Re-Modelling NLP Part One: Models and Modelling ↑

metanymous 22 октября 2016, 15:26 в посте Metapractice (оригинал в ЖЖ)

Re-Modelling NLP

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Part One: Models and Modelling

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By John McWhirter, November 1998

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“The purpose of the model is to enable the user to do a better job in handling the enormous complexities of life. By using models, we see and test how things work and can even predict how things will go in the future. The effectiveness of a model can be judged by how well it works, as well as how consistent it is as a mechanical or philosophical system. People are very closely identified with their models, since they also form the basis for behaviour. Men have fought and died in the name of different models of nature”.

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Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture, Doubleday 1976 (p 13-14)

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Levels of Modelling

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Detailed distinctions are important for precision modelling. That includes modelling itself. In DBM we identify a number of levels to modelling. All of them are useful.

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Level

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1. Naming. Names are irresistible. Identifying something often begins by naming it. It can also be a trap as the name is not the thing, the result can be the illusion of understanding.

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2. Listing. Collecting things, grouping of things.

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3. Classifying. Relating the list. Very popular result of testing, as in IQ or

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personality. Again there is the possibility of illusory understanding.

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4. Sequencing. Tracking changes over time. Attending to the dynamic qualities.

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5. Mapping. Formalising a sequence. Useful in giving a simultaneous

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representation but at the cost of reducing the temporal dynamic.

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6. Processing. Identifying the key functioning of the sequence.

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7. Replicating. Copying particular sequences.

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8. Patterning. Identifying a common map across examples.

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9. Modelling. Replicating product, process and principle.

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10. Recursioning. Going beyond by applying model to self.

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11. Modelling Modelling. Identify the product, process and principles of the modelling.

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NLP aims to replicate successful behaviour (level 7). The strategies model supports this by mapping the sequence of senses used in a skill (level 5). If we follow Bandler and Grinder’s advice to understand the client’s model - the structure of subjective experience and concentrate on what they are doing, that would be (level 4), if we want to build a working model that would be (level 9). In DBM we are also interested in how the client constructs and changes their model of the world – the ongoing processing and patterning of subjective experience (levels 10 and 11). This requires modelling what, how and why modelling works, and the working of modelling, these are tasks beyond the scope of the NLP method.

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NLP aims to model how things work. DBM aims not only to model how things work but how to work things.