networking

I believe Will Wade recently mentioned BOFOT (Bored of Fluffy Occupational Therapy) in his blog entry regarding www.facebook.com What is BOFOT? It is a networking group for occupational therapy staff and students who are fed up with the profession's fluffy image and would like to change it.

BOFOT ethos (slightly stolen from the SAS):

1. The unrelenting pursuit of clinical excellence: Every individual has a responsibility to advance the occupational therapy profession and its image; we cannot afford to leave this to some obscure researchers in some obscure laboratories that we hope exist.

2. The highest standards of discipline: without which we will never achieve point 1 or be taken seriously.

3. No sense of class: Every member’s views (regardless of job-title or years of experience) should be given serious consideration for the advancement of the profession. A profession ruled by dinosaurs alone is a profession in danger of extinction.

4. Humility and humour: Let us try not to get our heads stuck up our own bums or we might get a reputation like certain other professions have: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246701539

Join us, and together we can bring balance to the fluff!

If you would like to join us, just follow one or both of these links:
http://www.bebo.com/BOFOT
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2242527728

I hope to have you on-board soon ;0)

V