THE BODILY URGE META-PROGRAM

Your client is sitting in your coaching chair and you’re having a wonderful coaching conversation about his hopes and dreams. And as all of that, what is happening, what is the somatic response pattern that you are noticing in your client? Somatically, that is, in her body, is she getting into an active state and ready to pounce or is she getting into a thoughtful, mindful, and reflective state?

We have, in this meta-program, a response pattern that is as much genetic as it is learned. That’s because in some of us the motor programs in the brain seem to be much quicker to be activated in some people than in others. If thinking about something seems to immediately mobilize your body to act or to do something, you have the active response pattern. Conversely, if you can think about something and you can just think and not feel any compulsion to act, then you have the reflective response pattern.