Introducing a seriously fun way to learn and experience meta programs!

The Meta Detective Game is a board game that's designed to teach meta-programs.  It does so by creating a situation where a person has to use meta-programs to communicate in specific activities and to read the meta-programs the players are attempting to mimic.

But what are meta-programs anyway? Meta-programs refers to those perceptual filters we use in our thinking, noticing, perceiving, and attention as we handle people, information, and events. A meta-program is meta or higher than the content information.

For example, as you read the details of this information, are you thinking, noticing, perceiving, and attending to the big picture or overall format (Global) or the specific details of each part (Specific)? Do you zoom in on the specifics or want to see the forest before noticing the specific trees?

Do you want to know the specific rules for how to set up the game and how to play (Procedure, Necessity) or do you have more of a tendency to want to start playing and learn it as you go and see how many ways you can invent for playing it (Options, Possibilities)?

Meta-programs are our perceptual filters that govern our attention. They are meta-programs because they are our mental "software" programs (so to speak) above our forst level thinking-and-feeling about things. They are our thinking patterns, that is, our style or way of thinking.

In terms of levels, our everyday thoughts-and-emotions operate on the primary level, the content that describes what we are thinking-and-feeling. In these content programs we have specific details and strategies.

Above the content of our thoughts, we have other thoughts-and-feelings, ones that operate more out-of-consciousness. These "programs" function as the sorting and perceiving "rules" that govern how we think and emote. This software, like any operating system determines the structure of our thoughts-and-feelings. They direct what we sort for.

The meta-program cards in this game came from the extensive description of Meta-Programs in the book, Figuring Out People by Hall and Bodenhamer (1997).

Key meta-programs include:

• Global     --     Specific

• Options   --    Procedures

• Matching  --    Mismatching

• Sensory   --   Intuitor

• Associated   --  Disassociated

• Toward   --    Away From

• Self Ref.   --    Other Referent

• Judger   --     Perceiver

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