Socrates is considered the master of asking questions. The meta-model draws on the principles of Socratic maieutics and combines them with the questioning techniques of renowned psychotherapists such as Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Erikson.

Three macro types of linguistic structures emerge that people frequently use and that “betray” limiting and sometimes dangerous patterns of thinking.

Cancellation, generalisations, distortions.

Each of these has subcategories, and for each one, the metamodel suggests “ad hoc” questions to help people “ask the right question even at the wrong time”.