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WHY DO SOME HAVE A HARD TIME USING META-QUESTIONS

When it comes to Coaching, questioning is your primary tool for exploration, for discovery, for unleashing potentials, for developing new resources, for facilitating meta-level learning, and much, much more.

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When it comes to Coaching, questioning is your primary tool for exploration, for discovery, for unleashing potentials, for developing new resources, for facilitating meta-level learning, and much, much more. And the good news is that everybody can ask questions. Of course, not everyone can ask good questions, not high quality questions, nor even precision questions. That’s why Module I of Meta-Coaching focuses on the precision questions of the Meta-Model.

But what’s the story about Meta-Questions? Module II of Meta-Coaching focuses on the meta- questions that are inherent in the Meta-States Model. Meta-Coaches attend APG and experience 14 Meta-State patterns and 21 meta-stating processes and you would think (at least I think) that you would learn the art of asking meta-questions. But no. Most Meta-Coaches at Module III do not know how to ask meta-questions in the coaching conversation. So, what gives?