Thanks Dwight. That is a classic. Highly-relevant to Feldenkrais. Scott has presented at several of my online psych conferences. I will look into posting one of his presentations.

“Rachel’s narrative neatly captures the three steps we reviewed in our two articles, which research has shown are necessary to achieve excellence. First, know your baseline. Rachel is able to accurately assess what she does, mindful of what she’s capable of. Second, engage in deliberate practice—a systematic and critical review during which time problematic aspects of a performance are isolated and rehearsed or, failing that, alternatives are considered, implemented, and evaluated. Third, obtain formal, ongoing feedback.
To date, more than a dozen randomized clinical trials, involving thousands of clients and numerous therapists, have established that excellence isn’t reserved for a select few. Far from it: it’s within the reach of all. These studies show that applying the steps—know your baseline, engage in deliberate practice, and obtain ongoing feedback—increases the effectiveness of individual practitioners threefold, cuts dropout rates by 50 percent, reduces the rate of deterioration by 33 percent, and speeds recovery by 66 percent, while improving client satisfaction and reducing the cost of care.”

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?” – Confucius

The Road to Mastery
What’s missing from this picture?
By Scott Miller and Mark Hubble

http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/recentissues/1298-the-road-to-mastery

That is an interesting one for me Catherine. “Maintaining my independence” was the first thing that popped into my mind. And the crazy exploration of myself and the world that happened after starting to do Feldenkrais. I want to keep that. Though sometimes, I wonder if I need to slow down on some fronts and stay focused on fewer things. I do not know. Just thinking out loud.

Thanks for joining the conversation!

Ryan

Ichi – I am sitting in the Austin Airport waiting for my connection to Las Vegas and laughing my ass off. Message recieved! Thanks.

Ryan

Kick ass Dwight, thanks. Perhaps I should pick out several practitioners who are doing fantastic, interview them and see what they do well that others can use… ??? I think that has potential.

Ryan

That’s the first step to fixing everything from addiction to corporate malaise to malnutrition. A problem may look hopelessly complex. But there’s a game plan that can yield movement on even the toughest issues. And it starts with locating a bright spot — a ray of hope.

Our focus, in times of change, goes instinctively to the problems at hand. What’s broken and how do we fix it? This troubleshooting mind-set serves us well — most of the time. If you run a nuclear power plant and your diagnostics turn up a disturbing signal once per month, you should most certainly obsess about it and fix the problem. And if your child brings home a report card with five As and one F, it makes sense to freak out about the F.

But in times of change, this mind-set will backfire. If we need to make major changes, then (by definition) we don’t have a near-spotless report card. A lot of things are probably wrong. The “report card” for our diet, or our marriage, or our business, is full of Cs and Ds and Fs. So if you ask yourself, What’s broken and how do I fix it?, you’ll simply spin your wheels. You’ll spend a lot of time agonizing over issues that are TBU.

When it’s time to change, we must look for bright spots — the first signs that things are working, the first precious As and Bs on our report card. We need to ask ourselves a question that sounds simple but is, in fact, deeply unnatural: What’s working and how can we do more of it?”

-Dan Heath http://www.fastcompany.com/1514493/switch-dont-solve-problems-copy-success

http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/benefits/articles/pages/danheath.aspx

this kind of thinking is congruent in what we embody and practice in the FM, not trying to fix problems , but build, support accentuate and differentiate what does work for the person…applied systems thinking really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roof_Is_on_Fire

Thanks Rob. I am going to edit my reply later in the week to add a thought from Moshe that was very similar. cheers!

Thanks Richard…I went into trance considering those ideas. When I come out, I may have something more to say! A pleasure, as always….