Meta Programmes
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Do you code by time, place, person, activity or data?
Do you go towards opportunities or away from problems? Find out your Meta Programmes
It has been established that people typically can pay attention consciously to 7 +- 2 bits (chunks) of information at any one time (GA Miller, 1956). Therefore, given these constraints of consciousness, everybody deletes distorts and generalises information because the conscious mind can selectively pay attention to a restricted amount of information at any given moment in time. What Meta Programs do is to tell you what to pay attention to, what to select as referencing categories (And also what people normally delete.) For example, if someone is moving towards what they want they may be deleting the things that they are moving away from - and vice-versa.
People have patterns of behaviour and Meta Programmes are those reference categories around which they organise their experience to create those behaviours. Even though situations vary as does subjective experience, there tends to be typical configuration of Meta Program Patterns by which all people organise their thinking to understand their experience as well as to evaluate experience.
By understanding those internal patterns of organisation you can determine how to structure (or package) your communication to get you your message across in ways that naturally and automatically pace the other person’s experience. If you want to communicate effectively with another person the key is to observe the person, listen to their language and the metaphors they use. People provide information on an ongoing basis in their use of language that demonstrates the Meta Programmes.
To communicate effectively, you have to do it in ways that pace or match the other person’s Meta Programmes, rather than in ways that match your perceptions of how the world should work or how people should be.
People have patterns of behaviour and Meta Programmes are those reference categories around which they organise their experience to create those behaviours. Even though situations vary as does subjective experience, there tends to be typical configuration of Meta Program Patterns by which all people organise their thinking to understand their experience as well as to evaluate experience.
By understanding those internal patterns of organisation you can determine how to structure (or package) your communication to get you your message across in ways that naturally and automatically pace the other person’s experience. If you want to communicate effectively with another person the key is to observe the person, listen to their language and the metaphors they use. People provide information on an ongoing basis in their use of language that demonstrates the Meta Programmes.
To communicate effectively, you have to do it in ways that pace or match the other person’s Meta Programmes, rather than in ways that match your perceptions of how the world should work or how people should be.
When you’re communicating with someone and difficulties in understanding arise, it’s essential to develop the flexibility to modify the form of your communication to fit (or match) the Meta Programme Patterns of the other person. Meta Programmes give you the key to make crucial distinctions in deciding how to interact with people.
It is extremely important to remember that there are no absolutes when it comes to Meta Programmes. No one responds in exactly the same to each and every stimulus (or anchor). Few people operate all the time at one extreme; however people do develop dominant patterns. A useful way to think about how Meta Programmes operate and influence is the following:
People exhibit a strong or predictable tendency to organise their experience by certain Meta Programmes and not others … yet people can and often do modify their strategies.
It is extremely important to remember that there are no absolutes when it comes to Meta Programmes. No one responds in exactly the same to each and every stimulus (or anchor). Few people operate all the time at one extreme; however people do develop dominant patterns. A useful way to think about how Meta Programmes operate and influence is the following:
People exhibit a strong or predictable tendency to organise their experience by certain Meta Programmes and not others … yet people can and often do modify their strategies.
Away from and Towards
Chunking: Generality and Specific
Focus of Attention: Self and Other
Motivation: Possibility and Necessity
Frame of Reference: Internal and External
Focus of Interest
Time: In Time and Through Time
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