[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #21 NEURO-SEMANTICS & 3rd and 4th GENERATION OF NLP

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #21

May 23, 2022

 

THE NEURO-SEMANTICS 

WITHIN 3RD & 4th GENERATION NLP 

 

I recently came across Dilts' description of the generations of NLP.  When
he first published the book on NLP II: The Next Generation (2010) while
there's lots of really good stuff in it, I found it really lacking.  How?
It was lacking because it only described Robert's field of NLP and the
people and training he does, and it therefore left out nearly all of the
rest of the field.  Except for a single mention about the Meta-States Model,
he left out all of the Neuro-Semantic movement and field within NLP and our
presence in 70 countries with thousands upon thousands of coaches and
trainers.  

Now with Third Generation NLP we have the following description:

Third generation NLP has been developing since the 1990s. Understanding and
exploring Third Generation NLP involves looking back to the origin and
legacy of NLP as well as looking to future developments. The applications of
third generation NLP are generative, systemic and focused at even higher
levels of learning, interaction and development-including those relating to
identity, vision and mission. 

This is very much about an inter-connected view of working, living and the
environment and the experience of a global thinking culture. It is at the
top of the Spiral Dynamics model and is poised to help the world prepare for
new ways of thinking. 

Third generation NLP emphasizes whole system change and can be applied to
organisational and cultural development as well as to individuals and teams.
The techniques of third generation NLP are "field based," incorporating
principles of self-organization, archetypes and what is known as "fourth
position"-a whole system perspective. They include; acting with alignment
and integrity, 'sponsoring' and supporting others, resolving complicated
problems, developing multi-level perspectives and so enabling and creating
dynamic and ecological change.  

The assumption of third generation NLP is that the wisdom needed for change
is already in the system and can be discovered and released by creating the
appropriate context. Robert Dilts quotes Isaac Newton as having said, "If I
have been able to see farther than others, it is because I have been
standing on the shoulders of giants." (Italics added)

 

Since, again, Neuro-Semantics is not even mentioned, I will contribute that.
In Neuro-Semantics, the entire development of the Meta-Coaching System is
about generative change.  Since 1994 we have also been focused on the higher
levels of learning as manifested in the Meta-States Model and the APG
(Accessing Personal Genius) trainings which several hundred trainers train
in 70-plus countries.  Systemic Coaching (2012) presented a full systemic
approach and the Matrix Model (2016) is itself a systems model.

 

>From the beginning, Neuro-Semantics has made alignment, collaboration, and
integrity central to its vision.  Books on Self-Actualization Psychology
have focused on generative change from the inside-out.  In Neuro-Semantics,
using the Precision Funnel, we have specified the way to think about and
solve problems using four central conversations: the well-formed outcome,
problem, solution, and innovation (Creative Solutions, 2017).

More recently, my focus in Neuro-Semantics has been to hone in on the most
crucial skill of all, thinking and the problem of not-thinking or
pseudo-thinking.  From our thinking comes our communicating, learning,
deciding, metaphoring, trancing, predicting, etc.  Neuro-Semantics has also
been leading out in getting back to the subject of being itself-
authenticity (Get Real, 2016), Inside-Out (2022), Inspiring the Heart
(2022), Unleashed! (2007). 

 

In all of these ways and a great many more, Neuro-Semantics has been engaged
in 3rd Generation NLP even though almost none of it has been recognized.

NLP 4thgeneration is an international co-creation movement exploring and
modeling spiritual transformational experiences. It is the study of the
subjective experience of Connecting to Higher Levels and Expanded States of
Spiritual Consciousness, of both people and collectives.  First modelings of
spiritual leaders and healers in Bali on ability to connect to Source,
determining basic and operational presuppositions, sharing views and
discoveries on this level, practicing intention experiments, coordinating
further developments and spreading the word.

 

>From the Internet:

First Generation NLP.  In the beginning ' first generation' NLP- we had the
tools and models that Bandler and Grinder derived from their study of
innovative and effective therapists. The techniques and skills that were
created were mainly focused on problem solving at behaviour and capability
levels with individuals. These included the meta model, anchoring, eye
accessing cues, predicates, 6 step reframing, etc.  These early applications
of NLP were all applied one-on-one, with the focus almost entirely on the
individual and so works at the levels of environment, behaviour and
capability. NLP was considered something which one "did to other people."
This led to some NLP applications as seeming to be manipulative when used in
non-therapeutic contexts. It was very concerned with the lower levels of
Spiral Dynamics and the areas of protection, control, conformism and
achievement or success factors. Most of the first generation tools and
techniques were focused on problem solving at level of behaviour and
capabilities.

 

Second generation NLP emerged in the mid to late 1980's and emphasised the
relationship between self and others. The areas of application widened to
include business, health, education and sales. Also the tools expanded to
include higher level issues which were related to values, beliefs and 'meta
programmes' and integrated distinctions like time lines, sub-modalities and
perceptual positions into new formats like Re-imprinting and the Swish
Pattern. Second generation NLP is very concerned with the 'why' questions
and was a period of exploration focusing on caring and sharing with others,
relationship and self development. 

 

Now while all of this is an interesting way to characterize the history of
NLP, it is also very biased.  It is one person's, or at best one camp's,
point of view.  And that would be fine except it is not owned as a
perspective, a map, it is presented as the way it is (e.g.., the territory).
Whoever wrote it should know better if they know NLP!  When I wrote about
the history of NLP, I did not categorize the "generations," I tried to keep
it much more open.  And I constantly acknowledged, "this is from my
perspective."  See NLP Secrets: The Untold Story (2019).

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com 

 

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