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Using Meta Programs for a Career Change By Jeff Allin I recently worked with a 48 year old male who came to me as he was in the process of a career change. I suggested we work on creating a compelling future and some desired outcomes through the use of Time Line and so we began. He had some ideas about where he was interested in heading and some opportunities in front of him. We elicited his timeline and found very quickly an image from his past, a particularly happy time, that was out of place and seemed to be impeding his pictures of the future. Through a simple reframe and some SM work we returned it to a more useful location and size, in turn, opening up his future and giving his Direction filter a more toward orientation. Working with his Meta Programs became even more apparent as we began to sort qualities that were important to him in his future work. One of the first that emerged was the Affiliation filter. He enjoyed being a team player, had always been a team player and now he had an opportunity to be an independent.. This was a big one for him and through our work he determined he wanted to remain a team player but with more responsibility. The Chunk Size filter was very much at play through this whole discernment process as well, in terms of what he wanted in a work experience, and also how he made distinctions with me in the moment. Interesting for me to see how we can use the whole continuum of a particular program as we strategize. The other program that seemed to be prominent in this process was the Frame of Reference filter. Through discussion, reframing and hypnosis he embraced the concept of trusting his own internal capacities to lead him. That seemed to be a very powerful motivator in creating his future. In putting all this information together, if there was an overall mover, it was the leverage created through the embrace of the toward side of the Direction Filter. It allowed him to move comfortably and forcefully into the future he created for himself. I'm happy to say that, within six weeks, he was in a new job that met his list of criteria.
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