The ISM Update Course for ISM Series Graduates

This course is open to all ISM Series graduates from 2015 onward who wish to update their skills and clinical reasoning in the ISM approach and also gain access to 330 videos in the ISM Flow course that is now part of the current ISM Series. This course will also prepare you for ISM certification. 

This is a 2-day highly practical course that will update/refine your ISM skills for:

1. Understanding the concept of Functional Units and how this expedites finding the relationships between drivers in different regions (trunk vs head/neck vs extremities).  No more laundry list of 12 findings to play off one another – that’s exhausting!
2. Learning how to use the new clinical reasoning reflection form for finding driver priority in all functional units. The completion of this form is now required as the first part of ISM certification. Even if you don’t want to certify and become an affiliate clinic for training your colleagues/team, this form will help you clinically reason your most complex clients. This form was introduced during the 2022 ISM Series.
3. Learning how the dura becomes tense and loses mobility – integrating Barral concepts with ISM for the cranium and neurodynamic mobility. When is the skeleton causing the loss of neural/dural mobility and when is loss of dural/neural elongation causing changes in the skeletal behaviour. This impairment is usually a result of unresolved physical, emotional, and or social trauma and we will go deeper into Porge’s Polyvagal theory and Deb Dana’s clinical application of the approach to assist in managment of these persistent conditions.
4. Integration of ISM and spinal deformities such as structural scoliosis – with guest lecturer and DLA associate Judit Orban – more than a lecture this time!
5. Any thing special you want to review – i.e. update on DRA, update on when to spend time ‘waking up’ a muscles (Stage 1 training) vs moving straight to movement training etc. You just need to tell me!

Come join Diane and the senior ISM assistants for 2 days of learning and take home more ISM tools to improve your efficacy and efficiency.