[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflection #47

[L. Michael Hall]

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Meta Reflections 2011 - #47

Oct. 3, 2011

www.neurosemantics.com 

Systemic Excellence #2

 

 

SYSTEMIC EXCELLENCE #2 

The Neuro-Semantic System

 

 

A few weeks ago I wrote to the exclusive egroup for Neuro-Semantic Trainers
about the purity of the Neuro-Semantic system.  The points of that article
were these:




We have a systematic system for working with human experience.

It is a thorough and consistent system so that we do not have to be
eclectic.

The Neuro-Semantic NLP system, works as a system which requires systemic
thinking.

 

Then while in Brazil I found myself again urging NLP people and those new to
Neuro-Semantics who identified with the Neuro-Semantic approach to learn and
use this model rather than being eclectic.  Why?  Because there are some
serious problems with eclectically cutting-and-pasting bits and pieces from
numerous models in your approach.  You are highly likely to have and operate
from numerous incongruencies and conflicts, many which may be unconscious
and therefore communicate and install inner conflicts and incongruencies in
those you work with.

 

Eclectically taking a bits and pieces from various other models and putting
them together is more likely to create a Self-Development Frankenstein
that's grotesque and full of distortions rather than something systematic
and systemic.  In the last article I spoke about the NLP system of four
meta-domains by which we can model and replicate excellence.  Now I will
repeat much of what I wrote to the Trainer's egroup and expand it for this
Neurons group.

 

Pre-System Life

If you don't have a system, then the next best choice is to be eclectic.  It
is to take a little bit from one place, a little bit of that from another,
and put them together into a mix and hope that they don't collide with each
other too much or create confusion or chaos for your participants.
Eclecticism is a great choice when a field is still under construction, when
key theorists are still putting theories and possibilities together about
how a particular domain works.

 

But it is not so good when there is a workable system, especially when that
system is systemic, thorough, and consistent.  And that's where I have a
great message for you, and maybe a shocking one: 

NLP in its fullness (including Meta-States) is a complete system so you do
not need anything else!

 

The NLP System

Is NLP a system?  Yes, you bet.  Some 10 years ago I put together a page
that defined it as "a system"-a system with a theoretical base (foundation,
framework), variables as elements and components within that system,
guidelines or heuristics for how to use the variables and apply the theories
(even make hypothesis and test them), and then the resulting patterns or
processes as practical applications. 

 

So yes, NLP is a system and that's why I find it so incredibly frustrating
to see NLP trainers who should know better add a bit of Myers-Briggs, add a
bit of Taylor-Johnson, or DISC, or Enneagram, or some so-called 'Quantum
this or that,' or Huna, or any other of a dozen non-NLP pieces to it.  You
don't need to if you know the NLP system!  And if you do, then you
contaminate the system.  If you do, that will prevents you from working with
the fundamental NLP model systemically.  Do that and you open yourself to an
approach that is a hodge-podge of glued together bits so that one operates
as if from a "grab bag of tricks" instead of a systematic approach based on
a solid theoretical foundation.

 

What is the theoretical foundation of complete NLP?  Say hello to Korzybski
and Bateson!  "The map is not the territory," human beings make abstractions
(draw conclusions) from their experiences and invent mental maps for
navigating the world and as they do, their actions, responses and emotions
are functions of those maps.  Meet a person at his or her map of the world,
match it, seek to understand it, and then offer a new strategy if they want
one.

 

This is simple and profound!  And yes, I'd say that the majority of
traditionally trained NLP trainers do not know this!  Shocking but true.
They have been poorly trained and so their trainings are low quality as you
can easily see by visiting various NLP websites.  In some countries, there
are facets of the NLP model that are not even taught- for example,
Meta-Programs are almost never taught in Mexico.  And almost every, the
linguistic training of the Meta-Model is skipped or so shallowly taught that
Practitioners and Master Practitioners cannot tell you the 12 or the 21
distinctions of the Meta-Model or know how to use those distinctions.

 

The Meta-States System

What about Meta-States?   Is the Meta-States model a system in and of
itself?  Yes, you bet it is!  It also has a theoretical framework (the
operation of reflexivity, the meta-move to transcend one state to another,
that sets a higher frame, that governs the system back down into neurology),
it has variables, guidelines, and it leads to hundreds of Meta-State
patterns and processes.  Actually, the page I created ten years ago
contrasted NLP and Meta-State systems using these very terms and categories.

 

The Neuro-Semantic System

And Neuro-Semantics?   Yes, it's another system and yes, it is one that
works perfectly well as an integrated and holistic system per se.  Why?
Because it fully incorporates the NLP and Meta-State systems.  Its framework
now goes to two mechanisms as fundamental functions of the human
mind-body-emotion system: meaning (semantics) and performance (neurology).
And that's why the full system incorporates and makes practical the
Self-Actualization Psychology of Abraham Maslow and why the
Self-Actualization models and workshops are now at the center of the system.

 

The Meta-Coaching System

Yes, you guessed it- another fully integrated system that embraces and holds
together all of the previous systems and gives practical application in
terms of one of the newest modalities- coaching.  As such a well-trained and
certified Meta-Coach has within his or her possession all of the
distinctions to facilitate performance, developmental, and transformational
coaching.  He or she needs no other models.

 

Yet in this field there is the seductive temptation.  It is the seduction to
opt for more options!  "Enough is just not enough, I want more."  For some
this drive is driven by a fear, "What if I'm missing out on something?"  And
so there are Meta-Coaches, there are Neuro-Semantic NLP trainers who, not
satisfied with a full-fledged system, are always out there searching for the
newest, the latest, the most sensational, the most expensive, the next guru,
etc.  Sad.  And in the field of NLP this is even worse.

 

It is sad because it means that they will be mediocre as a NLP Trainer, a
Neuro-Semantic Trainer, or a Meta-Coach, and a master of nothing.  It is sad
because they will not be employing the 10,000-hour rule (the 10-year rule)
for mastery (Anders Ericksson) and so not persisting and not developing
depth and quality in their knowledge or skill level.  They will stay
mediocre at best and fail to develop any real expertise at worse.  Is that
what you want?  I hope not.

 

With a fully integrative system like the systems we have in Neuro-Semantic
NLP, you really do not need to go elsewhere!  One of the genuine pleasures I
now have been experiencing is that given I'm in my 25th year with NLP (1986
to 2011), my 15th year with Meta-States (1996-2011), and my 10th year with
Meta-Coaching (2001-2011) I now have the pleasure of seeing and experiencing
the systemic interfaces between the models and patterns.  And I'm beginning
to use the materials systemically in a way that would have been impossible a
few years ago.

 

So my encouragement to you, my challenge to you, my invitation to you- 

Refuse to be seduced by the shallow temptation to jump ship and chase the
latest fad and stay committed to the path of mastery of learning to think
and work systemically within Neuro-Semantics.  Do that and there is the
magic of peak experiences awaiting you!

 

More in the next article.

 

 




 

NEURO-SEMANTIC NEWS

 

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Date: 17-19 October   and again special savings prior to Oct. 1

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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