THE ART OF FRAMING

If you are a coach, you set frames. You set frames as you begin the coaching conversation— time frames and style frames. You also set frames as you hold the conversation with your client because as your client describes events and designates them as meaning this or that, you can accept the frame of meaning given, or you can frame it in a different way— a way that will make it easier to create a solution. You can reframe it.

And when it comes to framing and reframing meaning— the tool most excellent for you to use in Meta-Coaching and Neuro-Semantics is The Mind-Lines Model. Do you know that model? The model takes the structure of “meaning” – namely, how we relate something out there in the real world (an External Behavior, EB) and connect it or equate it to something in the inner world (IS: the internal state or significance). This gives us a formula for meaning.

Meaning is the relationship between EB and IS. It is the association of EB with an IS or the equation and identification.