From Simon Davis, a student at MacQuarie University, Sydney. From a speech at Dynamic Growth Congress, Australia, February 2002.

"Simon's Go on the Soapbox"

I see Dynamic Growth as having two main functions - firstly to pat ourselves on the back for how far we have come, and secondly to kick ourselves in the butt so that we go further.

I'd like to talk about these two things. I'm sure that you have heard of the axiom "act locally but think globally". I believe that we need to go beyond that - we need to "act globally but think universally".

Chiropractic has come a long way in Australia and that is only because our determined opponents have been overcome by even more determined chiropractors. But what I'd like to point out is that while we must continue to strive to get every last subluxated person under chiropractic care perhaps we can broaden our scope. If we were honest then we'd realise that there is still only a relatively small number of countries that have strong populations of chiropractors. And if we were realistic then we would realise that only a very small percentage of the world's population are in countries where they can receive Chiropractic care.

It disturbs me that people in developing nations who need the care most aren't getting it. It also disturbs me that in a time where aid organizations are desperately lacking funds and millions of people are dying from easily preventable diseases we have the solution in our hands so to speak. The only cost of chiropractic is your time. Perhaps I am young and naïve but maybe we need to evolve to a more universal perspective and give up some of our precious time to help people a lot less fortunate than ourselves.

We need to go beyond the people in the backyard; my vision for Chiropractic is about treating the world. Which begs the question - why should we be only treating humans? Surely animals need care too? By evolving to a truly universal perspective then we would realise that by living our philosophy, not just treating with it, we would have the most profound consequence - we would be treating the whole world. And when we learn how to adjust trees that's when we will be truly successful.