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WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?

When you coach using the Meta-Coaching methodology, you begin with a fierce conversation about what the person wants.

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When you coach using the Meta-Coaching methodology, you begin with a fierce conversation about what the person wants. “What do you want?” is the question you begin with. Now you can make it more elegant and more powerful than that— and more compelling.

“What do you really, really want?” “What would make the most transformative difference in your life?”

Now whatever your client says, the frame by implication is that the person does not have it right now. If she had it, she would not be wanting it. If he could do it, he would not be wanting to be able to do it. Here, your inferential listening now gives you your next questions— “What is going on right now?” “What do you have right now?” “Where are you in relationship to what you want?” “What are the symbols that you may be experiencing right now?” “What consequences will occur in the future because you don’t have what you want?”