| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Continued :Habermas and NLP |
| Posted by: | Renee Levant |
| Date/Time: | 31/07/2003 00:19:26 |
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Hi JS You suggest: < I am very interested to see how others here respond to this claim. In discussingthis issue with Judith De Lozier at one time ..she suggested to me that NLP's epistemology was not so much a theory,..as a "Meta- theory" (or at least that is how I interpreted her response...My question to her was "So what are the "edges" of NLP's theory"..) What I took away from my discussions was a notion that as a meta-theory NLP was not subject to the sort of limitations other models, maps and theories were since it involved a reflection on reflection open always to addition modification and growth. < I very much agree it is a great point The question raised by this is just what constitutes a change of NLP into "something else".. Certainly the change from the original NLP to the New Code involved some VERY significant changes of epistemology. I would suggest that those who hold the "systemic " view such as NLPU (Dilts etc) certainly have a different epistemology than most others teaching NLP. ..and I suspect DHE of Bandler (though here I have little experience as his approach does not appeal to me) wouldbe underlined by yet another approach. Personally I don't much care if in the end what I do and develop ends up characterized as NLP or something new ..so long as it does something good in the world. At the same time I am not convinced that NLP's effectiveness is based on its particular context and epistemology. I'd suggest rather that the pre-suppositions may fit a number of comparable epistemologies capable of framing very effective modeling of excellence and appraoches to change. And that loosening the dominance of a single epistomological basis would open NLP and different developers to more harmonious and productive relations with one another since the commonality would no longer be that of a common epistemology...but of a practical stance toward any epistemology recognizing that each is a map of the world or subjective experience with its own stengths and limits.... Yet in sharing the pre-suppostions, the value of respect and ecology of change we would be part of the "same" field. thoughts? Renee |