NLP Modeling Going Meta

NLP is all about modeling, it is about modeling the excellence of experts. This central focus of NLP gives it a positive focus on what works and how does it work. When we know that, then we can replicate that expertise in our own lives and in the lives of others. The co-developers of NLP originated their first models in this way. They looked at the expert skills of three therapeutic wizards (Perls, Satir, and Erickson) and then used the tools from such disciplines as Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology (Miller’s TOTE model), General Semantics, Cybernetics, etc. These were the first NLP models for modeling. Today in NLP we have many models for modeling. We have the VAK representation system model, the Meta-Model, Meta-Programs, Strategy, the Experiential Array (Gordon), Neuro-logical levels (Dilts), and much more. The first formalized presentation of modeling in NLP was NLP-Volume I (1980). NLP: Going Meta—Advanced Modeling Using Meta-Levels provides the next step in modeling as we go meta and utilize the distinctions that occur at meta-levels. You can think of this volume as NLP: Volume II. This is a book about modeling. It is about standing in awe of the expertise that certain persons demonstrate and setting out to find the structure of how they do what they do so magically. The passion that drives modeling is the curiosity to understand and replicate excellence. It is this passion that inspires this book. This book extends and expands NLP modeling. Conceptually, it picks up where the first academic book in the field of NLP left off.