THE ART OF COACHING USING PATTERNS

While coaching is a conversation, when you first learn to coach, the conversations that you learn are formalized conversations. We call them patterns. That’s why all of modules I and II in Meta- Coaching introduces you to models and to lots and lots of patterns. By understanding the models, whether it is the NLP Communication Model, the Strategy Model, the Meta-States Model, etc., you can then coach a person through a pattern.

“Now why would I do that?” someone may ask. The primary reason for doing that when you are just starting out in the field of coaching is to use a tried-and-true process for guiding the conversation. The NLP Patterns that I put in the book Source Book of Magic (1997) were the patterns that had been tested, tried, used, studied, and researched for two decades. You can count on them for getting results with clients. And most of them, coming from Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls, had the added advantage of having been tested with thousands of people. What the NLP co- developers did was formalize the pattern.