From: L. Michael Hall                                
2016 Meta-Coaching Support: Morpheus #13
March 30 2016 （2016 年 3 月 30 號）

When I present Coaching and especially Meta-Coaching, I strongly emphasize that Coaching is not hypnosis.  You have undoubtedly heard me say that.  I also make the point throughout the Coaching Mastery training.  So, what’s with the title of this article?  Have I changed my mind?  Is this a new thing coming for Meta-Coaching?

當我教教練，特別是大成教練, 時，我强調教練不是催眠。你肯定聽我說過。我也在整個大成教練課程裏强調這一點。那麽這跟這次的主題有甚麽關係？我是否已經改變我的想法？這是大成教練新的內容嗎？

The short answer is no.  Check out the 2014 Meta-Coach Reflections (#31, July 23, 2014).  It was titled: Why There is No “Hypno-Coaching” and, Hopefully, will never be.”  That’s a form of therapy.  Further back, in 2012, I wrote two articles in the Meta-Coach Reflections (#11 and #12, March 13, and 20) that I titled, “Hypnotic Coaching.”  Obviously, there’s more to say, so let me see if I can explain more clearly.

快速答案「否」。請參考 2014 第 31 篇文章。主題是：2014_31_爲甚麽沒有催眠教練和希望，永遠不會有」。那是一種治療形式。2012 年，我寫過兩篇文章（第 11 和第 12 篇，3 月 13 號，3 月

20 號）我的主題是「催眠式教練」。顯然地，還有更多要講的，因此請容許我更詳細解釋。

First, the reason to distance “trance” from Coaching today is that we are still a long way from the general population understanding Coaching and appreciating that it is for psychologically healthy people, for challenging, and for stepping up to self-actualization.  If we were to explain that coaching is also hypnosis, that will confuse people even more because of many of the myths about hypnosis.  So for now, it is much better to not link the two.

第一，我們要從今天的教練跟「催眠」區分是因爲瞭解教練以及欣賞教練是爲了心理健全的人，爲挑戰以及爲自我實現的人口還有一大段路要走。如果我們將教練解釋爲催眠，那就會更讓人家混淆因爲有太多催眠的神話。因此，還是不要將這兩種連結在一起。

Now it is true as noted in the 2014 article that the hypnotic state is simply a state and we work with states in coaching.  The term trance refers to transiting from the outside world to the inside world— which is also what we do in coaching.  Further, a hypnotic trance state is also a metastate.  In it, a person is responding to a primary state from a higher-level state.  How does a person access such?  By language and when it comes to language, you induce such states by the way that you use the language that we call “hypnotic language patterns” which in NLP is the Milton Model.

催眠狀態只是一種狀態，這是真的而我們做教練是跟狀態共事。出神指的是從外在世界飛越到內在世界，這也是我們在做教練時所做的。還有，催眠式出神的狀態也是一種大成狀態。一個人在此從更高的層次狀態響應一個初始狀態。他是如何索取的呢？透過語言，你透過使用語言誘導此狀態，我們稱此語言爲「催眠式語言模式」也是 NLP 所稱爲的米爾頓模式。

Is Coaching hypnosis or hypnotic in nature?  Yes.  Coaching partakes of the nature of hypnotic phenomenon just as does all communication experiences—from everyday conversations, to lectures, to storytelling, to reading a good book.  To say words about things that are not present invites people to create pictures and sounds in their minds and that inevitably partakes of the nature of hypnosis.  To speak of conceptual understandings using unspecified process words and nominalizations especially elicit hypnotic experiences.

那麽，教練是催眠本性或催眠嗎？是。教練帶有點催眠性質就像所有溝通體驗一樣，從每日對話到演講，到講故事，到閱讀一本好書。要用文字說出那些不存在的東西邀請他人在他的大腦裏創建影像和聲音，所以這必然帶有點催眠的性質。要談概念的理解使用不具體的進程用詞和名詞化更能誘導出催眠的體驗。

“As you sit back now and consider, really consider what you want your future to be and the success that you want in your relationships, in your career, in your ability to create value, enter a marketplace and seize opportunities that you are only beginning to imagine and actualize them…”

「當你此刻坐著幷考慮，真正考慮，你要你的未來是甚麽以及你要在你的關係，你的事業，你創建價值的能力，進入一個市場以及爭取機會所要的成功，你只是開始想像和實現它們。。」

Coaching is preeminently a conversation so we want people to dialogue about their hopes and visions and values with their eyes open.  This separates what we might call a conversational trance from a formal one.

教練主要是一種對話，因此我們要客戶用打開眼睛方式對話有關于他們的希望和願景和價值。這就區分我們可能叫做出神式對話和正式對話。

Coaching differs also in that it invites people to step back in order to use one’s critical facilities to make high quality decisions and mental maps for moving forward to be all that one can be.  We invite people to go inside to expand their consciousness, make more focused choices, actively choose resources to add to one’s life, and to become self-directing.  In these ways, Coaching certainly shares many of the features common with trance.

教練差別在于它邀請客戶後退以致于他可以使用自己關鍵的設施做出高質量的决定和可能是那一張向前的大腦地圖。我們邀請客戶往內在擴大他們的意識，做更多具焦的選擇，主動選擇資源到自己的生活裏，幷成爲自我導向。那樣方式，教練當然跟出神共享許多特徵。

Closing with a Light Trance 用輕度催眠結尾

What does it mean to close with a light trance?  Why would you do that?  And how can you, as a Meta-Coach, close a coaching session with a light trance?  To do that requires your full presence of listening, sacred listening, and value-listening.  Then, with all of the treasured values of your client in mind, you can invite an integration moment just before the session ends.

甚麽意思要用輕度催眠結尾？爲甚麽要你那樣做？你要如何，身爲大成教練，用輕度催眠來結束一個教練節呢？要做到那樣，你需要貫徹聆聽，神聖的聆聽以及價值聆聽。接著，你的大腦裏裏帶著客戶所有的珍藏價值，你可以在教練節結束之前，邀請一個結合的時刻

“You’ve worked very hard today … and a lot of things have been stirred up, consciously and unconsciously that you have found or will find extremely useful and positive … so over the next days and weeks, you can begin to notice new understandings emerging, even creative insights, and you can begin to wonder what will surprise you the most and what will delight you as you find new potentials emerging and especially the release of new levels of energy so that you feel more alive and experience more vitality as you live your life.

「今天你已經非常用功。。有很多事情發生，有意識和無意識地你已經找到或將會找到非常有用和正面的。。因此在未來幾天或幾個星期，你會開始注意到新的理解出現，甚至創意洞察，當你找到新的潜能出現時，你可以開始好奇有甚麽東西會讓你最驚訝以及會讓你

歡喜，特別是釋放新的能量使你感受到更有活力和體驗更多活力在你的生活裏。」

“Now as we bring our session to a close today, you can take a deep breath … that’s right … and appreciate your ability to take on a challenge and to discover many things that will make your life more meaningful because you have made yourself vulnerable and transparent and that will only allow your authenticity to grow in the coming days and so as you draw on the resources that you’ve been discovering, you can use them now to experience a few moments of refreshment and renewal … and return here … at your own rate … joining me back here …”

「當我們結束此教練節，你可以深呼吸。。對。。欣賞你接受挑戰的能力以及發現使你生活更有意義的許多東西。因爲你讓你自己脆弱和透明，這樣才能够讓你的真實性在未來幾天成長，因此當你采用所發現的資源時，你可以馬上采用它們來體驗心曠神怡和更新的一些時刻的。。回來這裏，用自己的速度。。回來我這裏。。」

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