COACHING AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Part II

John Burton earned his doctorate at Vanderbelt in Developmental Psychology and so States of Equilibrium is a book that could easily be sub-titled: Meta-States Meets Developmental Psychology or, Meta-Developmental Psychology and Meta-Coaching

Now if you are not familiar with the key theorists and thinkers in the field of developmental psychology, you will learn a good bit about them in States of Equilibrium as John quotes and relates the work of Piaget, Erik Erikson, Jane Loevinger, William Perry, Lawrence Kohlberg, and others to the basic NLP model of “states” and “meta-states.”

States of Equilibrium Highlights Maslow’s Work In re-reading the book recently, I was actually surprised and delighted to discover how much Burton quotes and uses Maslow’s work in his book and in using it to supplement what he wrote about human developmental psychology. John especially focuses on the need for equilibrium which occurs in level two of the hierarchy— the safety and security needs.