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Leadership – Feeling Decisive?

April 27th, 2016

Business and institutional leaders in fast paced environments can (whatever level of seniority reached) find themselves making reactive choices that appear effective in the short term, but can on reflection prove to be unwise. Even within the realm of strategic planning where all efforts appear to be proactive and future facing, selected ways forward can…


Something to Say? Choose Your Words Well

April 22nd, 2016

Ok firstly – Why the picture of the dog?  This is Titch a very good friend of mine.  He knows he is awesome just as he is.  He is happy, he is courageous and he surrounds himself with compassionate positive energy. He meets new people with warmth and if you didn’t particularly like him I…


Liquid Ontology

April 13th, 2016

I spent a day with a group of learning and development professionals investigating the concept of identity. As part of an mBraining and Blue Mind exercise, we explored the idea of personal fluidity delving into their truly subjective narratives asking: Who do they consider themselves to be? What would they describe as the pivotal parts…


Coach CPD Fit?

March 31st, 2016

Self Assured Enough To Learn? Firstly a warning – this blog post is deliberately provocative in parts and is written for the professional “People Helpers” You are possibly a qualified coach, NLP professional, trainer, therapist… you have invested in gaining a qualification and credentials in your field and things are going very well. You have…


mBraining IS and ISN’T Science

March 15th, 2016

I am excited to be running mBIT Coach Trainings and working with like-minded mBIT Trainers and mBIT Master Coaches to promote and develop this new field. Professional coaches are becoming more curious about what is a very different approach… where essentially… facilitating embodied generative wisdom is the primary goal. The exciting thing is how accessible…


Scientific Lessons in Gratitude

March 9th, 2016

As many of you know, I designed and ran some independent / academic research, I am currently wading through some beautiful data in collaboration with some pretty clever people.  Within this work one particular challenge I embraced was to find 90 willing participants to give up their time to come to Plymouth to be (for…