If you have questions about our practices, programmes, or the fascinating world of kinesiology, you’re in the right place. Explore the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions below:
The PD School offers an umbrella organisation “home” and recognition for independent workshops/courses/programs from several hours’ duration to full diploma programs. Within the PD School are individual course authors plus certified schools with twenty or more days of accredited education and personal development courses.
The PDS offers international accreditation to kinesiology and non-kinesiology courses based on the self-responsibility model and educational model.
The self-responsibility model is a non-medical approach to health and well-being that does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. It is an approach that facilitates and empowers the client to take responsibility for their health and well-being. The educational model aims to provide the participant with tools and methods for self-help, stress management, and on-going personal development.
Kinesiology is the art and science of muscle testing also referred to as muscle monitoring. The kinesiologist looks at the whole person in terms of their structure (physical), mental / emotional, and biochemical / nutrition. The kinesiologist uses his or her knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, counselling and nutrition as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts to ensure the whole person is balanced. Millions of people have experienced kinesiology and gained physical and mental / emotion relief through simple techniques that are easily learned and applied. APPLICATION FOR COURSE ENDORSEMENT Workshop Endorsement Application – for workshops lasting up to two days. Course Endorsement Application – for programs exceeding two days in duration. GO TO RESOURCES – link (https://silver-cat-350286.hostingersite.com/downloads) see useful downloads
The course manual is where you provide written content for the workshop participant. It provides background for the procedures, clear instructions on how to check for imbalances and how to overcome those imbalances. After the course this is what the students will depend upon as they use the protocols that you taught them during the course. As such we expect the course manual to be: • Aesthetically pleasing. A poorly constructed manual with spelling and grammatical errors does not inspire much confidence. • The information needs to be accurate and unambiguous. • Protocols or methods that involve muscle monitoring should be clearly laid out. You cannot expect the student to write down full and adequate procedures in the classroom while you lecture and demonstrate for them. The student needs to be able to refer back to the procedure possibly a number of times until they can do it without the manual. • If the protocols or procedures are not clearly outlined you are inviting the students to be innovative and possibly use the techniques in a sloppy and less effective manner. Therefore, make life easier for the students by providing clear kinesiological procedures in a line-by-line, linear fashion. • There needs to be adequate referencing within the manual so that if the student becomes intrigued with a certain topic or wants more information, they know how to access source material to read further.
If you co-wrote your manual with another author or course-developer, we would need to see a written statement from that person that they are giving you permission to submit the course to the PDS. If you and the PDS board do not have such a written agreement there could be problems in the future if the joint author wanted to become active teaching that material.
If you don’t know why you are teaching the course, it will probably be confusing to the students. If the aims and objectives are stated up front, maybe even listed in the manual, then the students know what to expect and there is less chance that they will complain because the course did not meet their expectations.
If you don’t know why you are teaching the course, it will probably be confusing to the students. If the aims and objectives are stated up front, maybe even listed in the manual, then the students know what to expect and there is less chance that they will complain because the course did not meet their expectations.
What can the student expect to understand and actually do upon completion of the course? Again, this can often be stated up front at the beginning of the course. If you teach with the outcomes you want for the students in mind, your teaching is likely be more effective and focussed than if you have no previously formulated objectives.
This lets you know whether you as an instructor are meeting the needs of the students. As an instructor it is important for you to get this type of feedback. Thus, it is better to have forms that allow students to write comments. For example, how do you think the course content could have been improved? How do you think the delivery of the material could have been improved? You may not always like reading the comments, but such questions can often provide valuable suggestions as to how the content or delivery can be improved. Such feedback forms also give us on the board clues as to whether your kinesiological information is being taught in a solid fashion, or not.
As an author you want to make it easy for the student to see where various ideas come from. All authors build upon previous knowledge. Your References / Bibliography provide the foundation of ideas upon which you built. For example, in Wayne’s manual Weight Management, in a section on pica and its link with obesity, he provides a definition of pica: Pica (n): the eating of substances other than normal food, such as earth or stones. (The Oxford Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition, 1995). This way the student knows from which dictionary Wayne obtained this definition. Where he discusses the general topic of cribbing he provides a reference (Wallach & Lan, 1994) within the body of the text for students that might be interested in exploring this topic further. Later, he quotes from Wallach & Lan. At the end of the quote, he includes a reference – (Wallach & Lan, 1994, p.56). In the Bibliography at the end of his manual, Wayne has the full reference for Wallach & Lan’s book: Wallach, Joel D., and Ma Lan. Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures. Bonita, CA: Double Happiness Publishing Co., 1994 A full reference needs to have the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the book, the publisher, the city or town where the publisher is located, and the year of publication. This provides sufficient information for someone to be able to track down the reference. The year of publication is important because changes can occur between one version of a book and a subsequent republishing of the same book. The method of referencing books being described here is not the only method. Look at the bibliographies of various books you own and follow the example of one that you particularly like. Undoubtedly, we also each probably own books where the referencing of materials is very substandard. Within Wayne’s Weight Management manual, he discusses Jim Fixx because Fixx was the one who popularised the jogging craze in the United States. In the references / bibliography at the end of the manual Wayne provides an easily accessible reference for anyone wishing to read more about Jim Fixx: Jim Fixx – Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx This reference could be listed separately at the end of the book with the other references. It could also be given as (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx) within the body of the text itself. In another of Wayne’s manuals, Defusing Stuck Emotions he describes Recurring Reversal. After describing the location of this reflex on the upper chest between ribs 2 and 3, he states: Callahan (1991) shows this reflex to be only on the left upper chest. Durlacher (1994) shows it to be bilateral. Then in the References section at the back of the manual Wayne provides the references to Callahan’s and Durlacher’s books in full. Footnotes If you have very few references, another possibility would be to footnote them. For example, in Wayne’s discussion about cribbing 1, he could have a superscript 1 and the following reference at the bottom of that page: 1 Wallach, Joel D., and Ma Lan. Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures. Bonita, CA: Double Happiness Publishing Co., 1994, p.56. The Footnote has an advantage of presenting a reference on the very same page where a topic is being discussed. For example, in one manual Wayne describes the More Mode 1. At the bottom of that page, he has this footnote: 1 This basic mode comes from the research of two chiropractors, Drs. Franks and Cohen. If he had a reference to where they describe this mode in writing, he would have provided that reference. Then Wayne describes how we can use the index finger in contact with the thumb and the middle finger in contact with the thumb to make further distinctions and has a superscript 2 . At the bottom of the page, he has a second footnote which reads: 2 Andrew Verity and Don Viney, two Australian kinesiologists developed these further refinements. Even though Wayne does not have a specific reference to a publication (because he doesn’t know of one), he is acknowledging the contribution made by the two Australians to the field of kinesiology. This way we are honouring the people who make contributions to our field. Endnotes or Notes Another very acceptable and increasingly more popular way to handle references is to provide them as Endnotes (sometimes called Notes) at the end of the book. Let’s say chapter 3 of Wayne’s manual is discussing how the placebo effect was discovered. At the end of the sentence, he could put a superscript 5. Then at the back of his manual he could list each one of his chapters. In chapter 3 – The Placebo Effect, he would have item number 5 listed as: 5. Steve Silberman, “Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why,” Wired, August 24, 2009, https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/. Any interested reader could then enter this web address into their browser and bring up the article that describes the discovery of the placebo effect. Such a reference acknowledges previous research and writings. It also allows the curious student to delve more deeply into a subject which they find of interest. All the references in the text can be listed in numerical order in the Endnotes. If you have lots of references, they can be listed according to the various chapters. Endnotes also give you, the author, the opportunity to add some other pertinent information that you want to pass on to the interested reading, without bogging the reader down in the main body of the text.
Your references / bibliography provide the reader with details of some of the source material upon which you have developed your ideas. For example, in Wayne’s manual Weight Management, in a section on pica and its link with obesity, he provides a definition of pica because it is term that most people would not recognise. And he references the dictionary that has that definition. Pica (n): the eating of substances other than normal food, such as earth or stones. (The Oxford Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition, 1995). Where he discusses the general topic of cribbing, he provides a reference (Wallach & Lan, 1994) within the text for students that are interested in exploring this topic further. Later, he quotes from that source and provides a specific page reference – (Wallach & Lan, 1994, p.56) In the Bibliography at the end of his manual, Wayne has the full reference for Wallach & Lan’s book: Wallach, Joel D., and Ma Lan. Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures. Bonita, CA: Double Happiness Publishing Co., 1994 That way the student has all the information required to track down that book.
A full reference needs to have the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the book, the publisher, the city or town where the publisher is located, and the year of publication. This provides sufficient information for someone to be able to track down the reference. The year of publication is important because changes can occur between one version of a book and a subsequent republishing of the same book.
In his Weight Management manual, Wayne discusses Jim Fixx as the one who popularised the jogging craze in the United States. In the references / bibliography at the end of the manual, he provides an easily accessible reference for anyone wishing more information. Jim Fixx – Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx This reference can be listed at the end of the book with other references. Or, it could be referenced as (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx) within the body of the text.
If you have very few references, another possibility would be to footnote them. For example, in Wayne’s discussion about cribbing1, he could have a superscript 1 and the following reference at the bottom of that page: 1 Wallach, Joel D., and Ma Lan. Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures. Bonita, CA: Double Happiness Publishing Co., 1994, p.56. The footnote has an advantage of presenting a reference on the very same page where a topic is being discussed. For example, in one manual Wayne describes the More Mode 1. At the bottom of that page, he has this footnote: 1 This basic mode comes from the research of two chiropractors, Drs. Franks and Cohen. If he knew where they described this mode in writing, he would have provided that reference. Then Wayne describes how we can use the index finger in contact with the thumb and the middle finger in contact with the thumb to make further distinctions and has a superscript 2 . At the bottom of the page, he has a second footnote which reads: 2 Andrew Verity and Don Viney, two Australian kinesiologists developed these further refinements. Even though Wayne does not have a specific reference to a publication (because he doesn’t know of one), he is acknowledging and honouring the contribution these two kinesiologists made to our field.
Another very acceptable and increasingly popular way to handle references is to provide them as endnotes (sometimes called notes) at the end of the book. Let’s say chapter 3 of Wayne’s manual is discussing how the placebo effect was discovered. At the end of the sentence, he could put a superscript 5. Then at the back of his manual he could list each one of his chapters. In chapter 3 – The Placebo Effect, he would have item number 5 listed as: 5. Steve Silberman, “Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why,” Wired, August 24, 2009, https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/. Any interested reader could then enter this web address into their browser and bring up the article that describes the discovery of the placebo effect. Such a reference acknowledges previous research and writings. It also allows the curious student to delve more deeply into a subject which they find of interest. All references in your text can be listed in numerical order in the Endnotes at the end of the book. If you have lots of references, they can be listed according to the various chapters. They could even be listed at the end of each chapter, if you wish. Endnotes also give you, the author, the opportunity to add other pertinent information that keen students might be after, without bogging everyone down in the main body of the text.
