This is the last of this year's 30 Days of September postings. There has been one posted every day this month, and each one has focused on something 'New.' They've been a lot of fun to write, and my hope is that they have been interesting and provocative, without ever being dismissive or derogatory. So I'd like to close off this year's offerings with some wisdom from one of the great Roman Stoic philosophers, Marcus Aurelius (121-180AD): We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions (From Meditations). Remember … [Read more...] about New: Day
New: Disruption
Disruption is a lovely geological word. It suggests shaky ground and lava flows, destabilisation and disorganisation. Most people working in health care today are fed up with disruption though. Most would be perfectly happy if they never saw any more funding cuts, job freezes and reorganisations. Unfortunately we know that disruption is an everyday occurrence in a health care system going through a long, slow, seismic unsettling. But disruption need not be negative, and the Critical Physiotherapy Network is one small example of how a group of people are trying to change the rhetoric surrounding disruption and change. The key to this new approach lies with the ideas of openings … [Read more...] about New: Disruption
Results from 30 Days of September
During September we used the blog to test out ideas that we might make part of our work in the first year of the Critical Physiotherapy Network. Each day we posted up a new idea and people voted on whether they liked the idea or not. Here are the results. The top 10 most popular projects were, in order: Explaining philosophy to physios (#15) Starting a critical physiotherapy journal (#7) Running a colloquium in the South of France (#1) Collaborating on a critical physiotherapy book (#23) Running a webinar (#24) Profiling group members (#4) Overcoming barriers to publishing in English (#25) Developing critical curricula for physiotherapy schools (#3) Developing our … [Read more...] about Results from 30 Days of September