As an Australian I arrived in Europe 13 years ago with very little experience inside large international companies together and life experience in Europe. My aim was to find a role to help a European firm on its international growth path with my marketing skills. In this quest I confronted challenging business and life changing lessons and resistance that I did not understand.

Inside these international companies I found myself able to deliver spectacular results in short time. However, through limited experience I had not yet fully understood the challenging internal hurdles and cultural obstacles that brought about the discount of the results that I delivered.

At the time it occurred to me that there must be a better way to managing my-self to find a way through these challenges. Coming from Australia I was familiar with the ways of the Orient and I had heard of Tai-Chi in particular martial strategic techniques in developing and focusing the mind and the body as the interdependant units of a powerful whole. This led me to find CAP and Éric Caulier who has now turned out to be a great continuing mentor.

With Éric’s vast understanding of Tai-Chi Chuan from the abstract to physical strategic applications in mind and body combined, we set out together to formulate a regime of training and development. The programme and the training helped me to develop an internal way to better deal with business and life ambiguity, my mental attitude and approach to challenging problems.

As a result of my work with Éric I can now more quickly identify unhealthy personal or challenging business situations and make clear decisions as to how best to approach and manage these situations. My development has led to achievement of a hard fought for MBA through one of Europe’s most prestigious business schools and ongoing projects within large important international companies.
I am very thankful to CAP and in particular Éric Caulier for their support and continuing mentoring in my further development and assimilation into Europe.

Ivan Hamilton Paris, 27. July 2004