Meta-Coaching™

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What is Meta-Coaching

Meta-Coaching is by its very nature a field or discipline that works at a higher (or “meta”) position to the client and the client's experience.  Whilst a sports coach does not have to be an expert in the sport himself, the coach does have to know how to get the best out of the player.  In the same way a Meta-Coach is an expert in structure and the facilitation process, rather than in content.  The client is his or her own best expert in content. 

The Meta-Coach is trained in the cognitive sciences, using the frameworks of Neuro Linguistic Programming (the model of human communication and functioning which describes how to run our own brain and manage our own states) and Neuro-Semantics (the levels of mind-body-emotion as a systemic process).  The Meta-Coach, as a change agent, works with and at the meta-level of the processes regarding how we humans transform and develop.

Why is it Called Meta-Coaching™?

This is mostly because Meta-Coaches work from higher or meta-levels. The Meta-Coaching  methodology comprises seven meta-models that form the systematic framework of Meta-Coaching.

• Meta-Coaching is meta to content.
  In coaching you at a meta-level, the Meta-Coach works with you, as the client from the level of structure and process, about your content.
  As his/her expertise is in process rather than content, your Meta-Coach focuses on your Inner Game.  This means that the dialogue and relationship facilitated with you empowers you to run your own brain, access your resources, and achieve your highest outcomes.

• Meta-Coaching works meta to resources to empower you.
  Your Meta-Coach does not teach, train, or give advice because he/she assumes that you have the necessary internal resources to succeed. Instead he/she uses models and processes to mobilise your own internal and external resources. Coaching that empowers people accesses and develops their resources.
   

• This empowers you to:
  - think for yourself and run your own brain
  - solve your own problems as you develop critical thinking skills
  - develop creativity to innovate new things
  - own responsibility for your actions and becoming proactive in taking the initiative
  - deal with problems when they first appear
  - develop your own strengths
   

• Meta-Coaching takes performance to a higher level
  In coaching, performance is "Job One." In Meta-Coaching your coach works to enhance performance, together with achievements, and results.
  
  Your Meta-Coach works with you at a meta-level for more skilled performance in an area of expertise in the pursuits of self-mastery or within your career; whether it be relative to customer service, sales, planning, etc.  It's about becoming masterful in mind, emotion, body, and spirit. This is the Outer Game.
   

• Meta-Coaching is transformational as it transcends performance
  
  Your Meta-Coach facilitates your desire for transformation. Yet in doing so, your Meta-Coach is simultaneously being affected. Well-known Australian Master Meta-Coach, Michelle Duval says, "In Meta-Coaching we are affected, influenced, and changed". The Meta-Coach works as a catalyst who forges productive confrontations and uses meta-questions for expanding your consciousness. This is the Inner Game, the game of our frames.
  
  The Meta-Coach operates from his or her own personal genius (an intense focused state) so that he/she can more effectively elicit and facilitate your personal genius in your given area of pursuit.
   

• Meta-Coaching works holistically with your system.
  
  By uniting the multiple intelligences of IQ, emotional intelligence (EQ), and spiritual intelligence (SQ), the Meta-Coach coaches your entire mind-body-emotion-spirit system as a systemic whole. This is done to elicit the synergy of your greater intelligence, namely, wisdom.  Meta-Coaching works with your entire mind-body-emotion system as a whole, using the “Matrix Model” as a way to think and work systemically. The Matrix Model unites cognitive psychology with developmental and self-actualisation psychology.
   

• Meta-Coaching focuses primarily on relationships
  
  Meta-Coaching involves an ongoing partnership that facilitates you to produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional lives. Master Meta-Coach Cheryl Gilroy says, "Through the process of Meta-Coaching, you deepen your learning, improve your performance, and enhance your quality of life." Through collaboration, you and your coach co-create a new Inner Game that manifests itself in your new Outer Game.
   

• Meta-Coaching coaches to your meta-programmes
  Your Meta-Coach expands your full range of perception by identifying and Meta-Coaching to your meta-programmes (that is the way you perceive information). Given the pervasive influence of our meta-programmes as perceptual filters, Meta-Coaching to meta-programmes and thinking styles enables your Meta-Coach to quickly identify the heart of things where the leverage for change occurs.

The Neuro-Semantic Vision for Meta-Coaching

The models we have in Neuro-Semantics are especially designed to enable us to explore the dynamic structure of experience, especially the structure of excellence. These enable us to take Meta-Coaching to a whole new level of expertise. In Meta-Coaching our vision is:

• Facilitating excellence in clients and enabling them to discover the wonder and magic of taking charge of their lives

• Operating as a process expert to the client's content , of which he or she is the expert

• Profiling clients to quickly assess and coach to the structure so that we know (and can articulate) what to do when, with whom, and why

• Facilitating the mapping of new strategies for skills, experiences, and top performances

• Co-inventing through language and patterns the right solution with the client in a real-time dialogue

• Facilitating a new use of language for precision (the Meta-Model) and for induction (the hypnotic language patterns of Meta-States, the Meta-Questions, Mind-Lines etc)

• Modelling cutting edge experiences of high performance and modelling the client's unique way of replicating that

• Inventing new patterns through ruthless compassion and conversation so that coach and client co-create new meanings, frames, and beliefs

• Using the Matrix of the client's frames to invite reorganisations that transformation the client's experiences.

• Having lots of fun with the client in the process, building a relationship of respect and honour, and operating from a sense of abundance of what the client brings to the encounter

• Believing in releasing the genius and potentials within each client

• Becoming the most effective coaches in the field of Professional coaching