Hit a ceiling in practice? The problem isn't your technique.
Inside The Informed Chiropractor Collective, established chiropractors learn to adjust and communicate with greater confidence through a practical understanding of how the nervous system responds to safety and stress, and keep practice members in care because they're getting results.
Make Your Adjustments Land Deeper Without Changing Your Technique
Learn how to apply Polyvagal Theory to your adjusting, communication, and practice member experience so your practice members feel safer, stay longer, and respond more consistently.
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If you’re a chiropractor who feels like you’re doing everything “right” but your practice still feels harder than it should… you’re not alone.
The Informed Chiropractor helps neurologically focused chiropractors bridge the gap between what they know and what’s actually happening in practice by applying Polyvagal Theory directly to their adjusting, communication, and practice member experience.
From Guessing to Knowing What’s Actually Happening
If you’ve been in practice long enough to know it’s not your technique… but you still can’t always explain why some practice members get better, and others don’t… this is where things change.
We help chiropractors apply Polyvagal Theory in a way that sharpens your assessment, upgrades your communication, and changes how your adjustments land. You’ll start to see what’s happening in the nervous system instead of guessing and finally have the language to explain it with confidence.
As your practice members feel safer and more regulated, everything shifts. Visits become more connected. Progress becomes easier to track. Retention improves without pressure. And long-term care stops being something you have to justify… and becomes something your practice members actually understand and value.
The Informed Chiropractor Collective
Monthly mentorship for chiropractors who want consistency and confidence, without abandoning chiropractic principles.
- A live group call every month — teaching, real conversation, Q&A
- A technique tip you can use Monday morning
- A private community of chiropractors who speak this language
- The member portal with every past training, organized and easy to find
- Discounts and first access to live seminars
$149 USD/month. No contracts, cancel anytime. Your starting price stays yours.
Join the Collective
Join Us At A Live Event. Check the Highlights Below!
October 16th and 17th in Lisbon, Portugal. Â
The UNMastermind in Lisbon, Portugal
The UNMastermind is not another business seminar, mastermind, or strategy event. It's a transformational experience for chiropractors who are ready to stop collecting more information and start creating meaningful momentum. Through our unique Seasons Framework and Productivity DNA™, you'll gain clarity on where you are, uncover what's been holding you back, and identify the next steps that will move your practice, leadership, and life forward. If you've ever felt like you're working harder than you should, struggling with team dynamics, or wondering what your next chapter looks like, this experience was designed for you.
What makes The UNMastermind different is that it doesn't end when the live event is over. Your journey begins with a two-week pre-event Voxer community, where you'll connect with fellow chiropractors and prepare for the experience. Then you'll join us for two powerful days of reflection, discussion, and breakthrough conversations in Lisbon, Portugal. Following the event, you'll receive four weeks of Voxer implementation support and a final integration Zoom call to help you turn insights into action. Because real transformation isn't created by inspiration alone—it's created through clarity, accountability, and implementation.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTERDecember 5th, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario
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The Informed Chiropractor Gathering
Toronto, ON | December 5th, 2026 Â |Â at the Toronto Airport Delta hotel and conference center.
The Gathering: The Communication Extravaganza is not your typical chiropractic seminar. This is where neurologically focused chiropractors and their teams come to refine how they connect, communicate, and care in today’s world. As the people walking into our practices continue to change, the way we communicate has to evolve with them. This event is designed to help you move beyond overexplaining and into a style of communication that creates safety, clarity, and trust from the very first interaction.
Over the course of the day, you’ll learn how to communicate through a nervous system lens, align your team, and create an experience your patients can actually feel. This is practical, real-world work you can bring back into your practice immediately. If you’re ready to deepen your impact, strengthen your retention, and feel more confident in every conversation, click below to view the full event details and secure your spot.
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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFOJanuary 30th, 2027
Phoenix, Arizona
Healing the Chiropractor
Phoenix, AZ | January 30th, 2027Â Â |Â Â Location Coming Soon
By Invitation Only
Healing the Chiropractor is an invitation to step away from the demands of practice, fill your own bucket, and reconnect with yourself. As chiropractors, we spend so much of our time caring for others that we can overlook our own need for care, connection, and support. Join Dr. Don and Brandi MacDonald for a day focused on you—creating space to pause, explore your own nervous system, and become more present and available to yourself. When we build our own capacity for regulation, we become steadier co-regulators for our practice members, our teams, and the people we love.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFOFebruary 20th, 2027
Perth, Australia
Unlocking The Pelvis and Pelvic Floor
Perth, Australia | Feb 20th, 2027Â Â |Â Â Hotel:Â Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough
A MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol: Series
Limited spots left
We're bringing Unlock the Pelvic Floor to Perth, a one-day, hands-on immersion at Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough, into the gateway of neurological safety: the pelvis and pelvic floor. It's one of the most overlooked yet influential regions in the body, shaping stability, movement, breathing, and nervous system regulation. When it isn't functioning well, it can drive persistent low back and hip patterns and compensation throughout the body. You'll learn to assess the pelvis and pelvic floor with confidence, understand its global impact on function, and apply simple, practical strategies — so your practice members respond more consistently and hold their adjustments longer.
Registration is open soon!
You Don’t Have to Change Who You Are to Practice Differently
You don’t need a new technique.
You need a better understanding of what’s happening in the nervous system when you adjust.
Working with us helps you deliver adjustments that regulate deeper, communicate in a way that is actually relevant to your practice members so they understand, and build a practice that feels more stable, consistent, and aligned with how you want to live.
At The Informed Chiropractor, we help you make sense of what you’re already seeing every day. You’ll refine how you assess, how you communicate, and how you adjust—so you’re not guessing anymore.
Whether it’s creating more connection in your visits, improving retention without pressure, or building a more regulated office environment, this work brings chiropractic back to something that feels clear, grounded, and sustainable.
No scripts. No forced systems.
Just a better way of seeing, so you can show up with more certainty every day.
Watch this interview Clip with Dr. Stephen Porges.
At The Informed Chiropractor, we integrate the Polyvagal Theory into principled chiropractic care to help doctors better understand nervous system regulation, vagal tone, trauma physiology, and the social engagement system. In this exclusive interview with Dr. Stephen Porges, founder of the Polyvagal Theory, we explore how chiropractic adjustments influence autonomic state, safety cues, and whole-body regulation. Our mentorship and seminars teach chiropractors how to apply polyvagal principles in clinical assessment, communication, and adjusting technique so care becomes more predictable, neurologically informed, and results-driven..
“Perhaps our misunderstanding of the role of safety is based on an assumption that we think we know what safety means. This assumption needs to be challenged, because there may be an inconsistency between the words we use to describe safety and our bodily feelings of safety.”
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"The key to moving our practice from one that was stuck and stagnant to one that is growing and thriving has been the Collective. The Collective got us moving and the Collective keeps us moving. The Collective has helped us develop our skills to communicate & practice congruently in a vitalistic manner. We’ve never been happier or more fulfilled in practice."
Dr. John and Marie Osborne, Ireland
"Since joining the Collective my personal practice has increased by 40% from a time when I thought I was full. Gentle advice on top of excellent lessons and monthly tutorials have enabled me to edge my practice forward past where any of us ever thought possible. Receipts are up, referrals are up and results are up."
Dr. Donald Francis, Scotland, UK
Ready to practice with more confidence?
Join the CollectiveStart Free: Chiropractic through a Polyvagal Lens
Six short videos — about an hour — on how Polyvagal Theory applies to your adjusting, your communication, and your practice members' experience.
- How the nervous system ranks safety and threat — and why it changes every adjustment
- Neuroception: how practice members decide in seconds whether they feel safe with you
- Interoception: helping people feel what's actually changing in their own bodies
- Co-regulation: how your state shapes theirs, visit after visit
