[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #63

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #63

Dec. 27,  2010

 

 

 

WHAT IS

THE THIRD GENERATION NLP? 

                                                            

 

Robert Dilts along with Judith DeLozier and Debra Dilts have just completed
a new book that presents "third generation NLP."  And "NLP Volume II" is a
good book.  It is a book filled with Robert's contributions of models and
patterns to NLP- Neuro-Logical Levels, SCORE, SOAR, Somatic Syntax,
Time-Lines, etc.  It is a very good collection and synthesis of what Robert
has created over the years.

 

And simultaneously it is this tremendous contribution from Robert that is
the book's the biggest weakness.  That's because the book presents nothing
else that has happened in NLP for the past 20 years except what Robert has
contributed and by doing that it leaves the impression that nothing else is
part of "the third generation of NLP."  So the title of the book announcing
"The Next Generation" of NLP and especially "the third generation" is really
a misleading one.

 

Has nothing else occurred in the field of NLP?   For instance, there is
nothing in the book about the developments that I've contributed regarding
Meta-States, Neuro-Semantics, Meta-Coaching, etc., or that of James Lawley
and Penny Thompson and their development of Clean Language, or Lucas Derks
and his Social Panorama model, or writings and contributions from Ian
McDermott, or Richard Bolstad and the RESOLVE model, and many more people
who have contributed and developed NLP since 1990.  So while the title
suggests an inclusiveness about the field, the content of the book does not
include anything other than the author's own works.  I find this facet of
the work is really disappointing because the book could have brought more of
the field together and could have embraced what others are doing.

 

So with that critique out of the way, now for the good parts of the book,
Robert does present a set of distinctions that he uses to distinction the
first, second, and third generation of NLP.  "Key distinctions and tools of
the first generation of NLP include:




The Meta-Model language patterns

Representational Systems and the 4-Tuple

Sub-modalities

Eye Accessing Cues

Anchoring

Six-Step Reframing

Changing Personal History

Visual Squash

V-K Dissociation Technique [Movie Rewind Pattern]

New Behavior Generator

Metaphor and Milton Model hypnotic patterns" (page xxvii)

 

"Second generation NLP techniques integrated the use of new distinctions
such as Time-Lines, Neuro-Logical Levels and Perceptual Positions.  Some of
the other key distinctions and techniques that emerged from the second
generation of NLP include:

Sleight of Mouth patterns [Mind-Lines Patterns]

Spatial Sorting and Psychogeography

Meta Mirror

Imagineering Strategy and Strategies for Genius

ReImprinting

Integration of Conflicting Beliefs

Neuro-Logical Level Alignment" (page xxviii)

 

And what about the "third generation NLP?"  Robert presents the following as
his thinking and evaluation about that.  He describes it as meeting the
following criteria:

First there are three different intelligences or minds: "a cognitive mind
that emerges from the brain, a somatic mind centered in the body, and a
'field' mind that comes from our connection and relationships with larger
systems around us." (xxix) 

 

"Some of the practices and processes of third generation NLP include:
centering, the inner game and finding your inner zone of excellence, opening
to the field, generative change, holding difficult feelings, integrating
archetypal energies, the hero's journey and archetypes of change,
transforming belief barriers by building belief bridges, techniques for
promoting collective intelligence and generative collaboration." 

 

"Third generation NLP also adds other frames and values to those applied by
earlier generations of NLP and places more focus on issues such as:
generativity and empowerment, connection and relationship, aesthetics and
harmony, and purpose and transformation." (xxx)

 

Now if that is the "third generation" of NLP, then the funny, or crazy, or
weird thing is that this is precisely where so many of us in the field of
NLP has been moving.  So the book could have been a great collection of
similar ideas converging with a commonality.  But it isn't.  No one else
form the field is quoted except Robert's personal friends, Steven Gilligan,
Robert McDonald, etc.  Instead Robert quotes from several people outside the
field and brings in information on Neurology from several people: Michael
Gershon, Andrew Armour, Jeffrey Ardell, Donald Epstein, etc. and quotes from
some pop writers like Malcolm Gladwell.  But he does not quote and describe
with others in the field of NLP having been doing and are doing that meets
the criteria that he sets forward. 

 

As I read the book regarding these criteria, I thought about how
Neuro-Semantics does or does not measure up to the criteria of "third
generation NLP."  So I wrote out (below) Robert's list of criteria and then
identified where we in Neuro-Semantics have been addressing these concerns:

 

Dilts' Criteria                          Neuro-Semantic Models and Patterns

 

Centering                                            - Responsibility
For/To, Meta-Stating Self pattern. 

The Inner Game                               - Winning the Inner Game; The
Game series- Lovers, Business Experts, Mastering Fear, Fit & Slim People,
etc.

Finding your inner zone of           - Accessing Personal Genius pattern

   excellence                                       

Opening to the field                       - Cultural Meta-States, Cultural
Modeling, Unleashing Leadership

Generative change                         - Axes of Change Model; The
Crucible model.

Holding difficult feelings               - Meta-Stating Troubling Emotions
pattern, the Crucible.

Integrating archetypal energies                 - Crucible, Facilitation
Model 

The hero's journey and                 - Included this as one Conversation
in Coaching Conversations

    archetypes of change                

Transforming belief barriers        - Dancing with Dragons, Mind-Lines for
belief transformation

   by building belief bridges               Building a New Matrix

Techniques for collective              -Group and Team Coaching

   intelligence, generative 

   collaboration 

Somatic Mind                                    - Mind-to-Muscle Pattern;
Coaching the body to feel an idea.

Field Mind                                           - Systems thinking -
The Matrix Model 

 

 

Now an interesting pattern occurs toward the end of the book.  Robert quotes
Virginia Satir, "How do you feel about feeling that way?" (p. 347).  He then
created a Meta-States Pattern, even with a meta-states diagram, but without
any reference to the Meta-States Model (pp. 350-351).

 

Here is the Unacknowledged Meta-States Diagram [Read from the bottom up].

 

3) Coach State:                  What resources do you need to hold the
second feeling?

 

                2) Second feeling:            How do you feel about feeling
that way?

 

                1) First feeling:                  How do you feel?

 

 

I'll end this review with one of the jewels in the book.  Robert presents a
great question about what it takes for something to be "NLP?"  What makes
something NLP?  And he answers it in this way:

                "Emphasizes process and structure, as opposed to content.

Grounds processes and distinctions in the anatomy and functions of the human
nervous system.

Ensures that distinctions and processes are able to be easily identified and
influenced natural and spontaneous patterns of verbal and non-verbal
communication.

Organizes the results of the study into practical exercises, techniques,
tools and practices that can be used to influence or make a difference in
people's experience or behavior." (xxiii)

                

 

 

 

For more about Neuro-Semantic NLP --- 

          See www.neurosemantics.com 

 

Details for the First International Neuro-Semantic NLP Conference is now on
the website.  Click "Trainings" and "NS Conference" for the information and
video .

 

 

            Registration will begin in January 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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