COACHING AS A THINKING ADVENTURE

I want you to think for a moment about the thinking that you elicit and require when you ask the Well-Formed Outcome questions when you begin a session of meta-coaching. How fully do you realize that you are inviting your client into a pretty incredible thinking adventure? Do you know all of the kinds, levels, and degrees of thinking skills you are activating in your clients with just the 18 WFO questions? If not, then let me be the one to delight and surprise you.

“What do you want to achieve in this session?” You begin with this question, which, on the surface, sounds prosaic. But it is not! When a person sets a goal, that person activates his pre- frontal cortex where intentions and intentionality lie. The goal establishes a standing order for all of the rest of his mind (and mind-body system) to be on the lookout for whatever fits that goal. In this, every goal a person gives her mind gives consciousness an assignment. This is amazing. No other species can do this. Try it with your dog or cat. “What do you want to achieve today to make your life better?”