Therapeutic Coaching

What Is Therapeutic Coaching^®?

Therapeutic Coaching is not "therapy" in the traditional sense of the word, where the focus is on issues from the past or finding out "why" we do the things we do.

Instead, therapeutic coaching shows how our perceptions of life are formed in the subconscious mind and teaches how to "deconstruct" the negative perceptions to overcome the unproductive behaviors that are blocking the path to a happy, fulfilling life.

The Therapeutic Coaching Program is taught at the Meta Institute in Minneapolis and is the only program of its kind in the world. It is a 13-month, 400-hour program where students learn a variety of skills, techniques and disciplines including Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Programming (HNLP) and Modeling Excellence.

Therapeutic Coaching has been taught successfully to businesses, ultimately leading them to achieve higher sales, enhance communication skills, increase efficiency and encourage more cohesive teamwork.

Therapeutic Coaching can be applied to personal goals as well to help individuals achieve more confidence, gain higher self-esteem, overcome phobias and enhance creativity.
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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP explores the fundamental dynamics between the mind (neuro) and language (linguistics) and how their interplay (programming) affects the way a person feels, behaves and communicates (verbally and non-verbally).

NLP was developed by observing the patterns of excellence in diverse fields such as business, law, education and psychotherapy. Based on these patterns, distinct NLP procedures and techniques were developed that anyone could adopt and use in their personal or professional life.

When applied to the workplace, NLP shows how increased sensory awareness can improve communications as people learn to perceive and evaluate the effects of their language and behavior on one another.

NLP's effective communication tools can be used to enhance basic business skills such as sales, management, organizational development, counseling, problem-solving, creativity and leadership and can be applied successfully to most any profession.
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Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology (HNLP)

HNLP is a branch of NLP that creatively integrates quantum physics, neuroscience, hypnosis, accelerated learning and spirituality to study how the mind creates a person's reality through language and behavior.

In addition to basic NLP techniques and programming, HNLP emphasizes how everyone and everything is interconnected, how reality and meaning are created through relationships and how memory is an active process. HNLP also shows how individuals can "unlearn" and "unblock" the negative perceptions that prevent them from attaining their stated positive outcomes and achieving the success they desire and deserve.
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Model Excellence

Many of the skills and techniques of Therapeutic Coaching and NLP were derived from observing the patterns of excellence in experts from diverse fields such as professional communications, psychotherapy, business, hypnosis, law and education.

Based on these observations, it was found that human excellence included certain identifiable patterns that anyone could adopt for use in their personal and business life.

Modeling Excellence provides a way to look past the way people act to the forces behind those behaviors, and provides a roadmap to the thought structures that allow people to perform more effectively and be successful.
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