How can I realise all of my potential by making the right kind of difference in my Life?

Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher said,

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

So much of modern personal development or coaching focuses on making that first step. Whether it's Life-coaching, Physical exercise or Psychotherapy, there seems to be so much focus on that first step. However, it is more important that the first step is taken in the right direction. Otherwise you could end up a thousand miles in the opposite direction to where you intended.  Who wants to walk two thousand miles, only to arrive where you first started?
 
When you discover a way to realise 100% of your potential, would you stay with what helps you realise less? Would you be satisfied with being less than the complete person you can be? No. So take yourself all the way. Take up Energy Diamond Coaching and come alive to all of your potential.

What is 'Energy Diamond Coaching' ?

Energy Diamond Coaching (EDC) is a form of personal development based on coaching and mentoring approaches and its primary aim is to build your Vitality -your experience of being alive, so you can maintain your movement towards realising your full potential as a human being.

EDC follows the 'Energy 'Maturity Diamond', a map, shown on the right, that outlines the steps of different paths followed by people who have realised all their potential as human beings. The Energy Maturity Diamond is structured on    3 Growth Zones - of Personal Living Skills, Group and Social Skills and Peak Leadership Skills.    3 Awareness and Experience steps - of Knowing, Managing and Developing    5 Tracks for development - Energy, Security, Emotions, Intelligence and Creativity and Being    2 Areas of Application -for a person to help master themselves and secondly to help others. The standard form of Energy Diamond Coaching used by individuals is called 'Personal Energy Coaching'. Evaluate the Energy Diamond Coaching PDF guide for more details.	Energy Maturity Diamond (Click image for larger view)
. Coaching Tracks	Can Energy Diamond Coaching be used for Energising a Business or its Staff? Yes. There are special forms of EDC for building the vitality of individuals working in a business but also of the administration and operations of the business. Business forms of EDC incorporate methods from Process Consultation, Executive Coaching and Psychometric Assessment. The Business EDC programmes are known as Executive Energy Coaching, Team Energy Coaching and Organisational Energy Coaching. Evaluate the Energy Diamond Coaching PDF guide for details of EDC programmes for business.

Where does Energy Diamond Coaching come from?

Energy Diamond Coaching was created by Jazz Rasool in 2004 after 15 years of experiences in Personal Development, Education, Science, Business, Martial Arts and Eastern forms Psychotherapy. He created EDC after reflecting,

"To be all you truly can be you must first engage with the energy needed to experience the joy and challenge of feeling and being truly alive. If you don't experience being simply alive, because of a lack of a simple resource such as naturally available human energy, you cannot experience what your life is truly about. How else can you experience being the human being you have always dreamt of being?"

Jazz created EDC based on his experiences of Life Coaching, Executive Coaching, Mind-Body medicine as well as character development principles from the Mythology and Martial arts of cultures from around the world but especially from the Chinese, Indian and Egyptian cultures. These approaches have for millennia been the ones taken by those who eventually were to become Master Warriors, Healers, Businessmen, Diplomats as well as Spiritual Teachers. Often these types of path were simply called 'The Hero's Journey', 'The Way of the Warrior', 'The Merchants Elixir' or 'The Master's Path'. Jazz realised there were three types of path to Mastery.

• The 'Master to Leader' Path (also known as the Masters path)
  This was followed by a person who chose to master himself before becoming a Leader and helping others master themselves. This path often led to isolation from society and benefits to the community, when shared, were often out of touch with the way society had changed since the person began their training.
• The 'Leader to Master' Path
  This was followed by the person whose primary focus was in leading others while in the process learning to master himself. This would often lead to problems where people needed to be helped that the Leader was not experienced or equipped to contribute to and those he led ended up experiencing a slowing down of their growth until the leader caught up in his own development.
• The 'Energy Diamond' Path.
  This path leads to a balance in developing oneself while contributing to the betterment of society with a person only sharing what they have experience or competence in while continuing with their ongoing development. This path is not a short cut to Mastery compared to the other two paths as many abilities must often be worked on in Parallel, whereas the other paths tend to work with one ability at a time but are not as mutually useful or applicable on a day by day basis to both the person and society. This path is the path of true Empowerment where you grow together with the people you encounter and interact with in daily life activities.

EDC modernises the first two approaches to produce the third approach, the Energy Diamond Path. This path includes approaches from modern psychotherapy, executive coaching, business mentoring as well as advances in mind-body medicine and best practices from fitness training used in modern gyms and health spas. A person following the Energy Diamond path would cross-train in his skills and vary the resources he chose to focus on to develop.

All three paths lead to mastery for the individual and facilitate contribution in helping society evolve and advance. The approaches are just different in the timing and proportions of time spent in mastering oneself and contributing to helping others. As such, people facing different personal challenges would pursue an appropriate path given what they had to grow through and what they felt was best for who they would choose to live their life with and what person they wanted to become. Each path gives different experiences of being alive and provides alternate ways of realising all of ones potential as well as helping others in realising theirs. Energy Diamond Coaching facilitates all three approaches, the one chosen for a given individual or group of people depends on their existing growth challenges.

Check out a Comparison of Paths and also the Analysis of EDC article for more views on the paths and their origins.

What does Energy Diamond Coaching develop?

The current method of personal development at the heart of Energy Diamond Coaching helps people realise their potential by building their experience of being alive-being vitalised or having Vitality.

Vitality is built by systematically building resources and abilities in,

• Human Energy and Motivation
• Physical Health and Self-Protection (includes Financial Security)
• Emotional Engagement and Empathy
• Intellectual Clarity and Perception
• Creativity and Active Life Purpose.

How does Energy Diamond Coaching build Vitality?

Any of the five given resources or abilities mentioned above that contributes to feeling alive and realising potential must go through 3 stages of development. For each resource or ability a person must,

• Experience and Know it.
• Harness and Manage it so that lessons can be learnt for the final stage, where the person would,
• Build and Develop it where ongoing building of experience and increasing refinement of knowledge and awareness is pursued so that new experiences that contribute to feeling alive and realising potential can be created.

Every act of coaching you engage in will (Iike with your best friends) either Support you, Challenge you or may just maintain you in what you are already doing (be Neutral). By ensuring you are Supported and Challenged at the appropriate times, your Vitality will build and you will experience being alive more and more, leading to you fulfilling your strategy for realising your potential.

Why are there three paths through Energy Diamond Coaching?

The participant has a choice in how mastery is gained for all resources and abilities. He can either complete development of each in turn and when he has completed all of them and his own potential he may then go on to help others do the same. Alternatively he may master one set of resources and abilities and then immediately help others master them too, before he moves on to master the next domain. The third way is to develop resources and abilities that support one another so that the fastest and most productive path is followed for the benefit of the individual's growth while helping contribute to modern civilised society. The third way is the way many people in modern times and Westernised world choose to pursue because it is the most convenient but remains just as challenging and rewarding. For a deeper look into a comparison of paths visit the page that makes a Comparison of Paths and also the Analysis of EDC article.

What kinds of techniques does Energy Diamond Coaching use to build Vitality?

Each of the five areas of potential use a variety of disciplines in an integrated way to build that area of development. All areas use the EDC tools of Energy Mapping, The Transformation Cycle and The Adaptation Matrix for ongoing assessment, monitoring and coaching development.

Human Energy, Engagement and Motivation Tai Chi Energising Exercises, modern Gym and Fitness training, Nutritional and Dietary Science, Self-Hypnotherapy, Chinese and Indian Psychology as well as the approaches created specifically for EDC that manage interactions between the Vitality components of Energy and Engagement, Momentum and Motivation, Creativity and World View. For Physical Health and Self-protection as well as Financial Security YMCA based fitness training, Martial Arts as well as Personal Finance and Accounting and Career Coaching Emotional Intelligence and Empathy Standardised Emotional Intelligence approaches developing Emotional Quotient (EQ) as well as Soft skills taken from Psychotherapy, Customer Service training, Energy and Intention sensing techniques from the Martial Arts. Intellectual Clarity and Perception Components that originate from Lateral Thinking, Intuition Science, Psychology of Learning, NLP, the Maths of Nature, Tai Chi Energy Exercises. Creativity and Active Life purpose These focus on strategically playing with the coaching assets of Energy, Momentum and World View to shape Creativity in thinking, feeling. The focus is on producing not just creative answers to problems but also powerful questioning strategies that facilitate creativity.

For all that, the cost must be high, right?

Not at all. Our two hour introductions which give you an experience of Energy Diamond Coaching cost just £10.00 for joining a group class. A one day course costs just over £100.00. Some of our longer courses run up to 2 years and can lead to professional qualifications. One on One 'CorED' coaching is also available from as little as £200 for a session when taken as part of a packaged programme consisting of a minimum of 6 sessions. An intensive 1 week residential is also provided for people who want to fast-track their development.

How does Energy Diamond Coaching benefit Society and our World?

We set ourselves up right on foundation as a Social Enterprise dedicated to making a difference to others while making a difference to ourselves. In 2008 our focus is on expanding the '1L=10L' program begun by the company Volvic. Volvic promise to provide 10 litres of water to water-scarce villages in Niger, Africa for every litre of their mineral water purchased. At Energy Diamond we want to extend this to other companies and programs, for instance for every minute of mobile call time a telecoms company offering 10 minutes of Education in India, or 1 minute of a Business Coaches client time used to provide 10 minutes of Business mentoring by an Aid worker in Africa. Each year we will focus on a different programme of aid where we donate, in addition to our time and expertise, 10% of our profits to charities involved in humanitarian, environmental or medical aid in the UK as well as abroad.

Is Jazz Rasool a 'Master' ?

No. Jazz is a human being who has been shown the paths and steps taken by other Masters and has just simplified them into a path in the form of an 'Energy 'Maturity Diamond', a map that outlines the steps and different paths. The map is the basis of Energy Diamond Coaching. Jazz is following the Energy Diamond Path through the map and already has experience and knowledge of most tasks on the map and considers himself a 'student master' (aren't we all?).

Where do I sign?
We appreciate your enthusiasm, however we have to evaluate whether we need to do some preparatory work with yourself before we begin to work together. Also you need to see for yourself that EDC can make the right kind of difference to your life. Come to a 2 hr introduction and find out if it makes a difference or could make the right difference -if so, do a one day course. The one day course will set you up to see if you can coach yourself in Energy Diamond Coaching -after all the process is about self-mastery in the beginning. We're keen on you mastering a track of potential yourself, and for us to be there only when you are ready to move on to another challenge. If you find that you need ongoing mentoring to get through, then you can attend one of our residential coaching weeks.

When and where is your next Introduction?
Check out our Events page for the latest details. If you book within seven days of enquiring about our courses we'll reward you with small gift for your enthusiasm.