The Access Workshop

Enhancing Clinical Clarity

As a practitioner, you only perceive a limited amount of information that your nervous system detects about a patient. This happens, in part, because practitioners pay attention to just a limited range of feedback/responses that their nervous system produces when they assess patients.


For example, neuroscience shows that a practitioner's nervous system produces a mix of adaptive responses and touch sensations during palpation. Practitioners commonly focus their attention on touch sensations when they palpate and overlook the adaptive responses that their nervous system is producing.


This oversight limits a practitioner's potential results because adaptive responses provide clinically significant insights that touch sensations cannot provide. Proficient awareness of adaptive responses enables a practitioner to perceive more information that their nervous system detects about patients. This added information can significantly enhance clarity and results in practice.



Enhancing Perception of Key Adaptive Responses


Key adaptive responses include autonomic, arousal, affective and motivational responses.

Proficient perception of these subtle adaptive responses requires a distinct set of attention skills.  These internal perception (interoception) skills are very different from the skills that help enhance awareness of conventional sensory responses. 


The Access Workshop delivers a streamlined, step by step approach to enhance perception of adaptive responses. This specialized training enables practitioners to accelerate their learning curve and avoid misdirected efforts that commonly occur when developing this skillset. Whether you’re a student, or a veteran practitioner who would like to experience the benefits that exceptional perception abilities provide in practice, the Access Workshop can help you to develop this high value skillset.


Does it require much time to develop an awareness of key adaptive responses?

Most practitioners can readily enhance their awareness of adaptive responses once they learn some essential attention strategies. 
If a practitioner is not aware of these strategies, it can take a substantial amount of time and effort to develop this skillset.

Does science support using
adaptive responses as assessment indicators?

Yes. Neuroscience, e.g., psychophysiology, has an extensive history of monitoring adaptive responses to study the nervous system.

Can adaptive response indicators be used with a
wide range of techniques?

Yes. Awareness of adaptive responses can help a practitioner rapidly identify 'salient' sites, e.g., areas of potential dysfunction. This skillset can also assist a practitioner to discern specific contact points and force application vectors once a site has been selected.