"Develop Powerful Coaching Skills to Create Transformation With the World Class Meta Coaching Training System"

The Meta-Coach Training System is rich, complex, layered, has numerous steps and stages and is the most systematic approach to the field of coaching. 

The term “meta” (pronounced “met” as in “I met a fascinating coach the other day”) is a Greek term for “above, higher, and about.”  In coaching, it refers to coaching at a higher level.  It refers to not coaching the content of a person’s expertise or area, but to the processes and structures that govern that content—to the invisible processes in the back of the mind that governs our thinking and emoting.

A sports coach may not have the expertise of the player being coached.  Michael Jordan’s coach undoubtedly cannot play like Michael Jordan.  Don’t expect Tiger Woods’ coach to play better golf than Tiger.  Their expertise is not in the content of the game.  The expertise of a great coach concerns the form, structure, and process of how the client works or operates.

In Meta-Coaching, the coach works with the invisible structures behind the scene that controls the client’s expertise.  The Meta-Coach works with beliefs, perceptual filters (called meta-programs), thinking patterns (called cognitive schemas), and self-reflexive consciousness (called meta-states). 

All of these frames of mind that the client brings to the session operate “in the back of the mind” and these are the frames that the Meta-Coach can detect, identify, and address.  And doing so often finds “the switch” as the leverage point for transformative change.

The Structure

Meta-Coach is based on several models that address the seven components or elements of “coaching” itself.  That is, if you were to ask, “What is coaching?” the answer lies in seven factors that make up the discipline and field of coaching. 

What are these seven components?

Coaching as a discipline is

∙           1) Communication — a conversation like none other that focuses exclusive on a client’s best dreams and hopes for a more compelling future.

∙           2) Unconscious back-of-the-mind communication that elicits the mental and emotional frames which governs the client’s experience that gets to the heart of things.

∙           3) Generative change — that takes the client to his or her next level of development and/or even transformation.

∙           4) The implementation of the change — so that the solution, new performance, or difference can be actualized in the world, made real, and the progress that makes can then be measured.

∙           5) Systemic thinking and working — so that the conversation and change is holistic and healthy for every aspect of the client’s life.

∙           6) The self-actualizing of one’s highest and best potentials — so that the client moves to his or her next level of development and success and unleashes potentials.

∙           7) The facilitation of all of these dynamic processes — a conversation that enables the client to find, access, and mobilize his or her best resources for making the change real.

If this is what coaching is then what are the models that can enable a Coach to effectively coach?  We asked that question at the beginning when we first designed Meta-Coaching and we came up with the following models. 

These models inform and guide a coach in the actual practice of coaching.