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Dr. Madeline Behrendt, Associate Editor Teams up with Life Skills U

Chiropractors, to make a blanket statement, are not conventional people. It's been called a bastard profession more than once, for more than one reason. At the end of the day, chiropractic is embodied by unique individuals. That said, the common thread between chiropractors and the various communities they serve is formed far from the adjusting table. Many doctors live right in or nearby the towns they practice in. People get used to seeing their chiropractor at the super-market, the movie theater, or the video store. After awhile, the sound of a "Hi doc!" gets to be an everyday occurrence.

Remember what it was like the first time you saw one of your grade school teachers outside the classroom? Quick now, contrast that with bumping into your chiropractor in the parking lot of Home Depot. The point I'm making here is that unlike many other health professions, by design, chiropractors are people-oriented. Yet this wonderful quality is masked somewhat behind the inequality of the doctor (expert) - patient (novice) relationship. As approachable as DC's are, a certain chunk of practice members feel as awkward crossing their path in town as they did when the saw their 4th grade teacher. Unfortunately, many people are locked into perceptions that limit interaction.

A magical thing happens when the local chiropractor is out walking around in a town where no one knows his title. They become a plain-clothes healer. People see them as an equal and feel comfortable in casual conversations. The "doctor" is seen as a person with information and expertise that in a few minutes of idle chit-chat gets converted into common knowledge. The other plus is that the "doctor" can elicit the same type of quality dialogue about car maintenance, child care, tax incentives, etc...It's just life, right?

At Life Skills U (LSU), an on-line health education network, people from all walks of life are learning this "language of equality" through tools and coach training sessions based in a process called parallel learning. On-Line Distance Learning (ODL) field-tested this method of relating core principles of optimum relationships and used it for creating team cultures in corporations, in families and wellness communities. It's success rate in making lasting changes in halfway houses for teen suicide, drug abuse and battered women is unmatched. Now, after a long and successful run in these areas, ODL form Life Skills U as a platform for educators, speakers and authors to reach an ever-growing on-line community with a combination of quality technology and street smart content.

The days of the chiropractor gaining status in the community through professional armor is ending. People desire someone who can relate to them on a human level. By learning the principles of "joining with" at LSU, chiropractors can opt for the path of the plain-clothes healer and impact people who may never get to an adjusting table otherwise. In addition, by offering on-line health education classes to the local community, the image of the chiropractor as a "one-trick pony" is replaced by one that positions them as a leader in public access health education. Think of the joy it would bring to mentor people into being plain-clothes healers in their own right.

LSU is recruiting for a limited number of faculty positions right now. They also have a coach training series. Some of the material includes:

• The Art of Listening – Hearing the unsaid words by listening to what is not said as a basis for incongruence (conflicting logic), lack of self-identity, lack of integrity (insides don’t match outsides) and denial (inability to recognize and accept reality).
• The Power of Questions – Learning to communicate by drawing from the principles of cause and effect and to identify when a student ‘drops packets’ of logic in his or her mental process; then to re-direct the person to these ‘missing elements’ by asking the right questions; and allowing the person to discover the missing piece for him or herself quickly and with greater
  comfort.
• Process and Patience – Learning to recognize that each person has his or her own discovery process and how to allow each person to go where he or she needs to go by JOINING rather then controlling.
• Process of Empowerment – Learning how to applying the techniques of empowerment to the student/coach relationship.
• Closure Without Shutting OUT – Learning how to experience a sense of completion with your student’s discovery process at the completion of each session without disrupting his or her ongoing process.

In the coming months, many prominent voices in chiropractic will be heard over LSU. These doctors have decided to empower the public to provide chiropractors with the support and awareness that spiritual well-being impacts their quality of life. A better distinction is required between chiropractic's philosophy, the principles it applies and the healing power that is accessed by that process. Watch this space for announcements of these on-line sessions.

 http://www.lifeskillsu.org/opportunities.html

Dr. Madeline Behrendt, Associate Editor of JVSR
mbcare200@aol.com  or

Dr. Matthew McCoy editor@jvsr.com

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