Re-Habilitation: "To make fit to live in (again or for the first time)"

Each person or organization brings unique circumstances to rehabilitation. Cookie-cutter approaches and statistically average group responses to clinical trials may suggest a general direction, but are void of any creativity in a complex situation. 

So what is a creative response?

And who is the most creative of all?

These, like the Queen's own inquiry re: fairest, are actually deeply spiritual questions. They ask, Who am I? What am I? and their answers then generate drive and motivation to act/move in response.

These are questions that I as a professional must ask as part of my development of clinical mastery (pillar of EBM), as well as How creative do I think my client's are?… and therefore, What is their role?(second pillar of EBM:  Patient Values), and then finally, what's been done, accepted AND published in the literature? (3rd pillar, Levels of research)

We've got it all backwards right now in PT for sure, and in organizational management as well. Our constrained perspectives limit us to only what has been done, shutting out "What could be?" Those of us in creativity work can tell you that's a big dead end to creating a future that is "fit to live in." Whether one is living with an ACL deficient knee, an aggressive carcinoma or a dysfunctional job in a dysfunctional company in a dysfunctional economy.

So who is the most creative of all?

Here are a couple thoughts that when I came upon them resulted in the comfort box being not only stepped out of, but broken down, recycled and dispersed back into a whole new raft of perspectival (dictionary says that's a new word) containers that I use today:

1. Creativity is the ability for an organization, system or individual to adapt to the environment…easy enough.
2. The individual human is now sub-ordinate in evolutionary chain to the more influential and dominant top of the life chain: Multi-national corporations (See Senge et al, Presence, 2004).
3. Single cell organisms while less complex, are faster at evolution/adaptation and have a broad and robust communication organizational net: see Swine flu etc.

So where does that leave us? 

The good news is we're right in the middle as a holon…composed of trillions of single cell organisms (both "us" and our "flora") AND we together compose the multi-nationals. 

So be sure you do your personal mindbody practice, because as Peter Senge (2004, p. 234) says,

"We may not be able to change the larger systems overnight, but we can commit to the continual development of awareness and the capacity to choose. That’s why personal cultivation is so important. It keeps you sensitive and in the matrix."

Now, go get your mirror, ask the questions, and let me know what you hear!