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The Dog Whisperer – Cesar Millan

Peter March 16, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’m a big fan of the TV programme The Dog Whisperer. I watch it on many levels, especially for the changes he makes in the owners more than the dogs themselves – its watching psychology in action, week in week out. Currently Cesar is on ...

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Mapping Across – Bye bye to Jaffa Cakes?!

Peter March 15, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Another “Aha!” moment from last week was perhaps submitting to my farewell to jaffa cakes. During a mapping across exercise I meekly agreed to eliminating my, not so much desire for the little fellas, as opposed to the behaviour of eating a whole packet (or ...

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Winter Olympics – did we do enough?

Peter March 13, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

To check out my thoughts on this and the way forward, read my posting on the Discussion Board of Inside Performance: ...

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Breathing through the Feet!

Peter March 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

After another fascinating 3 days away for trainings with Inside Performance, I encountered more than my fair share of “Aha!” moments. (and not in the style of Alan Partridge either!) One of these was during an exercise doing guided PMR (relaxation) – also adding in ...

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Interesting Phenomena!

Peter March 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

My daughter was cooking “spag bol” for supper, and we were just chatting about our respective days at work. And I mused, as we both were standing in the kitchen, “Now might be a good time to just have a go at the hand-stick routine ...

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What Makes a Genius? Its the detail that counts for me

Peter February 19, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I managed to watch this programme in earnest this evening:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEqmcDLjHw Once again with Horizon gems like this, I find that the really exciting jewels for me are embedded in the detail of the programme. For instance – About 37 minutes in there is a ...

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Bilateral Co-ordination

Peter February 18, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

In “my day” we never did bilateral co-ordination as part of PE at school. Maybe it was in its infancy when I was – but it and balance are such an integral part of all sports that some ground work would be useful for everyone ...

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Keep Your Conscious Clear!

Peter February 17, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was working recently with a 15 y/o cricketer, and we were coming to the end of the session so I spent quarter of an hour with him on throwing at targets. First we just explored dead aim from about 15m and he got the ...

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Winning Ugly – a Learning Experience

Peter February 14, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Yesterday the rugby team I coach were playing the bottom club from the adjoining geographical league and they should have strolled through the game to be honest. Generally, the pre-match prep was good as was the first ten minutes of the game – and after ...

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Another Clean Language outcome…

Peter February 14, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This week I had a short consultative session with a client whose general issues were around weight loss, and getting back to feeling confident and not squeezing tightly into her clothes. In the course of the conversation it was apparent that she would be comfortable ...

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