A “hot-cold” empathy gap is a cognitive bias where we underestimate the influences of visceral drives or “states” on our attitudes, behaviours and choices. This “state awareness” is something we cover in many of the breath workshops – it’s not just powerful for recovery and adaptation from training or other stressors, but to facilitate connection...
When we blow up a balloon, we use a little trick. We “constrict” the neck of the balloon so that we get to pause, take another breath and fill it up some more. All the balloon sees is expansion. Ecosystems and animals (including humans) are a little different. We work on cycles. The expansion and...
“Let your life speak.” What do you know to be true? What is your experience? What are your thoughts? For business owners, freelancers, practitioners or coaches, this is both scary, and powerful.* Creating work that embodies this knowledge and experience allows us stand out while we do work that we are proud of, with people...
Language allows us to discuss ideas, to uncover new areas of thought and to express. But it also can be a shackle and chains. In the same way it can open the door to reason, it can close the gap to wonder and to feeling. Through description, we liken, compare or contrast experiences to those...
In the Breathe to Perform and Breathe for Business workshops, a big part of our work is the concept of neuroception. We do work around how we perceive our environment, subconscious assessment and triggers and how this impacts trust, attention and even the ability to share and contribute. For most people (~75% of Australians), their...
A “top 5” practitioner is perhaps a service provider that is in the top 5% of their category. A trainer, a lawyer, a landscaper, a coach… With global connectivity and saturation in most fields effectively inevitable, a move towards the “top 5” seems to be a pre-requisite for long term success. Why are there so...
In his book The Effective Executive (1967), Peter Drucker writes of the similarities between an organisation (group, tribe, culture) and an organism. The surface area of the organism increases by the square of the radius, whereas the mass of the organism increases by the cube. This means as the organism gets bigger, more of its...
In a group setting, one of the hardest things is to encourage open contribution and idea generation. The fear that can exist to present an idea, a belief or an observation can be significant. With the distribution available online now, this same difficulty is present for a lot of individuals when they want to express...
