The Key To Transformational Embodiment About 30 years ago I began searching for the universal ”skeleton key” to transformational change. By the mid-1990s I had come to the conclusion that the ”key” to transformational change was part of what I began calling the somatic ground of being ... embodiment ... the foundation of ontological experience and awareness. This led to an approach using somatic interventions to instigate ontological transformation. I remember sitting in the “Hypnotorium” with Roye at the front doing something with someone, a piece of profound transformational hypnosis. This is very different from what many think of as hypnosis, i.e.: “You are getting sleepy … your eyes are getting heavy, tired, and they want to close … just let them close, NOW … going deeper into a deep, deep sense of relaxation … let yourself float down, even deeper, still …” and then some suggestions about stopping smoking or losing weight, or some other habit interruption and Continue Reading
Profane Coaching:101
pro·fane - prəˈfān, verb: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred. Coaching often tries to present itself in one of two ways by many of the major practitioners of the craft … Socratic - very mild, gentle and nurturing, as the ultimate helping intervention that never interferes with the personal process of the individual being coached by adding anything or offering anything to them that they haven’t presented first themselves. Serious - very precise, impactful and professional, as a way to awaken and access higher levels of performance and especially interpersonal performance for executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and anyone seeking to lead others in any way. Okay, let’s agree … those are two ways to consider coaching, and perfectly valid ones at that. Let’s also agree that it wouldn’t be too hard to find training or mentoring as a coach following one of those two paths either. Now let’s set both of those ways of presenting coaching aside completely Continue Reading
Thinking Small
“I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it.”* I admit it, I’ve always had a hard time thinking small. Some folks are great at it though. They use small words and a just a few of them to express magnificent and expansive ideas. Not me. I tend to be wordy. My sentences run on … and, sometimes on. And, if there’s not a big word to express what I’m thinking and trying to say, I just make one up on the fly. I’m like that. I think that “free speech” means what it says, and I should be free to speak even that which hasn’t existed before I spake it. In fact that’s the heart of the matter. As fish swim in water, we, i.e.: humans, homo sapiens sapiens, swim in language. Words. And, more words. Life is filled with wordiness for humans. All that so far is okay. It’s okay to think small. It’s okay to be wordy. It’s okay that humans swim in language. It’s the “belief” thing that gets us every time though. The idea that the words we read, and the words we hear, and Continue Reading
The Skeleton Key To Transformational Performance
Why We Focus On Neurocognitive Developmental Training As The Basis Of Instigating Transformational Change And Peformance Breakthrough At each stage of human existence the adult is off on his quest to his Holy Grail, the way of life he sees by which to live.- Clare W. Graves Because people get stuck when the worldview they are using doesn't accommodate the outcomes they intend ... they need a way to get out of their "stuck state." Neurocognitive Developmental Training provides the skeleton key that unlocks the mystery of success. This is the essential and most rewarding reason "WHY" it makes sense to get Neurocognitive Developmental Training (NDT) ... but, once you dive down the rabbit hole you'll find so much more that will be valuable to you too. Neurocognitive Developmental Training is all about building "(Human) Adaptive Intelligence" - i.e.: the ability to adapt your thinking to the situations and contexts you encounter and are engaged in at any given Continue Reading
