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The Luminous Guide to Neurolinguistic Programming
4. The Meta Model: Recovering What the Sentence Deleted
"The window was broken" is derivable from a fuller representation that contains an agent; the passive transformation licenses dropping that agent, and once dropped it is gone from the surface but not from what the speaker knows.
The Luminous Guide to Neurolinguistic Programming
4. The Meta Model: Recovering What the Sentence Deleted
these are near-empty as questions go. Their emptiness is the feature. That is why the Meta Model is the most rigorously specified artefact NLP produced: rigour was the only way to build a tool that could direct a person's attention without also furnishing what they found there.
Run the Pattern
The Worked Example — Taking a Baseline on Meta-Model Deletion
The Worked Example — Taking a Baseline on Meta-Model Deletion Here is the whole thing, done in front of you, with the reasoning left in.
Run the Pattern
The Worked Example — Taking a Baseline on Meta-Model Deletion
If you decide afterward, you will decide in favour of the answer you gave. Everyone does. The criterion set in advance is the only thing standing between you and a baseline that means nothing.
The Room Reads You First
7. The Meta Model in a Board Meeting
Restore the actor, the number and the date — Priya's team will bring the mid-market renewal uplift down from twenty-two to twelve percent for the eleven Northeast accounts by the fifteenth of October — and the sentence has changed category.
The House
You can know a fear is unreasonable and know it in a way that changes nothing
It is a habit of testing, and it is the entire distance between a practitioner and a convert.
The Room Reads You First
7. The Meta Model in a Board Meeting
The third, and by a distance the most powerful, is to apply the question to your own material first, in public, before you apply it to anyone else's.
The Luminous Guide to Neurolinguistic Programming
Preface
Every technique in this book has an edge past which it inverts and does active harm — a state deliberately anchored to a cue can be installed in someone who did not consent to carry it; a memory made smaller and further away is sometimes a memory that should have stayed close, because it was telling the truth about a danger; a beautifully reframed situation is sometimes a situation someone should have left.