THE META DISTINCTION

Introduction In 2007 I presented a workshop, The Neuro-Semantics of Health, to IASH which is the NLP Conference for Studies in Health. It was in San Francisco, and I presented the frames— the meta- levels, meta-states, and meta-awareness that Michelle Duval and I had found in the disease of Lupus.

In the back of the room, Steve Andreas came in. Now for years he had been upset with me, upset about the way I used the word “meta,” and feeling that what I was doing was not right. Well, he is a great mis-matcher and does this with most people. Robert Dilts sat down with him as I was speaking and tried to help him out, but of course, Steve also disagrees with Robert aobgut meta- levels.