| > | | | | of the questions is to cut through this ambiguity, |
| The Technique to The Truth | | | | in order to access the missing information for |
| Meta model is the earliest NLP technique | | | | both the client and the coach. |
| developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, | | | | The below is the 12 important pattern define |
| by modeling two very successful therapists, Fritz | | | | under Meta Model. |
| Perls and Virginia Satir, who got extraordinary | | | | A.) Deletion |
| results from their clients by having them be more | | | | 1) Simple Deletion: Something is left out in the |
| specific in what they expressed. | | | | experience. |
| Meta model is by using certain kinds of questions | | | | 2) Lack of Referential Index: an action is specified, |
| to gather information and details (gain from deep | | | | but the person who is doing the action is left out |
| structure of client). Grinder and Bandler observed | | | | and not specified. |
| that in moving from the deep structure to the | | | | 3) Comparative Deletions: A comparison is made |
| surface structure, people will unconsciously | | | | and it is not specified as to what is being |
| DELETE, DSITORT and GENERALIZED the | | | | compared. |
| information. | | | | 4) Unspecified Verb: verbs where some detail of |
| Deletion is a process by which we omit parts of | | | | the action is not clear how something was done. |
| an experience or selectively filtered to certain | | | | 5) Nominalizations: Changing processes into things |
| part of our experience. For instance, you | | | | or changing verbs into nouns. |
| won’t hear any sound in the big hall that | | | | B.) Generalizations |
| crowded when you concentrating in talking with | | | | 1) Universal Quantifiers: Universal quantifiers are |
| someone. Deletion minimizes the world to | | | | typically words such as: all, everyone, never, |
| proportions which we feel capable of handling. | | | | always, every, only, no one, everything, etc. |
| Distortion is the process which we modifying the | | | | 2) Modal Operators of Necessity or Possibility: |
| description of an experience and allows us to us | | | | Modal Operators of Necessity include words such |
| to imagine new things and plan for the future. It is | | | | as should, must not, shouldn't, must, have to, it is |
| the process which has made possible all the | | | | necessary. Modal Operators of Possibility include |
| artistic creations which we as humans have | | | | words such as can/can't, will/won't, may/may |
| produced. | | | | not, possible/impossible. |
| Generalization is the process by which we | | | | C.) Distortions |
| summarize & group all the events into category, | | | | 1) Mind Reading: The speaker claims to know |
| and make general statements based on our own | | | | what another person believes or know |
| value & belief, ignoring the possible exceptions or | | | | 2) Lost Performative: Value judgments are made |
| special conditions. The ability of generalization may | | | | but it is lack of evidence and not clear who has |
| lead a human being to express the world in a | | | | made the judgment. |
| more simple way. | | | | 3) Cause -- Effect: The speaker establishes a |
| In order to recover the missing data or | | | | cause-effect relationship between two events or |
| information, as a result of deletions, generalizations | | | | actions, like statement implies that A causes B |
| and distortions, John Grinder and Richard Bandler | | | | 4) Complex Equivalence: In this situation two |
| had identified 12 important patterns with | | | | experiences are interpreted as being synonymous. |
| corresponding questions and called this the Meta | | | | These two experiences could be joined by words |
| Model. This Meta Model is about being more | | | | such as: therefore, means, implies. |
| specific to get a better understanding of the | | | | 5) Presuppositions: some assumption on part of |
| person’s model of the world. The purpose | | | | the sentence to be true or may be true. |