FAQs | - Part 3

Can I find Clean Language on Amazon?

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 ...

Where can I discuss Clean Language online?

Whatever your area of interest, online discussion boards and social networking sites can be great places to find like-minded people. And the world of Clean Language enthusiasts is no exception. Some online resources for meeting people, finding practice partners and perhaps getting your questions answered include: CleanForum, www.cleanforum.com, ...

Where can I find Clean Language therapy?

Clean Language was originally devised by the late David Grove as a therapeutic process. He travelled the world presenting workshops, where he shared his ideas to thousands of psychotherapists worldwide, notably in the USA, UK, France and New Zealand. Some of these practitioners took further training and used it as their primary methodology, ...

Why would I choose Clean Language for coaching?

Because you can expect lasting results and a sense of empowerment, where you as the client are in the driving seat. Clean Language coaching differs markedly from some of the ‘coaching’ seen on the reality TV shows, which often looks more like bullying! In a Clean Language session you can expect to be encouraged to set your own agenda, ...

I learned Clean Language on an NLP course. Would your training still be useful to me?

Several NLP courses, particularly in the UK, include some Clean Language within the curriculum. However this training is of highly variable quality: at worst, the trainer may have no knowledge of Clean Language except from NLP conferences or from a book, no formal training, and little idea of the subtleties of the process. At the other extreme ...

What was David Grove actually like?

I wasn’t a close friend of his, but I was lucky enough to interview David Grove, creator of Clean Language, at the NLP Conference in November 2005 at the very beginning of my own journey with Clean. It was the first interview he’d given since 1996, and I was fresh from the world of ‘normal’ news journalism, so I really wasn’t ...

Is there a relationship between Clean Language and NLP?

There’s definitely a relationship between Clean Language and NLP, but the precise nature of it is debatable. Is it a subset of NLP, or a separate field? In 2006, on the one occasion I interviewed David Grove, the creator of Clean Language, he told me that he had been quite heavily involved in NLP before devising Clean Language. He said ...

How is Clean Language used in therapy?

Clean Language was originally devised as a therapeutic process by the late David Grove. He was a counselling psychologist, working therapeutically with trauma victims such as Vietnam veterans and sexual abuse survivors. In workshops, he presented his ideas to thousands of psychotherapists worldwide, notably in the USA, UK, France and New ...

Who was David Grove?

David Grove, creator of Clean Language, came from New Zealand, and had European and Maori ancestry. He graduated with a BSc from the University of Canterbury, NZ in 1972, then studied Business Administration for a postgraduate degree. He had some contact with the world of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and became interested in Ericksonian ...

Where do I start?

Of course, it depends what you would like to have happen! If you’re curious and you’d like to find out more, the most usual steps are: - Read Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds - Experiment with a pack of Clean Change Cards - Read articles on this site or at www.cleanlanguage.co.uk - Attend an introductory event, ...

International Clean Conference

19 & 20 May 2012

Clean Conference brings together enthusiasts of Clean Language, Clean Space, Emergent Knowledge, The Power of Six and other aspects of the work of the late, great David Grove.

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Newsletter For You?

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

Archetypes Workshop

Join us for this rich experiential day, to go on a journey together, a Hero's Journey, to discover, embrace and integrate some of the key/ most prominent Archetypes that are playing roles in the stories of our lives, and consider those we are denying or hiding in our shadow.
Using this knowledge and wisdom, we will then focus on recognising Archetypal energies in others and how to use this awareness when working Cleanly to help our clients reach their desired outcomes.

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CLEAN PODCAST

New to the site

This podcast, called 'Castles in the air', was created by Eve Margrett and features Wendy Sullivan. It was the number 1 podcast in I Tunes, when it was first released in 2010.
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Special Podcast Nov2010

Clean Language:

Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds

by
Wendy Sullivan and
Judy Rees

Clean Change Company