Back again

SOME BACKGROUND

So, I left off writing thoughts here a couple years ago.  I had accepted being newly retired, for real. Had landed that particular plane. Still had runway left. 

I had accepted that I was retired, and deliberately wasn't going to worry about physiotherapy anymore. I was going to edge away from it. Not put any more energy into trying to help it improve. I pivoted. 

I had committed to scouting around on youtube to find things that were interesting. Something I could deep dive into and luxuriate in learning, ponder from all angles, watch develop. 

I settled on Ukraine. It wasn't hard. I mean, there is a war happening there because Russia decided it had the right to believe its own BS and invade its neighbour after having signed treaties, twice, agreeing to borders established between the two countries way back in 1992 or whenever. So, it was as good a way for me to pass the time as any and was very attention-attracting, served to keep me interested in the world, the whirled world. Which is also a verb, not a noun.  

I committed myself to Timothy Synder's excellent Yale education series, The Making of Modern Ukraine. I watched every single class all last fall as soon as it was uploaded. Then I started all over again, and am up to Class 16 of 23. It's a full semester of history. Timothy Snyder is a great teacher, and I take copious notes, but that's not what this particular blog post is all about. 

No.

An email came along one day last month from the Weebly people who had offered free websites and from whom I had built two, one for my former physio practice and another for Dermoneuromodulating. I had let go of the practice site already and decided I would let go of the DNM site too because it was no longer going to be hosted by Weebly for free. They were going to start wanting to be paid. Why keep it? I was no longer teaching. I let people in the DNM Facebook group know that soon it would be gone, along with the very incomplete international directory I had been maintaining there for people who had taken the workshop and wanted a listing. I announced to the Facebook group members that they could grab whatever they wanted from it before it went dark. 

A few people salvaged it, and one guy in particular volunteered to maintain it all on his own site! I agreed, because he gave me a look at the content, all beautifully and functionally reformatted,  and offered to maintain and update the directory and everything, so how could I say no? And I turned over the url to him because he offered to pay for it, off into the distant future. It was like he was carefully lifting an albatross from my neck so I could retire even more! I asked him why he wanted to do me such a service and he said because it lined up well with his own vision for the profession, Dynamic Principles, and his Human Rehabilitation Framework. Here is his introductory video, Clinical Overview of the Human Rehabilitation Framework (HRF).

We talked. 
The more I learned about Leonard Van Gelder and his company the more it started to feel like home there! This is a screenshot of the principles he has, and I agree with them all. 

So, I'll be blogging more about this. It's all quite wonderful, and I feel very congruent with it all, and I'm not promoting Leonard just because he was kind enough to take responsibility off me by hosting accumulated DNM content, I'm promoting both him and his mission because it's like the freshest air I've ever had the privilege of breathing when it comes to physiotherapy. If the profession manages to change and save itself from becoming a dinosaur, it will be thanks to his vision, I'm pretty sure.  

Next post: Leonard's vision for evolving rehab science.