The recent graduates Mentorship Program is designed to foster the development of excellence in the next generation of practitioners with advanced education and mentoring. It aims to support recently graduated therapists in their quest to become exceptional practitioners. The program supplements more formal coursework with masterclass lectures and one to one mentoring support. The online masterclass lecture videos consist of 10, one to two hour lectures with supporting written material (for a total of 16 hours) covering the topics shown below and is now available to all registered allied health practitioners for $220: 

Topic 1. What are your hopes & dreams/ Goal setting?

Topic 2. Knowing & selling your product.

Topic 3. Communication skills – the essence of practice.

Topic 4. Assessment – a review.

Topic 5. Exercise prescription – axial skeleton.

Topic 6. Exercise prescription – the extremities.

Topic 7. The truth about private practice.

Topic 8. Nutrition for healing

Topic 9. Developing & promoting your profile

Topic 10. What do you still want to know?

The one to one mentoring format consists of two options – a two hour face to face in person or zoom session or a morning or after afternoon face to face session (up to four hours) observing a mentor treating clients in their clinic (both options cost $550 and are designated by the mentor). The face to face/ zoom sessions to help set out a career path and ask questions or advice of the mentor while the clinic session is to allow a student to observe outstanding client outcomes in a niche practice to understand what is achievable with the right skill set.

APPLYING FOR ONE TO ONE MENTORING

There are restrictions on who can apply for one to one mentoring. Eligibility criteria include being an Australian resident with AHPRA registration in a manual therapy field, graduating from a university based manual therapy program no less than two years prior and no greater than six years prior to the application (ie 2-6 years post graduation). The applicant must also have completed the Mentorship Masterclass lecture video series, the Assessment and Counterstrain Treatment Intro course and the Jones Institute Complete Body course (or Upper and Lower Quarter equivalents) prior to application. Additional continuing education experience will also be benefit your application. Acceptance into the program is by application only – please use the One to One Mentorship application form to apply.