Meta-States “Genius” Series (APG)
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Damon Cart
Date
Feb 02, 2016
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Back in the 1970s NLP began in Santa Cruz California. That was the place where NLP was launched. That is where we have had two leadership conferences, one Visionary Leadership Conference in 1997 and the other Millennial Project in 2000. That is where Robert Dilts and Teresa Epstein created and run NLP U and where every year they hold NLP U presenting Prac. and Master Prac. and other trainings in the summer. So my dream for years has been to take the Meta-States Model to Santa Cruz.
But I've never been invited to do that. Yes, Robert Dilts invited me to share at the Millennial Project in 2000 and I did present the Meta-Yes pattern at that time. But neither I nor any one else has every presented the Meta-States Model (APG) in Santa Cruz. 2016 will change that and I would like to hereby invite you to join us.
But you may wonder, "Is the Meta-States Model NLP?" Yes, of course. 21 years ago, the International Trainer's Association of NLP awarded me an award for the Meta-States Model for "the most significant contribution to NLP, 1995." So yes, it is integral to NLP. During the 1990s I wrote scores and scores of articles on the Meta-States Model in all of the NLP journals— Rapport, Resource, Anchor Point, NLP World, etc. The Meta-States Model has also now been mentioned in dozens and dozens of NLP books. There are even NLP Trainers who include a section on Meta-States in their basic NLP Trainings. In the book that I and Shelley Rose Charvet edited, Innovations in NLP, Meta-States is included there.
Further, the Meta-States Model expands and details what has been in NLP all along—"the meta move," "the meta function," and "the meta position." What the Meta-States Model discovered was the whole realm of self-reflexivity hidden inside the little m move in the strategy processes as presented over and over and over in NLP Volume I (1980). And that entire hidden realm of reflexivity was the central theme of Science and Sanity (1933) of Korzybski. In fact, he said that his Theory of Multi-Ordinality and Reflexivity solved the problems that arise when people do not distinguish map and territory or the levels of abstraction (logical levels).
That's why after the Meta-States Model was discovered, Bob Bodenhamer and I began remodeling NLP and that led to the nine books we co-wrote and many, many new models. That led Graham Dawes of London to write that the Meta-States Model would be the model that would "eat NLP." He wrote that in his original reviews of the Meta-States Model in several NLP journals.
Today the Meta-States Model not only adds to NLP, it actually explains NLP. It explains how the NLP Communication Model, Meta-Program Model, Strategies Model, Sub-Modalities Model and all of the NLP change patterns work. A clue— they work by the hidden frames which these models set at a higher or meta-state level. That's why and how the Meta-States Model takes NLP to a higher level. If you don't know that, then the APG training that reveals the essence of the Meta-States Model in a three-day training will be truly eye-opening for you.
The value is that you will discover how the dynamic patterns and models of NLP actually work. And knowing that, you'll be able both to appreciate NLP in a much deeper way and, in your mind, you will see the link between the models and patterns. It will give you a much more thorough and systemic understanding of NLP.
All of this and more will be presented in Santa Cruz as we launch the Meta-States Model from the place where it all began. This will happen in March and you are invited to come and be a part of it. If you have already been through APG, come and revisit (50% discount for those revisiting).
I am delighted that Damon Cart and Logan Christopher, who started The NLP Gym in Santa Cruz have invited me to come and present the Accessing Personal Genius (APG) training. Today, they are the only persons providing NLP training year-round in Santa Cruz and this event is also my way to support them as they are supporting me. The time has certainly come to re-assert NLP in the United States where it has been dormant for many years and with the APG training in Santa Cruz, I hope this will energize the other NLP and Neuro-Semantic trainers who are a part of the Institute of Neuro-Semantics — United States ( Website link : www.insusa.org )
- The Dates for this event — March 18-20, 2016.
- The Place — Santa Cruz, California, USA.
- The Hotel — Best Western Hotel : www.bestwesternsantacruz.com.
- The Sponsors — The NLP Gym.
— Damon Cart and Logan Christopher. - The Contact information: [email protected] or [email protected], [email protected]
- The Subject: — Accessing Personal Genius, An Introduction to the Meta-States Model.
Come and join us!
Damon Cart
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Damon Cart is considered to be a natural talent by some of the best NLP trainers in the world. His approach to guiding and teaching students brings to their awareness that they've been doing NLP all of their lives without realizing it and he empowers them with skills and resources to thrive and reach their full potential. With the understanding of how Neuro Linguistic Programs create one’s experience a person can then take charge of those programs and create the experience and the life they want. By taking this approach into his own rigorous, daily NLP practice Damon has been able to rapidly accelerate his progress in learning, coaching clients and teaching workshops.
