[Neurons] 2013 Meta Reflections #5

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2013  #5

January 21, 2013

Modeling Excellence Series #1

 

 

MODELING HUMAN EXCELLENCE

WITH NLP

 

What is NLP?  How can we define it?

There are two answers that I like to give.  First, NLP is a Communication
Model and second, NLP is a Modeling Model.  Yes, it can be framed as
involving other things- a technology of excellence, a format for
self-development, the success formula.  Yet those ways of defining it are
typically P.R. definitions, that is, definitions that serve the purpose of
selling NLP.  They are not truly descriptions of what it is.

 

Do you want to know what it is?

It began as distinctions of language regarding how some experts in
communication were able to do by just talking what seemed like magic with
their words.  That's why NLP began with the development of what was called
"the Meta-Model of Language in therapy" (The Structure of Magic, Volume I,
1975).  This was, at that time, eleven linguistic distinctions that enabled
a practitioner to recognize an ill-formed word or sentence and ask a
question that would challenge the speaker to speak in a way that would be
well-formed in terms of clarity and precision.  The Meta-Model is now 22
distinctions (see Communication Magic, 2001, which I wrote at Richard
Bandler's request to acknowledge the 25 year anniversary of the Meta-Model).

 

So it is a model of how communication works which was John Grinder's
contribution as he imported Transformational Grammar (T.G.).  And in a way
that de-mystified and simplified T.G., he formulated the language patterning
of Perls and Satir so that they were useable by anyone.  This contribution
was modeled from Bandler by Grinder, and then practiced among them along
with Pucelik and the practice group.  So by modeling experts NLP arose as a
Communication Model and as a Model for Linguistically Modeling human
experience.  In other words, the Communication Model of NLP became
simultaneously the first Modeling tool of NLP!  So that's why I like to say
that NLP is first a Communication Model and then a Modeling Model.

 

Given that this is what NLP is, I thought I would write a series of articles
during this year of Modeling Excellence.  There are several reasons I want
to do this.  First and foremost, this is the essence of NLP.  To not know
this (which is today all too common in the field) is to not understand what
NLP is about, where it came from, what we can do with it, and where many of
us are going with it.

 

This is also the essence of Neuro-Semantics, especially given that it began
from my first modeling project on Resilience, and which ended in the
discovery and creation of the Meta-States Model which, just as with the
Meta-Model, is simultaneously a Modeling Model.  Since that time, I have
spent the past twenty-some years on 16 additional modeling projects and that
has led to the dozen or so Neuro-Semantic models that extends NLP.

 

Nor is this something that is for only a few special people.  My vision of
NLP, and especially of Neuro-Semantics, is that this is something that every
quality training in NLP should enable in practitioners.  That is, every
practitioner in this science and art ought to be able to model human
experiences.  And modeling human experience simply means being able to
understand the how of the experience: How does it work?  How do you do that?

 

After all, with the NLP models, you can begin to answer these how questions
by using -

           The Meta-Model of Language and examining how the person talks
and languages his or her reality that generates that reality.

           The Strategy Model whereby you can follow and make explicit the
representational steps that comprise the person's "strategy" for how he or
she "thinks" and uses all of their physiology, neurology, to "make sense"
and to create their reality.

           The Meta-Programs Model whereby you can begin to catch the
meta-levels of frames and thinking patterns or styles that add to how the
person operates.

           The Sub-Modality Model for how the person edits his or her
representational movie which accesses various meta-levels of meaning and
beliefs (because sub-modality distinctions work semantically, see
Sub-Modalities Going Meta).

 

Then with the Neuro-Semantic models, you can complete the model of the how
by using- 

           The Meta-States Model of a person's self-reflexive consciousness
to track the thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and meanings in the back of the
mind and how they interface with the primary thoughts and feelings and how
they set the frames for how a person operates.

           The Matrix Model so that you can track both the processes by
which the person creates their matrix of frames and the content matrices
that establish his or her sense of self.

           The Meaning- Performance Axes so you can determine the kind of
meanings, quality of meanings and number of meanings that play into how the
person creates their reality and the performances, implementing it in real
life. 

           The Self-Actualization Quadrants to measure how integrated the
response is and how well it puts a person "in the zone."

           The Matrix Embedded Volcano to relate how the person's basic and
meta-needs are met (or not met) in the process. 

           The Axes of Change and/or the Crucible to evaluate the processes
of change, how the change is occurring or not, and how to better facilitate
the desired change.

 

All of this, of course, requires quality training in NLP and
Neuro-Semantics, training that includes learning how to model.  This is one
of the things we emphasis in our Trainers' Training, that trainers enable
participants learn how to model the structure of experience.  So to that end
I will be writing a series of articles on Modeling.

 

 

 




 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

                Neuro-Semantics International

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

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