META-COMMENTING

I came across an article recently that will soon be published from Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. I did a peer review of the article for the magazine. The title of the article is “The Role of Meta-Comments” and it offers some valuable insights about meta-comments. And, of course, for any Neuro-Semanticist and especially for Meta-Coaches, this is important— very important. Why? Because it is meta-comments that you listen for to hear layers in your client’s mind, the meta-levels that indicate the client’s meta-states and frames of mind.

Now in the article, James and Penny note the fact that clients will often make meta-comments on their own comments. When this happens, the person essentially interrupts his or her train of thought for a moment to—

“... pass a judgment, reflect on their knowledge, give notification of a change, or in some other way reveal something about the current state of their inner world.”