• Perceptual patterning that remain constant or relatively stable over a range of contexts, contents, and/or processes
• The distinctions in experience that make the experience we distinguish
• Colloquially - the filters through which we perceive the world; perceptual filters
• Well formedness conditions for meta-programs
  • Each is formed of the simplest possible experiential distinctions: Perceptual Primes
  • Each is a different set of distinctions that are independent of all other distinctions
  • Each has a neuro-linguistic form
    • Internal representational form
    • physiology
    • language and/or grammatical evidence

Visualizing Meta-Programs

Meta-Programs Elicitation

• Number of utterances/words
• Intensity of expression of the utterance
• Ranking as a sequence of utterances

Meta-Programs & Strategies

Meta-Programs

Content

• People, things, activities, information, place

Direction

• Away from, toward

Authority

• External, internal

Perceptual Position

• Self, other, observer

Decision Factors

• Same, comparison, difference

Level

• Sequential, random

Reason

• Procedures, options

Choice

• Necessity, possibility

Scope

• General, specific

Chunk Size

• Abstractions, details

Flow

• Deduction, induction, abduction

Strategies

Decision

• Function: Selection
• Attention: Choice
• Info Type: Digital
• Content
  • People, things, activities, information, place, time
• Perceptual Position
  • Self, other, observer
• Attention Direction
  • Self, other, observer
• Time Frame
  • Past, present, future
• Scope
  • General, natural, specific

Motivation

• Function: Engage/Act
• Attention: Energy
• Info Type: Analog
• Neuro-Logical Level
  • Values/beliefs/criteria
• Direction
  • Toward goals, away from problems
• Level
  • Practive: active
  • Reactive: considers & waits, passive
• Decision Factors
  • Similarity, comparison, difference, polarity responder - "fixed" difference
• Reason
  • Precedures, options

Conviction

• Function: Verify
• Attention: Congruence
• Info Type: Reflexive
• Authority
  • Self, other, data
• Criterial Evidence
  • A see, hear, and feel description of what wil fulfill the criteria
• Representational Systems
  • Visual, auditory, kinesthetic
• Evidence Patterning
  • Frequency, duration, automatic, never

Memory

• Function: Reference
• Attention: Experience
• Info Type: Access

Creativity

• Function: Generative
• Attention: Alternatives
• Info Type: Meta/All

Learning

• Function: Incorporate
• Attention: Responsiveness
• Info Type: Re-contextualize

Reality

• Function: External/Internal
• Attention: "Real"
• Info Type: Distinctive

The Meta-Programs & Their Distinctions

Categories of Experience

• Representational Systems [D]
  • Kinesthetic: ANS-feelings
  • Visual
  • Kinesthetic: CHS-tactile
  • Auditory
  • Olfactory/Gustatory
• Content [D]
  • People: Who, Relate
  • Things: What, Get/Have
  • Activities: How, Do
  • Information: Why/How, Know
  • Place: Where, Be
  • Time: When, Be
• Neuro-Logical Levels [D]
  • Identity: Be, Who
  • Beliefs: Have, Why
  • Capabilities: Know, How
  • Behavior: Do, What
  • Environment: Be, Where/When

Direction

• Direction [A]
  • Toward: Positive
  • Away From: Negative
  • [Against]: Positive
  • [Mediation]: Negative
• Neurology [A]
  • Stimulation (Toward [Against])
  • Relaxation (Away From [Mediation])
• Active [A]
  • Active
  • Passive
• Level [A]
  • Proactive
  • Reactive

Chunk Size

• Scope [A]
  • General: "Big Chunkers"
  • Natural: "Realist"
  • Specific: "Small Chunkers"
• Chunk Size [D]
  • Set
  • Natural
  • Subsets
• Reasoning [A]
  • Deduction
  • Induction
  • Abduction

Time

• Time Frame [D]
  • Past
  • Present
  • Future
• Time "line" [D]
  • Through Time: Dissociated
  • In Time: Associated
  • Between Time: Comparison
• Time Cycle(s)
  • The Rhythms of Time

Perceptual Orientation

• Perceptual Position [D]
  • Self [1st]: Feeling [K]
  • Other [2nd]: Choice [K to V or Ad]
  • Observer [3rd]: Thinking [V, Ad]
• Authority [D]
  • Internal: Direct Experience, Associated
  • External
  • Data: Inferences, Dissociated
• Attention Direction [D]
  • Self
    • EB: Do
    • IC: Know
    • IS: Be [K]
  • Other
    • EB: Do
    • IC: Know
    • IS: Be [K]
  • Observer
    • EB: Do
    • IC: Know
    • IS: Be [K]
• "Rule Structure"
  • My/My
    • Self
    • Internal
    • Weak-Rigid
  • My/Your
    • Self/Other
    • Internal/External
    • Strong-Flexible
  • Your/Your
    • External
    • Weak-Flexible
  • My/No
    • Self
    • Internal
    • Weak-Rigid
  • No/My
    • Self/Other
    • Internal/External
    • Strong-Flexible
• Relational Preference [D]
  • Symmetrical: Systemic
  • Compementary: Hierarchicial
• Relational Type [D/A]
  • Alone: Independent
  • With: Cooperative
  • Along: Proximity
  • Of
  • Within

Information Type

• Information
  • Analog
  • Digital
  • Meta/Example
  • Reflexive
  • Congruence Polarity
  • Recontextual
• Type
  • Quality
  • Quantity
• Valence [D/A]
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Neutral
• Communication [D]
  • Context: Meta-Communication
  • Content: Communication
• Decision Factors [D/A]
  • Similarity: Match
  • Difference: Mismatch
  • Polarity: Fixed Mismatch
  • Comparison
• Evidence Patterning [R]
  • Duration: Analog
  • Frequency: Digital
  • Automatic: Digital - 1 trial
  • Never: Analog - no limit
  • Intensity: 1 trial to/over limit

System Variability

• Reason [D]
  • Procedures: Sequential
  • Options: Random
  • Patterns: Configurations
• Choice [D/A]
  • Necessity: MON
  • Possibility: MOP
  • Desirability: MOD
• Boundaries [D/A]
  • Strong/Weak
  • Rigid/Flexible
  • Sharp/Fuzzy
  • Number
  • Permeability

Perceptual Positions & Their Meta-Programs

Changing Meta-Programs