Amy created and defined Metaskills in her 1995 New Falcon Press book,

“METASKILLS, THE SPIRITUAL ART OF THERAPY“.

She says there on page 15,  “Deep spiritual attitudes and beliefs manifest in therapy and in every daily life…. Through their feelings and attitudes, therapists express their fundamental beliefs about life. These attitudes permeate and shape all of the therapists apparent techniques. Conceptually, I raise these essential underlying feelings of the therapist to “skills ” that must and can be studied and cultivated. I call these feeling attitudes “metaskills”.”

Thus, Metaskills are the feeling qualities, or attitudes that bring learned skills to life and make them useful. For example, an important “metaskill” in all deeper, ongoing work is “following” events. The Taoists would have said, following the sense of the Tao, that is events which are generally observable and/or sometimes intuited.

The mystical side of process work follows events (such as the Tao) that cannot be quite said, while the concrete and (consensually) realistic part of process work deals with observable signals, unfolding these signals until they explain themselves.