AMT CEO Rebecca Barnett delves into the murky world of identity for massage therapists. How have we come to doubt our value to clients? Where do we go to from here? And how can we take heart from a chance encounter in a lift? All this, plus a spot of Robert Frost.
Continue Reading →The latest in our series ~Seemingly boring thing~ is sexy and fun, Rebecca Barnett tells the story of a mysterious accounting error and encourages you to enjoy the 2017 AMT Annual Report in all its suspenseful glory. Matthew Reilly can’t muster this level of edge-of-your-seat suspense.
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Since September 2017, we’ve shared nearly 50 stories on this blog. We’ve hand-picked 10 of our favourites that are worth a re-read. Sadly there was not enough room for a re-telling of the History of the Underpant. Perhaps next time.
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In 2018, the AMT AGM travelled to Adelaide for the first time. Thankfully, what happens at AGM doesn’t stay at AGM. Newly-minted accidental CEO of AMT, Rebecca Barnett shares the excitement, positives and firsts of the 2018 AGM, while admitting her trainspotting past.
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In which our hero, Candide, goes traveling with a bunch of people who are at least 47% bicycle and confirms that a bit of optimism can go a bloody long way.
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There’s only three months till all practising members of AMT are required to submit a National Police Check to AMT. Read about why you can be justly proud of AMT’s police check initiative.
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When we think of health and medical research, we tend to conjure an image of a bloke in a white lab coat smearing bacteria onto a petri dish. But there’s loads of practical ways that massage therapists in all their glorious diversity and numbers can collect useful data in clinical practice which may help to nurture and grow our own practice-based research agenda … in fact, you’re probably already collecting useful data, without realising it might form the foundations of something bigger and more researchy.
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Who should we believe? Our colleagues in a Facebook group or our association/lawyer/accountant? Rebecca Barnett cuts through the myths and misinformation currently circulating, and recirculating in massage therapy groups on social media.
Continue Reading →Rebecca Barnett attended the Placebo Symposium in Sydney in November, and now provides an insight into the presentations and what she learned, and how massage therapists can benefit from the lessons of placebo.
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Ever wondered how the underpant was created? Rebecca Barnett takes us on a lighthearted journey through the historical ups and downs of the underpant.
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