You'll learn the three main reasons you've been having a hard time in learning the Meta Model (the third one might surprise you), and how your brain reacts to these design problems in the model — and the simple solution to make it easy to learn it.

In this session, you'll go over the crucial key to understand how to use the Meta Model — offered by one of the VERY FEW NLP trainers I admire and respect (it makes all the difference in your ability to understand and USE the Meta Model)

The Meta Circle is an operational framework that underpins all the patterns we will use throughout the training. Once you understand the logic of the Meta Circle, you'll be able to navigate all the patterns of the Meta Model comfortably.

There are only two possible ways to explore the Meta Circle. Once you know both approaches, you can quickly choose the most effective way to handle any statement your client makes.         

This is one of the most valuable sections of the entire program. You will learn how to identify the underpinnings of your client's model. With a single question, you will be able to generate profound changes in them. When you combine it with the other questions you will learn, you amplify its power.

You will learn how to fully isolate the factors that cause the problem so you can intervene directly on the cause without wasting a second dealing with distractions or peripheral factors. In addition, you will also discover how people lie to themselves (unwillingly — and sometimes, willingly) and how to reestablish truth and facts in their speech, how to slice and dice generalizations in instants without getting lost along the way, and the unconscious elements that could keep your client stuck during YEARS — and how to open the door quickly so they can escape their own mental traps.

Every mental model works according to a rule system — a bit like a country. Part of these rules define what can come into a country and what has to stay out. That's what customs are for. Your client's mental customs commands what can enter his or her model of the world and what has to stay out. It's a set of logical rules designed to protect him or her emotionally. When you identify these rules, you will understand beyond the shadow of a doubt why your client makes the decision he or she does.

Sometimes, your client will mention a word that, at face value, seems pretty inoffensive. However, after this session, you will be paying close attention to ensure that this kind of word doesn't pass unchecked. You will track down these words, isolate them, open them up and scrutinize everything that's under the hood. You're going to find out why certain apparently innocuous words could hide emotional bombs underneat them — and how to disarm them, how certain kinds of generalizations can actually be REALLY useful — and how to distinguish them from those that disempower your client, and when to put your microscope on "camouflaged universes" in your client's model of the world.

Sometimes, you need to go full Sherlock Holmes on your client. In order to make sense of their model, you need a greater level of resolution. In this session, you will learn what you need to ask to get down to the level of specificity that you need in order to move forward in your map-making. We'll cover how eliciting certain details can COMPLETELY transform your understanding of their model, multiple ways to elicit key details from your client, how to ask these questions without sounding weird — otherwise you can sound like a nosy freak

Attitude impacts your use of the Meta Model. There are five core attitudes that you can use and how they affect the non-verbal part of your communication. Once you understand how these five attitudes affect your communication and the appropriate contexts in which to use them, you can come up with additional attitudes to color your communication. Developing your attitude skills will help you modulate your communication even further, both with coaching clients and other people with whom you interact.

This session will show you how to map the classic Meta Model language patterns to the Meta Circle system. If you already have formal NLP training under your belt, this will help you easily fold what you have already learned into this practical framework. If you haven't gotten formal NLP training, it will help you bridge everything you read in the classic literature into the framework you learn in the Core Training.

Each of the questions is a high precision tool by itself. Once you put them together, you have an incredibly powerful toolkit to bring to every interaction with your clients. In this recap of the program, we go over several examples where you see the entire toolkit in action in a coherent, integrated way. You will learn the exact sequence in which to ask the questions — in order of power and impact, different ways of phrasing the exact same question — so you don't sound like a weirdo, and how to deploy the questions and make them work together.