IN CONTENT— KNOW NOTHING IN STRUCTURE— BE THE EXPERT

Last year I was at one of the ACMC trainings and strongly urging people to adopt the know- nothing frame of mind.

I quoted Fritz Perls, “Lose your mind and come to your senses.” I quoted Milton H. Erickson, “When patients come into my office, I greet them with a blank mind and I look them over to see who and what and why they are, without taking anything for granted.” (Haley, 1985, p. 114).

Soon thereafter, at the morning break, one participant came up to me and from my calibrations, I would say that she was not in a very good state. She seemed stressed and nervous and upset. She said that she just did not get it. “Why am I here learning coaching an coaching skills and Neuro- Semantics if you want me to ‘lose my mind’ and to be ‘know-nothing?’” It wasn’t until I sorted out a distinction that I had not made in my public descriptions that she suddenly got it and experienced a delightful Aha! moment of insight.