META-COACHING AROUND THE WORLD IN 2011

Meta-Coaching is the unique coaching methodology of Neuro-Semantics and this year we are conducting Module III in nine cities around the world. That’s the most ever in a single year. We begin in China, then Norway, Mexico, Sydney, Bali, Colorado, Belgium, New Zealand, and then South Africa.

What is unique about Meta-Coaching that distinguishes it as a Coaching Methodology for unleashing human potentials— leadership, creativity, wealth creation, health and fitness, team and organizational development, etc.? Several things. Probably, in contrast to every other coach training program, Meta-Coaching is structured systematically so that you know what you are doing, how you are to do it, and why. This is no small thing. It saves a person who uses this methodology, whether a leader, manager, parent, consultant, or professional coach from operating from a “grab-bag” approach— grabbing some technique or pattern, crossing one’s fingers, and hoping that it will do something.

The systematic nature of Meta-Coaching arises from modeling expert coaches at work and from modeling coaching itself. As a methodology, coaching falls into the realm of the communication arts and yet differentiates itself by being a very special kind of communication. When you use it, you are utilizing a process that will enable a conversation like none other, a conversation that gets to the heart of things and that facilitates the transformation of unleashing potentials. It is not like the therapeutic conversation because it doesn’t assume that you are the expert about the client or that the client needs fixing or that the client is living in the past and needs to get over a traumatic experience.

It is not like a training or consulting conversation in that it does not require expert knowledge about a given domain of meaning. The expertise is the coaching conversation does not lie in the content, but in the process of facilitating core change that frees a person from the things leashing him or her and empowers a person to unleashing potentials clamoring inside to be released.

That’s why this methodology is a self-actualizing methodology. And that’s another thing very unique about Meta-Coaching. While the majority of other coach training programs operate from the assumptions of Self-Actualization Psychology and work with a person’s strengths, virtues, and positive features, few make it explicit. The Meta-Coaching process makes this fully explicit. And it does so through explicit models picking up where Maslow and Rogers left off. The explicit models are the Meaning—Performance Axes, the Self-Actualization Quadrants, and the Volcano of Hierarchical Needs.

Meta-Coaching is not only systematic in that it is structured and orderly, it is systemic. A Coaching Conversation that gets to the depths of your meanings “in the back of your mind” and follow your own mental-emotional energy through your mind-body system is not a linear process. It is much more dynamic and complex that a simple A to B to C set of steps. That’s why Meta-Coaching uses the Matrix Model as a systems model thereby enabling you to follow the circles and spirals of thoughts-and-emotions as they go round and round another person’s system.

All of this would be high-falutin words with questionable substance if we also didn’t have a way to mark and measure the actual competencies required to facilitate this very special kind of conversation. But we do! We have used the Benchmarking Model to create a set of behavioral benchmarks for over 50 coaching / communication skills and we use them to provide real-time feedback as participants practice real coaching conversations.

In addition to these and other features of Meta-Coaching, however, is the International Meta- Coaching Community that provides ongoing support and accountability.

Now if you think that Meta-Coaching is only for professional coaches, then I still have not conveyed the essence of this methodology as a high level form of communication, leadership, management, and self-actualization. That’s why in addition to the Meta-Coach Certificate with the ACMC credentials for completion, we also give for others a Professional Communicator Certificate.

If one of your dreams and goals for this new year is to become highly professional as a communicator, to improve your leadership competencies, to get through to people in ways that you didn’t know possible, to add a whole new set of skills to your repertoire — then check out Meta-Coaching, the pathway involves three modules:

• I: Coaching Essentials: The NLP Communication Model (or NLP Practitioner)

• II: Coaching Genius: The 3-day training in Meta-States Model, also known as APG: Accessing Your Personal Genius State.

• III: Coaching Mastery: The 8-day intensive Coaching Boot Camp that results in the ACMC credentials.

Here are the nine cities where Coaching Mastery (III) are being held this year:

China Gougzhou, China: Meta-Coaching, Module III — Coaching Mastery for ACMC Jan. 3-4 — Team Leaders Jan 5— 9 as Part I of Coaching Mastery Guangzhou, China: Sponsor: Team Huang [email protected]; and Mandy Chai— [email protected] Meta-Coaching is presented in two parts — January 5– 9 and Feb. 23-27 Team leaders Training days; Jan 3-4 and Feb. 21-22.

Norway Osal, Norway — Coaching Mastery for ACMC Feb. 3: Team Leaders Training Day Feb. 4– 11: Coaching Mastery for ACMC credentials Lene Fjellheim, Sponsor and Organizer Contact information: CoachTeam Postbox 4440, Nydalen — N -0440 Oslo + 47 4000 4500 www.coachteam.no – [email protected]

China Gougzhou, China: Meta-Coaching, Module III — Coaching Mastery Feb. 21-22 and Feb. 23–27 Guangzhou, China: Sponsor: Team Huang [email protected]; and Mandy Chai— [email protected] Meta-Coaching is presented in two parts — January 5– 9 and Feb. 23-27 Team leaders Training days; Jan 3-4 and Feb. 21-22.

Australia Sydney Australia — Coaching Mastery for ACMC April 7 – Team Leaders April 8– 15, 2011 Meta-Coaching -III Sponsors: Laureli Blyth and Heidi Heron [email protected] [email protected]

Hong Kong Hong Kong — Coaching Mastery, Module III April 21: Team Leaders Training Day April 22– 25 and then 29— May 2 Coaching Boot Camp Sponsor: Mandy Chai — Website: www.apti.com.hk Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Indonesia — Bali Indonesia — Bali — Coaching Mastery for ACMC May 11-12 – Team Leaders May 13– 20, 2011 Meta-Coaching -III Sponsors: Mariani Ng — [email protected]

Colorado, USA Grand Junction Colorado — Meta-Coach Training, Module III July 5 – Team Leaders July 6– 13, 2011 Meta-Coaching -III: Coaching Mastery for ACMC

Sponsors: L. Michael Hall

Mexico Mexico City, Mexico — Meta-Coach Training --- Module III Sept. 8-11 and Oct. 13-16, 2011 Team Leaders: Sept. 7, Oct. 1 PF. Suites Hotel, Plaza Florencia, Mexico City. Trainers: Omar Salom, David Murphy Organizer: Iván Robles García Cglobal Coaching & Consulting Tel. (55) 5511 8680 Cel. 55 1953 5368 [email protected] 5255- 3093- 0686 [email protected]

Pretoria — South Africa South Africa – Pretoria Oct. 28— Nov. 4 — Coaching Mastery for ACMC Oct. 27 – Team Leaders Oct. 28– Nov. 4 — Coaching Boot Camp, Meta-Coaching -III Sponsors: Cheryl Lucas and Carey Jooste [email protected] Cell : 083 267 1412 Tel: 012 362 6542 Fax : 088 012 362 6641 www.psacoaching.co.za