About Mindsmith

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I look back at my grammar school education and note how organising classes into “streams of ability” elevated our belief in the significance of IQ.

In my university years, I studied elements of philosophy but had very little instruction on practical application. How different would my life have been having known then that it holds the key to unlocking the mind.

During the course of my police career, I was introduced to the concept of emotional intelligence, EQ. Many say they have it, but do you really understand what influences the way you utilise it? We talk of values in the same way, but how do you as leaders access them consistently?

Without answers to these questions, we live in a limitation of both performance and potential.

MST, a system of understanding thinking and its effects was developed in two phases. Firstly as a result of the interest, I had in people and the insight I had dealing with them as a Detective, in all sorts of circumstances. Then In 2007, I was on a beach in Antigua with my wife when I met a very talented Executive Coach, who quickly decided that this was a career I should pursue. As I wasn’t in my view ready it took me another seven years when just before retiring, I was driven to study all the Courses the College of Cognitive Behaviour Therapies in London had to offer. I started working initially within my network the police service, continuing to watch, and learn more, developing with my clients a method of education and awareness and an effective process of change.

UP was created as a result of seeing how the development of internal understanding in the MST program leads to an interest in personal growth.

Problems that persist simply need a different approach. For the success of the support we give, there has been so much truth in that statement.

All problems start with thinking because that is the only thing that makes them different from what you see as a challenge that presents difficulty.

The something more than intelligence, is a system of understanding of thinking, MST.