The Philosophical Difference Between PKP™ and Kinesiology
March 31, 2015
Let us explain PKP™ for those of you who are looking at kinesiology, and preferably Kinesiopractic®,as a career option. While PKP™ shares many common factors with other kinesiology families, we have an underpinning philosophy that is quite different from ‘kinesiology’ used by other kinesiology systems.
PKP™ does not use the treatment model. Touch for Health, the lay-training kinesiology system, shares similar principles. A PKP™ Kinesiologist aims to balance the body energies to maximise the body’s healing opportunity. The PKP™ practitioner does not treat diseases, or medical/health conditions, meaning that they don’t “fix” a problem, they help a person create the life they want instead.
There is an expectation when a person is going for a treatment that the practitioner has the skills to know what their problem is (i.e. they can diagnose) and can provide an effective treatment – whether it is natural, drug or surgery – to reduce the symptoms and get rid of the problem. This puts the practitioner in a position of power over a client who is, in that consultation, looking outside themselves to find the answer. The practitioner works “on” the client. This is not the PKP™model.
It is very clearly mapped out in PKP™ training that the client is the person who has the answers to their own problem, and the PKP™ practitioner helps them to find it. This is the PKP™ model and it requires the participation of the client in creating their own solution.
PKP™ is based on a participatory philosophy described by philosopher Henryk Skolimowski, with the client’s body and language expressing their own experience. The client is an active co-researcher in the kinesiology process, rather than a passive patient receiving a treatment; the session is undertaken in a spirit of co-operative enquiry.
Some branches of kinesiology talk about educating the client about the mind-body connection and soon, and while this may be true for part of some PKP™ sessions, the main focus of PKP™ is on helping the client make the connections for themselves so that they learn from themselves through the process and are thus wiser because of it, and become more able to make better choices. Dr. Dewe states that PKP™ goes beyond body-mind and includes Body, Soul and Spirit – with Soul being the Mind, Will and Emotions.
PKP™ has taken the time to produce a progressive, student-centred, sequential, educationally-sound training, looking in depth at the origins of the work and making sure the epistemology and ontology are in the same model. PKP™ is not a mix of the energy and treatment models as are most other kinesiologies and complementary healing modalities.
Dr. Dewe has known since the mid 70s, that kinesiology was related to God’s “plan” for self-responsibility for each one of us. The PKP™ practitioner must be prepared to go outside the norm – the treatment model- in order for their clients to achieve miracles.
PKP™ is about the journey of life; the goals we set are our desired outcomes, our prayers, and our recognition of how we need to participate. Our balances bring to light the reality of where we are, they show us the next step and make the pathway of our WHY more clear. These are indeed blessings.
Someone recently asked Dr. Dewe what PKP™ was about. Without thinking he said, “PKP™ is aboutexpecting miracles”. It may not happen on visit #1 but as you build a relationship of trust between the client and the practitioner, it happens.
Between you, you find the mode that provides the ritual that enables the client to step outside the conventional possibilities and experience what is in worldly terms a “miracle”.
Bruce & Joan Dewe
(March 2015)
March 2, 2015
Dr. John Thie, the founder of Touch for Health. This video is his last balance done before he died and it was with Michelle (founder/owner of Kinesiocoach) [video width="640" height="352" mp4="https://kinesiocoach.netlify.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dr-John-Thie-does-Touch-for-Health-balance.mp4"][/video]