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The intention behind this ceremony is to bring the “background” of all that we are calling Clean today into the foreground by honoring its roots in the culture of the Maori people of New Zealand whence came David Grove.

Three New Zealanders have joined forces to mould together a tribute to his work and to offer participants a symbolic welcome and integration into the 2010 Clean Conference through the power of a Powhiri – a traditional Maori welcome to all visitors requesting entrance on to the sacred grounds of the Marae.

The Marae is the ancestral “safe and sacred space” where members of the tribe may stand tall in the knowing that this is their place to stand (turangawaewae). From this space they may then call “visitors” (manuhiri) to “stand” with them offering them all the rights and privileges of tribal members. The rite of passage is first sounded by the Karanga – the voice of the women whose call weaves a spiritual rope allowing safe passage for the Manuhiri – visitors (all those joining the conference) on to the Marae (conference).

As a part of the celebration of your presence on the “Conference Marae” you will be invited to experience for yourselves something of the work David left us with in 2007 and to share an evening meal which will be served after the ceremony.

We  invite you – Manuhiri – to stand with us and by us at the opening of the 2010 Clean Conference in London.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Do we need space to think about time?

Metaphorical basis of temporal thinking.

We remember our childhood by looking back to the past and we sincerely hope to have a brilliant future ahead of us. We have upcoming deadlines and days that are too short to fit in all our commitments. This make us feel tired and stressed, so we may go to see a therapist who might take care of us using a timeline.

We spend a big part of our mental life thinking and talking about time, and most of the expressions that we use to talk about it are spatial. Almost 30 years ago, Lakoff & Johnson popularized the idea that we talk in this way because that’s the way we think. We think about abstract things that we can never see or touch, like love, freedom, or time, re-cycling the conceptual structures we normally use to represent more concrete objects and relations. For this reason we use space to think about time and, more than that, we may not be able to represent something like “time as such” without spatializing it. The metaphorical language that we use to talk about time reflects deeper conceptual metaphors that make our abstract thinking possible.

After 30 years, what started out as a radical philosophic theory based on the observation of patterns in language has become a fruitful scientific sub-field that puts together disciplines as different as psychology, linguistics, anthropology and neuroscience.

I will present recent studies in cognitive science that show how our temporal thinking is deeply rooted in our spatial thinking. We’ll consider metaphorical structuring of time that are not clearly detectable in our everyday language but that reflect different spatializations of our temporal thinking. I will provide experimental evidence for how even the perception of duration, the most intuitive temporal experience, has a spatial basis, and we’ll consider the issue of whether this spatialization of time is innate or learned through experience, and the role of spoken language and communication in shaping the way we think about time.

We will discuss how these findings are starting to give a sound scientific background to therapeutic and communicative practices that have known about the power of metaphors for a long time, and we will see how this new research can be applied to practice.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography: Roberto  Bottini is a psychologist, Ph.D. student in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo, and visiting Ph.D. student at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistic. He received a master in clinical psychology at the University of Padova and worked in the field of child neuropsychiatry and drug addition before starting the Ph.D.

His research is focused especially on the evolution of consciousness and the metaphorical construction of temporal thinking.

Lynne Burney

If the shoe fits, wear it!

This session will demonstrate how to work with a systemic representation of a client issue using space and six-ness to faci litate the emergence of client awareness from outside his system until such point as he feels ready to “try on” a different structural organisation of his “issue”. It is as if the client is being invited to keep trying on new shoes until he finds the right size, colour, shape and style that suit and fit him.

After a live demonstration with one of the participants the group will be invited to decode the process from a client perspective, a facilitator’s perspective, a representative’s experience and an observer’s perspective. While participants could not be expect to reproduce the process after a 90 minute workshop, they will get insight into possible adaptations within their own area of work.

Level of Clean experience: some

Speaker’s Biography: Lynne Burney runs a coaching school in Paris which offers an advance course in Clean for coaches. She worked annually with David Grove from 2003-2008. She is an International Coach Federation Master Coach and a founding member of the Société Française de Coaching. She is a master practitioner of NLP and has trained in constellations work. She is currently exploring meeting points between Clean and other processes in the world of business.

See: www.lkb-coaching.com

Daniel Casasanto

Mental Metaphors

Description to come soon

Level of Clean experience: none

Speaker’s Biography: Daniel Casasanto is a Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, a Fellow of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and has recently joined the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York, NY.  He received his PhD from the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.  His research explores how language, culture, and bodily experiences shape the mind, combining methods from cognitive and developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience.  Casasanto is a founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal Language & Cognition, and serves as consultant editor for Discourse Processes, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication.  His honors include a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, a National Research Service Award and the James S. McDonnell Scholars Award.  He has authored over fifty scientific articles on language, mind and brain.  His research on the power of ‘mental metaphors’ to change our thoughts and behaviours has been featured in the international media, including Newsweek, US News and World Report, WIRED Magazine, Science News, New Scientist, NPR, The Boston Globe, USA TODAY, Die Welt, NRC Handelsblad, and Corriere della Sera.

For more information: http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html

Nancy Doyle and Paul Tosey

Organisational Theory and the Application of Clean

Although the majority of Clean work is carried out in a 1-1 context, Training Attention have specialised in group-based applications. These have been evaluated, honed and developed into whole organisational change processes. In this session Nancy Doyle of Training Attention, an occupational psychologist, and Dr Paul Tosey of Surrey University will explain the relationship between the principles of facilitating groups Cleanly and current organisational theory.

Participants will get an insight into organisational theory and how Clean interventions can support organisational development. It will also support practitioners to explain their work in terms of this current academic theory.

Level of Clean experience required: some Clean experience and/or experience of organisational theory

Speaker’s Biography: Nancy Doyle is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who specialises in workplace learning and organisational development.  With Caitlin Walker she has developed Training Attention’s work to provide a robust evaluation format, accessible exercises and detailed research into the application of Clean Language and Systemic Modelling.    Nancy is involved in academic research into the utility of Training Attention’s tools and is a guest lecturer in Organisational Learning and Change at the University of Surrey.

See: www.trainingattention.co.uk

Speaker’s Biography: Paul Tosey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, University of Surrey, where he is Assistant Director of the Centre for Management Learning. He led the development of, and directed, the MSc Change Agent Skills and Strategies, an advanced training for consultants and facilitators. Career experience includes consultancy, coaching, management, and teaching at the University of Edinburgh and the Open University. Research interests include transformative learning a nd NLP, and he is author of `A Critical Appreciation of NLP’ (co-author Dr Jane Mathison).

See: www.surrey.ac.uk/management/people/paul_tosey/

Angela Dunbar

Exploring Parts with EK and Clean Language

Many different psychological frameworks suggest that people have different ‘parts’ within themselves as distinct and separate identities. We explore the theory of ‘parts’ then how a combination of CL and EK is used to help clients access different parts and discover potential inner conflicts. Also Clean ways to encourage integration without interference, with a practical, participative exercise plus short demonstration.

Participants will gain:

·         Some new frameworks to use CL and EK to identify and work with parts

·         Practical experience of exploring parts as coach and client

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speaker’s Biography: Angela is a qualified life and performance coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching (AC) and a council member as ‘Head of Professional Forums’. Also a 2010/2011 Nominee for the AC’s Honorary Award for Impacting, Angela trains on Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge for coaches at Oxford Brooks University , and offers Clean Coaching and Supervision for her own private clients. For more information visit

See: www.cleancoaching.com

Charles Faulkner

Title: Details to follow

Speaker’s Biography: Charles Faulkner, Modeler and innovator, is the Director of Programs for NLP Comprehensive and a principal in Influential Communications, Inc. His modelling projects include: medical decision making, metaphoric identity, software development, and most famously market wizards – which is featured in publications from The New Market Wizards (1992) to Trend Following (2007). He is the (co)author of ten titles including Metaphors of Identity (1991), NLP: The New Technology of Achievement (1994), the systemic NLP change game Trimurti (2001), a new model of Influence (2002), and his Immersion methodology for learning NLP (2004).

James Geary

Title: Details to follow

Speaker’s Biography: to follow shortly

See: www.jamesgeary.com

James Lawley and Penny Tompkins

Simply Change: A 4 – vector guide

After 15 years of using David Grove’s Clean Language we figured out that most people’s systems reorganise organically when a facilitator makes use of just four processes. Find out what they are and how to use them. Simple, really.

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speaker’s Biography: Penny Tompkins and James Lawley are the developers of Symbolic Modelling, which includes the Clean Language of David Grove. They are authors, UKCP registered psychotherapists, supervisors, and coaches in business. They are leading authorities on the use of self-generated metaphor for personal and professional development, and have trained Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language throughout the world. Their book, Metaphors in Mind, is a comprehensive guide to their approach. Visit: www.cleanlanguage.co.uk

Greta Irving

‘How Squeaky Clean is Your Clean?

In order to keep enhancing our ability to remain Clean we need to develop our own self-reflexivity. This helps us to notice how our patterns, perceptions and projections might be impacting on the client’s content or process.

This is an exploratory workshop which will entail facilitating each other to self-model what happens when we’re self-reflexive – what do we notice, what filters are we using?

Level of Clean experience required: Some

Speaker’s Biography: Greta is a coach, facilitator, and UKCP registered Psychotherapist with many years experience in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. With a background in Leadership Development, she now works in private practice and as a freelance coach, facilitator and trainer in the corporate sector. With Zannie Barrett, Greta is in the process of writing a book on modelling in a therapeutic context.

See: www.gretairving.co.uk

Michael Mallows

10P Thinking: A Clean and Crafty Look at the Unconscious

Most of the decisions we make about new ideas are not rational.

Two psychologists, Stanovich and West, coined the phrase Two System Thinking in 2000, suggesting the presence of two minds in one brain.

System one is unconscious, intuitive, effortless, fast, automatic, emotional and decisive.
System two is conscious, reasoning, effortful, slow, deliberate, neutral and it balances factors.

How do we decide which element of our client’s words to respond to? And what happens just before we make that decision? And what would you like to have happen when your client’s response surprises or discombobulates you, perhaps indicating that you had ‘unclean’ expectations even before you asked your question? And how much might system one be impacting on decisions that seem reasoned and neutral? We will explore these questions in a reasonably Clean manner.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography: Working with individuals, groups and teams in the private, public and voluntary sectors, I run Clean and Crafty Classrooms (for teachers); Supervision; Leadership and Assessments for Adoption Professionals. Having supervised Penny Tompkins and James Lawley for many years, I was introduced to Clean Language from their epiphany and it has made a huge and wonderful difference.

See: www.mmallows.co.uk/16.html

Maori Welcoming Ceremony

The intention behind this ceremony is to bring the “background” of all that we are calling Clean today into the foreground by honoring its roots in the culture of the Maori people of New Zealand whence came David Grove.

Three New Zealanders have joined forces to mould together a tribute to his work and to offer participants a symbolic welcome and integration into the 2010 Clean Conference through the power of a Powhiri – a traditional Maori welcome to all visitors requesting entrance on to the sacred grounds of the Marae.

The Marae is the ancestral “safe and sacred space” where members of the tribe may stand tall in the knowing that this is their place to stand (turangawaewae). From this space they may then call “visitors” (manuhiri) to “stand” with them offering them all the rights and privileges of tribal members. The rite of passage is first sounded by the Karanga – the voice of the women whose call weaves a spiritual rope allowing safe passage for the Manuhiri – visitors (all those joining the conference) on to the Marae (conference).

As a part of the celebration of your presence on the “Conference Marae” you will be invited to experience for yourselves something of the work David left us with in 2007 and to share an evening meal which will be served after the ceremony.

We  invite you – Manuhiri – to stand with us and by us at the opening of the 2010 Clean Conference in London.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speakers’ Biographies:

Lynne Burney founded a coaching school in Paris in 2000 and introduced CLEAN for coaches as an advanced course in 2008. She worked once a year with David Grove in Normandy for 5 years up until his death in 2008 and her work was supervised by Penny Tompkins & James Lawley during that time. She is a Master Coach with the International Coach Federation and is a founding member of the Société Française de Coaching. She is a master practitioner of NLP and has trained to work with constellations. She is currently invested in exploring meeting points between CLEAN and other processes and their applications in the world of business.

Margaret Meyer to follow shortly

Euan Dempster to follow shortly

Julie McCracken & Marian Way

Cleaning Up The Curriculum

If you haven’t stepped foot in a school for a while, you may be surprised at how closely the aims of today’s National Curriculum are aligned with the Clean philosophy. Join us to experience some of the ways the curriculum is already being met ‘Cleanly’ in classrooms and explore ideas for really making it sparkle in the future.

Participants will experience:

o       Fun, as they experience the world through the eyes of a 6-year-old.

o       Ideas that can be used in classrooms, trainings, workshops and other contexts

o       An opportunity to contribute to ongoing research into Clean applications in schools

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speakers’ Biographies:

Julie McCracken is a primary school teacher and coach with a passion for Clean Language. She regularly uses Clean in her classroom and has devised innovative ways of applying it to different areas of the curriculum. She has helped pupils, teachers and assistants use Clean in schools. She is writing a book (with Marian Way) about Clean in the Classroom.

See: www.CoachingMagic.co.uk

Marian Way started out as a teacher and went on to become the Programme Development Manager of Weight Watchers (UK) Ltd, where she and a colleague developed the POINTS diet. She uses Clean Language extensively in her work as a coach / trainer. She is working on several Clean projects including a book (with Julie McCracken) about Clean in the Classroom.

See: www.apricotisland.com

Margaret Meyer and Wendy Sullivan

Pushmi-Pullyu: Playing with Polarities

Description to follow shortly

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speakers’ Biographies:

Margaret Meyer is the Associate Director of Clean Change Company and a change consultant, market researcher, coach and therapist who uses Clean Language across the span of her work. She has developed special applications of Clean Language for strategic planning, team-building, mediation and for market research.  With Wendy Sullivan she trains and mentors professionals in the use of Clean Language.

See: www.manifestchange.co.uk

Wendy Sullivan is an international trainer of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, a psychotherapist, coach, facilitator and consultant.  One of the most experienced Clean trainers in the world, Wendy runs Clean Change Company, offering an extensive open training programme and a range of business services including coaching and consultancy.

See: www.cleanchange.co.uk

Terri McNerney

A Clean and Appreciative Approach to Change & Transition

This session aims to show how the combination of Clean and Appreciative Inquiry can be a powerful, emergent and sustainable approach to change and transition within organisations.

Participants will experience:

-         An overview of the Appreciative Inquiry(AI) Philosophy

-         Ways in which AI can work with Clean

-         An experience of Clean and Appreciative Inquiry combined

-         How to start working with these approaches in organisations

-         A creative and fun space

Terri will also share some of her experiences in working with Clean & Appreciative Inquiry in organisations and some practical ways of integrating these approaches with other models of change.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography: Terri McNerney has an Msc in Organisational Consulting and 20+ years consultancy experience with FTSE 100 and Global 500 companies.

She has founded ‘Inspire’, a specialist consultancy, and ‘Red Egg Transition Coaching’ and focuses on helping businesses maximise the performance of their top teams, develop and retain their best talent and successfully work through change and transition.

Terri is a member of the UK Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Practitioners Network, with 10 years experience of studying and working with AI.

See: www.inspirethebest.com

Rupert Meese

Reasoning with Metaphor Systems

Clean Language is well known for its use in eliciting an individual’s metaphor landscape.  When the focus of a Clean enquiry moves to a larger system such as an organisation then it is natural to model multiple interacting metaphor landscapes from the individuals that make up the system, producing multiple individual perspective landscapes.  The operation of the system itself is influenced by the interactions of these perspective landscapes.

Rupert presents a framework for exploring the interactions of a system of differing metaphor landscapes to understand the operation of the larger system while remaining respectful to the component landscapes, giving participants an approach to working with metaphor landscapes in groups or teams.

Level of Clean experience required: Some

Speaker’s Biography: Rupert is a symbolic modeller with a background in IT and embedded systems.

See: www.zenlistening.com and www.thebutterfilytent.com

Peter Rangelov

Clean Language Software for Windows

Introducing state-of-the-art Clean Language Software for Windows which provides Multi-touch and advanced Gesture capabilities, like an iPhone App.

This software for facilitators keeps track of the client’s process, and of the facilitator’s questioning.  It provides structure to the session and helps you navigate through a detailed framework for change, thereby offering a dynamic reference point for the work. For example, in a landscape with a number of desired outcomes, you can “zoom in” on one of them to develop it and then easily “zoom out” again to place it in context.

Participants will see how this Software:

1.      Aids you, the facilitator, to develop the desired outcome landscape through multiple sessions.

2.      Recreates the flow of the Clean questions and the client’s answers to aid your development by allowing you to see missed opportunities so that you can work even better in the future.

3.      Can create personal templates using Clean Language questions in any occupational field.

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speaker’s Biography: To follow shortly

See: www.flamines.com

Wendy Sullivan

Finding your Feet – Clean Basics for Beginners

For those who are new to Clean, this session provides an experience of Clean, and focuses on answering the top six FAQs:

-         Why Clean – what’s in it for me?

-         What is Clean Language?

-         What is metaphor and why is it so important?

-         What is modelling?

-         How do you ‘do’ Clean?

-         What are the applications?

By the end of the session participants will have found their feet in Clean: they’ll have the basics that they need in order to enjoy the conference, participate fully and gather up the riches it has to offer.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography:Wendy Sullivan is an international trainer of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, a psychotherapist, coach, facilitator and consultant.  One of the most experienced Clean trainers in the world, Wendy runs Clean Change Company, offering an extensive open training programme and a range of business services including coaching and consultancy.

See: www.cleanchange.co.uk

Phil Swallow

Humane Power: The Tao of Clean

“…It looks like nothing, 
it sounds like nothing much.
And yet you can’t get enough of it.”

These ancient words* about the Tao could just as well describe Clean.  Paradoxical, ephemeral, compelling – what is it about Clean that attracts us? Let’s explore where the desire to work Cleanly comes from – in you, in all of us – and how it can empower your work and relationships with others.

You will have the chance to explore what Clean is for you and for others and how to begin to use the ‘humane power’ of Clean inside you to pay optimum attention outside, to the person you are with in coaching, in therapy or simply in the world.

*(modern interpretation by Ursula K Le Guin)

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography: Phil Swallow has been training and coaching using Clean processes for over 10 years, working with leading Clean trainers to co-design and develop their trainings in the UK and France.  He runs cleanforum.com, a resource for the global Clean community and has a private coaching practice in the Forest of Dean.

See: www.cleanframe.co.uk/tao

Penny Tompkins and James Lawley

Simply Change: A 4-vector guide

After 15 years of using David Grove’s Clean Language we figured out that most people’s systems reorganise organically when a facilitator makes use of just four processes. Find out what they are and how to use them. Simple, really.

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speaker’s Biography: Penny Tompkins and James Lawley are the developers of Symbolic Modelling, which includes the Clean Language of David Grove. They are authors, UKCP registered psychotherapists, supervisors, and coaches in business. They are leading authorities on the use of self-generated metaphor for personal and professional development, and have trained Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language throughout the world. Their book, Metaphors in Mind, is a comprehensive guide to their approach. Visit: www.cleanlanguage.co.uk

Caitlin Walker

Coaching your internal team

David Grove developed more scapes than most and a fascinating set are our internal ‘pronoun-scapes’. During this session Caitlin will facilitate you to develop your internal sense of: I, me, you, yourself etc and to relate each of these to a current outcome you have. Getting your pronouns aligned is a great step towards dreams becoming actions.

Participants will gain a clearer sense of themselves and a map of their personal pronoun-scape. They will explore an outcome they hold but haven’t achieved and relate it to their pronoun-scape. They will also take this elegant process away to use with others.

Level of Clean experience required: none

Speaker’s Biography: Caitlin has pioneered new applications for Clean in health, education, business and community sectors. She has worked extensively with academic support to evaluate the impact of clean interventions and bring rigour to the field. She worked closely with David Grove during the 3 years before he died, co-developing interventions around mental and physical well-being. Case studies can be seen on www.trainingattention.co.uk She is co-owner of Training Attention Ltd.

See: www.trainingattention.co.uk

Marian Way

Clean Cafe: Marketing Clean

You probably know already how effective Clean methodologies are for encouraging new insights that can lead to deep sustainable change. But how do you market a tool that offers so much, and yet can promise so little? In this World Café-style session, we’ll use Clean Language to share existing and generate new ideas for marketing Clean.

Participants will take part in a lively, Clean, interactive session, based on the World Café model. I’ve no idea what anyone will get from the session or what will emerge collectively, but we’re pretty sure it’ll be new and interesting. 

Level of Clean experience required: some

Speaker’s Biography: Marian Way is an experienced Clean Language practitioner and trainer, who works in the UK and the USA and who runs occasional World Café sessions.  She started out as a teacher and went on to become the Programme Development Manager of Weight Watchers (UK) Ltd, where she and a colleague developed the POINTS diet. She uses Clean Language extensively in her work as a coach / trainer and is working on several Clean projects including a book (with Julie McCracken) about Clean in the Classroom.

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University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY, on the weekend of 22 – 24 October 2010.

Who is the conference for?

Anyone who’s interested in ‘Clean’ – Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling, Clean Space, Emergent Knowledge. These all have their roots in the therapeutic work of the late David Grove, but now have branches in a much wider range of contexts including the business world.

We expect people from all over the world to attend. Some participants will be experiencing Clean for the first time, others will have been studying the subject for years.

When does the conference start?

It begins on Friday 22 October 2010 at 18:00, with a Maori Welcoming Ceremony.

The intention behind this ceremony is to bring the “background” of all that we are calling Clean today into the foreground by honoring its roots in the culture of the Maori people of New Zealand whence came David Grove.

Three New Zealanders have joined forces to mould together a tribute to his work and to offer participants a symbolic welcome and integration into the 2010 Clean Conference through the power of a Powhiri – a traditional Maori welcome to all visitors requesting entrance on to the sacred grounds of the Marae.

The Marae is the ancestral “safe and sacred space” where members of the tribe may stand tall in the knowing that this is their place to stand (turangawaewae). From this space they may then call “visitors” (manuhiri) to “stand” with them offering them all the rights and privileges of tribal members. The rite of passage is first sounded by the Karanga – the voice of the women whose call weaves a spiritual rope allowing safe passage for the Manuhiri – visitors (all those joining the conference) on to the Marae (conference).

As a part of the celebration of your presence on the “Conference Marae” you will be invited to experience for yourselves something of the work David left us with in 2007 and to share an evening meal which will be served after the ceremony.

We  invite you – Manuhiri – to stand with us and by us at the opening of the 2010 Clean Conference in London.

I know nothing about Clean. Will I enjoy the conference?

If you care about people and what makes them tick, you will find the conference interesting. Some sessions will be more suitable for beginners than others, and this will be indicated in the conference programme.

To get the best possible value from the event, dive in enthusiastically and ask lots of questions! Come prepared to join in with presenter-led activities – few of the sessions will focus on ‘chalk and talk’ – and discover new things about yourself and others.

A typical activity would involve working in a small group, taking turns to ask and be asked Clean Language questions in a specific way or to explore a specific topic. Not all will involve staying seated!

The conference is a great learning environment, but is not a training. Do not expect to be ‘spoon fed’ information.

Useful preparatory reading would include Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees’s book Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds but you can just arrive and attend the session at the start of the conference which is designed for people like you who are new to Clean, to help you find your feet, so that you enjoy the conference, participate fully and gather up all the riches it has to offer.

What should I wear and bring?

Whatever you feel comfortable in – and especially, comfortable shoes. Layers of clothing are a good idea as room temperatures may vary.

You will probably find a notebook and pen useful.

There will be very limited storage space for suitcases, so please avoid bringing these if possible.

What’s included in the price?

There are several prices because we have a Pre-Conference Workshop for people with at least two days of Clean training on Friday 22nd, and an Maori Welcoming Ceremony to start the Conference, in the evening of Friday 22nd, and then two days of the Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October.  You can come to all of it, or just the Workshop (Friday 22nd Oct daytime), just the Maori Welcome, (Friday 22 Oct evening) just the Sat and Sun of the Conference, or just one day of the conference.

In each case, the fee includes the sessions, a buffet lunch or evening meal.  Tea and coffee are included at breaks and meals, and at the start of the daytime sessions.  Please bring your own drinking water.

What happens in the evening?

On Friday 22 October, we will have the Maori Welcoming Ceremony to open the conference.  There are no official evening events on Saturday or Sunday, but we have the use of a room at the pleasant local pub, The Marlborough Arms, on Saturday evening, where participants, stewards and speakers are free to meet for a tasty informal meal and to chat and network.

Where can I find hotel and public transport information?

Google ‘hotel’, ‘bed and breakfast’ or ‘hostel’ with the postcode WC1E 7HY. Please note that the Youth Hostel nearby is likely to get booked up well in advance.

For public transport routes, use www.tfl.gov.uk

For more information about the venue itself, see www.ulu.co.uk

A map of the area can be seen here. The venue is on the corner of Malet Street and Torrington Place.

How do I book my place?

Go here for details.

• “Rich, expansive, enjoyable, meaningful, engaging, learning and well run.”   2009 participant
• “How can you improve on this? The most enjoyable and useful conference I’ve ever attended.” 2009 participant
• “Great quality event and speakers, and a wonderful atmosphere and community.” 2009 participant
• “The conference for me was like a stroll through a beautiful orchard on a sunny summer afternoon with a whole variety of fruit to choose and then pick…fresh, healthy and juicy.” Julie McCracken
• “Mmmm, it was like a sunny sparkly lake for me with glinty, gleamy faces to enjoy and depths to dip into!” Angela Steed
• “The conference for me was like… a lush tropical island glistening with exotic trees and fruits, full of fascination and with unexpected wonders around every corner.” Richard Ford
• “Like Mama Mia with Merryl Streep. Muse-ical, entertaining, visually interesting scripts and scenes, challenging the ordinary with skills……..Some of which appeared readily and others which took longer to appear, and develop, good values.” Trine Moore
• “It was like flying into beautiful and previously undiscovered lands of possibility.” Kathryn Merrick
• “Clean Conference is like a ball of wool after a kitten has happened to it – it all holds together in a truly unique way, and there are lots of strands linking together; but you can’t quite see where each strand came from, and no strand quite ends up where you expect it to be….” Kay Ryder
• “Thank you so much for putting on the conference it was just so amazing.  The warmth of the Clean Community filled me with such inspiration to keep working with this.” Cheryl Winter
• “Conference was like coming home – where every conversation has extra meanings relating to where we’re coming from and where we are going and how we currently see things.” Lorenza Clifford
• “For me it was like entering a shop full of different smells, colours, tastes, noises.  Some were familiar, others new.  That included the people!  There was fun and joy in being given gifts and making new purchases.”  David Leeper
• “Everything flowed so smoothly and with very a relaxed atmosphere and lots of opportunity for deep concentration interspersed with fun and laughter – like a well-guided, exciting white-water rafting trip!” Phil Swallow
• “Like a bubbly fountain illuminated with multi-coloured lights changing at both regular and random intervals, adding to its charm. Because of the regularity and the randomness of the illumination, one never knew exactly what to expect while remaining secure in the knowledge that the experience of it would be well worth having.” Jane Turner

Clean Conference 22-24 October 2010 (Book now) is a unique international showcase for Clean Language, Clean Space, Emergent Knowledge, The Power of Six and other aspects of the work of David Grove.  Held in central London, close to Euston main line station, the Conference attracts outstanding speakers, both UK-based and international, on the subject of Clean Language and its applications.  (see the schedule and timings here)

The conference caters for a broad range of experience levels, from complete beginner through recently trained to highly experienced. Subject areas include applications of Clean Language in coaching, business, therapy, organisation development, health, personal development, IT, education and research.

• Come up to speed with the very latest in Clean innovation and practice – from coaching and consultancy, to teaching, IT and education
• Draw valuable lessons from how others are working with Clean
• Enhance your responsiveness, modelling and facilitation skills
• Meet, brainstorm and collaborate with other Clean enthusiasts from the UK, Europe, USA and Australasia.

Clean Conference, University of London Union, Malet Street,  London, WC1E 7HY

“Rich, expansive, enjoyable, meaningful, engaging, learning and well run.”   2009 participant

2010 programme highlights include:

see details of speakers and sessions here

• a 1-day(22 October) pre-conference Enrichment workshop for Clean facilitators (minimum 2 days traiing recommended), geared for more experienced Clean practitioners, featuring sessions with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley and other leading practitioners
• plenary keynote sessions from internationally acclaimed speakers including Charles Faulkner, Daniel Casasanto, James Geary
• ‘Open to all’ welcoming Maori Ceremony and orientation sessions to tribute David Grove and allow newcomers (including absolute Clean beginners) to find their space within the Conference (see here for Maori welcoming ceremony)
• Clean conference shop featuring the latest books, training resources and products on Clean and related subjects
• a simpler, two-stream format  – meaning a similar number of sessions but fewer difficult choices than last year.

• “How can you improve on this? The most enjoyable and useful conference I’ve ever attended.” 2009 participant

This conference is for:

• Coaches
• Consultants and Organisation developers
• Counsellors
• Business analysts
• HR professionals
• IT professionals
• Interviewers
• NLP practitioners and specialists
• Teachers, academics and educators
• Therapists
• Trainers
• Researchers

“Great quality event and speakers, and a wonderful atmosphere and community.” 2009 participant

Prices and Booking Book before 5 September for early bird rates!

Tickets for each day include a light buffet lunch, and delegates for any day/days can book to join the extended Maori Welcome ceremony on Friday evening, which includes a light evening meal.

Join us for a weekend of adventures in Clean Language, metaphor and much more!  Book here.

“It was like flying into beautiful and previously undiscovered lands of possibility.” 2008 participant Kathryn Merrick

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The Clean Conference, our annual showcase for the Clean Community’s many skills and talents, takes place in central London on 22 to 24 October.  Could you be one of the presenters this year?  We are looking for experienced Clean facilitators who would like to lead a conference session of around 90 minutes in length.

Themes we’re especially interested in include Emergent Knowledge, embodied cognition, personal development, and new applications of Clean. And if you’ve got a business-oriented application of Clean in the making and would like to develop it further with some input from others in the room, then do consider proposing it for the ‘business exchange’ strand of the Conference.

If you would like to submit a proposal, please copy and paste the form below, fill it out in the format it is in, and email the completed form to Margaret Meyer at margaret@cleanchange.co.uk .  The closing date for proposals is 25 April.

Clean Conference 22 – 24 October 2010 at Central London: Session Proposal

Please complete and return to margaret@cleanchange.co.uk by 25 April

Name

Address

Phone

Mobile

E-mail

Website

Session Title

Preferred session length: 60 mins/90 mins

Level of Clean experience required: none/some/lots

Session outline (60 words max)

What will participants get from the session? (40 words max)

Presenter’s biography (60 words max)

Space or equipment requested (beyond theatre-style room, paper and pens, flipcharts, blutack)

Name:    Els van Sloten

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Based: Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherlands)

Telephone No. +31 611 06 4816

E-mail: elsvansloten@gmail.com

Communication
Everything is communication! Successful communication means that the intended purpose of the communication is acknowledged by the other. Communication, in the broadest sense of the word, is the key in the process of clarifying something for yourself or for somebody else.

Be who you are, be heard and seen, see and listen to yourself and to others. Els van Sloten knows only too well how important it is for you to be in balance within yourself, with your surroundings, and with the systems that you belong to (work, family, sports clubs, institutions). It is important to grow from your own personal strength.

Work experience
Els van Sloten has experience in working with children and adults with intellectual disabilities (individually or in groups) who manifest additional disorders such as depression, psychosis, autism, aggression or other forms of behaviour that are difficult to comprehend. For more than twenty years she worked as a movement therapist and has taught was swimming, gymnastics and horse-riding.  Later she switched to integral management positions. Els worked for ten years in various health centres where she focused on, among other things, change management, finances, policy and the coaching of individuals and teams.
Currently Els is part of the management team at an elementary school; she also supports people and organisations in growth and development processes and she coaches people with ADHD/ADD.
In these processes Els uses Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling. These are powerful tools that offer insight into the interaction between people and their surroundings and their  internal dialogues, convictions and judgements, to name but a few.

Contact

If you want to be supported and enabled on an organisational or personal level with growth and change processes, please contact Els to discuss the possibilities.

Degrees and certificates

• Clean Facilitator Foundation Level, ‘Gewoon aan de Slag’,2010)
• 5-day seminars ‘Résidentiel d’approfondissements’ and ‘Communication Non Violente’ (Nada Ignatovic Savic, certificée par Marschall Rosenberg, 2008)
• 12-month course ‘Non Violent Communication’(Martin van der Meulen, certified trainer Non Violent Communication, in Monster, 2008)
• Training courses ‘Progressive Mental Alignment’ (PMA Netherlands, 2008 and 2009)
• ‘Coaching bij ADHD/ADD’ (Centraal Instituut Voor Alternatieve Scholing, in Haarlem, 2007)
• 4-day introductory training course; advanced training courses ‘Authentiek jezelf zijn’ (1 day) and ‘De kracht van mededogen’ (2 days) (Martin van der Meulen, certified trainer Non Violent Communication, 2007)
• 12-month training course ‘Management Development’ (Nel Menkveld training & coaching, Achterveld, 2006)
• ‘Reflexology: vitamins & nourishment’ (Stichting Vakgroep Reflexzone Therapeuten, The International Institute of Reflexology, Opleiding de Wouden, in Barneveld in 2003)
• ‘Time Management’ (principles of TM, behaviour analysis, diagnosis, action plan) (Nel Menkveld training & coaching, Achterveld,2002)
• 4-day training course ‘Ingrijpend anders’ (handling threatening and aggressive behaviour professionally) (H. vd Hoek, Gemiva SVG groep, in Gouda, 2001)
• Training ‘Oudergesprekken’ (position parents and communication, the role of counsellors, conversation techniques) (Anne Wibaut, 2000)
• Coaching leadership and advanced training courses (Nel Menkveld training & coaching, Achterveld, 2000 through 2003)
• Leadership in work organisations (OU, in Leiden, 1999)
• HBO SPH as (Hogeschool, in Haarlem, 1997)

Financial Management, ‘Strategisch beleid voor ondernemingsraden’ (OdK:Z, in Havelte, Berkel&Partners, 1997)

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Based: Beverley, East Yorkshire

Mobile: 07913419474

Email: tamsinhartley@hotmail.com

Skype: tamsinhartley

After ten years of working with people as a physiotherapist, and time taken to bring up young children, I trained as a Coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner.

I have worked successfully with a wide range of clients, addressing issues such as,

- returning to work after a career break

- establishing a better work life-balance

- overcoming anxieties and phobias.

I bring to my work additional skills as a certified Clean Language Facilitator.   This enables me to create a space for my clients to work imaginatively, often using metaphors, thinking about desired outcomes rather than problems.  By gaining insight and awareness, fresh perspectives, clients can get a sense of the kind of solutions to their problem that they would like to create.   This is a journey that starts with the simple question; “what would you like to have happen?”

Testimonials

• I gained clarity and confidence about my talents and skills, which I have been able to draw upon in many difficult and challenging situations since, not just in my career but in my life as well.
• my experience of being coached by Tamsin has given me a feeling of being ‘intact’, with possibilities and opportunities of shaping my life in keeping with who I am.  Thank you for taking me just as I am.
• I have learnt a lot from my few sessions which helped me put many issues in perspective.  With all the stresses and strains of modern life, I feel that many people would benefit from these confidential sessions.
• my phobia was overwhelming.  Tamsin’s confidence and expertise has cured my phobia, and I enjoy a more fulfilling life because of it.

Qualifications

• Certified Clean Language Facilitator
• MA Post-Graduate Certificate in Personal and Business Coaching (University of Chester)
• NLP Practitioner
• MSc in Research Methods for Remedial Therapists
• Grad Dip Physiotherapy

Additional interests

My belief in the importance of communication has led me to work with a colleague to set up workshops for adults who work with children, entitled “The Use of Puppets in Communication with Children”.