[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #50

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 – #50

October 10, 2010

History of NLP Series #12

 

 

 

NLP DISCOVERIES IN THE 1990s

 

 

1970s:  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was launched with the
Communication Model that we today call The Meta-Model.  That set everything
in motion because using the linguistic distinctions that Grinder had already
identified in the Cognitive Model of Transformational Grammar (TG), they
were able to identify the “structure of the linguistic magic” in Fritz Perls
and Virginia Satir.  Then with those same tools, they modeled the hypnotic
language patterns of Milton Erickson and created The Milton Model.  NLP then
had two communication models.  One set of tools enables a person to become
more professional as a communicator through precision communicating and the
other through the skill of being artfully vague.  One grounds a person in
reality, the other seeks to build new and better abstractions to live by
(non-sensory-based mappings using hypnotic language patterns).

 

1980s: The 1980s brought into full development more models: The Strategy
Model for how to track an experience step by step as the NLP developers
enriched the TOTE model of George Miller, detailed the Representational
Model with its cinematic features (called “sub-modalities” even though they
are not sub, but meta), Perceptual Positions (Grinder), Time-Lines
(Bandler), Meta-Programs (Leslies Cameron-Banlder), Neuro-Logical Levels and
SCORE Models (Robert Dilters), and lots and lots of patterns.  I don’t
include “New Code” even though it was developed in 1983/85 by Grinder and
Judith DeLozier; it was not really a new model, just a different focus on
things (a dis-avowing the conscious mind and a treating of the unconscious
as nearly infallible).

 

1990s:   What new models appeared in the 1990s?  In addition to more
patterns which are particular processes (strategies, guided experiences, or
steps) for a particular experience, and various tools (which provides a
method for using a Model or a Pattern), several new models appeared within
the field of NLP in the 1990s.  Central to them were the following: DHE
(Design Human Engineering), Meta-States, Clean Language, Social Panorama.
Now Models are different from Patterns.  Models have and operate by a
theory, they have basic guidelines, variables, and they lead to patterns.
They also differ from Tools.  The Lab Profile that was developed in the
1980s is a Tool of Meta-Programs (a Model).  And as another tool, a tool for
NLP Modeling, David Gordon and Graham Dawes created the Experiential Array
(putting together the basic NLP strategies, beliefs, states, behaviors,
etc.). [There may be other Models created during the 1990s that I have not
listed here, if so, do let me know.]

 

 

DHE (Design Human Engineering): Richard Bandler.

Richard developed DHE in the early 1990s and he had hoped it would be the
next big revolution after NLP.  That didn’t happen.  But the idea was great!
The ideas was that instead of modeling an expert, instead of finding an
expert — a human being who could already do something at the level of
excellence—why not take a more direct route?  Why not simply design or
engineer the skill, state, or experience that you desire and then install
it?  The metaphor was a cyborg: If you had a cyborg and could program
anything into it, what would you design?  This is the heart of DHE.

 

So what is DHE?  It is essentially sub-modalities and representations within
a hypnosis format.  Trance yourself into a state, or have Richard Bandler do
it.  And then invent whatever you want to design for human excellence, and
make it so.  Of course, the problem is that merely designing things without
taking the constraints of reality into account doesn’t produce much.  So
after ten-years of DHE, I wrote an article, “Ten Years and Still No Beef” as
a review of DHE challenging the fact that after ten years— DHE had produced
nothing, and people with DHE training could do nothing more than those with
NLP training could do.   It was a great experiment: fun, play, silly, etc.
but not productive in terms of actually creating results.  You can read the
article on  <http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com
(Writings, NLP Critiques, Strengths & Weaknesses of DHE).

 

Clean Language — Modeling Symbolic Landscape and Space

In the 1990s James Lawley and Penny Tompkins (England) modeled David Grove
and came up with a model that they called Clean Language for Symbolic
Modeling.  Their book came out in the year 2000, Metaphors in Mind:
Transformation through Symbolic Modelling (2000).   Researching the field,
they used several sources: Lakoff and Johnson’s Metaphors we Live By,
Pinker’s work, How the Mind Works.  This lead to using the sub-modality of
location (space) to construct metaphoric landscapes—which is truly a new
creative addition to the field of NLP.

 

My only critique is about the name itself.  Calling this powerful tool for
symbolic modeling “clean language” seems to suggest metaphorically that it
is uncontaminated by the user’s own thoughts, emotions, states, assumptions.
And that’s just not the case.  It can’t be.  Now the intention is great— not
wanting to impose upon a client “any value, construct, or presupposition”
(p. 52).   But, of course, that’s not possible.  To their credit, they do
begin with a focus on using the client’s words and then go into questioning
about the shape of the metaphor: it’s location, direction, size, etc. 

 

Questions
Structuring Frame

    “And is there anything else about that? 

     And what else is there...?”
Expanding Frame

     “And what kind of a thing is that thing?”
Quality frame, Categorizing frame

    “And that kind of a thing is like what?”
Metaphor frame

    “And where is this thing?”
Location frame

    “And whereabouts is this thing?”
Location frame

    “And then what happens?”
Spatial location frame in future time

    “And what happens next?”
Spatial location frame; 

 
Consequence frame

    “And what happens just before this?”
Prior spatial location frame

    “And were could this come from?”
Source frame

 

Social Panorama — Modeling the Semantic Space of Relationships

Another tremendous contribution to the field of NLP comes from taking a tool
that the field of Sociology gave us, the Sociogram and updating it with some
NLP.  Lucas Durks from The Netherlands did this as he applied the idea of
sub-modalities to relationships (the Others Matrix). By doing this he
created the Social Panorama (which has since been published as a book by
that title, published by Crown House Publications).  So as we code and
represent “time” externally to ourselves so that we can point in space to
such concepts as “the past,” “the future” (and so create “time-lines”), so
using various cinematic features we can locate people in space around us.

 

In the Social Panorama model, you can take the cinematic features
(sub-modalities) of distance (close and far), height (up and down), two and
three dimensional, color or black-and-white, etc. and can create a world of
people all around us.  Then in this model, you symbolically use physical
space to stand for and represent the meanings that we give to the people in
our mental-emotional world. 

 

Meta-States - Modeling of Self-Reflexivity

It was while modeling resilience (1992-3) that I discovered the Meta-States
Model.  I was studying highly resilient people (Frankl, survivers, etc.) as
well as continuing my study of the sources of NLP, especially Bateson and
Korzbyski on the subject of “logical levels.”  This resulted in discovering
the meta-layers of states-about-states and so the modeling the kind of
consciousness most unique to human beings— self-reflexive consciousness.
This gave birth to the Meta-States Model in 1994 which was almost
immediately recognized by the International Association of NLP Trainers in
1995 as “the most significant contribution to NLP.”  Soon thereafter I began
putting the Meta-States Model into various books: Secrets of Personal
Mastery, Meta-States, Dragon Slaying, Winning  the Inner Game.  Then over
the years literally hundreds of patterns arose — there are 143 Meta-State
Patterns in the book, Sourcebook of Magic, Volume II.  And, of course, after
that arose the field, model, and community of Neuro-Semantic itself.

 

The unique thing about the Meta-States Model, is that it re-models the
models of NLP because reflexivity is built into the model and that’s, in
part, why the model has been so rich and robust over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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