Filip Maric - 30 DoS - Day 13

How I think and practice critically in my current work and study:

My interests range broadly across the outer rims of healthcare via inspiration from diverse global philosophical traditions, ethics, the post-humanities and the miraculous pluriverses that surround us. More recently, these interests have taken me toward explorations of environmental philosophy and the environmental humanities, and with that to the exploration and further development of environmental physiotherapy, planetary health and related fields.

What is it about critical physiotherapy that appeals to me:

For me, an engagement with any discipline requires questioning and reimagining its theoretical underpinnings and social context and so, as a physiotherapist and healthcare professional, engaging in critical physiotherapy presents itself as a logical, necessary and fundamental part of my work across research, practice and education.

How would you like to see the critical physiotherapy community develop over the next few years?

My hopes for the CPN are that it will continue to be a positive force for an otherwise physiotherapy, inspiring physiotherapists around the world to think and do physiotherapy otherwise. I am grateful and excited to be a part of this endeavour. I am always open for conversation, for creative, wild and 'out-there' thinking and doing, and happy to collaborate with and mentor those with resonant questions and interests.

How would you like to see the broader physiotherapy profession develop?

In the hopefully not too distant future, I would be excited to see the physiotherapy profession support the development of new ecological physical therapies and new healthcares for (or: towards) interdependency and togetherness, even though these might be old in that they have been around forever, ontologically, and for a long time, culturally. This will involve turning from strength-, capacity-, or ability-based concepts and practices to the positive ecological, social and ethical value of (our biological foundation in) dependence, impotence, infirmity (not its absence #WHO) and disability. In day to day clinical practice, it would mean acting on such a basis and, in much gentler ways, focussing on advancing social and environmental togetherness, solidarity and mutual support.