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Case study: Preparing a strategy workshop

A business wanted higher quality from its major supplier, and had agreed to hold a joint workshop involving representatives from both companies. Certified Clean facilitator Hans-Peter Wellke was called in by the meeting organiser as a catalyst and facilitator to accelerate his thinking process as he planned the joint event. Hans-Peter asked: ...

Clean Language in the playground

Teacher Julie McCracken was working in the playground when two six-year-olds came running up to her, hurt, upset and angry. She used her Clean Language training to resolve the dispute. Child one: “He punched me in the face and it hurt and I don’t like it.” Child two: “Well it was an accident and anyway, he kicked my leg and I told ...

Using Clean with groups

Working with groups is a deep and rich topic – and an area in which Clean is developing quickly. Here’a an idea to whet your appetite, based on the Metaphors@Work process devised by Training Attention. One way in which Clean is used with groups is in team alignment events, to help a team come up with a shared metaphor for working well ...

What’s it like training with Clean Change Company?

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 ...

Why the big deal about metaphors?

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, ...

Why bother with eliciting metaphors?

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 ...

Why would you want to reduce the presuppositions in your questions?

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 ...

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 ...

What’s ‘Clean’ about Clean Language?

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, ...

What does Clean Language actually do?

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 ...

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Clean in Japanese

Excitingly, the Japanese translation of our book, Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds has now been published, and as far as we know, this is the first Japanese publication on the subject of Clean. If you have any Japanese-speaking colleagues or friends, please spread the word. The book can be bought from the Japanese publishers' website: www.shunjusha.co.jp

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Clean Language:

Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds

by
Wendy Sullivan and
Judy Rees

Clean Change Company