Walk And Talk Therapy: What It Is And How It Works

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Walk And Talk Therapy: What It Is And How It Works

[GUEST POST] Walk & Talk? What’s that all about then… This is one of the questions I get asked most often by friends, and existing and prospective clients. I do A LOT of walking – and sometimes I’ll do a lot of talking if I’m leading an engagement or training session. But increasingly over the last few years I’ve started to notice the days where I wasn’t the one talking, where perhaps often no-one was, where listening was my most used skill. I noticed those days as they were the ones where clients had the biggest smiles, where they told me they’d really benefited on a psychological & emotional level.

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Paramo or Goretex? What's My Preference And Why?

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Paramo or Goretex? What's My Preference And Why?

I’m often asked which I prefer – Paramo or Goretex. It’s a bit of a Marmite queston – people are often very much one way or the other. I’ve used both myself, and I’ve talked to lots of clients about their preferences. I’ve seen how both perform in the same weather conditions on the same day out in the mountains. So which do I prefer, and why?

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The Conscious Competence Model and Learning New Movement Skills

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The Conscious Competence Model and Learning New Movement Skills

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, or you’ve been on one of our courses, you’ll know that movement coaching is one of my passions. I try to incorporate it in every mountain day that I do with clients, whatever the main focus of the day. So you might book a place on a Contour Masterclass, and you will definitely finish the day with lots of skills relating to contour interpretation, but you will also go away with all the basics about efficient movement. So why do I think it is so important?

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Updated: What’s On My Climbing Rack And Why?

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Updated: What’s On My Climbing Rack And Why?

My climbing rack is one of my basic tools of the trade. Every piece of gear on it has been used many times and is very familiar to me. What I actually select for my rack on a day out depends on the rock type and grades of the routes I am expecting to climb. When on granite or gritstone I carry more cams, and sometimes doubles of common sizes like 1 and 2. When on slate or harder Lake District routes on rhyolite I take more small wires. Here’s a summary of anything I might carry, and why.

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