ABSTRACT
Modelling is the skill of retrieving a coachee’s ‘formula’ for performing a specific skill, in order that the formula can be learned by another. This is done by observing and asking questions of the person being modelled, in order to make explicit the processes they use to achieve the skill. Very often this ‘formula’ is totally unconscious to the coachee and bringing it more to the conscious awareness assists them to see their blind spots. Once this is achieved they are then in a position to change them quite easily. Very often, a good way of working with clients is to assist them in modelling the unproductive behaviour/thoughts/feelings they come to you with using what Robert Dilts called ‘logical levels’. Even though it is not quite clear to some what the logical arrangement is, the model is a very useful framework for retrieving the coachee’s ‘formula’ so they can then change it. As always with NLP, there are specific identifiable steps.
