Penny: “I am an American, but I have lived most of my life in Britain. For 18 years I was a director of a company manufacturing oil field equipment, with sales offices world-wide. Attendance at a 12-step program unexpectedly triggered a train of events that resulted in me leaving the company, leaving my marriage, and embarking on a journey ...
We’re Clean specialists! This is the place to find high quality Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling training, coaching and facilitation. We deliver the most comprehensive training publicly available, which attracts students from around the world. Our students are now using their skills on five continents, in a huge range of different ...
All our courses appeal to people who like to challenge, think and integrate new learning. Don’t attend if you prefer to be “sheep-dipped”! You will learn in a relatively small group – normally up to a couple of dozen participants – supported by a good ratio of qualified assistants. Lead trainer Wendy Sullivan loves ...
There are a number of reasons you might want to elicit a person’s metaphors. One is simply to find out what’s going on for the person (for example, marketing guru Gerald Zaltman, author of ‘How Customers Think’ and ‘Marketing Metaphoria’ uses a Cleanish process to find out about customers’ metaphors for ...
1. Because it turns out to be the most effective way of bringing a person’s unconscious metaphors ‘to life’, to consciousness. There are a number of reasons you might want to elicit a person’s metaphors. One is simply to find out what’s going on for the person (for example, marketing guru Gerald Zaltman, author of ...
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 ...
The originator of Clean Language, David Grove, was briefly involved in NLP before he went off to become a clinical psychologist and originally, his meaning of ‘clean’ was presumably the same as the NLP one – the intention to use only the client’s words etc. As he developed his unique style of working with trauma victims, ...
When used well, it brings into awareness information held outside the client’s everyday consciousness, in the realm of metaphor. Both client and facilitator use this to create their own dynamic models of whatever’s going on for the client, which in turn leads to further questioning. In a context where change is wanted (eg coaching or ...
Clean Language uses the metaphors which underpin our thinking to facilitate powerful and lasting change. It’s a great way to align your head, heart and gut – to harness the power of your unconscious mind to work towards the life you desire. Metaphors have a profound influence on our behaviour and yet are usually outside our ...
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Clean Language:
Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds
by
Wendy Sullivan and
Judy ReesAmazon best seller in category
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