ARE YOU META-STATING IN YOUR COACHING?

As a Meta-Coach, the process of meta-stating is not something that you do from time to time when you suddenly get the idea of bringing one state to another state. It is something that already is happening in every minute of conversation in the coaching dialogue and it is something that you can do as a coach to facilitate and guide.

In case you had not noticed, your client is constantly meta-stating himself or herself. That’s because they are not just sitting there having one thought or one feeling, they are having thoughts about their thoughts, feelings about their feelings, feelings about their thoughts, thoughts about their feelings. And they are not doing it just one time, but layer upon layer upon layer. In the back of their mind they are accessing and experiencing states (thinking-feeling-somatizing states) in response to their own states and to you. Are you noticing? Are you searching to find out what’s going on?