The Newsletter of the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia
The mission of the AOBTA Pulse newsletter is:
1) to offer a regular tangible member benefit that is useful to ABT practitioners by providing information – both educational and political, and that supports the professional community
2) to provide PR about the achievements of AOBTA to ABT Practitioners, (both 1 and 2 support increasing membership),
3) to encourage ABTs to promote ABT by providing examples of published material about its applications and benefits
4) to provide continuing education relevant to ABT, and where possible provided by ABT experts, to ABT students, practitioners and instructors,
5) to recognize achievements in the field by individuals, schools and programs and
6) to provide a forum for new applications and developments in the field, including research.
How you can participate:
1. Interview a practitioner about their work. Or write about your own work or encourage another practitioner to write about their work.
2. CPs, write about your successes and failures. We look at life from both sides now…
3. Tell a story about ABT. We like stories.
4. Tell us something interesting about your form of ABT: its history, differences from other forms, special applications, etc. We’re all curious about how the forms compare and yet still define themselves as ABT.
5. Write an article about treatment for a particular problem. Don’t assume that everybody knows what you know. Share it!
6. Send a relevant cartoon you’d like to see. We’ll get permission to reprint.
7. Share your tips for doing the business side of ABT, no matter how small. Got a great way to file receipts? Let us know.
8. In-depth education. Some suggestions: book reviews, more specific conditions and treatments; acu-point charts; clinical case studies, TCM theory, relevant research, etc. You can write these articles or point us in the direction of already printed articles that you have read and recommend.
9. How to promote ABT. How have you done it? Do you work in a setting other than private practice? How did you set that up?
10. The “???” category. This includes anything you can do to help us make Pulse even more responsive to the members. Write, suggest, edit, draw, do layout, send graphics, interview. You can do it! We will help!
