Part 1 - Conference Paper due August 31st
As I approach the deadline for publishing my conference paper in the New Zealand and also the Australian kinesiology journals, it has become apparent that it needs to be published in long form and put on public sale.
Right now, I am still wrestling with the text ahead of the deadline for both journals. Which is August 1st. While the New Zealand presentation takes place at the end of August, the Australian lecture doesn't happen until late October. Despite the gap between the two conferences, the deadline is the same for each. August 1st.
The structure for the paper has been mind-mapped and I am currently about half way through fleshing out the text. The tricky part is adding in the latest techniques and research I have been doing. Some of which hasn't been released before and is being polished up specially for these journals. Unreleased material can tend to blow your word count out. So its taking me twice as long to write the paper and "integrate" the new material.
Part 2 - The eBook
In that light, "Integrating Kinesiology & Flower Therapy" will be released in 2 versions.
- Conference paper ( short version. )
- Hard copy / eBook ( full version. )
The hard copy version won't be ready before the New Zealand conference as I don't want to rush the release. While the conference version does a pretty good job of covering everything in a 'dot-point' format, there were some things that didn't fit the flow of the narrative. Or the word count. So they will be left out and published in the hard copy version.
The full version of "Integrating Kinesiology & Flower Therapy" will contain a couple of charts, a scan chart of the procedure ( which kinesiologists can follow in clinic ) and other diagrams to illustrate some of the finer points of technique. These additional graphics won't be published in the conference journal.
As I have a 2 month gap between the New Zealand and the Australian conferences, I aim to finish the full version and release it at the Australian conference in October as part of the 2018 New Release Catalogue.
Part 3 - The Main Text Book, "Clinical Flower Therapy"
While the forthcoming book "Clinical Flower Therapy" will have a chapter on the integration of flower therapy into other natural health modalities in it, it won't be as detailed as the conference paper, let alone the eBook version of "Integrating Kinesiology & Flower Therapy". They are stand alone texts that are designed as a 'lead in' to the main CFT text book and workshop. A bridge, so to speak for kinesiology practitioners to cross over.
"Clinical Flower Therapy" is a book purely about flower therapy. The reason for writing CFT in the first place is because other therapies, techniques and spiritual concepts have been added to flower therapy and drowned out the traditional and original technique of plant medicine.
So the chapter on integration will touch on a wide range of therapies and systems. And will only briefly cover kinesiology in broad strokes detail. So if you are a kinesiologist, you are better to pick up a copy of "Integrating Kinesiology & Flower Therapy" and read that before the main text book, Clinical Flower Therapy. The chart showing the flower therapy protocol / safety procedures will be worth your while, let alone the hundreds of tips it offers.
But more on this later.
For now I had better get off my blog and back to my word processor. The first draft of my conference paper isn't finished yet and I have just 3 days to finish the final version. Including the graphics. So I best get cracking.
I will post updates on the hard copy version later and will be announce it on the blog and Www.Skyflowers.Tv when it is released.
Bye for now,
Brendan Rohan - Melbourne, Australia
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