Our team has had the privilege of traveling the word meeting, teaching and working with thousands of amazing practitioners. With over a decade of experience successfully hosting and teaching seminars here's what we learnt that the very best practitioners are looking for.

#1. LOOK FOR SYSTEMS.

The best practitioners are ALWAYS looking for seminars that teach systems. There are plenty of courses that teach a collection of unconnected techniques. Whilst each individual technique has some worth, because it isn’t part of something greater than itself it has limited value. 

However, system theory states that the system is worth more than the sum of its parts. Or to put into perspective for manual therapy seminars, the best practitioners in the world know a treatment system has more benefits than the individual techniques it comprises. It’s the interconnections that add the extra value. Those connections define the boundaries of each technique, how to move between them and when to do so. Because systems lay out a precise road map for practitioners to follow they lead to more efficient and effective progress. 

The IAT® Treatment System taught in this seminar does just that. It lets the practitioner flow through the clearly defined system of six interconnected tool based manual therapy techniques, helping them not only elevate their treatment outcomes but do so in a way that saves them time and energy.

#2. FIND OUT WHY.

Once they’ve found a system, the second trait that we’ve seen is that the best practitioners become super focused on finding out why the system works so well.  They’ve realised something that many don’t stop to consider. 

The challenge isn’t getting positive results without knowing why, that’s called getting lucky. The problems start when the good luck dries up. The best have figured out that without knowing the “why”, practitioners often end up repeating the same thing again and again, hoping for a different outcome “because it worked before”. That’s Einstein’s definition of insanity. It won’t achieve the results their clients deserve nor will it help the practitioner’s reputation.

The unfortunate reality is that many manual therapy courses do not do a good enough job of explaining why the techniques they teach work and how to avoid Einstein’s insanity. We believe that to achieve quick and effective results, practitioners need to know how to take advantage of the body’s nervous system. It is the “why” of how our hands on treatment system works so well and we make sure you have all the information you need to take full advantage of it in the lessons of our Level 1 seminar. 

#3. LOOK FOR RELEVANCE.

Lastly, the very best practitioners share is looking for seminars that contain high quality, relevant lessons that will help them achieve their goals. They know that many seminars contain a lot of fluff and filler to bulk them out and, understandably, don’t want to waste their time. 

Here’s an example. There’s a degree for a particular manual therapy profession that contains indepth information on innervation of the tongue, of which they use towards the exam and the students final grades. Now maybe someone out there found that information so inspiring they went on to become the world’s only tongue manual therapy specialist, but for everyone else it’s completely useless. Devoid of any real relevance to manual therapists of all professions and what they actually see on a daily basis. 

Rest assured- all the information in our seminar is 100% relevant to help you maximise the results from the hands on tool based techniques we teach and explained at a level of detail that you won’t find anywhere else. Not only that, but the feedback from the practitioners who we’ve taught is that it’s also relevant to the majority of the other techniques they use and has helped them better understand how to get the most out of those skills as well.