COACHING CHANGE
Meta-Coaching Volume I, 2005
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. and Michelle Duval, Master Coach
Neuro-Semantic Publications, paperback, 288 pages, $25.
Description: In the field of Coaching, there is coaching and then there is meta-coaching. Meta-Coaching differs by going beyond Performance Coaching to the heights of Developmental Coaching and Transformational Coaching. It “goes meta” to work at a higher level to a client’s performance, states, attitudes, and beliefs.
Discover this difference in Meta-Coaching as you explore coaching modalities for unleashing personal power and mastery. The design in coaching is to empower people in developing their best thinking, feeling, speaking, behaving, and relating. It is to tap into hidden and undeveloped potentials, and awakening them. In this, coaching is the premier process for self-actualization.
This first Volume of Meta-Coaching describes the theoretical frameworks for
Coaching and Meta-Coaching. While there are many books on coaching these days, few seriously explore the foundations and premises of coaching. Meta-Coaching does. Here you will explore the foundations of a coaching psychology, a psychology that is preeminently cognitive-behavioral in nature and one founded in the principles of the human potential movement. Then going beyond the foundational models in cognitive psychology, we present the key cognitive-behavioral models of Neuro-Semantics. These include three cutting-edge models: the Meta-States model, the Matrix model, and the Axes of Change model.
Meta-Coaching presents the coaching frameworks that inform and govern Meta-Coaching to raise the level of skill, competency, and artistry in the field of coaching. Without a solid framework in the hands of a well-grounded professional coach, coaching tends to be fluffy and vague, and a mere grab bag of tricks by the unskilled. The Neuro-Semantic models have set a new benchmark for quality coaching—coaching that’s effective and transformative.
While Coaching Changes focuses on change in a healthy person who is not in need of therapy, what is truly unique in this book is that it offers the only non-therapeutic change model in the field of coaching. As of 2004, every change model in the field is based on old therapy models about how people change. Here seven chapters presents the new Axes of Change model. This generative change model is for self actualizing people.
Style and Audience: This is above the general reader level and is especially for Coaches, Meta-Coaches, trainers, consultants, and leaders.
