Playing with the Power of Metaphors
August 20, 2020 from 5:00 - 6:30 PM
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:
- The differences between Metaphors and Similes.
- Neuroscience + Metaphors. How metaphors impact our neural wiring and support the embodied mind, which can lead to sustainable changes.
- The power of using the Metaphors conversation to create greater awareness, anchor insights, as well as using them to move from topic to success measures
- How metaphors weave through the ICF Core Competencies.
1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEUs.
About the Speaker: Lyssa deHart
Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, is a Leadership Confidence and Whole Life Coach. Lyssa works with confidence challenged high achievers who are ready to rewrite the internal narratives that slow them down. Her clients include executives, senior leadership, and managers at organizations such as Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, the US Military, as well as with creative writers, actors, and artists.
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.
Her passion is to support people to trust their brilliance and develop the courage and confidence to believe in themselves and the work that is their purpose.
“I am a collaborative truth-teller and thought partner who forms deep relationships that support my clients to grow past their limiting narratives so that they can confidently excel at life, love, work, and craft a story worth living.”