COACHING AS MODELING

If you are a coach using NLP and Neuro-Semantics, then a good bit of your coaching involves modeling. Modeling? Yes, of course! After all, in order to coach effectively, you have to discover what the client wants and needs and how the client experiences his or her reality. And to do that you have to use your core coaching skills so that you can discover the client’s model of the world, do you not?

First, the relationship skills (supporting and listening) give you the context and foundation for being allowed entrance into the client’s world. If you don’t create a safe and trusting relationship, you won’t be able to get the inside information that only the client is privy to. Only then can you truly use your exploration skills (questioning and meta-questioning) to ground the experience and detect the meta-layers that hold the meanings in place.