative and
qualitative approaches to
chiropractic outcomes.
Rigor in Chiropractic Philosophy
(2 hours)
Brian McAulay, D.C., Ph.D.
McAulay will address the centrality
of rigor in advancing the
understanding of the philosophy of
chiropractic. Join him as he
presents core concepts concerning
the role of rigor in the philosophy
of chiropractic.
Evolution or Adaptation, the
Changes in Straight Chiropractic
(2 hours)
Joe Strauss, D.C.
Join Strauss as he addresses
external and internal forces that
have shaped chiropractic philosophy
and its application in practice. He
will lead a discussion of the
potential forces that can influence
the practice of chiropractic in the
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*SP denotes that
this program is part of the Sherman Package.
The Sherman Package is a technologically
advanced, philosophically sound, clinically
useful approach to the location, analysis
and correction of vertebral subluxation. It
addresses the entire spine including the
upper cervical spine and its unique
structure and function.
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*For additional information about Lyceum 2008 or
any of Sherman College's Continuing Education
programs, please e-mail
lyceum@sherman.edu or call 800-849-8771,
ext. 263 or ext. 226.
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