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Article extracted from a workshop & book called:

DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOU - by Dieter Luske

... all following articles, are written as workshop manuscript

... questions were asked to stimulate active participation.

 

 

 

ARTICLE NUMBER - 11

Meta - Change - Questions

 

 

Meta Questions

Meta is a prefix, meaning , finding out more about one item - which relates well to Change.

Ask questions to confront yourself, your belief system, your values and your generalisations.

The more questions you will ask, the more Answers and Awareness you will get.

1. DELETIONS are one form of generalisation.
   Ask yourself - about whom or what?
   Example. I don't like him/her! ( you have deleted the reason )
   Ask :: What about him don't I like?
   or: I don't understand!
   Ask: I don't understand what.
   
   
2. LACK OF REFERENTIAL INDEX.
   Ask yourself. Who or what specifically?
   Example: No one wants me!
   Ask: "who specifically does not want you?
   or: This is hard!
   Ask. What specifically is hard about that?
   
   
3. UNSPECIFIED VERBS.
   Ask yourself. How specifically?
   Example: He rejected me!
   Ask. How, specifically, did he reject you?
   or: They ignore me!
   Ask: How, specifically, do they ignore you?
   
   
4. NOMINALISATIONS are nouns which describe an ongoing event, and this has to be changed back into a process word.
   Example. I don't get any recognition!
   Ask: How would you like to be recognised? or.
   I want help!
   Ask: How do you want to be helped?
   
   
5. UNIVERSAL QUANTIFIERS: refers to the set of words typified by; all - every - always - never - nobody etc.
   ASK YOURSELF BY EXAGGERATION!!
   Example: I never do anything right!
   Ask. Do I absolutely never, never do anything right.???
   
   
6. LACK OF CHOICE - Typically victim position. Words like: I can't or have to, must, etc. The challenge is. What stops you or what would happen if you did?
   Example. I can't do it.
   Ask: What stops me?
   or: I have to finish by Tuesday!
   Ask: What would happen if I didn't?
   
   
7. MIND READIN - ( Most common practice if you assume something)
   This refers to the belief that one person can know what another person is thinking or feeling without communication - or without knowing yourself where you got that knowledge from.
   Good for testing belief systems and values etc.
   Ask yourself. How specifically do I know?
   Example.. I know what is best for me!
   Ask: How, specifically do I know what is best for me?
   Where is that knowledge coming from, parents etc.?
   
   
8. JUDGEMENT: laying your trip on somebody else -
   Challenge in asking, For whom?
   Example: This is the right way to do it!
   Ask: This is the right way for whom?

Which brings us to the next subject - Belief System

 

Article provided by the Editor - Dieter L.

Excerpt from a workshop & book - published 1993 - titled; "Do you believe in You"

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