3. Characterizing the experience and its counterexample
It is usually helpful to start with the essential large-chunk features of the states or skills you are modeling. What are the most obvious differences between the two? Is one mostly internal (catatonia) and the other mostly external? What are the cues or triggers that send the person into one or the other? What, to paraphrase Bateson, are “the differences that make a difference?” What overall strategy sequence does the person go through? Then chunk down to the smaller steps, and characterize them using any and all NLP distinctions and methodologies that you have available to you. Among the ones that are usually very useful are:
- Rep. Systems
- Strategies (sequence)
- T.O.T.E. (Test, Operate, Test, Exit), or
- G.E.O. (Goal, Evidence, Operation)
- Presuppositions/Beliefs
- Submodalities
- Meta-program Sorting principles
- State/Physiology/Anchoring
- “Parts”
- Perceptual Position and Alignment
- Attentional Shifts: self/other content/context
- Motivation
- Attitude
- Criteria
