YOUR CLIENT’S GLOBAL META-PROGRAM

It is very, very seldom that Coaches have a problem with a client who is too detailed. But what is very, very common is a client who is too global. In fact, it is precisely because most people are thinking, perceiving, and sorting at too general a level that they encounter multiple problems. And accordingly, that’s why it is so critical to use the Meta-Model to get clients to be more specific. Ask them, “Specifically what are you talking about?”

The founders of NLP discovered that this is, to a great extent, what Perls and Satir did with their therapy clients. By getting them to “come into sensory awareness” and speak more precisely about things, many of their problems went poof! and immediately disappeared. Why? Because a great many human problems are functions of the language we use, especially vague language. Problems are created by language and by re-languaging them, they can be deconstructed or reconstructed.