Meta programs
Unconscious filters that decide how a person deletes, distorts, and sorts information - the patterns behind how they think, not what they think.
Meta programs are content-free sorting patterns. Direction (toward or away from), frame of reference (internal or external), chunk size (global or detail), reason filter (options or procedures), and activity level (proactive or reactive) are among the most used. A practitioner elicits them with open questions and then matches language, tasks, and evidence to the client's patterns. Meta programs are context-dependent: the same person can be toward at work and away from in relationships, so they describe a behaviour in a context, never a fixed personality type.
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