EXPANDING SELF-AWARENESS IN CLIENTS

Given the importance of Coaching as an inward journey of discovery (Reflection #40), and given that the process of unleashing potentials requires and is based on self-awareness, then how do you, as a Meta-Coach, facilitate this? What are the models and tools that enable you to do that? Here then is a brief formula for coaching for self-awareness.

First, make the invitation. On first glance, you might think that inviting your client to go inside might be so obvious and so inevitable that you could wonder, “Why do that?” “Won’t that just naturally happen?” Yet strange as it might seem, it is not. Clients can and do stay outside. They can stay on the surface and avoid going inside on the inner journey. This is especially true for those who are externally referenced. With them you not only have to invite them on the inner journey, you might even have to challenge them repeatedly. For them, it will not be natural.