Empowering Your Memory

~ Article co-written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ While having a good memory is not a prerequisite for coaching, it certainly helps.  And while we do not explicitly train memory development in Meta-Coaching, it is fully implied in the NLP Communication […]

ANXIETY-ING IS NO-THING

~ Article by Shawn Dwyer – Meta-Coach President International ~ Anxiety, what is it really? Recently I’ve been working on material, patterns and practices for coaching anxiety in clients. Part of the process required research into the human orders and their description under our current health […]

WHEN THINKING GETS OUT OF CONTROL

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Just as a person can get out of control, so can thinking.  Thinking can get out of control.  Nor is that all that uncommon.  It may happen to you, or someone you love, […]

The Basics Give You Depth

THE BASICS GIVE YOU DEPTH ~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ During October when when completing metacoach training – I was impressed all over again about the crucial role of the coaching basics. Over and over I found myself […]

ASKING THE EMOTION QUESTION

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ If you have taken your Meta-Coach training at The Coaching Centre in the past year, then you know that if there’s any really dangerous question that we repeatedly warn about, it is “the […]

Super-Charge Your Ego-Strength

SUPER-CHARGE YOUR EGO-STRENGTH ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer, ACMC ~ What we call ego-strength is the strength that a person has in his or her sense of self to look reality in the face without blinking. It is the […]

WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER AN EMOTION

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ As a coach, and especially as a Meta-Coach, you frequently (like just about every time) encounter strong emotions in your clients. It’s inevitable. They are humans! The only exception is if you are […]

THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

PSEUDO-DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Pseudo-Decisions There are decisions and then there are things which pass for “decisions” yet which are not real decisions. They are pseudo-decisions. They often and usually seem like a decision in some respects, but actually they […]

GIVING IT YOUR ALL!

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Do You Give It Your All? You hear it all the time- “Give it your all!” “Go for the gold.” “Second place is for losers.” “You’ve got to be a 110% person.” Even book titles argue […]