YOU HAVE TO GO META TO META-COACH

In recent years we have introduced several coaching tools to enable you, as a Meta-Coach, to move above the content of the coaching so that you can coach to the structure of how a person is operating. What you learned in APG to prepare you for this was the structure of meta-questions, the diamond of consciousness (or experience), and the process of reflexivity. Then, using the Matrix Model, you discovered that all of the Matrix questions are meta-questions except state. So they also allow you to “go meta” and access the structure of your client’s experience.

To the end of expanding this, a few years ago we introduced the Landscape Template. Landscape gives you the ability to identify where your client is in terms of four spaces— today (now), tomorrow (then), the path to tomorrow, and the meta-lands above those spaces. Then by moving up above that timeline, you can ask meta-questions. We began emphasizing the five meta- questions in the WFO questions by which you create your coaching contract. We then introduced the meta-question drill which we typically do on Day 5 or 6 of ACMC.