Meta Model in NLP

Communication plays a very important role in building strong relationships. It may be in business or in personal life. But in reality there are very few people who are good at communication. Out of which few are naturally gifted and few have developed this skill by learning and practicing. Communication is an art. Lot of factors affect communication of a person like expression of emotions, tonality, pitch, voice modulation, pauses, speed, rapport and one among all of these is ‘Meta Model’.

Our nervous system deletes and distorts whole portion of reality in order to make the world manageable. Our maps determine our behavioural options by creating rules and programs for how we do things.

We delete information to avoid being overwhelmed. We don’t see all the choices we have available. We attend to our priorities and overlook other things that might be valuable.

We generalize information in order to summarize and synthesize. Dealing with categories is much less demanding than dealing with individual cases. For example, we talk about dogs as a category rather than all the individual dogs that we have met.

Lastly we distort information, for instance when we plan or visualize the future.

What is a Meta Model?

Meta Model helps in changing our maps of the world. It is the first model in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, inspired by the work of Gestalt Therapist, Fritz Pearls. It provides a number of problem solving strategies. The cause of many of our problems is by our unconscious rule governed behaviour.

We have problems not because the world isn’t rich enough, but because our maps aren’t.

Meta Model is broadly classified into 3 Models:

1. Deletion: Missing information consciously or unconsciously.

2. Generalization: General statement on few observations.

3. Distortion: Statements based on person’s own perception, illusions and beliefs.

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