Editor's Note: This was written as a respone to somone asking about the
differences between the Milton and Meta Models.
The Milton and Meta Models: Differences (Part 1)
Ok, I just finished this to be posted
on the WebSite. However, since this
is an ongoing topic, I might as well
post it here, as well. I want you to know
that this is in no way an exhaustive
list. However, it can give you a good
idea about the Meta model, and it's use.
Keep in mind, questions like- How do
you know? will chunk up. And what
specifically? will chunk down. Chunking
up takes someone out of the state,
while chunking down takes them in.
That is why it more useful to chunk
up above a problem state, and down
into the solution state. That is all the
time I have right now.
Since this took a while to write out I
did not get the Milton Model yet. That will
follow when I get some time to do it.
META MODEL VIOLATIONS
Actions
And
Result
Class: DISTORTIONS
1. Mind Reading: Knowing what
somebody else is feeling, thinking.
Ex."You don't care about me"
Action: How do you know I don't
Care about you?
Result: Recover source of info.
2. Lost Performative: Value judgments
where Person doing the Judging is left out.
Ex." It's wrong to say what's on your mind"
Action:
How do you know it's wrong?
According to whom?
Who says it's wrong?
Result:
Recover source of belief.
Recover Performative.
Recover belief strategy.
3.Cause -Effect: (A>B)
Where cause is inappropriately put outside of self.
Ex."You make me angry."
Action:
How does what I'm doing cause you to choose
to feel angry?
Or counter example:
Has anyone ever done this and you didn't
feel angry?
Result:
Recover evidence and bring to choice.
4. Complex Equivalence:(A=B)
Two experiences are being interpreted as one.
Ex."He doesn't ask my opinion, he doesn't trust me."
Action:
How do you know?
Or counter example:
"How does his not asking mean he doesn't trust you?"
" Have you ever not asked and still
trusted?"
Result:
Recover CEq
Install counter example.
5. Presuppositions:
Ex."If my husband knew how hard life is for
me, he wouldn't do that."
3 Presuppositions:
1. Life is hard
2. My husband acts in some way
3. My husband doesn't know
Action:
1. How do you choose to make your life hard?
2. How is he acting ?
3. How do you know he doesn't know?
Result:
Recover strategy.
Specify his actions.
Recover evidence & CEq.
Class: GENERALIZATIONS
1. Universal Quantifiers:
(All, every, never, everyone, always, etc.)
Ex."He never listens to me"
Action:
Never!?, Always!?, Everyone!?
Use counter example.
How do you know?
Result:
Install counter example.
Recover outcome, effects.
2. Modal Operators:
Modal Operators of necessity: (required, must, have to, need to,
should, shouldn't, must not, it is necessary)
Ex."I have to take care of my boss" "I can't X!"
Action:
What prevents you from?
What stops you?
What would happen if you didn't?
Result:
Recover outcome, effects.
Recover cause.
Modal Operators of Possibility/Impossibility:
(can/can't, will/won't, could/couldn't, etc.)
Ex."I couldn't learn this information"
Class: DELETIONS
1. Nominalizations:
Where process words , verbs, have been turned into static nouns.
Ex."My relationship isn't working out"
Action:
Who's relating to whom in what way?
How would you like to be able to be relating in this particular
relationship?
Result:
Install choices.
Turn back into a process.
2. Unspecified Verbs:
Ex."She rejected me"
Action:
How do you know?
How specifically did she reject you?
Result:
Recover evidence, specify verb.
3. Simple Deletions:
a. Simple deletions: Ex."I am unhappy"
b. Lack of Referential Index: Fails to specify a specific person or
thing.
Ex."They don't want my input"
Action:
About what , whom?
How do you know?
Result:
Recover deletion.
Recover evidence.
c. Comparative Deletions: (Good, better, less, best, least, more,
worst, etc.)
Action:
Better than whom?
Compared to whom, what?
Better in what way?
Result:
Recover Comparative Deletion.
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