As we explained in this article, although Clean Language is a standalone change/coaching/therapy technique, it can be combined very effectively with NLP techniques. And that applies not just at the basic level – some of the most advanced NLP practitioners are very ‘clean’ in their methods.
It’s also noticeable that some ...
Many practitioners of Neuro-Linguistic Programming combine Clean Language with their other tools for helping people to change: the two approaches are highly complementary. This can be done in two main ways: by using Clean Language and NLP in separate sessions, and by ‘Cleaning up’ NLP techniques.
Using Clean Language for a whole session, ...
‘Six degrees of freedom’ is a mechanical term, referring to the ways in which a body can move in three dimensions:
Moving up and down (heaving);
Moving left and right (swaying);
Moving forward and backward (surging);
Tilting forward and backward (pitching);
Turning left and right (yawing);
Tilting side to side (rolling).
Towards ...
Clean Language was originally devised by the therapist, David Grove. He discovered that as clients explored their internal metaphoric worlds, they reported that the symbols seemed to change and transform of their own accord, resulting in healing of the issues they were working on.
The metaphors we use in our language are generated by our ...
This is one of the ways in which Clean Language is rather different from NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming).
NLP pays particular attention to the representational systems (also known as sensory modalities or VAKOG) being used by a client. When they think about a particular thing, are they primarily seeing, hearing or feeling it ‘in their ...
No! Well, not very like, anyway.
Both are questioning techniques, and both can be used to help people clarify things. There the similarity ends.
For while the meta-model is typically used to challenge the way people perceive the world, Clean Language aims to understand it – and to help them to understand it. As such it feel respectful and ...
As a matter of principle, a Clean Language facilitator ‘keeps himself out of the process’, giving centre stage to the client’s language, the client’s metaphors, the client’s content. So people new to the Clean process are often curious about how it could possibly be useful in cases of self delusion, self denial or ...
Almost certainly! However, I suspect you are asking about a different kind of clean language from the type featured on this website.
The ‘Clean Language’ we use, teach and promote is a specialist interviewing and coaching tool which is good for getting really clear information about what a person really thinks (and perhaps, what they ...
Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees is published by Crown House and is available from Amazon worldwide.
Clean Language has been an Amazon.co.uk category bestseller since early in 2009, when it gained a number one spot in its initial category, Mental Health and Illness. This followed the ...