Where The Rubber Hits The Road

By John El-Mokadem

How insight leaves the training room and meets real life.

I’ve been saying this phrase a lot recently. For me it’s become a way of talking about how we make insight land in real contexts, not just in a coaching session or training room, so that we can create real practical results.

My background in the Three Principles helped me to see that a deeper, quieter space existed within us, and that place could be accessed particularly easily in training rooms and coaching sessions.

But it always bothered me that it wasn’t always accessible ‘in the moment’. After all I can’t take a training room or conference with me. I need it to be portable. To be able to signal safety to my nervous system when it is running protective safety programs that are no longer needed.

In this blog, I want to share another example where I had to put into practice what we teach and how I made this feeling portable and changed what became possible.

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First published on our Substack, Breakthrough That, on 29 August 2026.