February 2017

26 Feb

Hidden Habits That Dictate Your Life

by Jeremy Chance

People come to us in pain, full of theories why.

Most of them wrong.

As purveyors of Alexander's discovery, we know the hidden habit that dictates the pain students are experiencing.

And the reason is shocking in its simplicity.

You are co-ordinating your actions by increasing your downward moving contractions of head/spine and arms – reverse that, all will be better.

People look at us like we are mad. What are you talking about?

19 Feb

How To Teach A Beginner

by Jeremy Chance

I have a confession to make.

My original motivation for creating my 2 year certificate course in “BodyThinking” was fear of what would happen if I didn’t. It was 2003 and I was worried.

Fear is not always a negative thing: running away from a fire is clever.

Here’s the story of the fire I was running away from…

13 Feb

Which Way Do You Go Now?

by Jeremy Chance

The game of BodyChance success continues to startle and challenge me.

It’s been 17 years now since I started in 1999, and for the first 15 years we experienced an annual growth of around 17%.

Until we didn’t.

When you have 2 trainees, and you add another two trainees, you grow 100%. That’s easy growth. When you have 128 trainees, and you add 2 more, you’ve barely grown more than 1%! Not so easy.

We are at that place now, and I don’t know the rules.

Which way do we go now?

07 Feb

The Art of Getting Feedback

by Jeremy Chance

Eliciting feedback from students is an art, based on “intelligent questions”.

Most times students give answers that are next to useless in helping them navigate the future.

It's a teacher's job to reframe their answer into useful information - information they already have available in their brain (if you know how to help them find it). In this short 4 minute video I talk about how to frame a question that will assist your student to integrate their learning after your lesson is finished...

05 Feb

Are You A Lap Dog or A Roaring Lion?

by Jeremy Chance

Lap dogs send you emails with questions like: is there anything I can do???

They look up to you, with unblinking loyal eyes, hungry for their Master’s voice.

Roaring Lions send you emails with judgements: what do you think you’re doing!!!

You want to surround yourself with roaring lions, not lap dogs.

Lap dogs are wonderful, reaffirming, great for your ego and totally useless at helping you to evolve towards your wish. Roaring lions are difficult, challenging to your ego and totally useful in helping you evolve towards your wish.