THE POWER OF TAKING SECOND POSITION Mirroring as a Coach

In the Meta-Coaching modules, you learn about the concept of matching another person and discover how NLP modeled Virginia Satir and found that this is the very heart of rapport. So in Coaching Essentials (or in NLP Practitioner) we began to ask you to match people as precisely as you can. There you learned about the many primary level aspects that you can match in a client: posture, breathing, movement, gesture, tone, volume, tempo, and so on.

Then when you entered into the Coaching Boot Camp of Coaching Mastery, we took all of that to a whole new level. In the first days we put a lot of emphasis on physical matching. We asked you to do that as thoroughly and as precisely as possible. And yet, whenever we do this, no matter how well some people may have been trained in NLP, or heard that matching is the structure of rapport, there are always some who just don’t like it and don’t believe it.