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Modal Operators

© 2001

• Foreword
• Questions
• Introduction
• 1. What are they anyway? What do they do, and how do they work?
• 2. How many kinds, or categories of MO are there, and what would you name each kind?
• 3. How are they linked to, or related to, each other?
• 4. What kind of motivation is indicated by each MO?
• 5. How can each kind of MO be understood as indicating a specific kind of incongruence?
• 6. What kind of incongruence is indicated by a person when they use one kind of MO verbally and express a different one nonverbally?
• 7. How it can be useful to change a person's experience by suggesting replacing one modal operator with another, and why is it useful?
• 8. What MO is operating in an experience of complete and total congruence?
• 9. What else can you predict about a person's experience when they use a MO?
• References