The opposite front and centre is back and sidelined.
And so, when you're lucky enough (and I feel enormously privileged) to have your own place with your name above the door, the urge is to be the brave warrior and to stand in front of everyone else, and to shout and to be noticed and to gain recognition.
Today, we have Vincent Fermer here at The Campbell Academy for the first of two days of a masterclass in an ITI study club in the evening.
It would be super easy for me to stand at the front, bask in the reflected glory of a world-renowned speaker and make myself look a little bit better, a little bit more important, perhaps, a little bit more ‘necessary’.
But Beatrice is in charge of this; she has put in all the work, all the communication, all the organisation as part of the academy, and this is part of her year 3 course, and she knows the delegates intimately, and so, Beatrice should introduce this and host it, and that's absolutely right.
And in the ITI study club in the evening, this is Dominic Smithers' thing. As a young, massively enthusiastic and talented practitioner, Dom has taken on the responsibility of running the ITI study club. Both to learn how to do that, but also to help positively influence other people and to bring people together with extraordinary speakers and experiences to make their lives better than those of the patients, and so I shouldn't host that either.
I came in this morning and just briefly interrupted the first little bit, just to give Vincent a hug (I've known him for quite a while) and to say hi. But I'm busy doing other things, and so is he, and so it's best that I am back and I'm sidelined and I can watch from a distance to see what's going on.
I wrote a blog recently about scale. It never ever gets any bigger if you hold onto it all yourself, for your own benefit.
Blog Post Number - 4341
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