STRATEGIES AND MODELING

Modeling as Strategy Elicitation
NLP Modeling can be thought of as multilevel strategy elicitation. Strategies are the basis of modeling.

Modeling is wider than strategy elicitation because modeling includes higher level experience such as beliefs, values, identity etc. However, even beliefs can be thought of as startegies as typically a belief can be modeled as being supported by internal pictures, dialogue etc.

Eliciting Strategies
Recall how we elicited strategies? Eliciting the basic TOTE strategy for the modeled skill is a great start to the modeling process.

Eye Accessing
Remember that eye accessing is directly related to strategies. Therefore modeling the model’s eye accessing cues can act as a proxy to the underlying mental processes.

Other Cues
Remember also that predicates, breathing, posture, rate and pitch of speech and other BMIRs can also act as proxies to underlying mental processes.

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Logical Levels and Modeling

When modeling in NLP we can use Logical Levels to structure the modeling as follows:

Modeling as Multiple Description
Remember, modeling is finding out how things work from multiple perspectives. If enough perspectives are considered then a model with requisite variety can be created. In NLP this is sometimes referred to as a “triple description”.

Another way of organizing these descriptions is through logical levels.

Logical Levels as Multiple Description

Environment
When and where precisely, does the model do the behavior?

If we are using logical levels to build a description, it is not sufficient to learn “I do this on the sports field”, or “I do this on the stage”. In order to gain a useful description of the model, i.e. the “difference that makes a difference” we need more specificity; everyone is doing what they do on the sports field, what makes our model unique?

“When do you do this?” “As I walk onto the stage I look at the audience and pick a face in the third row, when I begin to sing I make eye contact with that person” “When exactly do you make eye contact?” “As I sing my first note” “Exactly when you sing that note, or just before, or just after?” “Oh, a second before I begin to sing that note”.

Look for precision.

Behavior
What precisely is the model doing? Pay particular attention to:
• BMIRs
• Internal Representations
• TOTEs

Skills, capabilities
What specific skills and capabilities is the model displaying? What evidence do you have that they are displaying these?

What resources does the model believe they have when engaging in the behavior? How do they represent these resources (i.e. how do they know they have them)?

Beliefs and Values
What does the model believe when they are engaged in the behavior? How do they represent this (i.e. how do they know they believe this)?

What is important to them about engaging in the behavior? How do they represent these values (i.e. how do they know these things are important)?

Identity
What is the model’s identity? What do they see themselves (or feel themselves, or hear themselves, or say to themselves) as being? How do they represent this?

Beyond Identity
What is the model’s relationship to something larger, perhaps God, or society, or something more than themselves?

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Macro Modeling

MACRO MODELING
What is Macro Modeling?
Macro Modeling in NLP is modeling an entire skill, all at once.

Why Macro Modeling?
Macro Modeling allows us to grasp the entire skill set, all at once.

Macro Modeling in Practice
Because the skill we are modeling is likely complex, we must chunk down in some way to gain an understanding of the skill. As we are not chunking down the activities involved in the skill we have to chunk down in a different way. Other ways we can chunk down include:
• When and where does it take place?
• What are the BMIRs involved in the behavior?
• What strategies are being used?
• What beliefs and values are present?
• What meta programs are being used?
• What interactions with other people are present?
• What meta states are being used?

By exploring a number of these areas we can form a fuller model of the skill.

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Micro Modeling

MICRO MODELING
What is Micro Modeling?
We discussed above that a particular skill may be very complex, comprising many actions that take place over many hours or days.

Micro Modeling takes one specific aspect of the skill and models that, using basic modeling techniques.

Why use Micro Modeling?
Micro Modeling allows us to use very basic modeling techniques on a very simple process.

By viewing a skill as the sum of the individual actions, we may lose something of the wholeness, but at the same time it allows us to work on a manageable chunk, before putting the whole thing together.

How to use Micro Modeling
Micro Modeling can be done as follows:
• Ask about the skill;
• Pick a particular aspect of the skill that you want to focus on;
• Ask about that aspect;
• Pick a particular part of that aspect of the skill that you want to focus on;
• Ask about that part;
• Pick a particular segment of that part of that aspect of the skill;
• Continue until you have a small relatively self contained mini-skill, one that can be described in one TOTE;
• Apply modeling to that mini-skill.

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Proxy Modeling

A proxy is defined as something that approximates, i.e. acts as a proxy for, something else.

When we are modeling in NLP we can pay attention to the 'Behavioral Manifestations of Internal Representations' or BMIR's of the model. We can think of the model’s BMIRs as “proxies” for the underlying state of the model.

By adopting one or more of the BMIRs of the model, we can attempt to replicate a portion of their internal state, and experience in whole or part, the behavior or skill with this proxy state.

Implicit Modeling is an example of using physiology as a proxy for the model’s internal state.

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Report NLP Master Practitioner

The International Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis, NLP Master Practitioner group met this weekend for the module entitled Beliefs, Values and Criteria.

The group covered the following topics:

• The nature of Beliefs
• Changing Beliefs using sub-modalities
• Changing Beliefs using chaining anchors
• Changing beliefs using reframes
• Values
• Eliciting values
• Chancing values
• Criteria
• Eliciting criteria
• Stacking criteria

And other matters

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NLP's New Behavior Generator

New Behavior Generator
The New Behavior Generator is an NLP pattern that uses the Implicit Modeling process.

Here is an exercise taught on our Master Practitioner Training in New York course to experience the New Behavior Generator:

Work in pairs. The modeler picks a person who you know or have seen on film. Someone you would like to model.

• Using hypnotic language, the coach asks the person to see and hear the model doing whatever it is that they wish to model. Focus on the BMIRs shown when the behavior is undertaken, rather than the actual behaviors to be modeled.
• Continue until the modeler has a very clear picture of the model performing the behavior, and until the coach begins to see some physiological shifts. The coach begins to gather verbal patterns the modeler uses to describe how the model acts and behaves and moves and looks and sounds.
• Guide the modeler to begin to move with the model, and in the modeler’s mind, to begin to adopt their posture, physiology, facial expressions, gestures, and micro movements.
• Continue until the modeler begins to feel “in synch” with the model, and the coach begins to notice more defined physiological shifts. The coach continues to gather the modeler’s words as they describe how it feels to be moving as the model moves, including more kinesthetic words.
• At this point, invite the modeler to move inside the skin of the model and experience the experience from the inside. If done properly the coach will likely see a significant physiological shift at this stage.
• The coach uses the words and phrases gathered to this point to guide the modeler through the experience of “being” the model, performing the skill.

Shawn Carson

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