THERAPY, LIKE COACHING, IS IN THE META PLACE

As I’ve been studying and writing about therapy for a new book (to be titled, Meta- Therapy), I have been focusing attention on the meta place. I’ve been doing that as a way to say something new and different from all of the thousands of books on therapy, namely, that therapy occurs in the meta place. Now you, as a Meta-Coach, would already know that, or at least guess that, because meta is the place where we create and experience our humanness.

NLP picked this meta idea up from Bateson and introduced it as “going meta,” as meta- parts, meta-position, meta-model, meta-programs, meta-tactics, etc. What is this meta? It is the next higher level thought, emotion, experience, etc. I adopted meta for meta-states in 1994 when the idea struck me that there could be a state about another state. And with that, I developed the Meta-States Model which has proven to an exceptionally rich and productive model as it has led to so many other things.