Presentation of Patterning

On pp. 53 and 351 the book (redundundantly) offers specific and useful suggestions for presenting new models to the field of NLP, including

  1. description of the pattern,
  2. consequences of using the pattern,
  3. selection criteria for the use of the pattern, and making a video available. (p. 352)

However, in the description of new code patterning and format (pp. 239-240) many terms are not defined (as mentioned earlier) the consequences are not specified, no criteria for selection are offered, and no video is made available! This is only one of many, many discrepancies in this book between what is talked and what is walked.

The suggestion of having a library of videotaped examples of patterns available to the field for study is a particularly good one, to provide sensory-based examples of the actual use of patterns. Peoples descriptions of their work are often very different from what they actually do (e.g. Virginia Satir). This is one of the reasons that Connirae and I have been producing videotapes for the last 21 years—so that people could see and hear samples of exactly what we were doing and writing about. Years ago we produced some videotapes of Grinders training, but the last Grinder video that I am aware of was produced about 18 years ago.

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