This 90-minute webinar introduces the basic principles of the neuroaesthetic-enactive (NE) paradigm and illustrates how it can reshape osteopathic thinking and clinical decision-making. Based on perceptual neuroscience, enactivism, and embodied cognition, this approach reinterprets somatic dysfunctions as a loss of aesthetic coherence and functional adaptability, rather than a purely structural problem.

Through theoretical discussions and clinical examples, the session offers a structured model for assessment and treatment based on perceptual concordance, active patient participation, and shared meaning-making within the therapeutic process.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• define the key theoretical concepts underlying the neuroaesthetic-enactive paradigm.
• Describe the clinical relevance of aesthetic coherence and perceptual invariants in osteopathic assessment.
• Distinguish the NE paradigm from traditional structural approaches to somatic dysfunction.
• Apply the basic principles of the Patient Active Osteopathic Approaches (PAOA) model to clinical reasoning.
• Analyze selected case studies that illustrate how the NE paradigm supports participatory treatment strategies.

Indicative content:

• From TART to Perceptual Concordance: Evolving Models of Dysfunction
• Aesthetic Invariants and Embodied Meaning in Clinical Assessment
• Introduction to Patient Active Osteopathic Approaches (PAOA)
• Case-based discussion of NE applications in osteopathic practice
• Open Q session with audience interaction

ATTENTION:
This webinar takes place live online and will neither be translated into German nor recorded!