Category Archives: Coaching

Supporting creativity Pt. 8

This is the end. Beautiful friend. This is the end. My only friend, the end. This evening finding myself writing the last of my posts in this series. Finding myself. Finding myself writing. Finding myself. My relationship with dance has been pervasive and thorough. Filling. Fulfilling. Every aspect of it soup to nuts. I love […]

Three Uses of the Knife

Education is a blade. Nourish. Clean. Protect. “The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama the Truth…” –David Mamet Education nourishes. Tell me how knowledge cannot be the cure for your hunger. You can learn to plant, reap, and prepare. One can learn to do the same and then learn […]

Becoming Nobody

Online chess. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It is a stretch to say that I like losing but I consider myself game. Gamey? Gamer. Willing. Much more willing to lose than not to play. Grow or at least have the experience. That will pave the way one pebble at a time. So often you will hear in […]

I’m a Loser, Baby (Soy un perdedor)

Watching the Metamoris Brazilian Jiu Jitsu submission-only challenge had me thinking about the acquisition of skill–okay, I think daily about the acquisition of skill–but also about how you carry, characterize, and implement skills that you have. Also, I have been revisiting some of my early research about the perception of Expertise in the eyes of […]