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by Judy Rees, first published in ICM Journal, December 2007 The use of metaphor has a long tradition in the healing arts. It’s a natural way to describe illness, health and healing: so natural, in fact, that we rarely notice it. Nobody is surprised to hear phrases like ‘fighting infection’, ‘pain killers’ or ...

Teacher Julie McCracken uses Clean both in the classroom and in the playground with her five-, six- and seven-year-old charges. In the playground, it can be a great way to put a swift end to those "Teacher! Teacher!" moments, she explained. "When two children have a squabble the traditional thing they do is to come rushing up to ...

Wendy carried out an NHS project exploring how clinicians, skilled in relating well to patients, do what they do. She found they had metaphors that unconsciously guided them, for example being a ‘chameleon’ blending into the patient’s world, or conducting a ‘South East Asian business meeting’ (conversation, doing ...

Weight Watchers Leaders are learning how to use Clean Language principles to motivate members to lose weight. Members have just a few minutes of the leader’s personal attention each week, so the organisation wanted to discover the fastest, most effective way to make a real difference. Using Clean facilitation, a team including Wendy ...

Martin Snoddon uses Clean in his post-conflict reconciliation work in some of the world’s toughest hot-spots – Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Serbia. He said: “The darkness of the violence that engulfed Belfast and surrounding districts has been reported in the media for many, many years.  The legacy of that violence is ...

by Judy Rees, first published in Resource magazine February 2008 Is it possible to understand another person’s spiritual experience? And in this age of individual faiths, how can we share our experiences of the divine, to recapture a sense of spiritual community? A rather unusual way of exploring people’s spirituality is starting ...