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Systemic coaching does not replace classical coaching. Classical coaching is
useful for people making decisions in controllable environments with simple
objectives. Systemic coaching
is useful when making relationship decisions, especially in complex environments
or with ambiguous objectives. We also mentor helping professionals who wish to
add systemic coaching skills to their repertoire.
Meta-Model: Background & Definitions
The Meta-Model is a name of a
simple language model developed by Bandler and Grinder in the early 1970's,
based in part on the transformational grammar models of Noam Chomsky.
Any experience is richer
than can be communicated with words. When you use words to communicate
experience, there are differences
between your experience (deep structure) and the language you use to
describe that experience (surface structure). Whenever you communicate an experience,
you delete, distort and generalize the information.
- Deletions: you omit
parts of an experience
- Distortions: you
modify the description of an experience
- Generalizations: you
make general conclusions about an experience
If you want to acquire or share knowledge, you can benefit
from using a simple model. You can fill in
missing information, clarify ambiguities; identify presuppositions; dissolve
conflicts and
challenge inconsistencies. You can try to reverse the deletions,
distortions and generalizations that are commonly made when people describe
internal or external experience! While
interrogation or torture may gain wanted information, the use of
elicitation as taught in NLP is more subtle and less likely to create
lasting damage. However, you first need to know:
- What information do you want?
- How you will use this information?
- Why do you want more or better information?
- What are the relationship consequences of gaining this information?
Evolution of
Systemic Coaching . Comparison of
Coaching Styles
Language Patterns
A meta-model is a model of a model - in NLP it is a model of a
language model. Although most sentences contain deletions, distortions and
generalizations; you can recover some missing or distorted information by
asking meta-model questions. (Note that meta-model questions
can annoy or irritate people.)
Patterns
of deletion, distortion and generalization can be organized in 3
categories:
| 1. Missing Information |
2. Map of the World |
3. Semantic Errors |
- Unspecified nouns
- Unspecified verbs
- Nominalizations
- Unspecified referential index
- Comparisons
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- Universal quantifiers
- Modal operators of possibility
- Modal operators of necessity
- Presuppositions
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- Mind reading
- Cause and effect
- Complex equivalences
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Caution
The meta-model, as taught in NLP, is used to gain
information. However, some NLP trainers teach it in frames of covert
influence and covert elicitation - how to influence
behavior or get valuable information without alerting people
that you are doing something they did not request and do not want.
Do you want to
influence a person or enhance your knowledge? Are you compelled to
challenge a person's map of the world or to correct semantic
errors? We note that people who can be described as
passive-aggressive
or covert hostile often excel at semantic manipulation. To avoid covert
manipulation, you can introduce and frame your questions, and use
a normal (not hypnotic) voice tonality and tempo. Meta-Model 1, 2, 3 & 4
The first three meta-model distinctions are commonly described
in NLP training. Our systemic coach training explores and applies Metamodel 4 in
depth.
- Meta-model 1:
which questions are useful for recovering which types of information?
- Meta-model 2:
what is your purpose for recovering information?
- Meta-model 3:
what is the relationship between an experience, its description
and physiological cues (non-verbal body language)?
- Meta-model 4:
what are the relationship consequences of communicating experiences
(verbal and non-verbal)?
Do you want to change emotional blocks or relationship
issues?
Do you want to resolve relationship challenges?
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