Palpation and Assessment Skills for Bowen Practitioners
Making your treatment more effective in practice.

24th & 25th May, 2008
Sherborne, Dorset

This 2 day course is designed for practitioners who wish to develop their palpation (or hands-on listening) and assessment skills in order to apply Bowen procedures more appropriately and accurately.

We shall cover developing 'body-reading' skills to sense what is happening in a client's body, some simple orthopaedic tests, how to establish a safe effective relationship between client and practitioner, and how to negotiate distance and touch. Working appropriately in response to what is perceived, and ensuring that the treatment is more effective will be an intricate part of this 2 day course.

The seminar is very much a 'hands-on' practical course designed to help Bowen practitioners work effectively with clients who present with a wide variety of differing symptoms. We shall explore the clinical implications of a range of conditions looking at ways to treat from a truly holistic perspective.

BIOGRAPHY: John Wilks MA BTAA RCST FRSA
After studying music at Oxford, John developed a strong interest in body-orientated psychotherapy and meditation. He has been practising the Bowen Technique and Craniosacral Therapy full time since 1995, and works at a physiotherapy and integrated healthcare practice in the west of England.

He is a former chairman of the Bowen Association of the UK, the Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK and the Cranial Forum, the lead body established to oversee the implementation of national standards of practice for the profession in the UK. He is a former examiner for the University of Oxford examinations board and is advisor on education and training for the Bowen Forum under the Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Health.

He was accredited by the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia to teach the Bowen Technique in 1999 and has since then, taught in many countries throughout the world. He was awarded a lifetime membership of the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia in 1994.

He is author of 2 books - Understanding the Bowen Technique and Understanding Craniosacral Therapy both published by First Stone Publishing and is completing a commission for a new book on the Bowen Technique to be published in autumn 2007

In 2005 he set up a 2 year practitioner training for midwives in Craniosacral Therapy at Poole Hospital NHS Trust and has been invited to introduce the Bowen Technique on the integrated bodywork course at the University of Westminster in London.

He has been involved in a number of charitable projects organising therapeutic work overseas, including after the war in Bosnia and currently El Salvador. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, and in 2005 was awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for his contribution to society.

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