[Neurons] 2009 Meta Reflections #53

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Meta Reflections #53

Dec. 7, 2009

 

 

BEYOND THE BOOKS

TO EMBODIED EXPERIENCE

 

 

 

After finishing the fifth training of Coaching Mastery in 2009 which we did
in Sydney, Australia last week, I got two emails from opposites sides of the
planet asking about the same thing.  Each person was thinking about taking
Coaching Mastery, the third module of Meta-Coaching for the ACMC credentials
and each was essentially asking the same question.  For brevity sake, I have
summarized the questions as follows:

"Now that you have most of the books on Meta-Coaching written, as well as
the extensive training manual, what is the value of the live training- the
coaching bootcamp?  Can't I get that from the books?  What will I get that I
can't get from the books?"

 

The answer is really simple; it is direct; and in my opinion it is
unequivocal.  What you get in the training is the experience of closing your
own personal the knowing-doing gap.  "Knowing" is actually the easy part.
If you can read, if you can watch a video, if you can listen to an audio
tape, or get the live training on your i-pod- you can get the content
information.  You can discover and learn the key distinctions about the
competencies, about the models, the patterns, and so on.

 

But knowing something in your mind is not the same as knowing it in your
body.  In fact, much of the human dilemma that all of us face throughout our
lives is that we "know."  Cognitively and academically we know.  We know,
and yet we do not do.

 

Actually this has been a theme in Neuro-Semantics from the very beginning.

>From the beginning we launched Neuro-Semantics as a field and community

because we had a vision of people using the communication and modeling tools
of NLP on themselves and not merely using NLP to "do things" to other
people!  "Doing NLP" on people is what has led to such charge against NLP as
"NLP is manipulative," and "Lots of NLP people don't apply NLP to
themselves."  And sadly, those charges are just as true today as it was in
1996.

 

Knowing and not doing- the human dilemma.  People know what to do for health
and fitness and don't do it.  They don't need another class on nutrition or
exercise; they need experiential embodying of their knowledge.  People know
what to do for business success and wealth creation; they don't need another
class on the basics of business.   They need to close the gap between what
they know and what they do.

And that's what Neuro-Semantic trainings and coaching with a Meta-Coach
focuses on- experiential knowledge, the embodiment of what you know, the
integration of information so that it becomes your "way of being" in the
world.   This is where the Mind-to-Muscle pattern shines.  This is where
Crucible experiences facilitate transformation.  And this is where the
coaching bootcamp of Coaching Mastery does its magic.

 

What you get from the live training is experience in embodying the content
knowledge.  Sure you know how to listen!  Who doesn't?  Just listen.  But
when it comes to sitting down with another person and listening to his or
her dreams, visions, and outcomes and being able to repeat it back word for
word, listening intently, accurately, personally and listening not only with
your ears.  You also listen with your eyes and skin, you listen with your
discernment of dozens of distinctions.  And that's a very different thing!
So with supporting, and questioning, and meta-questioning, and state
induction.

 

Embodying is the neuro- part of Neuro-Linguistics and Neuro-Semantics.  It
is the active use of your body- your neurology, physiology, and state-to
activate new patterns and install them into muscle memory.  It's the way you
learned to drive, roller-skate, ski, type on a key-board, and another
thousand skills that you have.  You learned those skills, and made those
skills, yours by doing, by practicing, by practicing under the competent eye
of someone who has been through the process.

 

The mythology that Bandler and others have perpetuated in NLP is that they
can "install knowledge and skills" in you unconsciously, that is, apart from
your conscious awareness.  That is pure non-sense!  Anders Ericsson and
associates (The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance) have
now demonstrated via extensive research that expertise arises only through
conscious deliberate practice.  And lots of practice, 10,000 hours for
world-class violinists and "the ten-year rule" for almost every expertise
you can name.

 

What can you get from the Coaching Bootcamp?  Intense deliberate practice in
a Crucible of caring and skilled people along with a community of passionate
people.  You get entrance into a living human laboratory for the embodiment
of non-content, process facilitation skills.  You get an experience of
transformation so that you know coaching from the inside out.  You get an
experience of your life at high level of challenge and support.

 

To the full embodiment of your content knowledge!

 

 

 

 

Unleashing Leadership Workshop   --- THIS WEEK!

 

The latest book in the Self-Actualization Series and in the Meta-Coach
series is Unleashing Leadership: Self-Actualizing Leaders and Companies
(2009).   As a leadership development workshop, discover how to identify
your leadership potentials and unleash them --- whether for self-leadership
or leadership in an opportunity that awaits you.

 

Dec. 11-13, Imola, Italy

            Sponsored by Bless You --- Nicola Riva and Lucia Giovannini

            Nicola at blessyou.it 

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

at the home of Nicola and Lucia.

 

 

 

 

--- Meta-Coach Trainings coming 2009 - 2010

                        

1) Australia

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

      Sponsors: Laureli Blyth and Heidi Heron                  

      Heidi at nlpworldwide.com              Laureli at nlpworldwide.com 

 

 

2) China --- 2010

      Meta-Coaching in two parts --   January 17-22 and May 9-14  (6 days
each time): 

Includes also Module II (Coaching Genius).  

            Guangzhou, China:  Sponsor: Team Huang --- supported by
Neuro-Semantic Trainers: 

Mandy Chai and Wilkie Choi   For Chinese---   yeshow at 163.net .  For English
speakers: 

Mandy Chai: chaimansun at yahoo.com.hk 

 

 

3) Mexico --- 2010

     In two parts --- March 4-7 (March 3 for Team Leaders) and April 15-18
(April 14 for Team Leaders). 

     Sponsor: Salom Change Dynamics-  www.salomchd.com  (55) 30930687 ---
emilia at salomchd.com

 

Trainers Training --- in NLP and NS --- NSTT

1)    January and June --- Hong Kong:  January 25-31 and June 4-11.
Contact Mandy Chai: chaimansun at yahoo.com.uk 




2)    June --- Grand Junction Colorado:  June 19-July 3.  Contact Dr. Hall:
meta at acsol.net 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

(ISNS) International Society of Neuro-Semantics

The International Meta-Coach System

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO.  81520 USA

1 970-523-7877

      <http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com 

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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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