Framing Tool - General

Question 1

Center

Answer 1

Issue in focus

Question 2

North

Answer 2

Map of the world, Values, Intentions, Purposes

Question 3

South

Answer 3

Examples, Evidence, Sensory Detail

Question 4

West

Answer 4

Precedence, influences, expectation

Question 5

East

Answer 5

Future outcomes, consequences, benefits

Question 6

2 key dynamics of human experience

Answer 6

Time as it relates to causality, and the process of specification and abstraction

Question 7

Process of language acquisition

Answer 7

• Labels for things(rose, nose, etc)
• Describe relationship between things with increasing levels of sophistication:
  . Max is a cat, and Bella is a dog.
  . Max and Bella are both classified as domesticated animals, but they belong to different species
  . Max and Bella have different physical characteristics, behaviors, and dietary preferences
• We develop a sense of an operator, doing something, to something/someone else
• We recognise collections of things(recipes, animals, etc)
• We acquire the ability to hold duration and periods of time
  (these are abstractions) and begin to develop the ability to put things into a chronological sequence
• Inference to causality
  . Causality : Pressing the button brings on light
  . Inference : If someone enters a dark room and notices a button on the wall, based on their previous experience and knowledge, they may infer that pressing the button will bring on the light

Question 8

Frame of reference - 1

Answer 8

All of the judgements and evaluations and beliefs are conclusions that we have reached, and we use them in comparing our on-­‐going experience – the novel and fresh experiences of our life – to what we already “know” and what we have already concluded

We call the greater set of comparison-­‐based referents for making sense, a Frame of
Reference.

Example :
- Let’s say you are trying to assess the performance of a student in a class
- The referents in this context could include various factors such as the student’s previous academic achievements, the average grades of other students in the class, the expectations set by the curriculum, and perhaps even the student’s personal goals
- By considering these different points of comparison within the frame of reference, you can better understand and evaluate the student’s performance
- For example, if the student’s grades are consistently higher than the class average and in line with their previous achievements, you may conclude that their performance is relatively strong within the given frame of reference. On the other hand, if their grades are below the class average and not meeting their own goals, it may indicate a need for improvement within that frame of reference.

Question 9

Frame of reference - 2

Answer 9

Each statement that is made carries with it a Frame of Reference, which makes
sense out of a particular statement, opinion, thought, issue or problem as being the
appropriate way for the person speaking to think about it, given the specifics of how
they are making comparisons

People don’t merely “make the best choices available to them, given their map and model of the world” (as per the NLP Operational Presuppositions) but, when someone says “My life is shit. Nothing ever works out. Everyone hates me and I’m a total loser” – that statement is the correct thing to think and say, given a specific Frame of Reference.

Change the Frame of Reference; the problem changes and goes away

Question 10

Framing tool description

Answer 10

• Remember : Change the Frame of Reference; the problem changes and goes away
• Develop the ability to know which question to ask, and when, in order to create a shift in the Frame of Reference.
• You know what else must be true and what cannot be true
• You know what is missing from someone’s thinking and also what can or should be added.
• The Framing Tool provides you with the means to understand how conditions came about, and how to design interventions to create change.
• The Framing Tool helps to direct your use of the Meta Model and the other language tools of NLP so that they create results.
• The Framing Tool makes Sleight of Mouth patterns a breeze and, rather than “pulling rabbit-­‐language patterns out a hat”; the Framing Tool allows you to precisely create the form of language to match the needs/remedy/antidote of not just the statement someone has made, but also perfectly serving the moves towards the Desired State, the transformational process of the T.OT.E. and the relationship needs in the
  moment.
• Your first task is to become comfortable with the two broad dynamics which work to make up the Framing Tool. This will give you a context within which the Meta Model patterns and their relations to each other will make sense.
• No more trying to pound in the language patterns by rote memory. When you learn the individual patterns; they will sit within a context making them much easier to learn.