"A must do for ALL chiropractors!"
- Martha Nessler, DC, Innate Expressions, owner
"Dr. Senzon is a best kept secret in chiropractic..."
- Dennis Perman DC, co-founder of The Masters Circle
The history of chiropractic is relevant for every practicing chiropractor and chiropractic student. This insightful combination course provides the best value. The first four hours is an audio/slide course offering an in-depth look at the life and work of the chiropractic pioneer, B.J. Palmer. This historic figure stirs good and bad emotions throughout the profession; learn why. Recorded in May 2011, you will see slides filled with old pictures from chiropractic’s glory days as Dr. Senzon brings B.J. Palmer to life.
In eight hours of in-depth storytelling, Dr. Senzon explores the political and philosophical debates in the profession in new and compelling ways providing greater understanding of these issues. Practicing chiropractors and chiropractic students alike will learn a great deal about chiropractic’s relevance for the 21st century. This video lecture series, recorded in February 2011, is Dr. Senzon’s tour-de-force. Never before has the history and philosophy of chiropractic been explored from all sides and from so many vantage points.
This complete lecture series is approved for twelve (12) Continuing Education credit-hours in selected states.
Chiropractic History: The Life of B.J. Palmer (4 credit-hours)
Course Objectives: To learn the relevant facts about the life of B.J. Palmer, the chiropractic pioneer. As the son of chiropractic’s founder, D.D. Palmer, B.J. Palmer’s career as a chiropractor spanned sixty years of the chiropractic profession's early history. By learning about Palmer’s life including his impact on the philosophy, science, art, and politics of chiropractic, a more complete understanding of the chiropractic profession is ensured.
Chiropractic History 124:B.J. Palmer's Early Years
1. The impact of B.J. Palmer’s childhood on chiropractic.
2. Chiropractic and the first decade of the 1900s.
3. The early conflicts between D.D. and B.J. Palmer.
4. Philosophy, the law, and jail as were important elements of chiropractic's history.
5. Chiropractic's Golden Years of the early 1920s.
Chiropractic History 125:B.J. Palmer's Middle Years
1. Technology - Radio and NCM.
2. The peak of B.J. Palmer's leadership of the profession.
3. The travel years and their impact on B.J. Palmer.
4. The B.J. Palmer Research Clinic as a precursor to energy medicine research.
Chiropractic History 126:B.J. Palmer’s Later Years
1. The writing years.
2. Challenges of leadership in Palmer's later years.
3. B.J. Palmer's final writings.
4. What's left out of the philosophy of chiropractic.
5. Studying Palmer's writings on human actualization.
Chiropractic History 127:B.J. Palmer on Growth and Success
1. Palmer's use of language to inspire positive action.
2. Palmer’s famous lecture “Selling Yourself.”
3. Steps to Selling Yourself to Yourself.
4. Palmer’s instructions for following one’s intuitive voice.
5. Palmer’s writings on personal growth, prayer, and thought-flashes.
Chiropractic Principles: Integral Approach (8 credit-hours)
Course Objectives:To demonstrate knowledge of the early history of chiropractic, including the legal, social, and cultural circumstances surrounding the emergence of philosophy in chiropractic and the recognition of chiropractic as a separate and distinct profession. To learn the Integral Framework as a way to more fully understand the traditional conflicts in the philosophy and politics of the chiropractic profession. This framework will also provide a more thorough way to interpret the principles of chiropractic as they relate to qualitiative and quantitive research, biological systems, dynamical systems theory, as well as health and wellness in relation to body, mind, and spirit.
Chiropractic Principles 201:The Need for Discourse in the Philosophy of Chiropractic
1. An overview of the professional debate on chiropractic’s principles.
2. Standards of Intellectual Rigor.
3. Paradigms and worldviews in chiropractic theory and practice.
4. The importance of Integral Theory for the philosophy of chiropractic.
5. Four Domains of Chiropractic; theory, practice, science, and culture.
Chiropractic Principles 202:An Integral Approach to Chiropractic Principles
1. Applying Integral Theory to chiropractic principles and practice.
2. Qualitative, Quantitative, Interpretive, Social & Economic ways to view chiropractic research.
3. Multiple approaches to chiropractic’s perspectives on health, wellness and personal growth.
4. The importance of consciousness studies in chiropractic principles.
5. B.J. Palmer's use of second-person perspectives in the philosophy of chiropractic.
Chiropractic Principles 203:Perspectives on Chiropractic Principles and Practice
1. The exterior perspectives and the philosophy of chiropractic.
2. A four-quadrant view of the philosophy of chiropractic.
3.The Morikubo case and the introduction of philosophy and vertebral subluxation into the profession.
4. Exploring the implications of the "legal ploy" argument against philosophy in chiropractic.
5. How D.D. Palmer's life was shaped by legal struggles.
Chiropractic Principles 204:The Impact of Social and Cultural Forces on Chiropractic
1. Early philosophers of chiropractic.
2. Understanding D.D. Palmer’s inclusion of morality and religion in his later writings on chiropractic.
3. D.D. Palmer’s Traveling Library and the early influences on his ideas of chiropractic.
4. Philosophy of chiropractic in all four-quadrants.
Chiropractic Principles 205:An Integral Biography of B.J. Palmer
1. B.J. Palmer's personal evolution.
2. B.J. Palmer's life in four-quadrants (personal, behavioral, cultural, & social).
3. Philosophy of chiropractic and social development.
4. A developmental view of B.J. Palmer's life.
5. Understanding Palmer’s “uneven” development and its relevance for chiropractic today.
Chiropractic Principles 206:Perspectives on B.J. Palmer's spiritual writings
1. States and stages of consciousness in relation to the philosophy of chiropractic.
2. A framework to include chiropractic writings on psycho-spiritual development.
3. Interpreting B.J. Palmer's later writings on Innate Intelligence.
4. Contextualizing the philosophy of chiropractic in cultural history.
5. Philosophy of chiropractic as the leading edge of cultural evolution.
Chiropractic Principles 207:Chiropractic and Developmental Studies
1. The postconventional worldview.
2. Dogmatic and Expert Perspectives on Chiropractic.
3. Rational and Mechanistic Thinking in Chiropractic.
4. Pluralistic Perspectives on Chiropractic.
5 Understanding Vertebral Subluxation from many perspectives.
Chiropractic Principles 208:Philosophy of Chiropractic and Systems Thinking
1. D.D. Palmer as Early Systems Thinker.
2. A Short History of Systems Thinking for Chiropractors.
3. Chiropractic’s use of Systems Theory in research and practice.
4. Three schools of thought on Innate Intelligence.
5. Interior and Exterior Measures of Health.
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