Some of the most famous bits are written in “nonsense”, words that don’t appear in our English dictionaries and don’t have any ‘meaning’ in a normal, conventional, fixed kind of way…and yet, in our imaginations can mean anything, and nothing, and everything – all at the same time.

Here’s one of the most famous poems, this time from ‘Through the Looking Glass’. You might remember it from childhood perhaps? And I wonder what the words meant to you then…and if they have a different meaning for you now…and what that might tell you about how your own story has developed…and changed…and grown…

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

It also creates the chance for us to have more of a ‘conversation’ so if you’re new to the site: hello and welcome. I hope that the words and ideas that you find here will tell their own story……and that it’s a story you enjoy and want to keep on exploring.

I guess if there’s one small downside to the blog approach is that you can feel like you’re joining the conversation, you’re picking up the story, sometime after it began. I’m sure you’ll soon pick up the thread, but I thought it might be an idea to include a little blurb on what’s going on, what kind of stories to expect and who else you might find here.

So, what is coaching wizardry all about?

The site reflects a core aim of my business: to weave words together, to use language playfully in order to create a new sense of possibility. It’s an introduction to the services that I offer, of course, but I also wanted a space where we can create new possibilities together.

So it’s a place to come if you are interested in a different way of looking at, talking about and defining these things called coaching and NLP. It would be great to hear from other coaches and practitioners (and I’ve created a corner just for you) but also from students, clients and would-be clients and students. Would different words, images, language and stories make the world of coaching and NLP more appealing to you? Let me know!

It’s a place to share ideas with people who are interested in the way that words, and language, and stories can shape and influence our lives, and ways that we, as the authors, can take back control and
start to live, to tell, our own stories…

What you read here will reflect my coaching and writing styles: using language playfully, telling stories, being creative with words. I hope you enjoy reading the writing and the stories and if that is all you come for: that too is just perfect.

Finally it’s a place to feel: welcome. Especially if you are just at the start of your own story of wondering, of exploring, of starting to change, of taking a peek at the looking glass world and finding, like Alice, that you can just see the edge of the passage in the Looking-glass House, which is very like any other passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different when you move on beyond.

Whatever brings you here, I hope you enjoy reading some of the stories… and if any of it sounds like you… well you might just find yourself knowing what you need to do next…