Playing with the Power of Metaphors
August 19, 2020 from Noon - 1:30pm MT
Webinar
Speaker: Lyssa deHart
CCEs: 1.5 in Core Competencies
Metaphors are all around us; they flow through the daily rhythm of our conversations. Unless they are wildly obvious, we may miss them. Join this fun webinar and learn to play with the power of visual language.
John Geary said, "Whenever we describe anything abstract: ideas, feelings, thoughts, emotions, concepts, we instinctively resort to metaphors."
Discover the neuroscience of metaphors. Metaphors light up the brain of the person who uses them and they can be used to create outcomes, give clarity of distance, as well as support deep transformation.
Learning to use the metaphors that your clients bring to the conversation is far more powerful than scripting your metaphors into the coaching conversation. Metaphors are vivid doorways into who your clients are being, their deeply held beliefs, their vision of themselves and their sense of what they want. This awareness can give you a powerful tool to get curious with greater ease.
Key Takeaways
1. The differences between Metaphors and Similes.
2. Neuroscience + Metaphors.
3. The power of using the Metaphors that your clients bring to your coaching conversations.
About Lyssa deHart
Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, is a Leadership Confidence and Whole Life Coach. Lyssa is also an ICF Certified Mentor Coach and Coaching educator. She uses her understanding of the ICF Core Competencies, combined with her knowledge of Neuroscience, to work with Professional Coaches. Supporting them to inform their questions and to deepen their confidence with mastery so that they have ease in drawing out their client’s genius.
For more information, click to watch this interview
Barbara Alfors, ICF Colorado Education Team, conducted with Lyssa.