IONI — Institute of NLP India

Metaphor (in NLP)

A story or figure that carries the structure of one situation inside another — isomorphic teaching tales being the Erickson-lineage speciality.

Therapeutic metaphors match the client's situation structurally while offering new movement; business metaphors frame how a market sees itself. Building clean metaphors is a trained composition skill.

Free live session

You've read about it. Now watch it work.

ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026