[Neurons] 2009 Meta-Reflections #45

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta-Coach Reflections #34

October 14, 2009

 

 

WHEN KIKIS META-COACH

 

 

 

As you probably already known, this past week was the Coaching Bootcamp of
Coaching Mastery in Auckland New Zealand and the fourth one in as many
years.  While it was technically "an international training" because at
least 3 of us were from "somewhere else" on the planet (myself, Robert Were
from Australia, and Wilkie Choi from Hong Kong), everybody else were from
New Zealand.  Not only that, but everybody with the exception of team leader
and Neuro-Semantic trainer, Alan Fayter (from Christchurch) was Maori.  And
that created a very new and different experience- since we could say that
Meta-Coaching was as much immersed in Maori culture and Maori culture was
immersed in Neuro-Semantic culture. 

 

Although, even as I write that, I think about the years that Colin Cox
(Master Neuro-Semantic Trainer) and Lena Gray have been introducing
Neuro-Semantics to Auckland and New Zealand ... certifying 200 to 300 people
a year in APG (they call it "self-leadership," which is Module II of
Meta-Coaching, alias APG).  They have been immersing people into the vision
and mission of Neuro-Semantics.  Anyway, it was a great experience and
exceptionally transformational.

 

And when I say exceptionally transformational, that is not hype or
over-statement.  We saw many people making tremendous developmental changes
mastering anger by meta-stating with awareness, acceptance, choice, respect,
and so on- mastering fear, hesitation, poor health habits, etc.  I was
privileged to see one young lady develop a strategy and the frames for more
robust states to handle some "crazymaking" by a mother-in-law that had been
driving her to the bring of despair.

 

And it was exceptionally transformational outside of the sessions as well as
within.  That's because a large portion of our group stayed at a
Backpacker's Hotel in the city, just a few blocks from the venue.  And that
was great, first of all, for the residential effect of the training- the
collaboration, partnership, colleagial relationships.  Not to speak of the
coaching that went on to 1 and 2 and 3 am most nights! 

 

It was also great for the other inhabitants at the hotel!  There were a lot
of backpackers who got a lot of free coaching as our coaches-in-training
were looking for people to practice on.  And I'm sure the backpackers and
later, some homeless people, heard a lot of strange language- "That's your
frame, bro!  Have you had enough of that or do you need 5 more years before
you step up to your potential?"  And from what I hear, some of the
backpackers even began to get use to the language.  One Meta-Coach came back
and reported that when he introduced himself (using his Introduction of
course!), the person said, "Hey, I've met other Meta-somethings around
here."

 

Actually we had a number of our group who were quite bold and outrageous-
practicing their Introductions - "Hi, my name is ... and I'm a Meta-Coach, I
specialize in ... and my style is..." And they were doing this in all of the
three elevators that went up and down the 13 floors of the Mercure Hotel.
Talk about literally perfecting your "elevator speech."!

 

As I mentioned, while we sought to bring a cultural immersion of
Neuro-Semantics to the participants of Meta-Coaching, we also experienced a
cultural immersion in Maori culture given that only four of us where not
Maori.  So I saw for the first time an Axes of Change Haka.  And how can I
describe that?  Each of our teams took on of the axes on The Axes of Change
and created a mind-to-muscle "song," "rap," "dance" with it.   It was as
mind-to-muscle as any pattern I could have invented and quite powerful in
effect - even for an observer.

 

Another aspect of the Maori culture is the Taonga.  I heard about it several
times in coaching sessions when a coach would ask, "How do you want to
remember this state or experience?  How do you want to anchor it so you can
keep this new robust frame of mind or feeling?"  And they would talk about
wearing something around their neck as a Taonga - a "treasure."  Colin and
Lena tell me that they even introduce Neuro-Semantics as a Taonga (treasure)
and as a term that carries special significance for those who wear a black
or green stone which they receive as a gift around the neck.  And that, by
the way, is a way that the Maori people naturally anchor a state and use it
for re-accessing it with ease.  The training ended on Day 8 with a
Neuro-Semantic Haka that was offered me which was especially moving and
powerful, leaving me speechless.

 

And the new format for the Coaching Mastery Program?  I congratulate Lena
Gray on the exceptional job of co-training she did having to adjust to the
new format and keep up with me and doing all of that and co-sponsoring the
whole event.  Meta-High Fives for taking on all of that!   Meta High Fives
also to Antoinette Ehmke from Pretoria South Africa who joined Colin and
Lena on our panel of Expert Coaches on Day 7 to contribute to the business
acumen of creating a commercially viable coaching practice.  And also to
Joseph Scott of Australia who showed up on Day 4, sat in and helped with the
benchmarking of competency skills and then shared some of his experiences
and insights having worked with leaders and companies as a Meta-Coach for
some four or five years now.  (Both Lena and Joe are part of the leadership
team of the MCF - both in their internship for being signed off as a
Meta-Coach Trainer.)

 

Every single person reached benchmark competency on the seven core skills;
several are provisional due to needing to catch up on Modules I and II.  We
even had 2 people without any NLP (Module I) and Meta-States (Module II) who
succeed in an exceptional way.  And for the first time ever we also had two
teenagers graduate from Coaching Mastery!  That's right, two young people 18
years old.  Now imagine their futures knowing this stuff!  Imagine what your
present future would have been like if you had been introduced and trained
in those coaching/ leadership skills at 18!  And then there were the visions
that we heard on Graduation night -What wonderful visions of the legacy that
will be left by Meta-Coaches in New Zealand!  As I now fly to Pretoria South
Africa for the next Coaching Mastery, I am impressed with the quality of the
new graduates in New Zealand and the foundational work that Colin and Lena
are doing there- along with numerous other Neuro-Semantic Trainers and
Coaches.  Here's to the Vision of Self-Actualizing people, companies, and
countries!

 

 

 

 

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            Special gathering on Dec. 14 for Meta-Coaches and NS trainers 

at the home of Nicola and Lucia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics

Meta-Coach Training System

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