[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #52

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 – #52

October 20, 2010

History of NLP Series #13

 

 

NLP AND MODELING

 

 

NLP is essentially a communication model, a model about how we use language
and neurology to communicate to ourselves and create our mental maps or
models by which we then navigate life.  At the same time, NLP is also
essentially about modeling.  It arose from modeling and as a communication
model, it provides tools by which we can model other experiences.

Does that make sense?  Is the relationship between communication and
modeling obvious to you?

 

It isn’t to many, so here’s an explanation of the relationship between
communication and modeling.  Human experiences are obviously
neuro-linguistic in that our experiences occur within our neurology (nervous
systems and physiology) by our linguistics.  Being without instincts
(Maslow) the only “instinct” that we have is to learn and by learning we
then inevitably and inescapably add the content information about what
things are and how to function.  And when we do that, the meanings we make
are the instincts we live (Hall, Self-Actualization Psychology, 2007).

 

So when we study the inter-disciplinary fields of neuro-linguistics and
neuro-semantics (Korzybski) we see how our communications to ourselves and
others construct our realities (our experiences) and in doing that we model
how those experiences / realities are formed and structured.  In NLP and
Neuro-Semantics we do not study linguistics as such, we study
neuro­-linguistics— what language does to us and how it affects our
mind-body system.  And that’s why NLP is about “the structure of subjective
experience” as noted by the subtitle of the book, NLP— Volume I.

 

Now when NLP began, the modeling was done with micro-behaviors— motivation
or getting up in the morning, spelling, decision making, etc.  And for
micro-behaviors, the Strategy Model is excellent.  J. Grinder’s approach has
always been on such.  That’s why he demands a living exemplar for the
“unconscious uptake” phase of modeling.  His modeling has also always been
on micro-behaviors— behaviors that someone does at a certain time and place
and typically kinesthetic behaviors.  This is good for rock climbing,
playing drums, dancing, and other physical experiences.  Yet it is useless
for more complex experiences like wealth creation, leadership,
entrepreneurship, long-term health and fitness, etc. —anything that occurs
over time and requires extensive content knowledge of a given area.

 

So in the history of NLP, short-term content-free modeling was a great place
to begin.  It was, however, a terrible place to end.  Why?  Because some
experiences require persistence over an extended period of time in order to
achieve expertise and within that experience certain content is also
required.  To fail to model the content information is to miss many of the
critical success factors of that very experience.

 

Take leadership development as an example.  You cannot develop a leader in a
three day workshop.  The skill-sets required for the attitude,
understandings, states, and relationships for an executive leader does not
arise from learning five “how to” skills, nor twenty-five.  Consider also
wealth creation.  Here is another long-term process that involves numerous
stages over time and that involve numerous strategies for many different
dimensions: vision, talent search, talent development, market discovery or
creation, finances, relationships, etc.  “Wealth” is not created by knowing
one secret strategy or “silver bullet.”  (See Inside-Out Wealth, 2010).

 

So while NLP has been very effective in modeling short-term, single-strategy
experiences, it has just as spectacularly failed to model the more complex
skills– which happens to be the most important skills.  So when Robert Dilts
began modeling “dead people” like Walt Disney, Sigmund Freud, etc. in his
“Strategies of Genius” series, those in Grinder’s camp of NLP, and others,
criticized him.  The same criticisms came my way when I began modeling
resilience, self-reflexivity, leadership, self-actualization, coaching,
wealth creation, and other experiences.  The criticisms were that we did not
use a single exemplar or a living exemplar.   The criticism was that we used
meta-levels to model the higher level frames to specify various contexts
(external and internal) that govern the experience.

 

Personally I’m fine with those criticisms because, in the end, at least I
have models by which I can navigate these areas and replicate it in others.
Ah, yes, the proof is in the pudding!  And I can demonstrate that the models
work having personally applied them to myself and to those in the
Neuro-Semantic community.

 

This explains why traditional NLP and especially the so-called “pure” NLP of
both the Bandler and Grinder camps do not have models for Community
building, Collaboration, Wealth Creation, Leadership, Entrepreneurship,
Resilience, etc.  No wonder then that the field of NLP has struggled with or
ignored these complex states.  They were meta-states and their modeling
models are not able to model the hidden invisible structures of frames
behind them.

 

What is the solution for the future?  I think it is obvious —we have to get
back to the centrality of modeling and we have to use the meta-level models
(Meta-States Model, Neuro-Logical Levels, Meta-Programs, Matrix Model,
Meaning-Performance Axes, etc.) to map out the higher levels of frames.

 

 

2010 NLP CONFERNCE --- LONDON

** NLP Conference, London,  November 12-14

 At the Britannia International Hotel in Docklands 12th-14th November

See the NLP Conference brochure and booking at the
<http://www.nlpconference.co.uk> NLP Conference website. 

View a pdf of the conference brochure on the conference website,
<http://www.nlpconference.co.uk> www.nlpconference.co.uk

            

 

 

NEXT YEAR --- THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL NEURO-SEMANTIC CONFERENCE

            July 1--- 3, 2011

            Grand Junction Colorado

            See www.neurosemantics.com  for details

 

 

 

TWO TRAININGS IN NOVEMBER

 

In November 2010 — Nov. 15– 16

What:                          Unleashing Potentials

When:                          November 15– 16, 2010

Where:                        Bedfordshire, England

Time:                           9:00 am — 6:00 pm 

 

Organizers:                 Joe and Melody Cheal [
<mailto:joe.cheal at gwiztraining.com> joe.cheal at gwiztraining.com] 

Contact Info.:             email:  <mailto:info at gwiztraining.com>
info at gwiztraining.com 

                                    phone: 01767 640956

                                     <http://%09www.gwiztraining.com>
www.gwiztraining.com              The GWiz Learning Partnership

 

 

In November 2010 — Nov. 19-21 

 

What:                          Unleashing Vitality

When:                          November 19– 21

Where:                        Hotel Castello — North Central Italy – 

 
<http://www.hotelcastello.com/home_eng.php>
http://www.hotelcastello.com/home_eng.php                                  

Airport:                        Bologna
<http://www.bologna-airport.it/uk/?LN=UK>
http://www.bologna-airport.it/uk/?LN=UK (18 miles away)

                                    Forlì
<http://www.forliairport.com/main/index.php?id_pag=56>
http://www.forliairport.com/main/index.php?id_pag=56 (21 miles)

Time:                           9 am to 6 pm.

Contact details            Nicola Riva and Lucia Giovannini

                                    mobile: +39 348 5600507 -
<mailto:nicola at blessyou.it> nicola at blessyou.it     

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
www.neurosemantics.com

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