Blog Entries in FEBI Learning Lounge

Has anyone ever told you that you need to relax and have more fun? That’s what people were saying to a client of mine on a very regular basis. The thing is, they were right! As we were going over her FEBI results it was pretty clear that she was all Driver, all the time. “If I can’t be the best at something, why bother doing it?” she said. The problem she was that she always managed to find someone ... Read More

I’ve been using the FEBI with great success with a wonderful executive in a leading software company. She has been an athlete most of her life and immediately resonated with an approach that engages her body as well as her mind. Since she is a fencer, I need not tell you what her home pattern is. The other  day we were discussing what her 2 or 3 year old son might prefer (and embody) so she showed me a video ... Read More

A colleague recently asked me about a FEBI report for one of her clients – we’ll call him Richard – that puzzled her because every pattern on the overall energy profile registered “Very High” – virtually pegging the meter. “How could this be?” she asked. “And how do I debrief it?”

While this may seem like a non-result, it’s actually quite revealing, and there’s much to learn from it. But let me start by saying it’s a good example of why ... Read More

Below is a link to a video my wife and I created in an attempt to illustrate what is possible with this instrument. It won’t be a shock to anyone that watches the video that I grew up on comics books (never grew out of it either!). After some glue, scissors, construction paper, several hundred still photos and some very useful editing software, this is what we came up with. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it. Sorry ... Read More

I was recently given the opportunity to work with a client on a sudden and unexpected career change (sound familiar anyone?).  She emailed me moments after receiving notice that she would be laid off and, at that moment, was working on just breathing – nice strategy. For months she had been telling me how much she couldn’t stomach the climate she was working in and how she wanted to get out and do some independent consulting or something different. Apparently ... Read More

Our colleague, Norma Nielsen, just sent me a note regarding a FEBI program she is looking at for India.  I was reminded of questions I have heard concerning the connection between the patterns and deep elements of the Indian culture. Here's an interesting link you might want to look at: http://store.chopra.com/dosha-survey.asp?gclid=COipr9Kz95YCFQquGgodnCNSYg.  It's from Deepak Chopra - a quick little quiz for discovering one's Ayurvedic body type in terms of Vata, Pitta and Kapha.  The map to the patterns is not 100%, ... Read More

Q: How, in an actual coaching session, do you recommend physical activities for developing a pattern, beyond just looking over a list of them?

A: It’s a great question, and one that I invite other coaches to share their experience on as well. For in landing on the right practices by which our clients can cultivate this or that pattern, we make the patterns deeply personal for our clients, and HOW we do that is deeply personal for us as coaches. ... Read More

Q: I'm working with a highly discplined business owner who has “making work fun” at the bottom of the activity list. Are there particular things you recommend for people on their own, knowing they see a trade-off between "fun" and getting tasks done.

A: Let me address several questions embedded in here. First, when I coach around activities that people have listed at the bottom of the activity table, I ask them how important those things are to their work right ... Read More

Q: In the Work Behaviors table in the FEBI report, people don't necessarily find their preferred patterns at the top. I had a case where a client's weakest pattern (in overall profile) was among the top in work behaviors. Also she said that she finds work exhausting, which I interpreted as those top couple of behaviors, coming from a weak pattern, required the greatest amount of energy. Was I accurate?