Now a days it is less and less common to find NLP programs teaching strategies. There are a few but less and less every year. And the ones that do teach strategies usually only consider representational systems. So they end up with something like: auditory external --> auditory internal digital --> visual remembered --> kinesthetic --> visual constructed --> kinesthetic --> exit.

Now that is of course nice and very useful... but I've always asked, where are the meta programs plus the beliefs and values related to that specific activity? Is it really possible to "get the job done" without that information? Living those things out of the "equation" I think it is not a good idea.

Of course we all also know each rep system has a specific set of submodalities (although many studying or worse teaching strategies forget that as well) and that is also very important to accomplish the task in hand.

So according to me, what is a strategy? A sequence of representational systems with specific sets of submodalities interacting with a set of meta programs on each step while the whole thing is running under certain criteria (ie. beliefs and values).

On the ADVANCED MASTER PRACTITIONER program not only will we teach a very useful Learning Strategy which of course includes all of the above but also we'll explore several concepts such as parallel strategies (two or more strategies running simultaneously).
Oh and btw, although we usually teach about elliciting strategies, I still believe the most useful informatoion comes from observation and listening rather than asking questions which may lead into modifying or even installing steps.

The question is.... were you taught strategies in your practitioner or master practitioner course? And if so, how much time was spent on the topic?