From: L. Michael Hall
2016 Meta-Coaching Support: Morpheus #12
March 23 2016 （2016 年 3 月 23 號）

I never thought of doing it this way!  So when I arrived in the Philippines and was told that I’d be at a special gathering of the MCF there … and that there would be an “Induction of Officers,” I really didn’t know what to expect.  When I arrived there was a banquet room set up with 4 tables, each for 10 persons … and after some presentation and a Q&A session, they asked me to read something that they had written.  “Oookkaaay,” I said.  “What is it?”  “Just read it.”  So I did.  The MCF group of Meta-Coaches had written a swearing in description and the words for the Officers to repeat as well as for all Meta-Coaches to repeat.  The words were a commitment to the standards and ethics of Meta-Coaching and each person’s commitment to be responsible and accountability.

我重來沒有想到要那樣做！當我抵達菲律賓時，我被告知那裏的分會有一場特別的聚會。。那裏有「委員入會」但我真的不知道會有甚麽期待。當我抵達會場時，裏面有 4 張桌子，每一桌有 10 人。當簡報和問答時間後，我被要求要讀一張他們寫得稿子。「好。。」我說：「那是甚麽？」「直接讀啦。」我就照稿子讀出來。大成教練的分會寫了宣誓以及要求委員以及在場的大成教練們重複裏面的宣誓。那些宣言是要承諾依循大成教練的標準和道德以及每一個人要負責和當責。

In the end, I was very impressed with all of the Meta-Coaches that met together for the event, it represented sometime like 98% of all of the Meta-Coaches in the Philippines.   And that’s a good example of working in a collaborative way.  So I hold them up as a good example for what I’d like to see around the world with the MCF.

最後，我非常欣賞在場的所有大成教練們，他們幾乎占有 99%的菲律賓大成教練。那可是合作方式的好例子。因此我希望其他國家的分會也有相同的儀式。

The Neuro-Semantic Vision for working together, cooperating, and even collaborating grew out of the opposite.  In 1996 when we launched “Neuro-Semantics” as a Community, the field of NLP was in a lot of disarray.  Bandler had just filed his $90,000,000 (ninety million) dollar lawsuit against “the field.”  That threatened to take complete ownership of the field and put everybody who didn’t sign his contract out of business.  His contract, by the way, was that anything you developed was his intellectual property and that you agreed to give him 5% (five percent) of everything you earned.

神經語意學的願景是共同合作以及甚至從對立中合作。當我們在 1996 年宣布神經語意學是一個社群時，NLP 處在許多混亂中。班德勒對「領域」要打 9 億美元的官司。他威脅要完全擁有那個領域幷將那些不簽他合同的人都沒生意可做。他的合約是你所發明的東西都是他的智慧財産幷且你要付他 5%你所賺的錢。

Among the other problems facing the field, and still facing the field of NLP, was the bad publicity caused by those using NLP to manipulate people.  There was (and continues to be) no way to stop them and the longer they continue, the darker the create the PR for NLP.

領域所面對的其他問題其中，且至今還是在面對，是那些利用 NLP 操控人們的壞宣傳。目前沒有方式（也會一直是）阻止他們，他們越是這樣，NLP 的形象越黑。

That’s why Bob Bodenhamer and myself decided to set a new Vision— one of collaboration, one of high ethics and standards, one of accountability.  It has now been 20 years and look at what the Vision has created— a worldwide community who share that Vision and who is living that Vision.  And it is all by association.  There’s no hierarchy or franchise, there are people voluntarily working together because of a unifying frame, namely, we can do so much more together than alone or apart.

這就是爲何鮑勃和我决定要設定新的願景 – 一個是合作，一個是高道德標準，一個是當責。經過 20 年我們的遠景已經創造出共同願景的國際社群。那都是透過連結。我們沒有層級或連鎖經營而是自願一起工作的人，也因爲有合一的框架，我們可以比單獨或分離做得更多。

This is not to say that it is easy and without struggle.  It is not easy.  And we do struggle with collaborating.  As individuals it is sometimes fearful and seemingly risky to work collaboratively in an association.  “What if someone competes against me and takes my clients?”  “What if someone is more talented than me and people go with that person rather than me?”  These speak to the deep fears within and why it is easy to default to competition and to speaking ill of others.  The usual thought is, “If I speak ill of the other Meta-Coaches or Trainers, then people will not work with them, it will give me more business.”  And mostly, this is unconscious.  Yet it is what we have to fight against in order to be open to each other and to follow the vision of collaboration. 我不是說那是件容易幷且不需要掙扎的事情。它確實不容易。我們對于合作有所掙扎。有時候對于個人來說要在協會合作會有點害怕以及有風險。「萬一某人跟我競爭幷且搶走我的客戶呢？」」萬一有跟比我更好，而我的客戶要跟他呢？」這些都是深層的恐懼也是這樣要彼此競爭和說他人壞話是很容易的。一般的想法是：「我如果說其他大成教練或導師的壞話，那麽客戶就不會跟他們合作，他們會給我更生意。」這幾乎是無意識的。這可是我們爲了要互相敞開和追隨合作願景而要去對抗的事情。

To live up to the Collaborative Vision of Neuro-Semantics requires a belief in people.  Luckily for us, we base Neuro-Semantics and Meta-Coaching in the Self-Actualization Psychology of Maslow and Rogers which is based on the bright side of human nature, not the dark side.  The bright side says that within all of us there is a drive— a deep drive to become our best selves— caring, loving, striving for excellence, being responsible, being a part of a winning team, etc.

要做到神經語意學的遠景需要在人們裏面有一個信念。我們很幸運，我們的神經語意學和大成教練是基于馬斯洛和羅杰的自我實現心理學，是人類天性光亮的一面，不是黑暗的一面。光亮的一面說我們內心都有一個動力，很深的動力要成爲最好的自己，關懷，愛，追求卓越，負責，成功團隊的成員之一等等。

Is it a risk to believe that?  Yes, of course.  Is it easy to believe that given the greedy competitive and gossiping nature of some people?  No, it is not.  Yet that is the thing about an empowering belief— it sets up a self-fulfilling prophesy so that we can increasingly make it real in our lives.  The brand of Neuro-Semantics and Meta-Coaching is brand about collaboration— about using our models, applying them to ourselves, and practicing being good team players with each other.  If we can do that— we have a message that our world desperately needs.  If we can do that— we become our own credibility.  Here’s to our increasing collaboration!

相信那個是一個風險嗎？當然啦。容易相信某些人是貪婪競爭和八卦的天性嗎？當然不容易。但是這就是賦予力量的信念，它建立自我履行的預言使我們可以在生活裏變成真。神經語意學和大成教練是有關于合作的品牌，有關于使用我們的模式，應用到自己身上幷練習成爲好的團隊成員。如果我們可以做到，我們有世界急需的訊息。如果我們可以做到，我們變成自己的誠信。祝不斷提升的合作！

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