The Meta-Model: 14 Questions for Clearer Thinking
Learn to hear what is missing, assumed or left vague—and ask a question that makes the thinking more precise.
The Meta-Model is a foundational NLP language model for identifying patterns such as deletion, distortion and generalisation. This digital book focuses on 14 practical questions you can use to examine language more closely and invite clearer answers.
Use it to: listen for vague or incomplete statements, ask more precise questions, clarify meaning, and improve the quality of coaching, training and business conversations.
Best for: NLP learners, coaches, trainers, consultants and leaders who want to improve their listening and questioning skills.
Format: full-length digital book.
What's included
Twenty-two chapters in five parts: why vague answers cost you; the fourteen patterns (six deletions, five distortions, three generalizations), each with a test and a question; four extra tools from the original 1975 text that most summaries leave out; how to ask without interrogating; six workplace scenes; how to turn the questions on your own thinking; and a seven-day practice plan. Also includes a one-page card, a question bank, answers to all 90 practice lines, a glossary and full references.
Who this is for
Coaches, trainers, managers, consultants, salespeople and anyone whose work depends on getting a clear answer, including from themselves. No NLP knowledge is needed. It's a skills book, not therapy, and it isn't a guarantee of any result. It also teaches when not to ask.
Format and delivery
A PDF of more than 110 A4 pages, about 4 MB. Your download link arrives with your order confirmation. Read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the practice pages and write on them. Nothing is posted and there is nothing to install.
Refunds
Because the file is delivered instantly and cannot be returned, digital downloads are non-refundable. If the link does not work or the file will not open, email darren@ravingworld.co.uk and it will be sorted.
About DSNLP
DSNLP finds the pattern producing your current result and rebuilds it into one that gets the outcome you are actually after. Run by Darren Shaw, NLP Trainer and Modeller of Excellence, custodian of the John Seymour NLP training archive.
