Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful festive season and have made lots of plans for enjoying 2009 in just the way you’d like. For us, 2008 was an rollercoaster ride… and the excitement shows no sign of stopping in 2009. What would you like to have happen? And when the year is just as you’d like it to be, it will be ...

Last week saw a double celebration for the Clean Community – the third Clean Business Exchange and the official launch of our book: “Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds”. The group of consultants and others using Clean in business contexts raised the quality of the Exchange to yet another level, while meeting ...

Clean Summer School is one of the highlights of our calendar. For two weeks, students, trainers and assistants from all over the world come together in Cambridge, UK, to immerse themselves in a powerful exploration. “I’m very enthusiastic about this intensive training… (which) got directly on my best way of learning. I’m ...

Roland Hill*, a business analyst for Dutch IT specialists IPROFS, used Clean Language to reveal a number of misunderstandings which could have caused the collapse of an 34.9 million-Euro project involving financial institutions across Europe. He joined the project after the functionality of the new computer system had apparently been agreed. ...

Metaphor opens a door to deeper understanding of yourself and other people – and Clean Language is the key to unlocking people’s metaphors. We use metaphor easily and naturally to communicate complex ideas, and to understand other people’s ideas from their metaphors. It’s as if metaphor is the native language of the mind, particularly ...

Clean Language questions are most often – and most usefully – used to ask about the metaphors a person uses. Being asked the questions helps to bring the metaphors to life, making new information available to the person. But what if you’re not noticing metaphors yet? Where on earth are they? Incidentally, a good definition of ...