REDESIGNING NLP PRAC.

“If I were to re-design NLP Prac. I would put the Meta-Program Model right up front.” That’s what I said the other day, and after hearing myself say that, I thought, “Well, why not?” Then talking to Mandy Chai on our trip that took us from China to Taiwan and the Post-ICF Conference, I had the opportunity to talk out-loud what that re-design of Prac. would entail, the effect it would have, and why it might be a really valuable choice.

Question: Why begin with Meta-Programs? Answer: the reasoning is this— if our meta-programs are our thinking patterns and if they govern how we use our attention, what we pay attention to, sort for, and “perceive,” then a person’s meta-programs either helpfully support a person to learn and understand NLP or unhelpfully undermines learning, understanding, comprehension, and use of the NLP Communication Model. After all, when you and I communicate, we communicate from, through, and within our thinking patterns. So in the end, these thinking patterns govern how we think, perceive, what we pay attention to, what we notice, what we delete, and therefore the quality of our communications.