COACHING CONVERSATIONS Can They be Hypnotic?

As a Meta-Coach, you know all about the basic conversations that are inherent in coaching. You have been trained to discern the first five: Is this a clarity conversation? Is this a decision conversation? Is this a planning conversation? Is this a resourcing or experiencing conversation? Is this a change conversation? The great majority of coaching conversations will fall into those five basic categories.

In PCMC training and in the manual, there are pages about the distinctions within those conversations. And the importance of that lies in being able to think strategically with your clients. That is, to think in terms of where are you in relationship to what your client wants? Further each conversation entails a different state and a different strategy. Almost every conversation begins with a clarity conversation because it takes the communication dialogue of going back and forth in an effort to understand your client— on your client’s terms— and to begin to recognize the meaning-making patterns which your client uses.