International Bowen
Conference
Biographies of Presenters
John Wilks
After studying music
at Oxford, John developed a strong interest in body-orientated
psychotherapy and meditation. He has been practising the Bowen
Technique and Craniosacral Therapy full time since 1995, and
works at a physiotherapy and integrated healthcare practice in
the west of England.
He is a former chairman
of the Bowen Association of the UK, the Craniosacral Therapy
Association of the UK and the Cranial Forum, the lead body
established to oversee the implementation of national
standards of practice for the profession in the UK. He is a
former examiner for the University of Oxford examinations
board and is advisor on education and training for the Bowen
Forum under the Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated
Health.
He was accredited by
the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia to teach the Bowen
Technique in 1999 and has since then, taught in many countries
throughout the world including Denmark, Norway, Israel, USA,
Australia, Kuwait, El Salvador, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and
Germany. He was awarded a lifetime membership of the Bowen
Therapy Academy of Australia in 2004.
He is author of 3 books
- Understanding The Bowen Technique
and Understanding Craniosacral Therapy both published by
First Stone Publishing and his new book
The Bowen
Technique - the inside story published in November 2007.
In 2005 he set up a 2
year practitioner training for midwives in Craniosacral
Therapy at Poole Hospital NHS Trust, the first of its kind to
be accredtited with the Royal College of Midwives.
He has been involved in
a number of charitable projects organising therapeutic work
overseas, including after the war in Bosnia and currently
El Salvador. He is an Associate of
the Royal College of Music, regularly plays in concerts in the
south west and in 2005 was awarded a prestigious fellowship of
the Royal Society of Arts for his contribution to society.
In June 2007 he was
featured in Tatler's guide to Britain's 250 best private
doctors
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