NLP Meta Model: Deletion, Distortion & Generalization
What is the NLP Meta Model? Learn its 3 parts - deletion, distortion and generalization - what it is good for, and its limits.
Written by Niels AmmerlaanLicensed Master Trainer of NLP · Updated
Limits of the Speaker’s Model is the Third part of the Inverse of the Meta Model. Remember that the Meta Model is used to search for and reveal Generalized information. Here we are going to discover the Two parts it is been made of. Now in the Meta Model we learned to ask the questions to discover what has been generalized by the client. In the Milton Model we, as the NLP Practitioner, we are utilizing to deliberately generalize information and provide suggestions with it. This part, Limits of the Speaker’s Model, is the least significant of the three chunks of information. So study it closely, in the end it will make the utilization of the Milton Model only easier.
The Third Part of the Inverse of the Meta Model, Limits of the Speaker’s Model consists out of two parts. Click the links below to learn more.
We advise you to read the examples and do the exercises mentioned in the articles above. Start a new chapter about learning the Limits of the Speaker’s Model. Everyone likes it and you will have a lot of fun in learning, doing and applying!
Have fun reading our articles about the Inverse of the Meta Model and the NLP Milton Model and the exercises we provide you here online.
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