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 ...

Hi [member_name_first], Exciting times here at Clean Change HQ: we’re expecting the first copies of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds to arrive from the publisher’s today. You can now read Chapter 1 on-line at Amazon: we hope you enjoy it. But it seems like writing the book to match the brief – an ...

Want to bag a bargain? You could start your Clean Language training next month for a fraction of the normal price by joining the Ebay auction. Selling a seven-day training via the online auction site is a little unusual – the site is better known as the place to shop for concert tickets and collectables. But we’ve recently been ...

Greetings from Cambridge and the Clean Language Summer School! We’re having a lovely time here with participants from all over the world enjoying the UK’s ‘summer’ weather while making huge strides towards becoming Certified Clean Facilitators. Participant Celia Burns said: “I’m on the edge of my seat ...

Good news for Clean enthusiasts in Australia! Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, authors of Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling, have responded to numerous requests from ‘down under’ and are planning a six-week visit to Sydney in January/February 2009. They will not be formally training Symbolic Modelling, but will be ...

Over 100 people attended the world’s first Clean Conference in Euston, London for two days of connection, discussion, creativity and excitement last weekend. We asked some of the participants what it was like for them… “For me it was like a stroll through a beautiful orchard on a sunny summer afternoon with a whole variety of ...

In the run-up to big events like the Clean Conference (21 – 22 June, London) and Summer School (16 – 29 August, Cambridge) it would be easy to focus the whole of this newsletter inward, on the activities of Clean Change Company and The Developing Company. So instead, let’s do the unexpected! Read on for news from big business, ...

Excitement is building about the world’s first Clean Conference, on 21 and 22 June in London. The programme of presentations has just been published and includes most of the top names in the field – pioneers, developers and trainers of Clean Language, metaphor, Symbolic Modelling and Emergent Knowledge. Whether you’re an ...

Spring is here and things are hotting up in the Clean Community. We’re counting down to: * Clean Conference in London in June www.cleanconference.co.uk. The full conference programme will be published in the next few days.. * 2008′s Advanced Modules featuring Penny Tomkins, James Lawley and Wendy Sullivan. These were recently dubbed ...