THINK “THINKING”

At the heart of what you do when you coach is offer a different kind of thinking than the thinking of your client. A good beginning assumption is that if your client could figure out what he wants, how to get it, what’s blocking her, what blindspot is interfering, etc., your client would not be sitting in your coaching chair. Your client is sitting there precisely because his or her way of thinking is not empowering, enabling, unleashing, and resolving whatever needs to happen.

If it is the person’s kind and way and style of thinking that is not working, then as a Meta-Coach, this is your forte. After all, you have been trained with NLP’s Meta-Model, Communication Model and Neuro-Semantics Meaning–Performance Axes, Self-Actualization Quadrants, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and especially the Meta-Programs of perceptual patterns. You of all coaches have been trained to listen for the kind of thinking which is within and behind the person’s communications.