Archive for 2009

Don’t Think of a Black Cat

Peter December 15, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

On Sunday I met a couple who I haven’t seen hardly since we were all part of a small ante-natal class well over 25 years ago! It was great to catch up on a lot of stuff especially what and where our children are at ...

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Mastery II

Peter December 14, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Having finished reading Mastery by George Leonard, here as promised earlier in the blog, are some reflections:- Through his expertise, discoveries and learnings in aikido Leonard draws a path, a route towards Mastery, that embodies virtually all my values and beliefs. Little wonder then that ...

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Clean Transformations

Peter December 14, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

A young student I usually see in a sporting context is part way through his ‘scholarship’ year, and is falling victim to the usual pressures….”because I want to go to X school and/or Y school I really need to get good marks in these scholarship ...

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What happens when you do X…..? (using Clean Language)

Peter November 26, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

A young cricketer I have been coaching for some considerable time has had issues with his batting – not so much technical, because I and other coaches have all coached the technical side of his game and he can play every shot in the book ...

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Left Brain / Right Brain? Which way to go?

Peter November 16, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’m working with a young right handed cricketer at the moment, who was quite uncomfortable when holding the bat. I asked him to try batting left-handed and suddenly he looked and felt much more natural. There are two current members of the England team (Jimmy ...

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The 4 Cartesian Questions (NLP) – pre-match team talk

Peter November 15, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’ve been examining the 4 Cartesian Questions in the sporting context and indeed illustrated them in a pre-match talk for the rugby team I coach, a couple of weeks ago. For a side of average age around 21-22 with few ‘old heads’ in there, the ...

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Mastery

Peter November 8, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Just started reading Mastery by George Leonard. I think it might well be a book I’ll read in a couple of days and already echoes lots of things I have both said and thought – but expressed far more succinctly and eloquently by George Leonard ...

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Reframing the ‘critical’ voice

Peter November 8, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Some 9-10 days ago I did a 2 hour session with a couple of young cricketers. These were guys I had coached many times before.Technically I know their levels of expertise relative to their elite-aspirant status – and there is nothing technically to hold them ...

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Peter November 3, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Quite excited today – my copy of Clean Language – Revealing metaphors and opening minds by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees has arrived. Can’t wait to get stuck ...

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Frogs into Princes

Peter November 2, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Having obtained a copy of Frogs into Princes by Richard Bandler and John Grinder from my local library, I (after a couple of renewals) am just on the point of finishing it. Having heard a number of NLP gurus mention it as being a “Must ...

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