Milton H. Erickson

Psychiatrist and hypnotherapist from Phoenix, colour-blind, tone-deaf, twice paralysed by polio — disabilities he credited for teaching him to read bodies and voices with extraordinary precision. He induced trance by talking in ways that sounded like ordinary conversation.

The third and strangest model. Bandler and Grinder spent two volumes trying to write down what he did; the result, the Milton Model, is the exact structural mirror of the Meta-Model — deliberate vagueness where the other demands precision.