About

Skill Modeling is written by Christian Vanhenten. It gathers thirty years of work on one question: how a human competence is actually built, and how it can be handed on to someone else.

Engineer by training, then a practitioner and trainer. The interest was never in collecting techniques but in the operation that produces them: watching someone who does a difficult thing well, and working out what they are doing that could be taught to another person. That operation has a name, modeling, and it turns out to be teachable in itself.

The models on this site are what came out of it. This section holds the rest: the practice, and the commitments behind it.

• Christian Vanhenten

  Engineer, trainer and modeler. Fifty years on one question: how people get themselves out of things, and how that can be taught.

• What modeling is

  The practice itself: observing a competence where it happens, extracting its structure, and testing whether it holds in someone else’s hands.

• NLP 2.0 Manifesto

  Eleven articles on what it takes to practise this work seriously. Competence before visibility, continuing development as foundation, research over repetition.

Elsewhere

aikicom.eu — training built on AikiCom, in French and in English.

atelierpnl.eu — the French-speaking community and its research group, where this work has its named home.