Transmission of Skills
Intensive Program
The program was designed to facilitate long-distance and international clients who were unable to attend the clinic. Close contact and sustained attention help the student to develop a deeper understanding of the essentials necessary for success. Clear objectives and guided action facilitate sustained, measurable progress in a reasonable time. This is particularly personally rewarding for both the student and the coach.
The desired outcome of the program is to bring the student to a thorough understanding of:
How we lose our health and vigour
How we can recover it
How to maintain and nurture optimum health once we have recovered it
How to plan for a long, healthy and fulfilling life
In terms of planning and commitment, such a program is comparable to embarking on a new business venture, mastering a new profession, or attaining fluency in a foreign language. It takes much a similar amount of time, attention and commitment to become truly professional in most arenas.
Mentoring
One of the key principles of success in any venture is to work with a mentor or a coach. The job of the coach is to keep both the student and the project on track. As in an apprenticeship, the coach is an experienced supervisor who helps the student continue to learn while on the job.
Coaching provides the guidance needed for students to be able to work most effectively while utilising the services of their own local health professionals and other resources, wherever they live.
Recording Progress
To this end, we have our students produce a weekly progress report and interact with them in the clinic, by email and/or video conferencing. There are many significant advantages to this approach.
Regular reporting creates the habit in the student of weekly journaling and reflection.
It quickly becomes clear that failure to sustain the weekly review and “falling off the wagon” go hand in hand. Students quickly come to understand that continuing this practice can greatly support their immediate efforts. Down the line, it becomes invaluable in sustaining their achievements life long.
These mini-reviews enable both the coach and the student to stay keenly aware of the progress of the case and to continue moving forward efficiently and on track.
They enable the coach to spot the inevitable misunderstandings and small errors that arise and to use these as teaching opportunities
Every time the student stumbles and then recovers under direction, the lesson becomes a personal realisation for them.
REALISATIONS COMPOUND. It is a very simple matter to accumulate knowledge, but realisations through experience lead to understanding and thus become the building blocks of wisdom.
So with experience comes realisation, and realisations progressively evolve into wisdom or innate understanding. As a result, obstacles that once seemed insurmountable are revealed to have become the steps in a stairway leading to success. What once seemed impossible or inconceivable becomes part of a new, everyday reality. One of the characteristics of wisdom is perspective, i.e. the ability to see something from many varying viewpoints. “Perspective is the prize of life. Everything else is just information”. (Harry Palmer)
The content of the weekly review prompts the coach to advise, encourage and direct students as they negotiate the unfamiliar territory they inevitably encounter on their journey.
Continued close contact and feedback helps students maintain enthusiasm, motivation and consistency of attention over the entire course of the program.
Health recovery is a growth process, both psychologically and physically. Our bodies periodically lay down new generations of cells. In the case of Liver cells, this occurs every 6 weeks. That amounts to two generations of new cells every season. The aim of the program is to ensure that each new generation of cells is more healthy and vigorous than the previous one. This is a rejuvenation process. We are actually growing our body back towards a more youthful state, cell by cell. The classroom is the student’s own body and the lessons endure for life.
Most chronic cases take at least twelve of these half-seasonal cycles to approach optimal health. I.e. six seasons. Some people have been stuck in chronic health conditions for many years. Such cases may take more time and effort to reach whatever is the optimal condition for the individual.
Our end goal is that by the time they have completed this program, our students will have a thorough understanding of what is needed to take care of their personal health for the remainder of their lives. Of course, this includes getting expert medical advice when appropriate.
NB: Due to the time commitment required to supervise each student, we can naturally only take limited numbers.