by Nick Drake-Knight | Dec 21, 2013 | positive thinking
When we focus on what’s wrong in our lives we shut out positivity and opportunity. Transfer this reality to the world of coaching others and we create stunted thinking and limited possibilities. Recent research analysing brain imaging patterns highlights how important...
by Nick Drake-Knight | Oct 27, 2013 | Patterns Which Connect
Some of you will know my admiration for Gregory Bateson (1904-1980). I discovered Bateson’s work in the early 90s when I first read Structure of Magic Vol 1. ‘Magic’ was Bandler & Grinder’s first text about what was then called ‘META’, later evolving into what...
by Nick Drake-Knight | Sep 29, 2013 | I know you dont know
A pattern which connects Can’t to Can™ and Continue & Begin® Core Questions is the tendency of coachees to respond to initial questions with a classic linguistic forward defensive of “I don’t know”. This manifests itself in communication like...
by Nick Drake-Knight | Aug 16, 2013 | Tell Tell Tell
This is a phrase many people have heard (or used) in an effort to encourage a coachee to perform in a given manner; to follow a process or communicate in a certain way. The challenge with ‘Tell’ is that it’s a didactic, instructional method of development and...
by Nick Drake-Knight | Jul 29, 2013 | Yes Sets & Regulation of Thinking
Building self-worth and self-image is a core ambition of Continue & Begin Fast Coaching®. When a person feels good about herself ambition for further personal development becomes less daunting, even appealing! Virginia Satir, the celebrated family therapist,...
