COACHING IN A PROCESS WORLD

If you want to know where the power of coaching lies, the power of NLP, and the power of Neuro- Semantics, it lies in understanding that we live in a process world. That’s why we say we coach to structure or process much more than to content. That’s why we say that we are listening for structure in order to understand the client’s processes. These are not two unrelated things, they are related. Content is what you deal with when you listen to your client’s stories about what’s happening in his life and/or when she tells you are the specific details that she would like to be different and better in her life.

He wants a fifteen percent increase in his salary. She wants to lose ten pounds. She also wants to re-arrange her schedule so that there’s more family time. He says that he also wants more family time and also time to spend on his motorcycle.

All of this is content. Details. Story. So where is the structure and how does one get to the structure which is hidden out of sight? The answer is by questioning, by information gathering.