AH, THE THINGS YOU HAVE GENERALIZED!

When I first learned the Meta-Model, I didn’t get it. I didn’t get the big deal that all of the trainers in my original NLP training was saying. What was it that they saw in the Meta-Model that I was missing? That was my question. Prior to attending NLP, I read The Structure of Magic, Volumes I and II, and as a student of linguistics, I assumed that I understood it. And because of that, I completely missed it. So later when Bandler said that everything the founders had created in NLP came from the Meta-Model, I did a re-take. “What?” “Everything?” “How could that be?” “By the way, what is the Meta-Model?” I wrote about this in Communication Magic (1997/2001).

So, I went back and re-read Magic with new eyes. I read it through the lens of “everything in NLP was and is created by the Meta-Model.” That’s when I discovered the modeling processes and began to understand how we use the Meta-Model to model expertise, and also how each of us model the world and how our client’s have modeled their world.