[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #43 AND THEN THERE WAS META-THERAPY

Thu Oct 20 21:45:12 EDT 2022

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #43

October 21, 2022

Report on Meta-Therapy Training 

AND THEN THERE WAS META-THERAPY

Over 20 years ago I developed The Meta-Coaching System.  Why?  The purpose
was to bring Neuro-Semantics into the field of Coaching and offer the
distinctions that we make as well as higher quality NLP.  At the time,
coaching was a new field and I especially wanted to offer the distinctions
that we make which distinguishes coaching from the other helping
professions. 

Fast forward 22 years and last December I flew to Portland Oregon to be with
my colleague and longest lasting best friend, Dr. Carl Lloyd.  While
Geraldine was in Seattle with her sister, Carl and I drove there.  That gave
us many wonderful hours which we spent reminiscing about our friendship
since 1975, as well as talking about therapy.  The reason for the talk about
therapy, in part, is because Carl has been a tenured Professor with two
doctorates and lots of post-graduate studies, a Supervisor with new
therapists, the director of a psychiatric clinic, and a psychotherapy for
decades, and a therapist himself.  As Carl began asking me about the
therapeutic processes within the Meta-States Model, that re-initiated a new
flame of passion in myself.  It gave me lots of ideas about research
questions that one could use for a thesis or a dissertation.

Afterwards I returned home and one of the presentations I created was The
Unexpected Expansiveness of the Meta-States Model which I shared in several
zoom meetings.  Nor did Carl let up; he kept writing and questioning things
suggesting we integrate Meta-States into therapy.  As a result I took a
second look at the subject of psychotherapy-a subject that I had moved away
from when I began focusing on coaching.  Then with the research and books I
wrote this year (Inside-Out; Inspiring the Heart), I decided I would take a
new fresh look at psychotherapy and see if there was anything new that I
could offer.  That was the birth of Meta-Therapy.

After writing the book, Geraldine read it and kept urging me to create a
training manual, "the coaches need this" she kept saying.  I didn't
immediately believe her; but I have learned not to dismiss a wife's
suggestions out of hand.  "I will think about it." I said.  Then Jairo asked
that I present it at INAP in Brazil.  So I got busy writing a manual.

We have now completed that training.  So what's the results?  First of all,
at the training we mostly had Meta-Coaches and only a few licensed
Therapists.  I didn't expect that.  I was further surprised about the
applicability of the material to the Meta-Coaches.  I didn't expect that
either.  Then I remembered something that I had forgotten.  The patterns we
use in Neuro-Semantics was created in the years when I was doing therapy and
in the context of therapy (e.g., Power Zone, Self-Esteem, Dragons, Emotions,
etc.).  I had forgotten about the context of their source.  Having
reapportion them for self-development and for Coaching, I had forgotten
about some of the powerful therapeutic mechanisms within them.  So that part
was a delightful rediscovery.  Carl's intuitions were right!

What I discovered was that Meta-Therapy will round out one's Meta-Coaching
training.  It enables a coach to more clearly distinguish therapy and
coaching.  It gives one a deeper appreciation of the patterns and an
awareness of what's going on inside them.

I was glad to hear from the therapists who were present that they got a lot
out of the training, insights and tools which will help them in their
practices.  I was then amazed to hear from the Meta-Coaches that, although
they do not do therapy, and that was not their intention, they gained a
deeper understanding and appreciation of the models and patterns in
Neuro-Semantics.  They said that this would help to deepen their coaching.
Many mentioned the value of learning about the meta place.

Now some time prior to writing Meta-Therapy, I began formatting the mind or
consciousness as a meta place.  That began with Inside-Out.  As I was
finishing up Meta-Therapy, I starting writing little pieces about what is in
the meta place.  As a result, that led to thinking about writing the next
book on The Meta Place.  I first presented the meta place in Egypt in
September to the trainers in the APG training.  Now in Meta-Therapy, because
that's where therapy occurs -that became a significant piece in the
training.

With the training in Rio we have now launched Meta-Therapy.  This will be
the subject of the next "Wisdoms" Zoom which (I think) will be the second
Saturday of November.  I'll also be presenting this to several NLP
Conferences in the next few months.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS Executive Director

P.O. Box 8

Clifton Colorado 81520 USA

(970) 523-7877

drhall at acsol.net  

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