For detailed information, go to the Osteopathic Summit website: here
Hands on learning with the most experienced collection of post graduate Osteopathic lecturers in the Asia-Pacific region
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Super Early Bird Ticket (Only 100 available) $1250
Early Bird Ticket (Only 60 available) $1375
Regular Ticket $1500
Group discount available
All payments are in $AUD
Date: March 21-22, 2026
Location: RACV Cape Schanck Resort - booking link here
Program: here
Meet the Presenters: here
What to Expect at the Osteopathy Summit 2026
Osteopathic pre-registration education has 4-5 years to instill safe Osteopathic practices and principles. In reality, pre registration training is not expected to be able to provide you with all the tools you will need over your career. This is why continuing professional development is mandated in all medical registration systems. The art and science of Osteopathy has an extensive array of tools that take years to master. Our aim with this Summit, is to allow you to develop more theoretical knowledge and hands on confidence in areas that you may not have had much exposure to in your post graduate Osteopathic life, or, to continue your learning from a highly experienced group of practitioners, across an array of Osteopathic approaches.
This Summit will provide a sample of different approaches and techniques that are used by Osteopaths around the world and hopes to provide the opportunity for exploration of different tools to build your clinical toolkit with.
We not only aim to give you practical skills from a room full of experienced mentors but also enable you to build relationships and a sense of connectedness within the profession.
You are not expected to have pre-existing skills in the areas that are being presented. This is a learning space for all registered Osteopaths who wish to try something that could add to their skillset.
Gala Dinner - we will have a gala dinner on Saturday night so please bring your best Saturday night dinner attire and be ready to rock the evening away. This includes a 3 hour drinks package and a 3-course dinner.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Accommodation: This is purchased separately to your conference ticket. If you wish to stay at the Cape Schanck resort then we have secured a conference rate and this can be accessed here
Any questions? Contact us on osteopathicsummit@gmail.com. We may take a couple of days to reply if we are flooded with emails. Please understand that we are also in practice, seeing patients.
Maxwell Fraval, DO (UK) MOSc (Paed), received his undergraduate osteopathic degree in England in 1978 and his masters' level degree in pediatric osteopathy in Australia in 1998. He has extensive additional training through post-graduate courses taken in Europe, Australia, and the US. He has been involved in osteopathic teaching throughout his career and in Australia he has been instrumental in the development of several teaching programs and helped found two teaching foundations.
In 2012 he established the Australian Research College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ltd. This is a non-profit public company with the mission of promoting and carrying out educational and research activities. Mr. Fraval has several published papers in osteopathic journals and has contributed chapters for two osteopathic textbooks.
Mr. Fraval is a leading scholar in osteopathic manipulative medicine in general and osteopathy in the cranial field in particular. He, along with his colleagues in Australia and New Zealand, has developed a unique and innovative understanding in his application of osteopathy. He will be sharing this osteopathic knowledge and skills with US physicians who will benefit by being able to incorporate these approaches into their own clinical practices for the benefit of their patients. In addition, many of the US physicians attending the course are themselves teachers in post-graduate education and several of them are faculty at various US colleges of osteopathic medicine. And so there will be significant opportunities for exchange between Mr. Fraval and US faculty from around the country. Another task for Mr. Fraval is to begin to develop a select group of physicians here in the US that can become specialized in this approach and continue a high level of teaching in this subject.
Mr. Fraval came to osteopathy via by way of a significant career change inspired by inner guidance, and he has been on a continuing journey of discovery into the benefits of osteopathic treatment ever since. It was through treating his baby son who had projectile vomiting that he became aware of the effectiveness of osteopathic care of babies and children. The osteopathic care of these young ones is for Maxwell an ongoing source of wonder at the strength of the response that can be achieved with these patients.
Mr. Fraval trained at the British School of Osteopathy and subsequently joined its Board of Governors. He also served on the board of the General Council of Registered Osteopaths. Maxwell began teaching undergraduates in the UK in 1979, and in 1985, after moving to Australia, he joined the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as a part-time lecturer. RMIT was the first university in Australia to run an osteopathic degree course. In 1993, Mr. Fraval pioneered the first Osteopathic Pediatrics degree in Australia leading to a master’s degree at RMIT. The Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation of Australia and New Zealand, of which he is a founding member, was established in 1990 as a vehicle for teaching postgraduate courses. Maxwell Fraval is the author of Osteopathy Is in the Blood © Osteopathy’s Promise to Children, 2024. Since 2001, Maxwell has taught “Rule of the Artery” courses in Australia, NZ, USA, UK and several European countries.
Alistair C. Moresi, Bach.App.Sc.(Osteo), is a graduate of the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. He currently practices at his private practice “Art of Osteopathy” in Portola Valley, CA. He has been actively involved in post-graduate osteopathic teaching since 1996, in the US, Australia, and Europe, including at COMP (Pomona), as a basic course instructor with Dr. Frymann (OPSC), Australian Osteopathic Convocation, UCOMP (Vallejo), International Italian Osteopathic Congress, Dr. Blackman's Midline/Mesoderm and ROA Faculty since 2017.
Michael Solano, BSc(HM) DipED(Sec) BAppSc(Osteo), received his osteopathic degree in 1992 in Australia. He has extensive additional training through post-graduate courses taken in Australia and the US. He has been very actively involved in post-graduate osteopathic teaching since 2009, including in a number of European countries. He is associated with and teaches for the Australian Research College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ltd. Particular areas of expertise in his teaching are anatomy and embryology. Mr. Solano was an editor of the Australian Osteopathic Journal for five years.
Mr. Solano was a lecturer of the OCF Fundamentals for the Osteopathic Summer & Winter Schools. During the same time, he has been teaching the ROA I and 2 courses in Australia, Europe and the USA. Dr. Solano has experience with organizing and lecturing multiple courses, please find a list of these courses in his CV. Mr. Solano is a leading scholar in osteopathic manipulative medicine in general and osteopathy in the cranial field in particular. He, along with his colleagues in Australia and New Zealand, has developed a unique and innovative understanding in his application of osteopathy. He will be sharing this osteopathic knowledge and skills with US physicians who will benefit by being able to incorporate these approaches into their own clinical practices for the benefit of their patients. In addition, many of the US physicians attending the course are themselves teachers in post-graduate education and several of them are faculty at various US colleges of osteopathic medicine. And so there will be significant opportunities for exchange between Dr. Solano and US faculty from around the country. Another task for Dr. Solano is to begin to develop a select group of physicians here in the US that can become specialized in this approach and continue a high level of teaching in this subject.
