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 ...

Amicas case study: South East London Shared Services Partnership The major reorganisation of health service delivery in South East London in 2002 led to the creation of a Shared Services Partnership (SELSSP) to provide non-clinical support services to Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Primary Care Trusts, the South East London Strategic Health ...

A ‘virtual team’ of contact centre managers was experiencing problems. Their centres were widely spread geographically, but the company needed them to co-ordinate their efforts closely. Instead the differences between centres were becoming more and more apparent, and friction was increasing. Intervention The team came together for a day-long ...

Clean Language is a questioning technique which can form a bridge between the right and left brains, by using the metaphors which underpin our thinking. It is a tried-and-tested method for bringing an individual’s own metaphors into their consciousness, improving inter- and intra-personal communication. In particular, this innovative approach ...

Amicas case study: National Audit Office The National Audit Office (NAO) commissioned Amicas to help it achieve some key outcomes for the strategic change programme it had launched six months previously.  The programme was spearheaded through an innovative leadership and management development programme, to introduce new management ideas ...

A large, publicly-funded civil engineering project, which had lasted four years and involved partner organisations from five different countries, was drawing to a close. The challenge was to quickly and efficiently look back at the results of the project, and draw out relevant lessons. In order to extract maximum benefit from the experience, a ...

By Michael Mallows, May 2007 Most people’s listening skills, if they listen at all, are very poor indeed! Many, not least many in the so-called listening or helping professions, who might be described by others as, and would consider themselves good listeners, have little training in listening. Yes, they might have read, been taught or ...

We did it! Happy but exhausted participants, assistants, trainers and assessors celebrated the end of their gruelling intensive Clean course at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Some in the Clean Community were sceptical when Clean Change Company announced this event. Could it be done? All four foundation-level modules, plus assessment ...

When recruiting for very senior roles (£400k+) in the pharmaceutical industry, as in any business, you can’t afford mistakes. Tightly defined frameworks allow detailed assessment of competencies, and standard interview and meeting protocols gather the views of prospective colleagues. And still something extra was wanted – another ...

By Judy Rees First published in Resource magazine, April 2006 It was always going to be an adventure – the first interview maverick therapeutic genius David Grove had given since 1996. So maybe it wasn’t surprising to find myself dangling upside-down in a dark, sub-zero November car park on a psycho-active fairground ride.  ...