There is great value in inviting feedback on our behaviour from those around us.
Kevin shares some thoughts on the subject in his latest Vlog from the slopes ... click on picture...
Kevin has been paying attention…
In this Vlog from the Alps Kevin shares his wonderings about paying attention and achieving a useful balance ... click on picture...
Kevin considers some limiting beliefs.
In his second Video Message from the snow covered peaks Kevin chooses to send his limiting beliefs on holiday... click on picture...
Kevin gets 2017 off to a great start.
Here’s his first Video Message from the snow covered peaks. He considers his forays into his stretch zones on the slopes of the Alps… click on picture...
Crisp autumn days here in Yorkshire and surprising crisp for our trips to London this month too.
For us it’s been a month of travels, great learning and fabulous sharing.
Highlights included starting the month with the ‘Engaging your audience with credibility and charisma’ programme for Lloyds Bank Foundation. On this second workshop day Kevin was joined by Edda Sharpe (specialist voice coach) to provide targeted feedback and personal coaching to the delegates. One delegate summarised the programme as “Great because it goes into how to present rather than what to present... thanks nice style!”
It was a busy month for our coaching/ therapy work … activity ranged from helping people achieve...
So, the sun starts shining, the days get warmer and from nowhere comes the sneezing and then a tickly cough … and I'm knocked out for a week…
It's incredibly unusual for me to have any more than a day or two with a runny nose throughout the year so I have little practice at being poorly and I don't make a very good patient. Patience is what I needed this week
I felt annoyed, irritated and vulnerable as my cold got...
I would like to invite you to say a big “Thank You!” to your incredible unconscious mind. That part of your mind that looks after you, keeps you safe and runs your body and mind without any conscious thought or effort.
Sitting here at my keyboard and pausing to consider all the processes that are operating in my body, I can’t help but be in awe of the complexity and magnificence of our ‘human system’. My fingers move across the keys as if words are flowing from my thoughts to the screen, but how many neurons are firing and how many muscles are contracting and releasing....
A close family member is in the process of starting up their own business and is experiencing the same mix of anxiety and excitement that we experienced just over 10 years ago when we launched ourselves upon an unsuspecting world as ‘First Position Performance Development’. Our immediate instinct is to share words of reassurance with them and tell them that ‘everything will work out ok’, ‘you’ll soon adjust’ etc, whilst knowing deep down that they will only partially believe this and have to put the miles in and do it for themselves before their belief will really change.
There will be much learning along the way of course, as...
At this time of year Rita and I take time out individually to review our respective years, remind ourselves of our achievements and the joy we experienced and learn from what we did well and could do better. It’s a process that has served us well personally and as an organisation for the last 10 years. This year we have set ourselves our first well-formed outcome of sharing our approach with our network of wonderful clients and devised two approaches to suit differing needs and learning styles.
On 14th January we are again hosting our popular ‘Best Year Yet’ full day workshop in Leeds at Weetwood Hall. 
Anyone can do it of course, however you may need to have certain useful beliefs before doing the hopping.
The first one is the belief that the bus will get you to or, at the very least, nearer to the place you actually think you want...
