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client: I can't express my feelings in front of my spouse
NLP agent of change: What would happen if you did?
Using Bateson's definition of pattern, we have a client and an NLP trained agent of change in a loop. We could place the slash mark immediately after the initial statement by the client containing the modal operator of possibility (can't) as the challenge that the agent of change will offer is fully predicable given the syntax of the client's statement. Equally valid would be the placement of the slash mark after the challenge by the agent of change. What occurs on the other side of this slash mark - the next set of responses by the client - is (at least partially) redundant or predictable? Change is underway.
In the first case where the slash mark occurs immediately after the clients statement - the specific set of challenges available to the agent of change is determined by the algorithms presented in, for example, the meta model - that is, we are able to predict with better than chance probability what the verbal responses of the agent of change will be. If we position the slash mark after the challenge by the agent of change, we could say with confidence that what occurs subsequent to that challenge is an exploration of consequences that extend and enrich the mental map of the client leading then to increased choice in his or her experience.
WHAT? In simpler terms:
Normally we see only one path to our answer or we only see one sentence in our head. That being (to use the example above) "I can't express my feelings in front of my spouse" Typically you might have had a situation in the past where you had expressed yourself and received a bad reaction that's causing you to shut down now.
The agent of change lets you challenge your subconscious by asking it specifically why it cannot express itself. By doing so, you're opening up a world of choices to the client. Once this happens, the client might see a plethora of new options to choose from.
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