Dooley Noted: 6/12/2016
This weekend was a surreal experience.
Once per year, I assist my fearless leader of the NKT community, founder David Weinstock.
People outside of our NKT community may assume all we do is muscle testing.
It’s easy to be cynical of what one hasn’t experienced, although I don’t really see the point.
A true skeptic is someone who actually experiences something, and then forms an opinion.
I was cynical about NKT before I went to my first seminar in January 2012.
After all, I was trained in chiropractic school on several types of muscle testing.
But as I arrived at NKT I, I understood within five minutes what made it so special.
No one was excluded from learning and from asking questions.
Manual therapists, trainers, and other health practitioners united to discuss biomechanics, clinical anatomy, and neuroscience in an environment free from judgment and dogma.
It was the most supportive and guiding professional environment I had ever been gifted in which to partake.
I took every class he offered, and then I assisted him many times. Then, he made me his first lead instructor besides himself.
It’s an honor and a privilege to help him carry out his mission of helping others.
And once a year, I still get to learn from him when he visits NYC.
I spent the weekend assisting NKT III, listening to the genius and wit of our leader and his brilliant attendees.
He never shows an ego, and he opens the floor to opinions.
He doesn’t trash talk other techniques or practitioners, because a secure leader never has to do so.
I’m proud to continue assisting the NKT community in the ways I can provide, and I look forward to learning even more in return from these brilliant minds that gravitate towards NKT.
They remind me to never stop learning.
They encourage me to think locally and globally on the impacts I give and receive.
And they remind me to stay a student, even when I’m given the honor of teaching.
I hope you join us at an NKT seminar one day.
And if you don’t, I hope you find a community that gives as much to you as mine has given to me.
As always, it’s your call.
-Dr. Kathy Dooley