THE META IS IN THE DETAILS

[The following came from a May 2005 post that I sent out under this same title, I thought it would be still appropriate.]

In Neuro-Semantics, the meta is in the details. We call this meta-detailing and it is one of the most fundamental principles and techniques in Neuro-Semantics. What is meta-detailing and why is it so important?

Meta-Detailing means taking any meta-idea (i.e., principle, belief, understanding, paradigm, model, etc.) and detailing it down to specifics. It is translating great ideas into action plans, into behavior, into "the one thing that I will do today to begin to make this real in my life is..."

Meta-Detailing synthesizes the meta-program continua of global—specific and in doing so enables us to not get lost in the forest and to keep perspective. I write an entire chapter on this in the book that Bob Bodenhamer and I wrote in 1999 that first challenged and then revolutionized the "sub-modality" model in NLP, The Structure of Excellence. That book is now titled, Sub- Modalities Going Meta.