Dear Doctor,
Can big players in chiropractic pool their resources and work together for the
betterment of all? A good example occurred this weekend when The Masters Circle
and Life University co-sponsored “Master the Game of Life,” a three day seminar
on the role of relationships in practice and in life.
Throughout chiropractic history, our identity as pioneers and rugged
individualists has toughened us and perpetuated our existence, but survival
instinct hasn’t helped us to come together as a profession – rather, we have
experienced most of our first hundred-plus years more as a mosaic of associated
components, compartmentalized by technique, school, politics, philosophy, and a
list of other distinctions that we have used to separate ourselves from our
chiropractic brothers and sisters.
But as Maya Angelou reminds us, we are more alike than we are unalike -- this
program was an effort to build more and better bridges to unite our profession,
support our colleges and bring our message to the people, and the enthusiastic
feedback indicated that we’re getting closer to being ready to embrace each
other as parts of a whole and heal our dysfunctional family, so we can devote
more time, energy and resources to our vision of worldwide health and wellness
development.
The program displayed a conscious and effective model of living, practicing and
learning based on Life’s Eight Core Proficiencies, along with the virtues and
technology of artful relationship -- doctor-staff-patient, spousal and beyond,
showing how a culture of communication, connection, integrity and respect leads
to public awareness, professional success and delivery on the chiropractic
promise.
This ambitious project could never have been realized without the leadership and
teamwork of Life University and The Masters Circle, whose diligent cooperation
produced the first seminar of its kind. This collaboration turned out to be a
play-within-a-play, an application of many of the relationship concepts and
tools presented, to synthesize a seamless hybrid -- not simply a Masters Circle
seminar or a Guy Riekeman production, both of which are considered at the top of
their fields, but a new entity that combined elegance and precision with
creativity and emotional impact, to entertain as well as inspire more
accountability for the future of chiropractic and wellness, with a better
understanding of how mastering relationships is essential to fulfill our
personal purpose and our global destiny.
(How you relate to others in your environment is a reflection of what you have
going on inside you. Check in with yourself, notice what you are bringing to
your relationships with your family, your patients, your staff and those you
meet along your path, and see if you need to shift in any way.)
Our relationships are based on our ability to love and be lovable, and to create
a commonality of our values, so our behaviors pull in the same direction, our
actions reinforce each other and we advance in our mission. We can decide to
believe that we live in a friendly universe, that love, kindness, and happiness
will manifest if we allow them to, and that all things natural, like health,
bliss and success, will flow automatically, as long as nothing interferes. Let’s
improve our relationships, reduce the interference, and unify our voice on
wellness, hope, abundance and the optimization of our society.
Dr. Dennis Perman,
for The Masters Circle
PS Support our chiropractic colleges with your donations and your referrals – we
need more DCs to handle the rising tide of people who want wellness services.
And if you want an excellent 4-CD album of rare live talks by Guy Riekeman, one
of the all-time great chiropractic speakers, please call The Masters Circle at
800.451.4514 and ask for Andy – the school gets a fifty dollar royalty for each
album sold. Thanks!
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