[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #49

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2011  #49

Oct. 17, 2011

Systemic Excellence #4

 

 

 

SYSTEMIC EXCELLENCE #4

Systemic NLP

 

 

I've written the descriptions of the four meta-models of NLP and the factors
that make up a systemic model (Meta Reflections 46-48) to provide a general
idea of what we've been calling Systemic NLP in Neuro-Semantics.  What this
describes is not the "pure" NLP that we hear about in some quarters where
certain persons seem to want to go back to the year 1985 and put constraints
on NLP so that nothing learned or developed after 1985 counts as NLP(!).
And this is certainly not the eclectic NLP that mixes (or contaminates) it
with other psychologies or psychological processes, or various New Age
activities, or Religion, Philosophy, and any other thing that happens to be
in fad at the moment, thereby creating Woo-Woo NLP.

 

Pure NLP is far too limited, Eclectic NLP is too watered-down and weak, and
Woo-Woo NLP is too unrealistic and full of superstitions.  For me, these
forms of NLP end up denying the theoretical foundations of the model as
frameworks for a scientific approach to human functioning.  And that's our
focus in Neuro-Semantics and why, rather than being eclectic in our
approach, we seek to be more systematic with the models that we already
have.

 

So if Neuro-Semantic NLP is anything, it is Systemic NLP.  And our intention
is primarily to keep it from being contaminated in these ways.  We want to
use it as a system and to work systemically with individuals and
organizations.  And that's why the focus on structure, on being systematic,
thorough, rigorous in benchmarking the intangibles that we work with, and
constantly re-examining the working assumptions of the models and patterns.

 

What does this mean for learning NLP in practical terms?




It emphasizes learning the cognitive-behavioral structures of NLP and use
them for the modeling of experience. [Cognitive- mind, semantics;
Behavioral- body, physiology, neurology.]

It emphasizes learning the systemic nature and structure of NLP, how to
think systemically, and how to use it in systemic way.  So we use the Matrix
Model to guide us as we following the energy/information loops within the
system. 

It focuses on learning to recognize the key elements of the
mind-body-emotion system, the neuro-linguistic system, and work with it in
terms of the feedback and feed-forward processes or loops.

It focuses us to be able to answer the question: How do you know what to do,
with whom, when, and why? 

 

The fact is- NLP originated from foundational works in systems and from
system thinkers. Most obvious is the fact that Virginia Satir was the
founder of Family Systems and wrote extensively about how to work with a
family system, what to look for, etc.  Then there's Gregory Bateson's work
in the same, in cultural systems, in the mind-body system, and his
description of "mind" as a system.  And there's more.  Korzybski's work was
about "a Non-Aristotelian System" for understanding how we take the
information that's outside of our nervous system and processing it through
our multiple nervous systems.

 

Systems- is the foundation in NLP.  The person who doesn't know that, does
not fully understand Neuro-Linguistic Programming, where it came from or the
models that are at its heart.  This offers one viewpoint for what I along
with many others have been doing in Neuro-Semantics as we have been
recovering the systems foundation of NLP and then, thinking about it as a
system, learning how to use it systemically.  For us, that is what Systemic
NLP is- what Neuro-Semantics is.

 

As a model and system, the elements are the inter-dependent variables that
make up the whole.  And in NLP, given that we have four redundant systems
for working with human experience as a system.   We have linguistics (the
Meta-Model), we have strategy representations (Sub-Modalities and the
Strategy Model), perceptual and thinking patterns (The Meta-Programs), and
layering frames (the Meta-States Model).  Together these provide us the key
leverage points for working with the neuro-semantic system when we work with
individuals or organizations.

 

So I ask rhetorically: What else do you need?  When you know this, when you
know how Systemic NLP works and have developed your skills so that you can
work it, why add bits and pieces from other models?  The good news is that
this is fully sufficient to accomplish 99 percent of what we seek to
accomplish in facilitating individuals and organizations to unleash their
highest and best and create new levels of excellence.

 

And again, that's why to mix this with bits-and-pieces from other models,
other psychologies, from woo-woo new age stuff, from the non-sense of trying
to restore the so-called "pure" of 1985, actually undermines full systemic
NLP.  And that's not a very wise choice.  To do that is to create an
inferior product, to limit one's understanding and competency, and to cheat
both ourselves and those we work with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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