Seminars
Taking Care of People Seminar is for health care providers: students, doctors and staff. It’s focus is patient care and the environments and relationships that provide healing and wellness for staff, patient and provider. This class is interactive with lecture, music, video, exercises, participation and a Practice Manual.
The seminar is founded on patient learning, communication and relationship skills and is focused on patient centered spinal care. Principles of integrity, authenticity, vulnerability and courage will provide you with confidence and the ability to be present to a patient regardless of the patient’s situation or condition.
Deeply understanding the role of spinal care in someone’s life and the lifetime benefits of keeping the spine corrected will allow you to provide excellence in patient care. Knowing the connection between the spinal misalignment and the spine related pain, symptoms and conditions allow you to be more effective. You will learn to identify the stages through which Lifetime Patients develop and how to integrate powerful relationship skills for prospective and current patients..
During the seminar you will experience a safe and nurturing environment that you will be able to bring into your practice for patients and for the providers and staff of the office. This will provide healing, growth and transformation for everyone involved.
We will review the movement of patients in your office and the flow of patient care from the initial interview to the patient’s understanding of the need to keep the spine corrected for as long as they live. You will receive a practice manual (more than 100 pages) with office forms and procedures that you will refer to for years to come.
You will explore creating the practice of your dreams by identifying your core values and bringing those values to your everyday experience of practice. By creating clarity about your vision of service and creating a game plan to manifest that vision you will live a rich and rewarding life and be fulfilled through service and contribution. The satisfaction of providing impeccable patient care allows everyone to benefit from the experience.
Seminar Content:
Clarify your Practice Vision: Bring your chiropractic philosophy to life by discovering your values and your vision of practice and how to have a large successful practice and find fulfillment. Includes the creation of a practice identity, a practice vision, a mission statement and a constitution unique to you.
Effective Patient Learning: Distinguished from patient education! How to create contexts for ease of learning, using a health history, report of findings and case plans designed to empower patients to make effective decisions about care. Patient learning designed by asking patients if there are any questions and building the answers to those questions into each new patient encounter.
Office Procedures: Review Office Designs, Daily Activities, Procedures and Projects, Answering the Telephone, Scheduling Appointments, Managing Patient Flow, Establishing fees, Collecting Money and Management by Statistics, and Creating Referrals.
Profiles: Practice Profile and the Roles and Profile of the Doctors, Associates and Team, with hiring criteria and Employment Questionnaires.
Economics of Practice: Establishing Fees for Services, Over-head and Profitability.
Impeccable Patient Care: From the New Patient to the development of Lifetime Patients, always acting in the patient’s best interest, allowing the patient to make the final decisions by providing choices that form a mutual objective for doctor and patient.
Taking Care of People Seminar is for health care providers: students, doctors and staff. It’s focus is patient care and the environments and relationships that provide healing and wellness for staff, patient and provider. This class is interactive with lecture, music, video, exercises, participation and a Practice Manual.
The seminar is founded on patient learning, communication and relationship skills and is focused on patient centered spinal care. Principles of integrity, authenticity, vulnerability and courage will provide you with confidence and the ability to be present to a patient regardless of the patient’s situation or condition.
Deeply understanding the role of spinal care in someone’s life and the lifetime benefits of keeping the spine corrected will allow you to provide excellence in patient care. Knowing the connection between the spinal misalignment and the spine related pain, symptoms and conditions allow you to be more effective. You will learn to identify the stages through which Lifetime Patients develop and how to integrate powerful relationship skills for prospective and current patients..
During the seminar you will experience a safe and nurturing environment that you will be able to bring into your practice for patients and for the providers and staff of the office. This will provide healing, growth and transformation for everyone involved.
We will review the movement of patients in your office and the flow of patient care from the initial interview to the patient’s understanding of the need to keep the spine corrected for as long as they live. You will receive a practice manual (more than 100 pages) with office forms and procedures that you will refer to for years to come.
You will explore creating the practice of your dreams by identifying your core values and bringing those values to your everyday experience of practice. By creating clarity about your vision of service and creating a game plan to manifest that vision you will live a rich and rewarding life and be fulfilled through service and contribution. The satisfaction of providing impeccable patient care allows everyone to benefit from the experience.
Seminar Content:
Clarify your Practice Vision: Bring your chiropractic philosophy to life by discovering your values and your vision of practice and how to have a large successful practice and find fulfillment. Includes the creation of a practice identity, a practice vision, a mission statement and a constitution unique to you.
Effective Patient Learning: Distinguished from patient education! How to create contexts for ease of learning, using a health history, report of findings and case plans designed to empower patients to make effective decisions about care. Patient learning designed by asking patients if there are any questions and building the answers to those questions into each new patient encounter.
Office Procedures: Review Office Designs, Daily Activities, Procedures and Projects, Answering the Telephone, Scheduling Appointments, Managing Patient Flow, Establishing fees, Collecting Money and Management by Statistics, and Creating Referrals.
Profiles: Practice Profile and the Roles and Profile of the Doctors, Associates and Team, with hiring criteria and Employment Questionnaires.
Economics of Practice: Establishing Fees for Services, Over-head and Profitability.
Impeccable Patient Care: From the New Patient to the development of Lifetime Patients, always acting in the patient’s best interest, allowing the patient to make the final decisions by providing choices that form a mutual objective for doctor and patient.
Take Home More From Your Experience
BEFORE YOU COME
Get clear about why you wanted to take the seminar in the first place.
Some key Questions:
What am I trying to achieve?
How am I going to ensure that the experience essentially gets me the results I want?
What am I going to do to be able to reinforce the seminar once it’s completed?
How can I maximize my investment?
Research the instructor:
If you have information about who your instructor will be. Look up Dr. Brooks bio on the website, you may find that you have common interests, contacts, or backgrounds.
Ask the doctor or student who referred you for input:
Your student or doctor friends may also offer some wish list items for the seminar. Ask a few of them for input about what they would ask if they had the opportunity.
Set some Intensions:
You may overlook an important opportunity to set intensions before the seminar. You have come to chiropractic to serve others. Would you benefit the most from some technical, communication or relationship skills?
DURING THE SEMINAR
Now that you’re there, here’s what you need to do.
Share your Goals:
We may ask you to introduce yourself and explain why you’re here or what you hope to get out of the seminar. Take that question seriously. State what you hope to learn so Dr. Brooks can focus on those points throughout the session.
Ask good Questions:
Too many people just sit there and don’t participate. Ask good questions and routinely check in with yourself to be sure you’re getting what you’d hoped out of the seminar. If not, approach the instructor during a break and discuss how you can achieve your goal.
Take advantage of Downtime:
If students and doctors and staffers are heading out to socialize, don’t head to your room—go with them. You may find valuable contacts among your seminar peers, so take the time to get to know them.
AFTER
Once you get home, the work's not done yet.
Present or preserve your learning:
Practice, practice, practice… Some of the Contexts and the Stages of Development of Lifetime Patients I suggest you review and practice. It takes 10,000 times doing something to be a Master.
Summarize the seminar for your office or other students after you return. You may choose to do a written summary, a short training session, or other methods of passing along information. The key is to follow up to both reinforce what you’ve learned and share it with others.
Work toward your Intentions:
If you set intensions for yourself, start tracking them when you get back.
Reach out to new contacts:
Keep in touch with the people you talked to, and that includes Dr. Brooks. Connect by email or Facebook and share your progress after the seminar. You may be able to learn from each other long after you’ve left the seminar.
Get clear about why you wanted to take the seminar in the first place.
Some key Questions:
What am I trying to achieve?
How am I going to ensure that the experience essentially gets me the results I want?
What am I going to do to be able to reinforce the seminar once it’s completed?
How can I maximize my investment?
Research the instructor:
If you have information about who your instructor will be. Look up Dr. Brooks bio on the website, you may find that you have common interests, contacts, or backgrounds.
Ask the doctor or student who referred you for input:
Your student or doctor friends may also offer some wish list items for the seminar. Ask a few of them for input about what they would ask if they had the opportunity.
Set some Intensions:
You may overlook an important opportunity to set intensions before the seminar. You have come to chiropractic to serve others. Would you benefit the most from some technical, communication or relationship skills?
DURING THE SEMINAR
Now that you’re there, here’s what you need to do.
Share your Goals:
We may ask you to introduce yourself and explain why you’re here or what you hope to get out of the seminar. Take that question seriously. State what you hope to learn so Dr. Brooks can focus on those points throughout the session.
Ask good Questions:
Too many people just sit there and don’t participate. Ask good questions and routinely check in with yourself to be sure you’re getting what you’d hoped out of the seminar. If not, approach the instructor during a break and discuss how you can achieve your goal.
Take advantage of Downtime:
If students and doctors and staffers are heading out to socialize, don’t head to your room—go with them. You may find valuable contacts among your seminar peers, so take the time to get to know them.
AFTER
Once you get home, the work's not done yet.
Present or preserve your learning:
Practice, practice, practice… Some of the Contexts and the Stages of Development of Lifetime Patients I suggest you review and practice. It takes 10,000 times doing something to be a Master.
Summarize the seminar for your office or other students after you return. You may choose to do a written summary, a short training session, or other methods of passing along information. The key is to follow up to both reinforce what you’ve learned and share it with others.
Work toward your Intentions:
If you set intensions for yourself, start tracking them when you get back.
Reach out to new contacts:
Keep in touch with the people you talked to, and that includes Dr. Brooks. Connect by email or Facebook and share your progress after the seminar. You may be able to learn from each other long after you’ve left the seminar.