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What is Clean?

Welcome to the world of Clean. You've taken your first step towards developing powerful new skills in this revolutionary approach to change and development.

Clean is an new way of exploring people's own stories and metaphors. How could it help you?

  • Make changes in many contexts, in business and in personal life
  • Reduce stress and aggravation, and add more productive time to the day
  • Help people to understand themselves more fully, and to become happier and more fulfilled
  • Resolve conflicts more effectively
  • Make your meetings more forward-focussed, constructive, collaborative – and shorter!
  • Get the more difficult people in your life to pull their weight
  • Devise better plans
  • Manage competing priorities and demands – and help others to do the same
  • Behave differently in the face of personal challenges.

And if you’re a people-helper of any kind, expect your clients to feel even more fully understood as they move further, faster – thanks to your
first-class skills.


And that's like what?

"Clean is a fantastic tool. It's just so versatile and so respectful." Sheena Bailey, consultant.

"It's like the notes of the musical scale - it can be used to create anything from a nursery rhyme to a symphony." Paul Tosey, senior lecturer, University of Surrey

Using Clean in business

Some examples of how Clean Change techniques can be used in business:

Speeding up meetings

Changing the ‘negative thinker’

Building trust

Senior executive search and recruitment

Fast team building

Reviewing a project

Developing a leadership team

Project leadership

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So what is Clean anyway?

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Where did Clean come from?

It started with Clean Language – a set of simple, powerful questions that were developed by therapist David Grove during the 1980s and ‘90s. They were designed to help him avoid ‘leading the witness’ by introducing his own assumptions into a session, and to help people to fully explore and develop their metaphors for their experience.

Symbolic Modelling, developed by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, codified and extended David’s work. Their book about the process, Metaphors in Mind, was published in 2000.

These approaches – and others derived from them – are grouped under the label ‘Clean’, and the vast extent of their power is only just emerging. 

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The importance of metaphor

Metaphors are very powerful. They bundle a lot of information into a small package, and make the conceptual more tangible.

We live our metaphors. Someone who thinks their work team is like a Formula One pit crew will live their work very differently from someone whose team seems to them to be like a group of strolling musicians.  

In fact, metaphors and stories are central to how we think, both consciously and unconsciously. In working with metaphors, people can discover and share information from below the level of their ordinary consciousness in a way that feels appropriate for them.

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