MIND-LINING AND COACHING

To be effective as a Coach, and especially a Meta-Coach, you have to develop the skill of mind- lining. And what is that? It is a line (a statement or a question) that changes a mind (e.g., a mind-line). It is a frame of meaning that provides a new understanding about something. It is a frame that replaces and exchanges an old frame that is creating an interference, disturbance, or sabotage for someone. So when you reframe, you are providing a new line, a new mind-line.

Now as a Meta-Coach, you naturally do this whenever you ask the down or the up questions. Ask the down questions of the Meta-Model, and you enable a client to get specific and precise in that client’s description (and in the Mind-Lines model) you are deframing. You are de- constructing the constructs that a client has built.