THE ART OF INDUCING STATE

To coach is to induce state. If as a coach, and especially a Meta-Coach, you cannot induce a state, you cannot coach. You are just having a chat. You are only a talking-head and unable to facilitate either a deep compassion or a significant challenge. But, what does it mean to induce a state and how do you do that skillfully?

The What A state is an experiential state of being comprised of what a person thinks, feels, and embodies. Most of the time we are in mixed states, two or three things are on our minds as well as we are generating several emotions. As a result, our “normal” state is diffused, scattered, and non-discreet. Ask a person like that, “How are you feeling?” and his immediate response will be, “I don’t know.” That’s because he is not feeling anything very strongly and he may be experiencing conflicting emotions so that he really does not know what’s going on inside.