HOLDING A FRAME WHILE COACHING

Because Neuro-Semantics focuses on meaning, the meaning-making powers of a human being, quality controlling how we construct meaning by asking precision questions and meta-questions, and by checking for cognitive distortions and biases, the subject of meaning is central is everything we do. We also know that because meaning does not exist outside of us, we know that meaning is an inside-job. It comes from the inside and as it does it shows up in our neurology and physiology as our emotions and physiological states. That’s what an emotion is, the feeling of meaning in our body.

We also know that much of our meaning-making as well as the meanings that we construct and live by are outside-of-conscious awareness. Meanings that we have communicated (intentionally or unintentionally) get embodied so that they show up in our bodies. Meanings that we create or adopt can also get installed as our mental-and-emotional frames of reference. These are almost always outside-of-conscious awareness. These frames-of-reference describe the mental or understanding contexts that we assume in order to make sense of things. We call them assumptions, premises, and presuppositions. In short we call them frames.