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  • Formaat: Hardback, 149 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 470 g, 11 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0815346972
  • ISBN-13: 9780815346975
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 149 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 470 g, 11 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0815346972
  • ISBN-13: 9780815346975
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Born to Flow® (BTF) is an invitation to rediscover flow, not as a fixed theory, but as a lived, evolving experience. Blending personal insight, practical wisdom, and inspiration from thinkers as diverse as Alan Watts, Bruce Lee, Rick Rubin, George Kelly and Joseph Campbell, BTF explores flow as something you curate, not control.

Drawing on the river metaphor and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work, BTF expands the conversation to include friction, creativity, and the journey of self-expression. It invites readers to release assumptions, embrace experimentation, and grow—not through perfection, but presence.

Like water shaping rock, flow emerges through sustained engagement. Insight, tools, and reflective practices offer a fresh hypothesis, guiding leaders, coaches, and creatives toward meaningful, grounded action. Applications include flow-aligned habits, navigating resistance, and creating environments for deep work. BTF is a dynamic framework to reclaim rhythm, honour creativity, and unlock inner potential.



Born to Flow® (BTF) is an invitation to rediscover flow, not as a fixed theory, but as a lived, evolving experience. Blending personal insight, practical wisdom, and inspiration from thinkers like Alan Watts, Bruce Lee, Rick Rubin, George Kelly and Joseph Campbell, BTF explores flow as something you curate, not control.

Arvustused

Cliff Kimber takes us all one step closer to owning and developing our flow. Discovering the beauty in the journey to embody the flow within. If the goal was the democratisation of flow, Born to Flow moves us all closer

Claire Davey, Executive coach, former Head of Coaching at Deloitte UK

In Born to Flow, Cliff masterfully blends psychology, philosophy, and personal experience. It returns us to something beautiful and primal: recognizing Flow is not a rare state, but the way life moves through us when we trust, align, and let go

Adam Karaoguz, Former Navy SEAL

Cliff Kimbers insights on flow have the power to change the way we experience life and help us transform the world we live in. His understandings offer us all access to deeper dimensions of who we are, our performance, our growth, evolution and engagement. So, if your potential is precious to you and living fully important then Born to Flow needs to be in your reading list.

Jonny Wilkinson, Founder at One Living, England Rugby international, RWC winner

This is a book readers can return to again and again.

Steve Borthwick, England Head Coach, RFU

Born to Flow is transformational. Cliff doesnt just explore flow, he redefines it. With warmth and insight, he challenges our hidden assumptions and reconnects us not just with our potential at work, but also ourselves, those who matter, and our lives. This isnt just for high achievers, its for anyone seeking a more fully lived life.'

David Ross, Fragile World Strategist, award winning author of Confronting the Storm

Part 1: The Invitation
1. A Droplet
2. Introduction (The source)
3. The
Wellspring (The abundant source)
4. Scene Setting (Tributary)
5. It Depends
(Confluence)
6. Flow (Tributary)
7. The Notion of Born to Flow (Tributary)
8.
Where the flow begins (Estuarine)
9. Flow Science (Tributary)
10. Remembering
flow (Anabranch)
11. In the groove (Currents)
12. Flow Alteration (Dams)
13.
Interrupting flow (The Continuing Alteration of terrain through which we
flow)
14. The business of flow (Channel)
15. The flow leader as coach (The
Potential of Undercurrents)
16. The flow through life (Ebbs and Flows)
17.
The nature of flow (Tributary) Part 2: The Devotion
18. Branching Streams
flow in the darkness (Tributary. A dedication to Shunryu Suzuki)
19. Engaging
with and owning your flow (Tributary)
20. Teaching flow (Currents)
21. The
flow mind shift (Tributary)
22. Confluence (Flowing Together)
23. The
campaign (Anabranch)
24. A way of being (Returning to the source)
Cliff Kimber is a coach, author, trusted advisor & tactician, enabling meaningful, sustainable change, developing leaders to deliver. He works quietly with senior leaders at the highest levels to remove the constraints that limit performance, judgement, and impact. His role is simple and exacting: to help leaders think clearly, act decisively, and sustain excellence under pressure. Cliff brings over 25 years experience coaching leaders at the top of their fields to Born to Flow; his approach is direct, commercially grounded, and deeply personal, combining strategic perspective with a nuanced understanding of human performance. He has also appeared on Jonny Wilkinsons I AM podcast, to talk about potential, performance and flow; as well as the Eddy podcast with Ed Breneger on Leadership of Flow and on the release of Born to Flow. Cliff holds an MSc in Coaching & Development and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Leadership and the Royal Society of Arts.