The principal tool used in Symbolic Modeling is Clean Language. Clean language offers language patters (i.e. questions) which keep the therapist's or coach's views as far as possible outside the process. Of course, the coach is never entirely outside the process even with Clean Language; if nothing else the coach determines what question to ask next. However under Clean Language principles the Client is encouraged to develop and explore their metaphor landscape with limited instruction from the coach.
NLP on the other hand is quite directive. Clients are instructed on the pictures to make in their mind's eye, how to change the submodalities of sounds and feelings and so on. The NLPer uses his experience and intuition to direct the Client on the changes to make. The NLPer also uses his sensory acuity to calibrate whether the change he has instructed the Client to make has actually produced a more resourceful state in the Client.
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