A Pragmatic Guide To Communication & Change.pdf - NLP Info Centre

was sure I had found "The Right Track." It took a while for me to
become aware of the trap I had set for myself.
As I read and continued to study and work with people, I
discovered that my model was continually being stretched,
extended, expanded, and enlarged. But just as often it was also
shrunk, crushed, pierced, and mutilated. I was amazed. It was
during a moment of quiet desperation that I created a symbolic
representation of the wonderful contradictions confronting me. It
represents both the confusion I was feeling (don't get me wrong - I
thoroughly enjoyed it!) and recognition of the trap from which I
was escaping, the trap of thinking that there is only one reliable,
accurate, and successful path to therapeutic growth and change.
The symbol has held an important place tacked to the wall above
my typewriter. It looks like this:
< ONE WAY >
My goal with this book is to present models of basic Meta
principles which underlie the "magic" of effective change -
oriented communication. However, it is essential to keep ,n
mind how important it is to remain open to experience in
order to prevent becoming trapped or limited by a model.
Towards that end I have structured parts of this
presentation to emphasize that there are always
alternatives. We need only learn how to recognize them.