Adventures in Trance-Formation
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Meta ModelMeta – Model Nominalization – Turn back into an ongoing, active process & Specify. Specify Deletions. Outcome. Evidence. How do you do it? When do you do it? How would someone else do it? What are the steps - what would you have to do first, 2nd, 3rd in order to? Challenge obstacles / consequences to choice of ice. Challenge universality. Turn into decision. What stops from ___? Mind Reading – Specify Evidence - Model of the World – So What? When do you do it? How do you know? How know if not? How did you manage to think of it that way? How would think of it? If it was x, would it still seem that way to you? Follow up by challenging / reframing that evidence = mind read. When you / someone else does x does necessarily mean y? Equivalence /Identity – Specify process / Counter Example & Difference / Model of World / Outcome. How do you know? How do you do it? What what ___ would think / do? How different can X be to still mean Y? Presuppositions – Specify Process & Evidence / Deletions / Outcome / Counter Example. Lost Performative / Comparatives – Compared to What or who? / Source - Ownership – who says? For whom / Evidence/ Specify Process / Outcome / Model of the World / Counter Examples / Difference / Index / So What? Logical Levels of Therapy. Modal Operators – possibility, necessity, desirability, probability What would(n’t) happen if did(n’t)? / What causes or prevents? What would have to happen? / Choice (shift Modal operator) Unspecified Verbs – How, specifically? How, exactly? What are the steps? How do you do it? Unspecified Nouns – Who or What Specifically / Exactly? Deletions – About Who or What? Lack of Time / Place Reference – Where and When? Other Frames = Outcome, Evidence, Difference, Relevance, Ecology, Appropriateness, Quality, Effectiveness So What Reponses: So What? How is that a problem? What’s wrong with that? Does anyone really care about that all at all? What difference does it make? Are you sure? Could you be mistaken? Do you have all possible information necessary to know what this really means? Could that be a misperception or misinterpretation? To what degree? Is it worth it? Ultimately, is this really all that important? Who’s idea was this in the first place? Where is it written? What does it matter if? Would it change anything if it was(n’t)? Does anyone else share that opinion? Do you even believe what you are saying at all? Is that who you really are? How is it relevant? Is it a thought worth having? Will this even matter in 20 years? What’s the worst that would happen? What’s the probability of that? Counter Example Responses: All / Always? Repeat back and add additional Universals. Necessarily? - especially for challenging meaning or causality How, Exactly? Is it possible that the opposite could happen? Have you ever __ opposite __? Has Anyone Ever? Do you know anyone who has? Is it possible for anyone? What have to happen in order for ? Has it ever (not) happened? |