COACHING AS TRAINING

This past week I observe Colin Cox “coach” a person during our Trainers’ Training in Hong Kong. The context occurred when I set up the following question for the trainers-in-training:

“How do you think about ‘interferences’ and what NLP and Neuro-Semantic patterns do you rely on and default to in handling interferences?”

After posing the question, we (Colin and I) then engaged the group of 48 participants in a dialogue. “What do you think? How do you represent and frame ‘interference?’” When a participant describes something as interfering, how do you respond? With the Hong Kong group, it took a bit of coaxing, but after awhile there were numerous proposals about how to think about an interference. The interference could be one of—

• A Belief — do a belief change process, Meta-Yes, for example.
• An Emotion — use the meta-stating a negative emotion pattern
• A Concept — meta-state the concept pattern
• Self-reflexivity — if someone has turned their reflecting onto themselves, then dance with the dragon.