Just want to let you and your readers know, that not ALL the coaching models are the same. We’ve been doing this for 21 years now and i started training coaches 10 years ago, when there were only 18 schools and you’ve never heard of me, and i’ve never heard of you, so there is a lot either of don’t know about what’s out there, and i hate to be grouped with all those you pointed out.

I’ve done similar pointing out over time, written some books about it, and Dr. Beck sent me your note on sales, sounds interesting and sounds like you understand influencing.

Our model is developmental, you can’t push a string and you can’t changes someone’s beliefs, nor expect them to change their own because you intervene, guide or influence them…most of us have a trajectory of maturation which includes the shifts in our memetic landscapes or belief assimilation.

In developmental coaching, we listen for as you say systems, but more so, the structure of the systems, one of the three building blocks of meaning making. I’ll pass this note on to my daughter who works with me, because she is designing approaches to belief formation (Bem, 1970 Stanford) that look at the coherence between emotional, as well as other systems which flag memescapes.

Hope to meet sometime, to prove to you that there are coaches out there that are not only out in front of this, but have been doing it for a LONG time!

mike