[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" -- The Story of Meta-Stating
L. Michael Hall
meta at acsol.net
Mon Dec 14 06:03:50 EST 2015
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections #54
December 14, 2015
The “Genius” State #6
THE STORY OF META-STATING
When you hear the name Doug Adams you probably think about the guy who wrote
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But there was another Doug Adams and
one who played a key role in Neuro-Semantics at the beginning. The
Neuro-Semanticist Doug Adams was an IT guy who grew up in Kansas City
Missouri (where I first met him) and later moved to work in Washington DC.
I met Doug in the mid-1980s and later introduced him to NLP which he took to
passionately.
He was passionate enough about it that he was one of the people who traveled
to Denver for the 1994 NLP Conference where I spoke on my first modeling
project on Resilience out of which arose the Meta-States Model. He flew in
from Washington DC and attended the presentation when I first discovered the
Meta-States Model and he was one of the three people there that I
immediately began talking to after that presentation about Meta-States.
Then, throughout 1994 and 1995, Doug was one of the colleagues with whom I
brainstormed about many of the factors and features that I incorporated into
the first designing of the Meta-States Model.
Yet what I remember Doug Adams mostly for is this: he was the person who
invented the verb meta-stating. After reading my initial paper on
Meta-States and contemplating it for a couple of weeks, we have a long
conversation on the phone in December of 1994. That’s when Doug asked me
about “the steps of meta-stating.” “The steps of what?” I inquired.
“Meta-stating?” I repeated, “I’ve never thought of it like that. What are
you thinking Doug?”
“Well, if you’re not going to turn Meta-States into another nominalization
so that people think that it is a thing rather than focus on the process and
the mechanisms of reflexivity, then don’t you need a verb form of the term
Meta-States?”
During that dialogue, Doug challenged me to come up with a meta-state
process. When I later came up with the original meta-stating process. I
think it had 11 steps! Talk about exhaustive, it said everything I knew and
could think about self-reflexivity. Later as I began traveling and
presenting Meta-States to various NLP Centers in the USA, I discovered one
of the real benefits of presentation—feedback. People found the eleven
steps far too much to remember and practice. So I began to simplify the
process and to put it in a more memorable form. That resulted in the Five
“A”s of meta-stating:
1) Access a resourceful state that you want to set as your frame or
meta-state.
2) Amplify that state so that it is strong and robust enough to be felt.
It’s the feeling of the state that counts.
3) Apply that state to a primary state or situation.
4) Appropriate it into the life context, environment, or relationship where
you want it.
5) Analyze the result to make sure it is ecological, congruent, and
empowering.
After coming up with the Five “A”s, Denis Bridoux in England translated it
into French using 5 French words starting in A; others found 5 Spanish
words. When Colin Cox in New Zealand learned the five English words
starting with A, he applied his creative genius to them by turning them into
gestures so that people could mime them for easy learning. He also added
two more “A”s—“awareness” and “accelerate.” He put Awareness as the first
step (aware of the primary state to be outframed) and Accelerate as the last
(accelerate into life).
1) Awareness of the present and primary state that needs to be outframed,
textured, or meta-stated with some higher resource.
7) Accelerate your actions and behaviors to make this new experience real
and practical in your everyday life.
The meta-stating process then involves these seven steps: 1) Awareness. 2)
Access. 3) Amplify. 4) Apply. 5) Appropriate. 6) Analyze. 7) Accelerate.
Back in late 1990s Doug Adams’ name occurred in most of the issues of The
Meta-State Journal (1997, 1998). Those monthly journals are now
incorporated in the book, Meta-State Magic. Before his untimely death at
38 years old, Doug was a beloved colleague as he contributed his insights
and feedback for what has become the Meta-States Model.
Now you know who first came up with the phrase, meta-stating. Of course, if
you don’t know what a meta-state is you wouldn’t know what “meta-stating”
means. That’s why from the beginning we came up with other phrases. The
one that I used predominately for the first five years was “bring to bear.”
“Bring this resourceful state (X) to bear upon this primary state (Y).” I
think Dr. Bob must really love it because I see and hear him using it most
often to this day.
One day in 1998 I was in Austin Texas presenting Meta-States for Business
(“Genius at Work”) and a lady walked into the training on the second day
with two teddy bears dangling on each side of her. She had tied them
together with a string. It’s not everyday you see a woman walking round
with two teddy bears strung around her neck and dangling on each side, so
everybody was asking, “What’s with the bears?” When I asked, she said: “You
of all people should know! You talked about two bears all day yesterday.”
“I did?”
“Yes, you said ‘bring joy to bear on your learning,’ ‘bring ownership to
bear on your awareness of your personal powers,’ ‘bring pleasure to bear on
that pleasure.’ So that’s why I brought my two bears with me today.”
Others have done similar things. I have walked into training room in South
Africa and Australia and other places to find two bears in the front of the
room. We meta-state by bringing one state (thought, emotion, physiology) to
bear upon another, by applying one to another, by embedding one inside of
another (like Russian and Chinese dolls), by transcending and including to
create new categories or logical levels, by finding out “waz up about waz
up” (to quote a couple of Neuro-Semantic trainers).
In these, and other ways, we speak about meta-stating ourselves and others
with resources that make a transformative difference and that create new
empowering frames of mind.
2016
MODULE II — META-COACHING – APG Meta-State Trainings
United States --- March 18-20, 2016: APG — Santa Cruz, Ca. USA
Sponsored by The NLP Gym — Damon Cart and Logan Christopher.
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Accessing Personal Genius. Intro to the Meta-States Model.
Trainer: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
January 23-25, 2016
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: São Paulo, SP - Brazil (In Portugese)
Trainer: Huáras Duarte
Venue: Hotel Adágio Itaim - R. Prof. Carlos de Carvalho, 168 -
Itaim Bibi
Contact: email <mailto:huaras at fom1.com.br> huaras at fom1.com.br /
Phone +55 11 2369-9518
January 22-24, 2016 (Raquel Couto)
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil
Venue: Mercure Vila da Serra – Alameda da Serra, 405
Contact: Raquel Couto – Tel.: +55 31 99266 0009
raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br
January 22-24, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
February 15-17, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG
Place: Monterrey
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Armando Cadena
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February 19-21, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas
Venue: Hotel Holiday Inn
Trainers: David Murphy and Luzmen Gómez
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February 26 - 28, 2016
Accessing Personal Genius
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
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Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA Trainer: M. Marzuki Mohamed
Contact: M Marzuki Mohamed,
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February 29 –March 2, 2016
Title: Coaching Genius
Lene Fellheim, Trainer
Place: Oslo, Norway (in Norwegian)
Venue: CoachTeam as – House of Leadership, Nydalen
Contact: <mailto:info at coachteam.no> info at coachteam.no + 47 4000
4500
March 18-20, 2016: APG — Santa Cruz, Ca. USA
Sponsored by The NLP Gym — Damon Cart and Logan Christopher.
<mailto:Demoncart77 at aol.com> damon at nlp-gym.com and
<mailto:logan at nlp-gym.com> logan at nlp-gym.com
<mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com> mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com
Accessing Personal Genius. Intro to the Meta-States Model.
Trainer: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
April 15-17, 2016 (Colin Cox and Lena Gray)
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil
Venue: Mercure Vila da Serra – Alameda da Serra, 405
Contact: Raquel Couto – Tel.: +55 31 99266 0009
<mailto:raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br> raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br
April 21-23, 2016 Panamá
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Panamá City.
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Gumersindo García
Contact information: <mailto:ggarcia at mcf.com.pa>
ggarcia at mcf.com.pa
May 13-15, 2016 Dominican Republic
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Frank Anibal
Contact information: <mailto:frankanibalmontero at gmail.com>
frankanibalmontero at gmail.com
May 20-22, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Querétaro, México
Venue: Hotel Miramar
Trainers: David Murphy and Javier Vargas
Contact information: <mailto:javier_vargasm at yahoo.com.mx>
javier_vargasm at yahoo.com.mx
May 27-29, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
May 29-30, June 1, 2016
Title: APG or Self-Leadership
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Trainers: Colin Cox & Lena Gray
Contact: Jairo and Coaching Essentials.
July 8-10, 2016
Title: APG - Accedi al tuo Genio Personale
Place: San Marino
Venue: Grand Hotel, Viale Antonio Onofri, 31, 47890 Città di San Marino
Trainers: Nicola Riva and Lucia
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September 2-4, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
October 21-23, 2016
Title: Coaching Genius
Place: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Sydney University Village, Newtown, Sydney, Australia
Trainer: Jay Hedley
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jay at thecoachingroom.com.au +61 2 9216 9096 or +61 414 369 363
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