Perceptual positions and their application in design

The origins of the concept

The concept of "perceptual position" was first formulated by John Grinder and Judith DeLozier in 1987 from a rethinking of various phenomena that they observed in their practice.

For example, they noticed that a race car driver expands his personal perception of himself while driving a car, identifying with him. By the way, this is not connected with getting pleasure from the process: for example, a blind person perceives his cane as part of himself. And vice versa: people who survived a traumatic experience often described the situation in the opposite way from the position of an observer, not associating themselves with what happened.