First published on
www.cleanlanguage.co.uk, 19
July 2006. Last updated 27 March 2019.
How to do a Modelling Project - Section 1
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
Contents
Section 1:
Introduction
Section 2: Learning how to do a
Modelling Project
Section
3: Defining a Modelling Project
Section 4:
Stage 1: Preparing to do a
Modelling Project
Section 5: Stage 2: Gathering Information
Section 6: Stage 3: Constructing a Model
Section 7: Stage 4: Testing Your Model
Section 8:
Stage 5: Acquiring the Model
Section 9: References
Some of our other articles about modelling on this site:
Introducing Modelling to Organisations (Rapport Issue 40, Summer 1998)
What is Therapeutic Modelling? (ReSource Magazine Issue 8, April 2006)
Coaching In-the-moment
(2007)
Modelling: Top-down and Bottom-up (2010)
Modelling Robert Dilts Modelling
(2010)
Modelling the Written Word (2010)
Modelling Shared Reality (Kwalon Vol 3, October 2012)
Pointing to a New Modelling Perspective (Acuity Vol. 4, October 2013)
A Modellers Perspective
(2014)
Introduction
The following is an in-depth summary of over 25 years experience of modelling: formal projects, informally, therapeutically and
training modelling. These ideas are presented as background information and a checklist for conducting a full-scale modelling project. There are many, many less formal ways to make use of modelling.
Modelling Methodologies
There is not one way to model. The list below contains over a dozen modelling methodologies that to varying degrees we have had first-hand experience – although we would not claim to be experts in any (ok, maybe Symbolic Modelling!).
We
have loosely classified the methodologies under the three headings
(Sensory-Physical, Conceptual-Perceptual, Metaphoric-Symbolic). We first
introduced these in our article
Meta, Milton and Metaphor: Models of Subjective Experience (1996):
Sensory-Physical
Conceptual-Perceptual
'Teach Me'
|
Richard Bandler
|
Book: Magic in Action (Bandler, 1992)
|
Analytic
Modelling |
Robert Dilts & Todd Epstein |
Book: Tools For Dreamers (Dilts & Epstein, 1991)
Books Strategies of Genius
Volumes I, II & III (Dilts, 1994/1995)
Book: Modelling with NLP (Dilts, 1998).
Article:Overview of Modeling in NLP (Dilts, 1998).
|
Experiential
Array |
David Gordon & Graham Dawes |
Book & DVD: Expanding Your World: Modeling the Structure of Experience
(Gordon & Dawes, 2005)
Website: expandyourworld.net
|
Developmental
Behavioural
Modelling
|
John McWhirter |
Article: Re-modelling
NLP: Part Fourteen: Re-Modelling Modelling (McWhirter, Rapport 59,
2002) |
Cognitive Behavioral
Modelling
|
Charles Faulkner |
Article: Modelling an Expert; The missing piece in Knowledge Management (Faulkner & Modrall, 1998)
|
|
Meta-Levels |
L Michael Hall
|
Book: Going Meta: Advanced Modelling Using Meta-Levels (Hall, 1997/2001)
|
Advanced Behavioral Modeling
|
Wyatt Woodsmall
|
Book: The Science of Advanced Behavioral Modeling (1998) and a set of 16 DVDs from a 2003 training
Article: Modeling With NLP: Capturing and Transferring Expertise in Organizations (Feustel & Woodsmall, 2001)
|
Metaphoric-Symbolic
Penny and James
