[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #29

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #29

June 28, 2010

 

 

MODELING INTUITIONS

 

 

Like any good nominalization, intuition, is vague, fluffy, and muddled even
meta-muddled.  It means and can mean so many things.  And because of that it
can mean just about anything.  So, what does it really mean?  Well, that's
the whole point.  It means whatever the speaker intends for it to mean.
And, of course, sometimes we learn to use a word when we don't know what we
mean by it and so use it as a word to cover-up our ignorance.

 

Given that, the word intuition literally refers to in-knowing.  And again,
what do we know inside ourselves?  And are we referring to conscious knowing
and/or unconscious knowing?  How else is the term used?

 

NLP Intuitions

When NLP began, the co-founders used the word intuition as referring to what
they had learned but no longer knew, what they now "knew" unconsciously.
Read Structure of Magic and you'll see that they frequently spoke about
"modeling the intuitions of Virginia and Fritz."  The intuitions they were
referring to were their therapeutic intuitions regarding what to do with a
person in order to bring about change- transformative change, magical
change.  They commented that Virginia and Fritz seemed just to know what to
do with people.  It was intuitive.

 

Of course, both Perls and Satir had ideas, theories, understandings about
human nature and human psychology that they had studied for decades.  Both
also had a life-time of experiences with people, trying this and that and
then over time, finding what works and developing their own style with such
methodologies.

 

So what the modelers wanted was a model of the intuitions of these two
wizards of change.  And that's what NLP is at its heart.  The basic NLP
Communication Model is a model of the intuitions of Virginia Satir of Family
Systems and Fritz Perls of Gestalt Therapy crystalized using the
formulations of transformational grammar.

 

When I first entered the field of NLP, I went back to the books of Fritz and
Virginia and read everything each of them had written.  And lo, and behold,
most of the Meta-Model was everywhere in those writings, as well as many of
the original NLP processes!  But they were not formalized as such.  They
were not structured.  There was no sense of how they come together and work.
Yet they are there.  Richard and John ordered them, put them together as a
model of what works, and presto! Suddenly we have "NLP" - the structured
intuitions of two top communicators.

 

Knowledgeable and Skillful Intuitions

This is the intuition that we also see in most world-class athletes.  They
have a strong and effective intuition about the game and know how to play it
at that level, know how to be where a ball will be, etc.  And they have
spent years developing that sense.  Is this genetic or is it learned?  To
what extent is it a combination of both?   A basic disposition and a strong
aptitude is given a person which he or she then develops through learning
and training, and so it eventually becomes intuitive.

Given that, what aptitudes do you have naturally as a talent that you have
developed into a skill and that now has become a competency of high value?

Can you now say that you have an in-knowing and are intuitive about that
competency?

 

That is one meaning of the word intuition.  Another refers to our in-knowing
about our basic human needs, drives, and values. We intuitively move forward
to gratify the survival needs, the safety and security needs (order,
structure, control), the social needs (love and affection, connection,
belonging) and the self-regard needs.  That's another use of the term
intuition.

 

What are other uses of the term?  Well, some people use it to speak about "a
mother's intuition," or intuition as a sixth sense, almost an ESP (extra
sensory perception).  Yet if a person makes these genetic, then we are hard
pressed to explain how, at times, a biological mother here or there,
abandons her children or even kills them.  In this, if you attempt to use
"intuition" as if it was a synonym of "instinct," you quickly run into lots
of problems.

 

Intuitions for Modeling

In the field of NLP and Neuro-Semantics it is the lightning fast response of
a talent-turned-into-a-skill with experiential knowledge that now makes
intuitive something to model.  So one facet of modeling is to model the
intuitions of an expert.  It is to find someone who over many years now has
well-trained knowledge and sensitivities that allows him or her to do
something with excellence.

 

In the area of coaching, Meta-Coaching arose, in part, from modeling the
intuition of expert coaches.  I had been modeling coaches since the early
1990s, finally in 2001 got serious about modeling coaches, modeled several
in Sydney Australia, and that led to the first Meta-Coach Training in 2002.
Today we are now able to cultivate, develop, and facilitate in those who
want those expert intuitions.

 

Neuro-Semantic News

We are currently in our final week of NSTT here in Colorado with 29 people
from 9 countries who will soon be graduating as Neuro-Semantic NLP Trainers.

The next Meta-Coach trainings will be in Hong Kong (July 31 to August 7) and
then in New Zealand (August 13-21).  Details are on
<http://www.meta-coaching.org/> www.meta-coaching.org 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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