Drop it into the Matrix.

In human movement you take a given activity, for example a forehand in tennis and apply human functional anatomy to that shot. We know that the foot contacts the floor, we know that we send weight into the earth that is returned to us and we know that all muscles get longer (stretch) before they unload and create force. Knowing what occurs to produce movement allows us to say to someone "OK John, show me your forehand." We can then start to observe how John moves. We have in effect created a context (shot) applied a process (human functional anatomy) and now a test (Johns shot). This trinity allows now some comparison between what we think should happen and what is happening but also and crucially, how John does things.

Rather than trying to stuff John into what should happen we can say "how does John produce force in the forehand?" we can also observe that perhaps John does not move his hips as we might expect towards the end of the shot. Now, we have a point of departure as I call it to start working with John. I set up some practices, some movement drills that encourage and facilitate Johns hip extension. We try the shot again and he moves more powerfully. He likes it and it "sticks."

Now we have re-tested, John describes his experience and reviews the key differences and can identify with a new paradigm and a new motor pattern for his shot. He is keen to test it under pressure, this would be his next and new experiment.

I have always been intrigued by codes and how to break them. I loved the challenge of encountering people and situations and looking for the "fit." I also became fascinated with "what do I have to do to be able to do that?!" and would relish deconstructing things and sifting out the bugs, seeing the openings for change and catching the little phrases and micro movements that seemed like glitches in the process.

Thoughts and images and dreams are living, breathing entities that have moving parts, links, patterns and energies. Often abstract and unfinished we are compelled to try and understand what our experience is and what meaning we want to impart to it.

So I specialise in, my niche, in other words, is finding the "glitch in the Matrix!" finding the resonant centre, the crux of the matter and making links between what it is we are wanting and how it is we are approaching the subject matter.

Releasing our nature, allowing organic growth to occur through self-care and relationship, expressing our potential amidst real pressure, real challenge is for me the edge of the human condition. Making meaning out of existential realities and crafting decisions out of abstract imaginings is creation itself. I love and my passion lies with the continual engagement with this process, what it asks of me and what I bring to it.

Self leadership is that edge, that willingness to sit with, reflect on, decide and move towards the unknown, the uncreated, the next sphere, the compelling vision.

Dan