[Neurons] 2009 Meta Reflections #25

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #25

June 14, 2009

What's New in Meta-Coaching- Part II

 

 

 

 

AN ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEMATIC FOCUS ON

STRUCTURE

 

 

 

 

In the last Meta Reflection, I described the whole new schedule and format
that we now have in how we will be presenting the Meta-Coach Training System
this year.  But that's now all, we also have a new and more profound way of
teaching structure.

 

The campaign slogan that took George Bush, Sr. to the Whitehouse was, "It's
the economy, Stupid!"  Playing off of that, in Neuro-Sematnics, we say,
"It's the structure, stupid!"  This phrase highlights the most critical and
profound factor in human experience-structure.  This was the insight of the
founders (Bandler and Grinder) and grandfathers (Bateson, Korzybski, Miller,
Gallenter, Pribriam, Chomsky) and original therapist communicators (Perls,
Satir, Erickson) of NLP.  This was the insight that I discovered when I
first found NLP which captivated me from the first. 

 

The phrase, "It's the structure, stupid!" captures attention that the power
of NLP and Neuro-Semantics lies in identifying the leverage points of
effectiveness, excellence, and change.  When you know the structure of an
experience, you know the form or process above and beyond the content.  Then
you can more efficiently and quickly replicate that form of expertise.

 

The Structure of a Well-Formed Outcome

In NLP training, the first day always begins with the Well-Formed Outcome
pattern.  Traditionally in NLP this means identifying approximately ten
criteria as factors that enable you to make your goal formed in a clear and
precise way.

 

Years ago when I first began researching Coaching and modeling some highly
skilled coaches, I observed Michelle Duval use the Well-Formed Outcome
pattern in a Neuro-Semantic way that captured the spirit of that pattern in
a very special way.  What she did with that pattern and how she used it, in
fact, enabled her to create a full coaching practice in six-months with a
three-months waiting list.  So, of course, we taught the structure of that
process to every Meta-Coach thereafter.

 

In the last 18-months I've been revisiting that pattern and its relationship
in co-creating with a client a KPI (key performance indicator).  In
revisiting the pattern, my focus has been on the syntax and order of the
well-formed distinctions, identifying which to do first, then second, etc.
And now, out of that, we have an even more powerful process for getting a
KPI.  In fact, combining this with the Matrix and the Self-Actualization
Quadrants models, we now have a Matrix KPI that synergizes meaning and
performance.

 

That was a mouth-full; did you get all of that?  First there is the Matrix
that defines and refines the KPI.  Using the Matrix model, we distinguish
the criteria of well-formedness so that we can see the energy of setting a
goal in terms of state, meaning, intention and then self, powers, others,
and time.  And we do this to do two things-create an inspiring goal that's
meaningful, compelling, and exciting that we can then actualize in specific
behaviors.  That puts the goal in Quadrant IV as the synergy of meaning and
performance.

 

This gives the client a highly focused outcome of great specificity and the
process itself of creating a well-formed outcome enables a client to move a
good bit closer to his or her goal.  It also fulfills one of the chief
benefits of coaching-enabling a person to develop clarity about what he or
she really wants.  This aspect of coaching offers great value because
knowing what you want-what you really want, isn't an easy thing to achieve.

 

So Meta-Coaching begins (and is sometimes completed) by coaching clarity-
precise, crystal clarity about what you, as a client, want.  And we do that
with a set of precision questions that now facilitates a client to explore
meaningful outcomes that will be actualized in performance.  Using Matrix
questions and Self-Actualization Quadrant questions we enable a client's
capacity to cerate a goal inspiring enough to invest time and energy into
and precise enough so that a client can embody the goal, innovate it into
life, and then check it off as successfully "completed."

 

If NLP introduced to the world a powerfully profound in the Well-Formed
Outcome Pattern (see User's Manual of the Brain, Volume I), and if Michelle
Duval used it in a Neuro-Semantic way to invent a process for contracting
for coaching, then the new Self-Actualizing Matrix KPI pattern
revolutionizes it one more time giving Meta-Coaches a new edge in getting to
the heart of the matter and setting up a process for measuring and
innovating change.  And that's yet one more thing that's new in
Meta-Coaching this year.

 

Would you like to know, or better, to receive a copy of the list of the
Self-Actualizing Matrix KPI pattern?  Great!  Then meet me and the other
Meta-Coach Trainers at one of the following this year:

 

 

 

                                    

                        1) Sweden

                                    Sept. 15, 16-23 - Coaching Mastery.
Sweden: Stockholm

                                    Sponsors: Sara Lee, Niklas Daver, and
Helene Nordgen

                                     <mailto:niklas.daver at gmail.com>
sara.m.lee at gmail.com  niklas.daver at gmail.com helene-nordgren at tele2.se 

 

                        2) New Zealand

                                    October 1, 2- 9 - Coaching Mastery.
Auckland, New Zealand

                                    Sponsor: Ignition - Colin Cox and Lena
Gray - www.ignition.co.za <http://www.ignition.co.za/>  

                                    Lena at ignition.co.za


 

                        3) South Africa

                                    Oct. 22, 23-30 - Coaching Mastery.
Pretoria, South Africa

                                                cheryl at peoplesa.co.za


                                    Cell : 083 267 1412   Tel: 012 362 6542
Fax : 088 012 362 6641

                                    Skype: meta coach
www.psacoaching.co.za 

                        

                        4) Australia

                                    November 19, 20-27 - Coaching Mastery.
Sydney, Australia

            Sponsors: Laureli Blyth and Heidi Heron

                        Heidi at nlpworldwide.com
Laureli at nlpworldwide.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics

Meta-Coach Training System

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO.  81520 USA

1 970-523-7877

1 970-523-5790 fax

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       <http://www.meta-coaching.org/> www.meta-coaching.org

       <http://www.ns-video.com/> www.ns-video.com 

 

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