What is Meta Coaching?

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Dr. Michael L Hall is a modeler of self-actualization excellence in people, groups, and organizations. Over the years his research, using NLP and Neuro-Semantics, has modeled the highest and best and translated that as models and trainings for Coaches, Trainers, and Consultants. Coaching is by its very nature a field or discipline that works at a higher or meta position to the client and the client's experience.  As a sports coach does not have to be an expert in the sport himself, he or she does have to know how to get the best out of the player.  A meta-coach is an expert is structure and process rather than in content.  The client is his or her own best expert in content.

 

• Meta-Coaching™ is a powerful coaching methodology that transcends traditional Performance Coaching, taking Coach and client to higher levels – to Developmental and Transformational Coaching. That is why we call it ‘meta’ meaning a higher level. At these levels profound change occurs naturally and easily. The result is success and transformation.

 

• A masterful Coach will have theoretical knowledge and advanced skill in six crucial processes such as: communicating, working with the layers of reflexive awareness, facilitating change, working to implement action steps to make the change real and lasting, working systemically with a system, the human mind-body system, and working to actualize a person's potentials, talents, passions, and visions.

 

• Meta-Coach™ training draws on the Cognitive Sciences of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Neuro-Semantics (NS) and integrates them into cutting-edge coaching psychology. Your coach has successfully completed the Associate Master Coach Certification this qualification is internationally recognised.

 

Source: L. Michael Hall Ph.D meta coaching foundation, www.meta-coaching.org

 

 

 

What is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)?

 

NLP is a communication model that describes how language (linguistics) affects our body and physiology (neurology).  Words and symbols work indirectly, not directly.  Words and symbols work in our mind like a map about a territory ("The map is not the territory") just as our inner mental movies of sights, sounds, sensations, smells, etc. is not the external experience.  But, and this is the magic of symbols, the movies we play in the theater of our mind do send messages (and even commands) to our nervous systems about what to feel and how to respond and so create our internal reality. 

 

As a model of human functioning, NLP describes the processes and patterns (programming) that is currently governing our mind-body system and the processes and patterns that could enable us to "run our own brain" in new and much more resourceful ways.  NLP is about how to change the communication (mapping, movie-making) so that we can experience more resourceful states of mind-and-body.

 

Source: L. Michael Hall Ph.D meta coaching foundation, www.meta-coaching.org

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What is Neuro-Semantics (NS)?

 

Neuro-Semantics is about meaning and meaningfulness (semantics) and how the meanings we create not only at the level of representation as we make movies in our minds, but at all of the higher levels of frames about those movies.  The movies and meanings that we set not only create our frames of mind, but the emotions, skills, states, and abilities in our bodies (neurology). 

 

Because we never just think or feel, but we think and feel about our thoughts and emotions and do so layer upon layer upon layer, thinking about our feelings, feeling about our feelings, etc., each layer creates another frame, another "logical level," and so creates our matrix of frames of meaning.  This is the construct of our inner world that comprises all of the Rules of the Games that we play in our actions, behaviours, and skills. 

 

• Neuro-Semantics works with the reflexivity of our states (Meta-States) that create our Matrix of Frames (the Matrix model, Frame Game model) and that leads to how we can actually close the knowing-doing gap. 

 

• Neuro-Semantics focuses on the integration or synergy that results when we can translate the great ideas in our heads so that they are in our body (the Mind-to-Muscle pattern, for example).

 

• As a model with many sub-models for explicating the structure of experience, the heart of Neuro-Semantics is modelling experiences of excellence and mastery.  This modelling process enables us then to create many models and patterns for replicating those highly desired experiences.

 

Source: L. Michael Hall Ph.D meta coaching foundation, www.meta-coaching.org