COACHING CHANGE

If you are a Meta-Coach, you are a change agent. And over the past year I’ve been delighted when several Meta-Coaches have showed me that on their business cards they have: “Meta- Coach” ACMC and under that or next to it, they have: Change Agent. A couple have even told me that they answer their phone, Change Agent— Ready to take you to the Next Level of Excellence. And as a change agent, you are a very special change agent, you are a Generative Change Agent. And that differs remarkedly from being a Remedial Change Agent.

The difference here is between the kind of change — a kind of change which separates a professional Coach from a professional Therapist. And while it is true that you as a Meta-Coach have such powerful tools that you can do a lot of work that has traditionally been the exclusive domain of licensed therapists, in order to keep the field of Coaching clean with sharp distinctions as to what’s within its field of influence and what is outside the field, Meta-Coaches make this distinction between remedial and generative change.