[Neurons] Meta-Coach Reflections

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From: L. Michael Hall

re: Simple Depth and Deep Simplicity



REFLECTIONS ON THE LATEST META-COACH TRAINING

The experience in presenting the Meta-Coach Training System with Omar Salom in Mexico this past week (Oct. 2007) made me aware of another facet of Meta-Coaching and expanded my appreciation for it. Omar is not only an Executive Coach and a Meta-Coach Trainer, he also has certifications in Ontological Coaching, ICC, and NLP Coaching with Dilts. Now in Mexico and many of the countries of Latin America, Ontological Coaching is one of the leading forms of coaching today in businesses and corporations. And it is a solid model. So it is no surprise that perhaps 20 percent of the participants at Meta-Coaching this past week had certification in that model.

Now interesting enough, by using the present state to desires state structure of NLP for thinking strategically, the well-formed outcome pattern and the KPI (Key Performance Indicator pattern of Neuro-Semantics) -most of the coaches trained in that modality felt that we were doing something superficial and only dealing with things that are on the "surface." They felt it was superficial and without any depth. They felt that making both the present problem specific as well as one's objectives, we were wasting our time with things shallow and insignificant.

Then they experienced a surprise. They felt that way until they saw what precise specificity can do in a human being. In the demonstrations that they saw and in the coaching sessions that they experienced, they discovered the power of the precision, drilling, and focusing questions. Then, when they had experienced the power of deep simplicity, they recognized that there was some simple complexity going on.

It's funny, isn't it? Some of the most profound experiences of transformation can revolve around some very simple distinctions, distinctions that many fail to make. And they fail to make them because they pass over them as insignificant. Actually this is part of the power of the Meta-States Model, the Matrix Model, Axes of Change Model, and Self-Actualization Quadrants. Profound changes can occur simply, and sometimes very quickly, when we find the leverage point. And it is getting to those leverage points, to the heart of the matter, that characterizes someone with expert knowledge. They know how the system works and where the leverage points are.

Every year in the training of Meta-Coaching, we are identifying more and more of these leverage points of change and transformation. And this is where the Meta-Coach Training System offers so much-it offers both the structure for finding them and then provides a training/coaching process for enabling people to develop the art of working with them. In this way, the Meta-Coaches become truly effective change agents.

Several of the Ontological Coaches and even one of the ICC certified coaches thanked me for persisting in pushing the importance of getting specific and precise information. While the did not like the idea of the KPI at first, later they were the ones singing its praises. They quoted the old truism, "A problem well defined is half solved." Our experience is that a problem well-defined and well-formed is 90 percent solved.

If you're interested in the last Meta-Coach Training in 2007 - we begin next week in Sydney Australia.



Meta-Coaching Modules begin next week in Sydney Australia!!

---  Oct. 23-25, 2007  --- Module II:  Coaching Genius (or APG)
--- Oct. 27- Nov. 3, 2007 --- Module III: Coaching Mastery

     Contact Colleen or Michelle ...  cshephard at equilibrio.com.au  or michelle at equilibrio.com.au

    http://www.meta-coaching.org/expert_coaches.asp
    www.equilibrio.com.au

    http://www.meta-coaching.org/AustraliaOct2007Facts.asp



L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
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