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Shelle Rose Charvet is without a doubt the world’s best trainer of NLP’s “metaprograms.” metaprograms are a linguistic model first made explicit by Leslie Cameron-Bandler and Rodger Bailey. metaprograms reveal how a person motivates themself and how they process information. For example, one metaprogram is motivation direction—is a person being motivated towards a goal, or away from something they don’t like. A person’s language will tell you where there motivation is coming from. By then matching the metaprogram language, you can tap into their motivation. Powerfully.Shelle’s book is the first really comprehensive, in-depth discussion of metaprograms in print: she presents each pattern and its characteristic language patterns, and explores how that metaprogram impacts a person’s motivation, workstyle, preferred jobs, and ways of interacting with others.It’s her very, very deep understanding of how metaprograms interact that draw me to Shelle’s work. While most NLPers are asking, “is that person being ‘towards’ or ‘away-from’ right now?” Shelle is asking, “How does a ‘towards, reactive, sameness sorter’ perform when working for a boss who is usually ‘towards, proactive, options?’” She touches on the effects of combinations in this book, and it’s whetted my appetite for more.