This month I’m pleased to announce that I have a new article published in The Healing Pool Magazine: Special NLP Edition.
It feels like quite an honour to have an article published in the same magazine as such great people as Eric Robbie, Kathleen LaValle, Phil Farber and Robert Dilts.
This edition of The Healing Pool Magazine also contains an interview with Richard Bandler as well as articles by other great names in the NLP world. You can order your copy of The Healing Pool Magazine here. Here’s what they’re saying about The Healing Pool Magazine:
NLP perspectives on Healing, Health and Well-being from top NLP Trainers in the field – including an exclusive interview with Richard Bandler. Review by Eric Robbie “Wow, what an assembly of talent you have here! It sure is one helluva magazine you’re publishing. And I say that as someone who has worked in magazines, and who guest-edited the 60th issue of the ANLP’s Rapport magazine. I think anyone who reads it will learn a lot – whether they already know nlp or whether they’re just interested in the subject of healing. And if the latter, they will also learn quite a bit about nlp. Nice work. ))”
Today I wanted to tell you about a question that I ask many of my clients who themselves are coaches or aiming to become coaches. This seems to be one of those questions that gets that “aha!” light bulb moment from everyone I’ve asked it too and I hope you have a similar experience too.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Jun 3, 2009 in Daily Blog
I was sat in my living room the other day just thinking about all the great things that have happened in my life over the past three or four years and I started to wonder about all the changes that have happened.
I got to thinking about how the coaches I have, the friends I have and the people I surround myself with have, in their own way, created changes in my life. The more I thought about this and wondered how they helped me to change, I started to realise what it was.
People change when you give them space to change on their own
When a Formula One racing driver is speeding along the race course at over 100MPH, he knows which way to go because the road twists and turns in certain ways and in that moment, he’s happy to follow that route because he knows it leads to the finish line. It’s not the only finish line the racing driver will ever come across because each race has it’s own path, each has it’s own twists and turns and each one has a different route to the finish line.
It’s not the road that makes the racing driver good or not, it’s his ability to use what’s available to him and to be tenacious about getting where he wants to be. The road is just the guide that shows which way to turn at which point and when it’s a good time to put your foot down and really go for it full speed.
The road also helps the driver to know when it’s a good idea to slow down and take it easy, because sometimes, the best way to get around a corner is to just slow down, aim the car, and let the road take you in the right direction.
To me, coaching is similar in many ways. Sometimes people come to me an expect me to perform miracles in their lives. I always explain to them that miracles will happen, but they won’t be because of me. Just like the road acts as a guide for the race driver, so too does a coach act as a guide to their clients.
Michael Neill often tells the story of a stick that was floating down a river and got stuck in the weeds. The stick didn’t need therapy, it just needed a small nudge to get it flowing back down the river.
When I think about all of the wonderful changes that have happened in my life over the past few years, I realise that a lot of those changes happened because I was able to let them happen. The people around me were able to help my life to transform by just being around and acting as guides in my life.
Change happens inspite of therapy, not because of it. One of the truths about being a coach is that we’re here to help our clients aim their changes and transformations.
It’s one thing to laugh and it’s one thing to change, but to aim that laughter at the problems of the past and direct that change to an even more inspiring future, to me, that’s what sets my soul on fire and that’s what I love about the work I have the pleasure of doing.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on May 19, 2009 in Daily Blog
Today I’d like to announce the release of a new project we’ve been working on over these past few months. The Coach Crowd (http://www.thecoachcrowd.com).
This project aims to bring coaches together from all over the world by giving them a place to organise and RSVP to “meetups”. A meetup can be held anywhere. From the pub to a resteraunt to a picnic in the park. Thecoachcrowd.com aims to bring coaches together in the real world so they can socialise, coach each other and generally share experiences and have lots of fun.
Here’s what it says on our About section over at thecoachcrowd.com
Are you a coach or involved in coaching type work? Perhaps you’re a therapist or god forbid a psychologist
TheCoachCrowd is the place where real people arrange to meet in real life. It’s a strange concept, I know, but I thought it’d be a good idea for coaches to have a place where they can arrange meetups.
Want to find out what events are already planned? Why not View All Upcoming Events. Interested in hosting your own meetups? Start now and Host a Meetup.
You can arrange to meet anywhere you like. The pub, a restaurant, the park, anywhere.
If you’re not already a member Register now!!!
The service is completely free so come on over, register, and join in the fun !!
Posted by Jamie Dixon on May 11, 2009 in Daily Blog
One of the greatest things about being a coach is the vast array of amazing people I get to meet. Whether it’s my clients, my colleagues or people I meet at different events, I’m always in awe of the fantastic work people are doing.
One of the things I hear from coaches quite often is their fear that other coaches are going to take business away from them. Not because they mean too but just because there’s a lot of people doing coaching these days.
That kind of belief can only exist if you’re working from the assumption that every client should come to you and that you as a coach need more clients. The truth is, it’s not the number of clients you see that makes a successful coaching practice, it’s the transformations you help your clients to make.
When you start to work from a place of freedom and transformation, you’ll start to get the clients that you really want. If needing clients is the primary driver then it’s going to change how effective you can be as a coach, but seeing clients because they excite you and you know you can truly help them, makes it so both you and your clients have the freedom and opportunity to trully change.
On this note, I’d like to introduce you to some coaches who I think do amazing work. “Woah, hold your horses lad!!” I hear some of you shouting. “You’re promoting the competition?”. The true answer that that is no. I’m not.
The reason I’m not is because each of these people in their own right are amazing coaches and do wonderful work. One of the things that makes the work they do so wonderful is that they only see clients they really want to see. Competition only exists when coaches are all fighting for the same clients. It’s simply not true that every coach is right for every client and every client should want to see you. The more-than-likely-truth is that each coach and each client are unique and because of this, different people will be more suited to working with different coaches.
My prime objective is the transformations of my clients. When I know they’ll benefit hugely from the work of other coaches, these are the people I refer them to:
Steve is a fantastic coach and friend living and working in Horsham, West Sussex. Steve and I have trained together for over 3 years and in that time I’ve come to recognise him as one of the best coaches in the UK. His genius is his ability to take what seem like complex problems and to turn them quickly and elegantly into things that can be easily solved.
Jenny has been a friend and colleague for around 4 years now and she’s one of the people I go to for my own coaching. One of Jen’s specialities is Confidence Coaching and Coaching for Job Seekers. Read what her clients say about her, you’ll be amazed.
Chris is one of the most inspiring people I know. As a young man he was already changing political policy and now he’s helping people to become amazing at what they do. Chris works with people who want to take what they already have and become even better at it. The work Chris does truly is about creating the kind of future for yourself that makes you go “Wow!”
I met Katie in January 2009 at a training course in Mexico and since then she’s been one of the few people who inspire me just by being around her. Katie’s flair and positivity absolutely shine and it’s hard not to change when you’re around her.
Steve is a down-to-earth yet business minded coach, consultant and trainer. Steve will open up a whole new realm of ideas and possibilities and, exploring these things with him is worth it’s weight in gold. I’ve been around Steve for a couple of years now through various trainings and each time we meet up I’m amazed at how much more skilled he’s become. Truly inspiring.
These are just some of the fantastic coaches I know that make this work truly magical. There’s enough room in this world for everyone and the more we build one another up and inspire each other into creating new and exciting things, the more successful and amazing we’re all going to become.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 25, 2009 in Daily Blog
As many of you know, music is something I’m passionate about. Having been a drummer since the age of 9 and loving all different types and styles of music, I’ve grown to love anything that makes my skin tingle and my soul dance.
Today I’d like to introduce you to Manu Delago playing a Hang Drum solo.
I love the seeming simplicity of this instrument and yet the total complexity of what this guy does as he plays. To me this is true magic and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoy sharing it with you. Many thanks to my friend Keely for sending me this link. Enjoy.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 24, 2009 in Daily Blog
I’ve just returned back from an evening in London with Michael Neill and as always it was an excellent night.
Michael brings with him years of experience working with many people from many walks of life, but more than that, be brings a real sparkle and true passion to the work he does. What Michael does seems to really work and he’s a great demonstration of really putting into practice what you preach.
What Michael excels at on the stage is making coaching and NLP seem easy and doing it with a kind of kazazz that isn’t cheesy but captivates his audience. I s’pose his years of acting play a part in that but he always seems genuine and caring and when answering questions from the audience, sometimes on a sensitive subject for the person asking, his love and caring really shines.
If you haven’t yet seen Michael do his thing I highly recommend his work and he’ll be back here again on the 9th May for a day of Effortless Success.
One of my favourite quotes from Michael is the metaphor of pooh sticks:
“You throw the sticks in the water and they float down, and sometimes a stick gets stuck. The stick doesn’t need therapy, it just needs a nudge”.
To me, this is a great analogy for the work we do because it’s all too easy for people to think that being stuck means they need therapy and they need this and need that.
Sometimes all people need is a nudge here and there to get them un-stuck and floating back down the river of life. That’s the work I do and that’s the work I love.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 23, 2009 in Daily Blog
To me, Music is one of the most important things in my life. I love everything from HipHop to Rock, Classical to Funk. It’s what lights up my soul and makes every fibre of my body tingle.
When I hear great music or even music I simply appreciate, I just want to share it. Today I’d like to introduce you to Ronald Jenkees.
This guy didn’t study music, he wasn’t born with ‘musical tallent’ and yet he’s writing music to rival even some of the best in the industry. To me, that’s an amazing feat and my admiration goes out to anyone who accomplishes new things in life like Ronald has.
You can find Ronald at his website http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/ and here’s a video of him creating some fantastic music:
Unconscious Installation? Sounds complicated. Isn’t that the thing where you sit in a training room and don’t have to do anything except zone out and wait to become smart auto-magically?
Yes..That’s right…ahem.
It’s March 2009 and Gabe Guerrero is kicking off the first day of his Unconscious Installation workshop at the prestigious Regents College, London. On our way into the college we pass through Regents Park, down past the river and along the bank where Pelicans, Swans and Squirrels line up to greet us to what will be our home for the next 4 days. It’s a mild spring day and the sun is shining through the trees and reflecting on the lake. There’s something magical about being surrounded by nature and as we step into the training room, old faces and new turn to greet us. Read more…
One thing that’s always been really important to me is to have other people in the same industry think I’m doing a good job. When I was a computer programmer, it always felt great to have other programmers compliment my work and when I did Sleight of Hand Magic for a while, having other magicians tell me i was coming up with great new things always gave me a great sense of joy.
The Lewis Clinic are a group of therapists based at Number One Harley Street in London and they’ve recently invited me to become part of their group as well as seeing my own private clients.
As one of only seven therapists/coaches to be listed with The Lewis Clinc, I’m really happy to let you all know this great news and you can see my listing on their homepage now at www.lewisclinic.co.uk
Just like when i was a computer programmer and magician, I’m really happy and thankful to the people at The Lewis Clinic for recognising what I can do and inviting me to be part of their group.
Using the latest findings from the fields of Hypnosis, Neurology, Linguistics and Positive Psychology, Jamie Dixon has created a hypnotic journey that will take you into the adventures of your own mind.
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