Graduation day!
These are the people I spent three weeks with,
in a dingy Norwegian dance hall,
learning a specific neuro-rehab approach to treating central nervous impairments (e.g., stroke, brain injury, cerebral palsy).
I am now a Neuro-Developmental Technique / NDT certified therapist.
Which, in my profession, is really pretty cool.
However, better than becoming NDT certified, is what I learned in the process-and how I am using what I learned to make improvements for the people I work with.
I wanted to take the course because I work with people with significant mobility deficiencies and abnormalities--some seemingly intractable and difficult to treat--and I wanted to make more of a difference, which I can truly say I do now.
I went to the course not really knowing what to expect.
If I had known in advance how difficult the course would be, and how it would tie up my life from February through early June--I might not have done it.
But knowing what I do now, how could I ever have gone without it?
The way the course was taught, it took a long time to pull all the pieces together, integrate the concepts and information, and finally understand the big picture.
After all of the angst, sedentariness, full days in the classroom followed by late nights doing homework (with pencil and paper), now that it's done, I wish there could be more. I miss the learning and the people--and the photo (above) makes me nostalgic.
I am a changed person.
p.s. I'm front row, third from right, in the white tank top--smiling!
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