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Meta Model in NLP

In NLP the Meta Model is a model of language, derived from Virginia Satir that gives us an "over" view of language.

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Language of Specificity is the use of the Meta Model.  The Meta Model was developed to recover information about how the client has created their Model of Reality.  By gaining more specificity, new choices become actualised.

Using the Meta Model

It allows us to recognise deletions, generalisations and distortions in our language, and gives us questions to clarify imprecise language and gain specificity.

Meta Model history

  • One of the first patterns developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the Meta Model uses language to clarify language, to re-connect language with experience. 
  • The Meta Model language patterns were modelled by Richard and John from the questioning style of two prominent psychotherapists, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir, who used these patterns to gain information.
What does the Meta Model do in NLP
  • The Meta Model is a set of language patterns and questions that reconnects the deletions, distortions and generalisations with the experience that generated them.
  • Meta means above or beyond.  The meta model is a model of language used on language itself to clarify language.
  • Deep Structure is our pure experience, and exists at an unconscious level.  We transform that deep structure or pure experience into a form that we can communicate, our verbal and non-verbal behaviours, our Surface Structure

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