Omega 3 and the Dore Programme....

In response to a question about taking Omega 3 alongside the Dore Programme - we haven't checked out all of the brands. One of the brands we checked hadn't got a very appropriate mix of Omega 3 and Omega 6 so we avoid that. One that seems to work OK is "EyeQ" so if you wish to take that by all means do. We are actually quite positive about Omega 3 supplements although we are not sure if they really are necessary at all alongside the Dore Programme. All the research we have done to date has been using folk who are not taking Omega 3 - and the results have been outstanding.

If it was my child now - I'd put them through the Dore Programme and then start them on Omega 3 afterwards - but that's just a personal take based on my hunch.

43 Dore Centres around the world and growing fast!

Every day the question comes "When are you opening in ...................... ". It really hurts us that we are not able to be everywhere - because the need is everywhere. We are opening as many centres as we can around the world - at the last count it is over 40 with lots more planned for this next year. But we are not yet scratching the surface of the real need.

Not a day goes by without a parent contacting me saying "When can we open in Poland/Canada/Glasgow, etc.". On the one hand it is really nice that folk as so thrilled with what we are achieving that they want to help bring a Dore Centre to their own community to help all the others for whom the travel is impossible (we are now working hard on a plan to make it possible for us to work closer with all these parents that want to help bring a Dore Centre to their town - so if you are interested please drop me an email). On the other hand most of these enquiries up 'til now we have had to put on hold because the cost of equipment, the cost of training, etc., etc., is beyond the realms of possibility. If only Gordon Brown could work out what it would mean to the economy to provide the Dore Programme in every school this would no longer be an issue.

Dore Funding

In answer to a comment left on one of my previous posts - yes it is true that I am funding Dore out of my own pocket. That has been the case for several years - you can look at our accounts to confirm this if you wish.

It sounds as if I am winging! Actually I'm not - the thrill of helping, not just Susie, but many tens of thousands of others is "priceless".

Dore on BBC this weekend...

Dore in sport - right from the beginning countless parents have told us about how their child hasn't just improved in school work but there have been very noticeable improvements in sport.

Well, we are just about to take the lid of this - a very famous rugby club has gone public to the BBC about how they are now using the Dore Programme alongside their (already excellent) coaching. They found that players respond even better to coaching after they have experienced the Dore Programme - lots more things to come out so why don't you look at BBC Sport on Saturday morning at approxiamtely 8.30am.

It certainly will give teenagers a whole new exciting reason to do the Dore Programme!

Apologies....

Sorry about my lack of blogging recently - back to back travel to different countries around the globe have made it impossible.

I will try harder!

Do fatty acids work?

OK - so fatty acids are in the news again, do they work? Now if I was being commercial I would be playing down fatty acids - but I’m not, and the truth is they do seem to work for some people. You must also remember that they are much easier than doing an exercise programme. Popping a capsule in your mouth is far quicker and easier to find time for than spending five minutes doing exercises.

It’s all a question of what you have got time for and how important it is to help your child (or yourself even) to achieve your full potential. The nice thing about fatty acids is that many people do get some benefits - the nice thing about our programme is that virtually everyone who completes it gets very large benefits. When you are working with the potential of the brain, as we do, it is fun being very thorough with the process so that you know at the end of it you are pretty likely to be squeezing all of the potential possible.

There is a downside to fatty acids that is not often talked about - when you stop taking them you generally go back to being the way you were. At least that is what I was told by one of the leading researchers into fatty acids. She explained that her own son got great benefit for several years until he stopped taking them - he then gradually, over a period of months, went back to the way he used to be. That was disappointing.

By contrast the upside in what the Dore proramme does is that we do put the kind of wiring in that you create when you learn to ride your bike - having learnt you never need to learn again! In fact I probably didn’t ride a bike for at least 20 years and took the opportunity one day (something to do with steadily increasing waistlines!) and I discovered I jumped on the bike and the automatised process was just as good then as the last time I rode.

So take your choice - a quick fix that will do some good or 10 minutes twice a day for approximately one year with the likelihood of great benefits and lasting results. Many will choose to take fatty acids - and on a busy day I can see why.

Long term effects of the Dore Programme....

A South African visitor recently asked to meet some of our early ‘guinea pig’ clients so we set up a dinner and invited along a few of our early research clients from six years ago. Please bear in mind I am used to meeting clients who have completed our programme and are absolutely delighted - but that didn’t prepare me for what I was about to experience.

All five who came to the dinner had had their school life completely transformed. At the time of going through the programme three, who were in their early teens, had been told that they were unlikely to achieve many, if any, GCSEs at 16. The first shock was that all three of them are now at university - the eldest being in her final year and expecting to achieve a First Class Honours Degree. The other two were studying Law and Sports Science. In every case this was way beyond their wildest dreams six year’s ago.

The next shock I got was regarding their sporting achievements. Out of the five there four of them had shown no interest in sport at the time of going through the programme. The fifth was performing well in her chosen sport. But now - two of them are champions at National level in their sport, two others are competing in sports at National level and the fifth is playing County Level cricket! It all goes to show that when you increase the brain’s ability to automatize skills it doesn’t just help you in your school work!

So during the dinner the hair on the back of my neck was standing on end! Don’t worry - I soon came down to earth. As I walked back into the office I faced a letter from a professor saying that the programme didn’t work. Why oh why don’t some of these researchers get out of their ivory towers and talk to the people who matter, the people who were suffering from all sorts of learning issues whose lives have been dramatically helped.

So - does this story give you a clue about some very exciting things we are working with sport? I will tell you soon but I can’t just yet because if I did I would have to ……..…………………….