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Garry Smith

Welcome to CRGI from Garry Smith

June 23, 2017 by CRGI Leave a Comment

It is my great pleasure as CEO of CRGI to thank you for becoming a subscriber. Right from the very first discussion between Rory Miller and myself CRGI, although it was not called that, was always about creating a comprehensive learning experience. If I can use the much overused journey metaphor, we started out on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, CRGI INTERNAL USE

Who Are You? – Garry Smith (Conflict Manager Magazine – APRIL, 2015)

January 13, 2016 by CRGI Leave a Comment

No, it is not a rhetorical question. Who actually are you? Do you actually know who you are? Are you a conflicted individual who does not know their I from their me? And that’s before we start on The Who, geddit? So those of you who have read any of my blogs know I like … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Selected Articles

New Years Day – Garry Smith

January 2, 2016 by CRGI Leave a Comment

The temperature is rising, it  is just gone 9.30am here in Mexico, the Riviera Maya to be more precise. It is going to be a very hot new years day, the first day of 2016. My office today is beside the triple jacuzzi pool at the small bar La Iguana. Our room is half minute … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Thoughts & Meditations

On Resilience – Garry Smith

September 14, 2015 by CRGI Leave a Comment

Recently I have been thinking a lot about my training and my life. Last Saturday I explained to somebody, they asked, what I do. It was at a party, it was somebody I have met briefly a few times before, this time it was quieter and we were able to chat a little. I told … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Thoughts & Meditations

The Ju Jitsu Conflict Manager – Garry Smith

January 7, 2015 by CRGI 1 Comment

In the summer of 2014 after 39 years Abbeydale Ju Jitsu Club ceased to exist, it did not go quietly or as planned and after a deal of conflict, a great deal of conflict I emerged as the new ‘leader’ of Applied Ju Jitsu, new start, new name. Together with two of my closest training … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Conflict Management

On Teaching & Learning: Part I – Garry Smith

October 22, 2014 by CRGI Leave a Comment

Welcome to the first series of articles on teaching and learning from the Conflict Research Group International. Here we will tease out some of the key terms and concepts related to teaching and learning, we are laying the foundations of our building so to speak. We will not jump straight into discussion on what makes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Teaching & Learning

Welcome to My Arsenal – Garry Smith

October 15, 2014 by CRGI Leave a Comment

  Welcome to my arsenal. Sorry, I meant welcome to my home. Remember an English man’s home is his castle, indeed there exists the well known, if often misunderstood, Castle Defence, that covers our right to defend our home, family and possessions, in fact the Castle Defence also extends to a person’s car, but I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Thoughts & Meditations

Teaching and Learning: Introduction – Garry Smith

October 11, 2014 by CRGI Leave a Comment

Teaching and learning is a vast subject, let me declare at the outset of this series that I do not claim to be an expert. My formal interest, when I began to study it as a subject, began around the age of thirty when I entered Further Education as a full time student on an … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Teaching & Learning

Training is Still Hard – Garry Smith

July 15, 2014 by CRGI Leave a Comment

Saturday just gone saw me driving over to Winsford, Cheshire to meet up with Glyn Evans and his Saturday morning crew for one of their training sessions. Up with the lark and on the road by half six it was a beautiful drive over varied countryside and not a motorway in sight. The foothills of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Training

The Boys from Brazil – Garry Smith

July 15, 2014 by CRGI Leave a Comment

Well unless you live under a rock, off the grid in some remote wilderness you will have heard that Germany beat Brazil 7 -1 in the first semi final of the 2014 FIFA Cup. Now I admit to not seeing this game, I went out cycling as part of my training regime then on return … [Read more…]

Posted in: Garry Smith, Thoughts & Meditations
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