The Coaching of Anticipation III: Influencing Polystatic Cognition and Behavior

W Bergquist 2025

This is the third in a series of essays concerned with the application of professional coaching to the assistance of a client in effectively anticipating what is about to occur in their environment, so that appropriate and informed action can be taken. I have proposed in the first two essays that one can be effective in providing this service as a coach if they understand and appreciate the vital role played by something called Polystasis in gaining a valid anticipation of what resides in the environment and governs the actions in which we are about to engage. Essay Three concerns the ways in which, as a coach, we can influence the cognition and behavior related to the polystatic-based anticipation process. Before turning to the domains of behavior and cognition, I wish to provide a summary of the polystatic process that I more fully described in the first essay.