Archive for 2015

Who is Listening?

Peter June 6, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Of course we all recognise this thought provoking quote – and one of the thoughts that sprang up for me today was to do with ...

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Simple Gifts

Peter April 12, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Set Up I ran a small routine with a rugby side that involved approximately 18-20 players jogging around inside a 10 metre square. Into this I introduced eight rugby balls, and they merely had to pass the ball to someone not carrying one, whilst ...

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Trumping the Ace

Peter March 30, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

“Our thinking is mere content. Never be fooled by content! Our wisdom is there all the time, yet we are often fooled and seduced by content.” The emergence of wisdom, of insight, never comes from a search designed to elicit. It comes in an effortless, ...

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Playing Outside The Box

Peter March 23, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

Behold The Box – Itself! There are countless quotes and illustrations concerning that rather well worn phrase – “Thinking outside the Box.” There are also a whole variety of considerations we might be linguistically pointed towards. There’s our Thinking, and a whole array of variants ...

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Intimare

Peter March 18, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Wordy Games – Part 1 So I’m sure we all have a familiarity with the word intimate. Some of us may have a very close and familiar relationship with the word, and some of us may even have an intimate relationship with intimate. And ...

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Of Cabbages and Kings

Peter March 12, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

Modus Operandi Representational systems in NLP are the sensual modalities. These tend to generally operate around our five main sensory systems – seeing hearing, touching (feeling), smelling and tasting. They are the visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory and gustatory modalities – or VAKOG for short. Within ...

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Atlas

Peter February 5, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

The child’s view When I was of primary school age my parents lived in the Sudan and then Nyasaland (now Malawi). We came back to England regularly , so travel, for me, was very much the norm. I loved geography, which brought the travel to ...

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Sock Theory

Peter February 2, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

Idea  Spark A very good friend posted up an interesting question on Facebook, which got my mind out of neutral and heading forth on a magical mystery tour, viz: “What is the acceptable length of time to hold on to an odd sock in your ...

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Exploring Understanding

Peter February 1, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

Within the narrative of my book “Navigating The Ship of You” there are many occasions when the reader encounters the word “Understanding”. “Understanding” is another of those words where the meaning has become ambiguous through modern parlance, and where it is deemed to be synonymous ...

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Being a Contender

Peter January 29, 2015 Post Comment Uncategorised

On The Waterfront In the classic film “On the Waterfront” Marlon Brando’s character Terry Malloy is described as brooding and inarticulate. He is a minor pawn in the scheme of things and is pushed around and manipulated by those further up the pecking order. His ...

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