So this week, as part of getting together with friends over Christmas, we went to what has become dubbed ‘Merry Rickmas’.
It's the second year this has happened in the Big Shed in Nottingham, which is right next door to a pub called the Trent Navigation.
The big shed is an amazing thing; in fact, I'm going to write about this in the business blog this week. It's about how entrepreneurial people take a space and decide how to use it for a business that makes it better for them, better for us, better for you and better for me, but that's another story.
Merry Rickmas is where the Rick Parfitt, junior band, do a show of cover versions and a little bit of Christmas stuff.
Rick Parfitt Junior is, in fact, the son of Rick Parfitt from Status Quo.
Rick Parfitt died on the 24th of December 2016 (I found this out at the gig) and his son has a cover band, which play extraordinary high quality covers of anything you can possibly think of and so this is not a gig that you go to to hear new music, and it's not a gig that you go to to hear people sing songs that they've crafted themselves and art that they've brought into the world.
It's covers, it's imitation art, it's a cascade.
The cascade exists in all aspects of life, and most notably in my life is the educational cascade.
I will go to see some of the best people in the world to do the work that I do, I will read what they produce, I will learn what they do, and then I will try to pass it on to other people who have not been able to or been lucky enough to see or meet these people in person.
I have not invented anything, I've just transmitted something.
Something that someone else has developed or uncovered or exposed and then I've learned it, and then I've passed it on to someone else, ( hopefully).
This is how the cascade works.
So I was thinking about this when I was at the Merry Rickmas gig and was three pints deep (the best blog posts come from three pints deep). I had my arms around my wife's waist, standing behind her, and we were singing Fix You by Coldplay as loud as we could.
I remembered another moment while I was doing that at Glastonbury two years ago, with about 200,000 other people and lights on our wrists, Chris Martin, who wrote it about the loss of his wife's mother, was singing it to us, and we were singing it back.
The funny thing is that the Glastonbury thing was unbelievable and amazing, but the Rickmass thing was as good.
The cascade isn't bad; it isn't wrong to copy someone else's art and to share it widely. It's absolutely right.
It brings massive joy and a massive advantage, and that is the same thing with education.
Next year, I will spend a great part of my year launching and further developing the Campbell Academy Clubhouse.
The Campbell Academy Clubhouse is where we properly begin to cascade all the knowledge that we have been able to assimilate as a group with our clinicians, our team, our faculty in The Campbell Academy, my work with the ITI over 25 years, and anything else that comes along that will cascade downwards and sideways to as many people who want to come and learn and our educational equivalent of Merry Rickmas will happen every single day.
Through case discussion, mentoring, education, face-to-face meetups, and community.
I hope that you will put your hand up to become part of a group of people who will work together to make it better.
I am past the stage of inventing extraordinary new clinical techniques or ways of solving problems (in truth, I was never there).
I have not passed the stage of cascading; I will never pass that.
Link to the waitlist are here; it starts in February.
Let's get together.
Blog Post Number - 4385
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