Chunking
Moving up to a more abstract level (chunking up) or down to a more concrete level (chunking down) of meaning.
Chunking is how NLP describes shifts in level of abstraction. Chunking up generalizes ('what is this an example of?'), chunking down specifies ('what is a specific instance?'), and chunking laterally finds peers ('what else is like this?'). Skilled coaches chunk to dissolve stuck patterns: a client locked in a specific argument may unstick when chunked up to shared values, or chunked down to a specific behavior.
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