INSIDER’S GUIDE TO COACHING WITH META-PROGRAMS

If meta-programs is a facet of the Meta-States Model and an intricate part of Meta-Coaching and if it is a facet of Meta-Coaching which sets it apart from other coaching schools, as I suggested in the last Meta-Coach Reflection, then what’s involved in coaching to meta-programs? Then, as a Meta-coach, what are the key skills that you need so that you can effectively coach to a client’s meta-programs? What are the required core skills for effectively working with meta-programs as a coach? Here are the most essential core skills:

Skill #1: Detecting the presence of meta-programs in client communications. Most people can pick up on and recognize if a person is a “cup-half-full” person or a “cup-half- empty” person. Certainly you can. And yes, true enough, you won’t necessarily be able to detect such in the first three minutes of a conversation or even after 30 minutes. But after an hour or perhaps a session or two, and you will probably be able to recognize the person’s key patterns for thinking, reasoning, perceiving, and sorting.