FORGET RESULTS IF YOU WANT RESULTS

It’s paradoxical. Yet like many paradoxes, it is the secret of effectiveness. And for you as a Meta-Coach, this is one of the treasures of the Meta-States Model that gives you a tremendous tool or process for effecting transformational change. Paradox, in the Meta-States Model, is the confusion of levels. If you fuse levels and do not distinguish, you won’t know members of a class and confuse the category with the members.

Last week at our ACMC training in Shanghai China, we have a great many if not most of our new coaches in training who were very strongly results oriented. Several even announced that about themselves. “I’m a very much a results-oriented person,” said one. Others struggled so much to just listen and repeat back words in acknowledging the client before them— what interfered so much was that they wanted to do something. Some felt anxious and uncomfortable in not doing something!