Name Calling Shuts Down Healthy Thinking

Primitive Thinking that Shuts Thinking Down All politicians all do it. At least, I can’t think of a single politician who doesn’t do it. Yet in name-calling, they are actually practicing a very primitive form of thinking. Rather it is one that is appropriate for […]

MCF Online

The Meta-Coach System and MCF Online MCF online. First of all the Meta-Coach System® provides the most cutting edge communication training available in the world today for Professional Coaches and any individual or organisation committed to rich relationships and success. Also the Meta-Coach System is […]

The Self-Actualizing Genius State

The Self-Actualizing Genius State ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ What does a person actually do or experience when he or she self-actualizes? Maslow identified eight things that we could add to our list of prerequisites for the “genius” state. In fact, […]

IT'S NOT NORMAL

“IT’S NOT NORMAL!” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Whenever I lead the coach training, one thing I say over and over is, “The Coaching Conversation is not a normal conversation!” There’s a reason for it. I want to drive home the […]

Transforming Depression

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ When it comes to the complex meta-state called “depression,” given that we create it as noted in the past three posts, we can now ask two very different questions. First, “How does a person create depression?” […]

Depression as pressing down

This Thing Called “Depression” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Sometimes a word is highly informative and tells the story of all experience. This happens to be the case with “depression”. People who suffer depression not only go through a disappointment, loss, frustration, etc., […]

What does self-actualization mean?

What does self-actualization mean? Written by Shawn Dwyer When a person is fully functioning in life, at their best and capable to maintain the human drives, they are said to be fulfilling their needs, self-actualizing. Human potential includes the higher needs which are in fact […]

DEPRESSION: It's about the thinking

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Given that a lot of things are called “depression,” which are not clinically depression, how can you tell? A good way to begin is to use the work of Dr. David D. Burns and his classic, […]