BIG FISH in a small pond

Scaling – How people use metaphor to assess the relative size or extent of an experience – how to model it, and what happens when you change the scale of things to come.

Clean Space

The first description of David Grove’s shift to a physical self-organising process. Published in ‘Anchor Point’.

Levels

Part 4 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.

Constructivism

Part 1 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.

Endings and beginnings

Thoughts and activities on a universal way of punctuating experience into starts and finishes.

A model of musing

How would you work with a client who says “”I want to stop going into blank”? Published in Anchor Point, 16(5).

Metonymy

Part-whole relationships – a process fundamental to language and cognition.

Mind, Metaphor and Health

How to recognise and work within a metaphor to activate an individual’s personal healing process. Published in Positive Health.

Perspectives to model by

Where and how we perceive makes a difference to what we perceive. Where do Symbolic Modeller’s perceive from?

The Magic of Metaphor

Learning to use your personal metaphors and symbols in order to read and understand your own symbology. Published in the ‘Carolyn Myss Newsletter’.

What is Emergence?

How to think in terms of ’emergence’, a fundamental feature of the dynamics of self-organising systems

Metaphors of Organisation – Part 2

Describes a new approach using client-generated metaphors to facilitate individual and organisational change. Published in ‘Effective Consulting’.

Conversing with Metaphor

Teachers with exquisite rapport skills listen very carefully to their student’s metaphors, dialoging within the logic or frame of the metaphor. Published in New Learning.

Learning Metaphors

A practical approach to understanding students by noting and using their metaphors. Published in the SEAL Journal.

Clean Language Without Words

How to use your voice and body to utilise clients use of space, their body and non-verbal sounds. Published in ‘Rapport’

Introducing Modelling to Organisations

What is this thing called NLP modelling? A checklist of preparatory considerations and an overview of the five stages of a modelling project. Published in Rapport 40

Meta, Milton and Metaphor

Sensory and abstract are different kinds of subjective experience and there is a third kind not coded by Bandler and Grinder.

Vision is not black and white

How a case from Oliver Sacks’ An Anthropologist on Mars can enrich the NLP model, and an NLP perspective can make sense of the functioning of the brain. Published in Rapport, 34.