The Neuro-Semantic Approach to Coaching
Neuro-Semantics is about your personal development for greater meaningfulness, success, and contribution in life. In Neuro-Semantics we focus on the processes that will reliably unleash your highest and best potentials. We do that by enabling you to create the most enhancing and robust meanings that will then enable you to implement your best values into the actions that make up your performances. By modelling excellence in people who are actualizing their highest and best we continue to create new models.
As an inter-disciplinary field, the models of Neuro-Semantics come from the field of the Cognitive Behavioural sciences, from Developmental Psychology, the neuro-sciences, General Semantics, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), cognitive linguistics, cybernetics, and system dynamics.
The term" Semantics" refers to the meanings you create as a meaning-maker. What are your meanings about yourself, others, life, your career, health, wealth, relationships, etc.? Are they significant and robust? Are they exciting and enlivening? What meanings are you seeking to actualize in life? What meanings have you actualised? How well do the meanings that you are living serve you? How ecological are they?
Neurology ("Neuro-") refers to your body, physiology, and your states. It is in and through your neurology that you feel, experience, and perform your meanings. What do you perform? What semantic reactions do you experience emotionally and as your skills? Do they reflect your best ideas and meanings? Or is there a big gap between what you know and what you do?
Neuro-Semantics focuses on closing the Knowing-Doing gap, and enables you to win the inner game so you can achieve peak performance in your outer games of everyday life. Your inner games are your semantics or meanings. Your inner game is made up of your meaning frames. Your outer games occur in your body and neurology. It is here that you actualise your meanings.
If every behaviour and response you produce is the performance of a meaning, what meanings are you performing? What is the quality of that performance? Do you like what you are actualizing or would you like to transform what you are creating?
If, as a meaning-maker, you create your meanings that you then live, what is the quality of meanings that you are living? Are there any new or higher meanings that you would like to perform? How meaningful is your life? How well are you translating your highest meanings into everyday actions as you close your Knowing-Doing gap?
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