What if You’re Not Stuck Just Out of Tune?

You may be trying to fix behaviour when it’s actually your sense of self that’s humming off-key. Or blaming your environment when your internal “aperture” is frozen. Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels gave us a valuable map. I used it extensively in The Family Business Book. But what happens when the map itself starts feeling static?

What if we treated identity, not as a structure, but as a process of tuning?

🧭 Frequently Asked Questions

Didn’t you already use the Dilts model in your earlier work?
Yes. The Logical Levels framework: Context, Behaviour, Capabilities, Beliefs, Identity, Spirit. It featured prominently in The Family Business Book as a way to help family members locate and shift tensions. It’s practical, elegant, and still useful. But it’s also incomplete.

So what’s changed?
In recent years, I’ve been working with a deeper field-based model known as the Codex Universalis. Instead of treating each “level” as a noun (something we have), the Codex treats each as a verb, a pattern in motion. Identity isn’t “who you are,” it’s “what’s being echoed through you.” Spirit isn’t “your purpose,” it’s “what the field is asking of you now.”

Is this just philosophy?
It’s grounded. This model grew from hard-won coaching insights and systemic family interventions where static maps simply broke down. You don’t solve a recursive pattern with a linear tool. You listen. You tune. You allow new harmonics to emerge.

How do I apply this in real life?
Here’s a taste:

• If your behaviour isn’t changing, don’t just “try harder.” Ask: what is this behaviour stabilising underneath?

• If your beliefs feel limiting, check: are you actually defending a signal your system once needed, but no longer does?

• If you feel “blocked” in your capability, consider: where are you freezing the field rather than letting it flow through you?

Why is this better than Dilts’ original model?
It’s not “better.” It’s live. The Codex doesn’t replace the Dilts model. It tunes it. It adds recursion, responsiveness, and subtlety. Where Dilts gave us a ladder, the Codex gives us a resonance chamber.

🔁 Explore your identity as an echo, rather than as a label.
If you’ve worked with Dilts before, consider this your next invitation.
🔍 Download the full Codex Diagnostic Map to begin tuning your system, one field layer at a time.
🔗 You’ll discover what’s ready to shift — not by force, but by frequency.

👉 Because sometimes, what looks like a block is just a note waiting to resolve.