Conference Osteopathy in the Cranial Field | Choose your workshop | Day 2

Kok Weng Lim is a graduate of the British School of Osteopathy and also the European School of Osteopathy and the University of Greenwich where he completed his postgraduate training.  He has a special interest in paediatric osteopathy and has co-authored two books on pediatric osteopathy and one on balanced ligamentous tension.

He has worked and taught at the Osteopathic Centre for Children since its inception in 1991. He is on the faculty of various osteopathic educational institutions both in the UK and in Europe including the international faculty at the European School of Osteopathy, the Sutherland Cranial College of Osteopathy, Wiener Schule für Osteopathie and Barcelona School of Osteopathy.  For the past 8 years he has also worked in a neonatal unit in a hospital in north London as a senior osteopath.

Jane Stark is an osteopathic manual practitioner with 22 years of osteopathic experience and 34 years as a certified athletic therapist. Jane is equally skilled at treating complicated chronic conditions and acute sports- or activity-related injuries. Jane’s approach is unique: she not only treats the obvious presenting conditions, but she has an intuitive sense of what the body needs, helping her find and treat factors that are behind those of the presenting issue. As a result, many of her clients report that she can help people who have tried everything else and simply are not getting the results they want and need.

Jane graduated from the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Toronto. She is a faculty member at the Sutherland-Chan School of Osteopathy. Outside of teaching, Jane is known as an authoritative osteopathic historian, with several publications on the subject, the most recognized being Still’s Fascia and Journeyman: William Garner Sutherland: The Informative years (1973-1900). In addition to being an authority on history, she lectures internationally on the subject of connective tissue as it relates to osteopathic treatment; Sutherland’s techniques that he developed based following the Pandemic of 1918; Lumbar discogenic issues from the patient’s perspective; Upper and Lower extremity courses that combine the rigor of orthopaedics with the finesse of osteopathy.

Jane was formerly on the board of directors of the World Osteopathic Health Organization (2009-2011), and has attained a master’s degree in clinical research administration. Jane teachers on a freelance basis in 12 different countries, including Japan, the United States, and throughout Europe. In the next twelve months, she will be featured at conferences or courses in The Netherlands, Spain, Germany (Leipzig, Munster, Mulheim, Sarrbrucken, Neuss), and Poland.

In her capacity as an athletic therapist, Jane spent a decade at the University of Toronto’s David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic. In addition, she has worked at a number of major athletic games, including the Commonwealth Games of 1998, the ParaOlympics in 1996, and the Canada Games in 1991. She was also the head athletic therapist for Canada’s National Men’s Rugby Team from 1991 to 1995.

Gunn will be teaching orofacial and cranial techniques by Bernard Darraillans including the morphogenetic fields. On the second day she will cover functional orthodontics, infant swallowing and other factors influencing occlusion, the teeth and craniofacial growth.

Gunn has a background as a physiotherapist, finished her osteopathy in 97 in DOK, Germany. She attended numerous postgraduate courses and conferences with Darraillans, Druelle, Molinari, Barral, Camirand as well as Magoun, Mitchell and Frymann, all students of Sutherland.  She assisted Frymann on her last visit/conference in Chiemsee, Germany.

For 4 years, Gunn did research on how sucking-swallowing mechanism affects the development of the infant skull with her twin sister Line Kvivik Cote. They won the Sutherlands prize with their thesis: “Breastfeeding and its influence on the infant skull” in 2003. Their mentor was Bernard Darraillans, which had a great impact on their practice as they both assisted him at numerous conferences in Germany and France.

Gunn moved to Norway in 2000 and started her clinic in Kristiansand. She gives lectures to osteopaths, midwives and orthodontists about breastfeeding, orofacial development, infant swallowing and occlusion. Gunn is also a dedicated kayaker involved in education of kayak instructors. When she doesn´t work, she kayaks around the Mediterranean islands with Line or in the beautiful archipelago of Norway.

Some words from Gunn about Bernard:

I am honored to be passing on the knowledge of Bernard. He had a special palpation skill communicating with the deep feelings imprinted in the patient’s tissues. Even though he was partially blind, he seemed to see with his heart and his hands. Bernard developed his conscience throughout his life always seeking new and deeper knowledge. He wrote several books about fascia, occlusion and functional orthodontics. Later in life he was involved in PNI, neuroscience, quantic physics and biodynamics.

Throughout his teaching he became above all the reference person for a lot of osteopaths for his somato-emotional approach, including us. We met him 30 years ago in our first year of osteopathy teaching a fascia course in Germany. He left a true imprint in both of us becoming our osteopathic “Father” as well mentor for our thesis.