As part of the apprenticeship there will be ten 90 minutes zoom session, they will

• Teach topics that require detailed explanation and interactive Q&A
• Respond to the needs of the student cohort appropriate to the skill level of the group (see topics below)
• Support the online courses syllabuses by diving deeper into important topics
• Provide an opportunity for student Q&A of the syllabus material or broader aspects of treating babies
• Discuss Case Studies - Babies that I treat that are of particular relevence to your learning journey and also if you need help with any babies that you are treating we can also explore those cases as well.

These Zooms will be invaluable for fast tracking your ability to treat babies. Feel free to chime in during the live Zooms or just sit quietly and absorb what's being taught… either way, every style and skill level of practitioner is sure to find these learning sessions extremely helpful to them.

Thought it good to show you this photo from one of last year's zoom tutorials, as I want you to know that these will not be snore fests with lots of dry theory - trust me I'd be asleep before you if I had to teach that way! 

These are going to be zooms that fire you up to how exciting it is to treat babies, and they will be about what actually works with them, cos babies dont care how many fancy letters you have after your name what they care about is how you make them feel, and that's at the core of what you'll do with them. So all the skills you learn will be so that you can tune in to baby's needs make them feel safe and get the change for them so that they are happier and healthier than before.

But that doesnt mean we dont need to know our anatomy or that we arent precise in what we do, cue skull in picture, but there's ways to teach that are practical and fun and not a bore fest, so heh lets do it that way!

Zoom Topics

The list below covers many topics that are of importance when treating babies. We will choose topics from this list to teach in the zoom tutorials in order of relevance to the student cohort, as its important that we choose topics that make the most impact for where you are currently at in your development as an osteopath. We will not get through all of this material, but that's ok there's always more to learn, and we never finish learning and thats why the key is to start with what will make the most impact for you. Additionally we will covering case studies and Q&A's and some of the below topics may naturally fall within those parts of the zoom tutorials or may cover other topics not listed below. (Remember - the only dumb question is the one you didnt ask!)

Fulcrums (Physical and Emotional) and how we need to adapt when we work with babies  

Force Vectors and Shock Release with Babies

Midline and The Embryonic Fulcrum

Advanced Palpation including Stacking

Compression - Treating babies with compression and using compression as tool to treat the system

Intraosseous strains (In the cranium and in the lower limb)

SBS Lesions - The reality of using them in treating with babies (as this is a clasic area to get lost in theory where trying to impose the models on your patient really screws up both you and them!)

The Heart/pericardium and the connection with the anterior fascia and the face

Somato Emotional Release and Babies

Cranial Rhythms - are you feeling the 12/14 in a baby or is that your own rhythm you've just projected onto them!

How to treat babies without being able to feel the cranial rhythm or have any experience of that field of osteopathy.

How to treat babies if you are a cranial practitioner that likes their patients to hold still, not wriggle, cry or vomit whilst you are treating them!