Wine bar chat with Vismai Schonfelder
01/01/24 • 37 min
Vismai is a chiropractor with over 25 years experience and our paths keep crossing. We grew up in the same country town in rural Australia, we studied together in RMIT, Melbourne, Putney chiropractic helped during his near death experience after an illness pick up in West Africa, he practiced in Holland for years around time I was first in London early 2000s, and now he has a daughter living here in London.
He currently practices in Singapore, lives in Bali with his chiropractor wife Joyti, and his two kids Dali and Finn are global nomads.
Over the years he's gained a reputation of simply and easily engaging with his clients, often found speaking at Chiro Euro about the topic. He's shared his ideas in his book Keep Your Clients and the coaching program that links with this.
I hope you enjoy our fireside chat.
The Chiropractor Singapore
Keep Your Clients
Vismai is a chiropractor with over 25 years experience and our paths keep crossing. We grew up in the same country town in rural Australia, we studied together in RMIT, Melbourne, Putney chiropractic helped during his near death experience after an illness pick up in West Africa, he practiced in Holland for years around time I was first in London early 2000s, and now he has a daughter living here in London.
He currently practices in Singapore, lives in Bali with his chiropractor wife Joyti, and his two kids Dali and Finn are global nomads.
Over the years he's gained a reputation of simply and easily engaging with his clients, often found speaking at Chiro Euro about the topic. He's shared his ideas in his book Keep Your Clients and the coaching program that links with this.
I hope you enjoy our fireside chat.
The Chiropractor Singapore
Keep Your Clients
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Barcelona Chiro College Head Adrian Wenban joins us for a chat about chiro education globally
Craig McLean, your host, welcomes Adrian Wenban, chiropractor and head of Barcelona College of Chiropractic. Following on from our last episode where a recently graduated student from both RMIT and Barcelona filled us in on the differences between the two programs.
We ask Adrian about the history of the Barcelona college, when it started, how big it is, how many students per year, but mainly how the ethos of the education is true to the origins of the chiropractic profession, keeping the students focused on the founding principles of the profession.
He expands on this to explain how three main techniques are taught, the students are hands on from year one and its not discouraged to discuss the term subluxation and DD Palmer. He encourages all of his students to find and develop their own personal philosophy around health, healing and chiropractic.
We talk about the recent RMIT situation in Melbourne Australia, where without warning or consultation the program was closed down and the profession lost 140 graduates a year. He has an opinion on where that program went wrong.
Hope you enjoy this episode, Adrian and I have history and he reminded me that he actually worked in Putney Chiropractic back in the 1990's before I took over ownership.
Next Episode
Martin Harvey - Better ways to communicate and engage with your patients for improved retention.
Loved this chat with Martin Harvey, one for the chiropractors, I (Craig McLean) was in London 2oC he was in Melbourne 30oC and we covered in one episode so many ways to engage better with your clients to enable you to provide better service which naturally will encourage people to stay with you longer.
At the beginning, after setting the scene, we tackle the question as to whether it's appropriate to encourage people to be life long chiropractic patients. Some in the profession suggest it's not appropriate and we should be able to teach/train/coach all people out of a problem and dis-engage with them as soon as possible or you are just ripping people off. We came to the conclusion that with todays stressful lifestyles and peoples desire to be as healthy as possible there is a need and desire by many to add chiropractic to their healthy lifestyle choices hence it is appropriate to some people.
So listen on to find out things to do during your 1st, 2nd or routine visits that can help you engage better with your clients. Martin is an expert at helping us communicate more effectively to help people move from focus on pain to prevention and eventually performance. Spoiler alert - all about building bridges from where the person is at or focused and bridging to the possibilities of a different paradigm.
Thanks Martin here are some links to Martin's work.
Under the influence podcast - Martin chats with me Craig McLean
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