I am a great fan of the Olympic movement and the Olympic motto “Faster, Higher, Stronger, Together”.
I have delivered specialist training and coaching to aspiring Olympians, professional footballers, esteemed leaders and champions in businesses, governments and schools.
Practical and meaningful sessions enable individuals and teams to achieve and maintain their personal best and realise their full potential. By overcoming the negative mind-set developed after set-backs, and dealing with self-doubt & negative comparisons, it is possible to develop a deep mental agility and resilience.
Resilience and peak performance is not about having to win and staying ahead, but about getting ‘back on the horse’ after a disappointing experience. This is what sets real champions apart from their peers. Deep humility, faith and gratitude is cultivated. This relaxes the mind and muscles, and the body responds with its very best performance.
It is about finding the creative spark in all situations, no matter what.
Through working across many disciplines, I have learnt how to tap into a consistent flow of Excellence without injury, burnout, or resignation.
Business, my work with Whitten & Roy Partnership
WRP is a consulting firm, who transform sales results for socially minded businesses; the principle of which is:
Transformation is a fundamental change
that becomes permanent over time
I have known Dr Roy Whitten and Scott Roy for several decades and started working with WRP ten years ago.
WRP has provided transformational sales training in 40+ countries and dozens of languages.
You build your people and
your people build your business.
When we help companies invest in their people, their people have invested in the company’s mission. Significant and permanent change is created.
Apart from the work in the commercial sector we also work in the developing world. Read more about this life saving work here: www.wrpartnership.com
Education, my work with Eton college
We took 25 Etonians and 25 boys from a comprehensive school into the remote regions of Scotland and Wales, living together outside their comfort zone, building friendships, respect and mutual understanding.
The Principle
Eton masters have been developing the educational ideas behind this course for several years, in collaboration with organisations and educationalists who are leaders in related fields.
The course has been designed to impart an education in the following areas:
- Setting and achieving goals
- Developing resilience in overcoming setbacks
- Broadening the confidence to cope with challenging situations
- Heightening self-awareness
- Making good decisions and taking responsibility for their consequences
- Experiencing and understanding different forms of leadership
- Developing skills in collaboration, including communication, planning and problem-solving
- Recognising the importance of considering, appreciating and accepting others
- Deepening an awareness of the environment
- Experiencing and understanding the satisfaction and reward of service
“The course is largely experiential. The boys learn through doing, and through reflecting on their experiences. It impels the group into new experiences outside their comfort zone, with the aim of showing them how much more they can achieve when they extend themselves beyond the familiar.
Many of the activities take the form of structured teamwork, so that the boys learn how to operate successfully within the dynamics of a group. It includes guided sessions before and after each experience which are designed to enhance greatly the boys’ self-awareness and their ability to communicate successfully in groups.
All boys possess natural qualities of leadership, albeit in different forms, and they uncover how they can lead most effectively; they also learn the notion of ‘leadership through service’, whereby one’s success as a leader is measured by the contribution one makes to the success of a group.
The focus is on taking responsibility, on making good decisions, on taking leadership roles, and on how to manage when the group has no leader. The aim is that in the process the students will develop resourcefulness, resilience, reciprocity, self-confidence, self-reliance and respect for themselves and others.”
Exert from Eton plus 2015 report
Sport
Here is Alex Haydock-Wilson, one of our 16-year-old’s from the 2015 Eton+ project. He is a 400 meter runner, destined to compete in the next Olympics.
With my coaching, he decided to believe in himself and access his natural talent for speed, without pushing past his internal brilliance. He overcame self doubt and mental anguish about challenges of times and techniques in the highly competitive sport, He trusted himself, relaxed and sped up by 1.5 seconds.
Alex’s testimonial:
“Briggy helped me to build mental resilience by nurturing positive and empowering thinking patterns. With her rich experience, infectious energy and affinity for people she can make even the briefest interaction have a profound, measurable impact.”
As a Kung Fu instructor, myself, teaching hundreds of students over 18 years, I know about the importance of discipline, strength and endurance. This is the path to become a peaceful warrior.
The training of mental power is as important as the training of physical athleticism. The brain can be trained to serve us best through mindful practices, totally relaxing, while the body is performing at it’s best.