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Who was David Grove?

Judy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:06 +0000

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 hypnosis, and then in 1983, completed a graduate degree in Counselling Psychotherapy at the State University of Minnesota, USA and began developing his unique style of therapy.

He focussed his attention on resolving traumatic memories: memories of childhood abuse or, in the case of Vietnam veterans, war. With Basil Panzer, he published a book, Resolving Traumatic Memories in 1989. He went on to work with over 40,000 people in workshops and healing retreats in the USA, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK, including at a retreat centre in Cumbria, and to present at a number of universities.

He felt it was important to honour and respect a person’s metaphors, and that the therapist’s role was to promote self-healing by facilitating a metaphorical journey, and so David Grove devised the Clean Language questions so as to interfere with this process as little as possible. These aspects of David Grove’s Clean Language work were modelled and documented by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley in their book Metaphors in Mind (2000).

He was volatile and eccentric, and yet consistent in his search for effective healing methodologies to benefit therapeutic clients. In the last few years of his life Grove moved his focus to an exploration of the therapeutic effects of space, known as Clean Space, and became interested in the science of emergence and how its insights can be applied in therapeutic contexts. He was working on this with a number of leading NLP figures, particularly in the UK and in France. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the USA on January 8, 2008, aged 57, and is buried in New Zealand.

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Clean Conference presenters: Coaching

Judy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:32:28 +0000

With such a wide range of presenters at Clean Conference 2009, it’s a real challenge to categorise their biographies and session summaries into groups for easy reading!

Therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, I have divided them into the following groups, with plenty of overlap:

‘Coaching’ sessions are listed below.

Jackie Arnold is an executive coach who was on the founding UK ICF Board of Directors. She presented at European Coaching Conferences in 2004 and 2006. She is a recognised coach/trainer in Coaching & Mentoring in Management (ILM) and a qualified Coach Supervisor with CSA. Her book Coaching for Leaders in the Workplace (available August 2009) includes a Clean case study

Session: Clean Super-vision

Jackie Arnold takes clean language and applies it to coaching supervision using her own model SUSTAIN and the 7 Eyed model developed by Peter Hawkins.An over view of coaching supervision and demonstration of Clean Language model for use in Coaching Super-vision

Lynne Bullock (France) has a Master Coach Credential with the International Coach Federation, was a founding member of the Société Française de Coaching and founded the LKB School of Coaching in February 2000. She taught her first class in CLEAN Coaching to trained coaches in Marseille last year and is continuing the work in Paris this year. She shared the “Normandie Salons” with David, Jennifer and the “femmes fatales” over a period of 5 years. While the Clean processes have had an enormous influence on her coaching work she has also explored in some depth the systemic representational work coming out of Germany. She brings these two strains together in this workshop

Session: When Clean meets Constellation in Coaching

When I invite a client to represent his system spatially using play mobile and then invite him to notice what he notices, I have found it interesting to combine the iterative questioning of David’s “6 friends” with the spatial perception points of Clean Space. Rather than the client’s desired outcome being in the space of B, a representation of his system becomes the space of B. The client (space of A) moves himself in relationship to his system seeing it from several angles (and why not 6). Once the client is psycho-actively engaged with his system, he begins to see possibilities that he hadn’t seen before and I, his coach, can invite him to make changes. This combination of Clean and Systemic Representation (Constellation) seems to have a valuable place in a company coaching session

Nigel and Jenny Heath have spent two years researching and developing a model for relationship coaching. Building on the shoulders of giants like John Gottman and David Grove, they have added their own composition of life skills, Clean, NLP and other techniques, which they use in their relationship coaching practice in the New Forest.

Session: Clean Space meets the Four Horsemen of Relationships

This session is based on John Gottman’s clinical research into why relationships fail. Using the power of clean space, a demonstration subject will explore what happens when they think about the four horseman of defensiveness, criticism, stonewalling and contempt and their positive counterparts. Short exercises will enable all participants to explore their own patterns of behaviour.

Carol Wilson and Angela Dunbar

Session: Clean Hieroglyphics

In this session we will describe the “Clean Hieroglyphics” process as developed by David Grove with Carol Wilson, as part of the “Clean Coaching with EK” coaching programme.This technique takes the words, letters and other symbols drawn by the client as potential sources of knowledge, each with its own story and history to explore.We will share case studies of real-life clients who have transformed their goals following the “Clean Hiero” process. We will demonstrate the process, allow for questions and answers, also engage all participants in their own exploration of the words and letters they use to write down their goals.

Cheryl Winter commenced her journey of Clean in 2006 working with David Grove and Caitlin Walker. Since then she has developed her skills in Clean and Emergent Knowledge into practical business processes working with clients such as Wigan Extended Learning, Teachers and Graduates, Team Development for Boots and personal Coaching for clients at John Moores, E:ON and the NHS. She also teaches Clean Language on a Masters course in Coaching and Mentoring at Liverpool John Moores University. She is a Licensed Trainer of Magical Spelling, NLP Master Practitioner, Certified in Training Attention Levels 1 and 2, and Partner with Training Attention for facilitating groups.

Session: Working with your Metaphor Landscape

The mental/psychespace we occupy influences our performance much more than we might acknowledge. This metaphor landscape may take many forms, it may be created or be the projection of a real landscape from your past. This session will provide the opportunity to elicit and work directly with a landscape and to explore the relationship between your landscape and your performance. You will be invited to consider whether there are areas of your landscape you would like to develop or evolve. Lastly you will consider the practical actions that you can engage in so that your internal landscape supports you to have the life you choose to live.

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Clean Conference presenters: Business and organisations

Judy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:50 +0000

With such a wide range of presenters at Clean Conference 2009, it’s a real challenge to categorise their biographies and session summaries into groups for easy reading!

Therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, I have divided them into the following groups, with plenty of overlap:

‘Business and organisations’ sessions are listed below.

Lynne Cooper, Author of Business NLP for Dummies

Session: Clean Selling – Clean Language as a tool for persuading and promoting with integrity

If you desire greater success when promoting a product or service, an idea or concept, an aspiration or a dream, maybe even selling yourself, then this session is for you. Using the principles of Clean and modelling you can explore others’ needs, identify how to talk so they will listen, and stimulate them into a purchasing decision – with integrity.

Michael Mallows works with individuals, groups and teams in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He runs Clean and Crafty Classrooms (for teachers); Supervision; Leadership; Assessments for Adoption Professionals. Having supervised Penny and James for many years, he was introduced to Clean Language by them.

Session: Clean and CRAFTY Meetings

This session creates a framework that helps any one who has responsibility for facilitating or chairing meetings, to maintain a Clean, Responsive, Assertive, Focused, Thoughtful, YES! attitude. Clean questions are combined with elements from models such as NLPand Nancy Kline’s Thinking Session. We will other than is for anyone Exploring. and the intelligent optimism required for a mindset.

Terri McNerney specialises in leadership, team and organisational development. Her work includes coaching, facilitation and project/workshop design, with a key focus on senior leadership teams, transition, change and post-merger interventions. She has more than twenty years experience with Global 500 companies, working in and consulting to a variety of industries including petrochemical, finance, media, pharmaceutical, retail, government and education sectors.

Session: Inspire the Best – Leaders….Strategy….Change/Building on the best within your business and people

The intention of this session is to inquire into different approaches to leadership and how they can work together with ‘Clean’. We will explore how you are as a leader, and how you’d like to be. Then introduce you to some new and different approaches to leading, so you can find the right combination for you and how to put this into practice.

Judy Rees and Margaret Meyer

Judy Rees is a co-author of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds, and co-owner of Clean Change Company. A former news reporter and media company manager, she encountered Clean Language while studying part-time for a Masters degree, and was struck by its potential for business application. She has since been instrumental in highlighting many new applications of Clean Language.

Session: Clean and the language of influence: the persuasive power of metaphor

Metaphors, whether as stories and anecdotes, hypnotic language, advertisements, or art, can bypass the everyday critical faculties and enable us to change our behaviour. What is the relationship between these kinds of persuasive metaphors and Clean Language, which takes pride in not influencing? In this session we will explore that relationship and our personal boundaries for ‘staying Clean’.

Caitlin Walker is a director of Training Attention Ltd, leading the field in the application of Clean Language and Systemic Modelling to the private, public and educational sectors. Together with Nancy Doyle she is rigorous in evaluating the impact and sustainability of clean interventions across the community and to being an example of the values they’d like to experience in the world.

Session: From Drama to Karma

What do you do when you don’t get what you want? This session will clarify some typical drama reactions to ‘problem situations’ and offer simple, effective, ‘clean’ responses. Then you’ll have an opportunity to Karma some of your own personal or professional Dramas.What will participants get from the session? (40 words max) .This fusion of Transactional Analysis, clean questions and systemic modelling is the bedrock of Training Attention’s rigorous methodology. This simple model can be applied individually or organisationally. Once learned, you can use it to align your behavours with your values and address even the most difficult relationships from an ‘I’m ok, you’re ok’ position

Marian Way & Phil Swallow

Clean coaches Marian Way and Phil Swallow work together as trainers and on other projects. They regularly use Clean Language, Clean Space and Symbolic Modelling to assist in the design of workshop activities, training manuals and websites. They have also worked with clients to help them come up with company names, new workshop ideas, material for books and so on.

Session: Get Creative with Clean

How can Clean help you design a workshop or website, create a business brand, write a book – or bring any other creative venture to fruition? During this session, itself created using Clean, we’ll share some fun, effective ways to do this via a practical demonstration and some real-life examples – and you’ll get to try out the process yourself.

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Clean Conference presenters: Overseas presenters

Judy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:25 +0000

With such a wide range of presenters at Clean Conference 2009, it’s a real challenge to categorise their biographies and session summaries into groups for easy reading!

Therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, I have divided them into the following groups, with plenty of overlap:

‘Overseas presenters’ are listed below.

Lynne Bullock (France)

Lynne Burney has a Master Coach Credential with the International Coach Federation, was a founding member of the Société Française de Coaching and founded the LKB School of Coaching in February 2000. She taught her first class in CLEAN Coaching to trained coaches in Marseille last year and is continuing the work in Paris this year. She shared the “Normandie Salons” with David, Jennifer and the “femmes fatales” over a period of 5 years. While the Clean processes have had an enormous influence on her coaching work she has also explored in some depth the systemic representational work coming out of Germany. She brings these two strains together in this workshop.

Session: When Clean meets Constellation in Coaching

Gina Campbell, MEd., from Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is a developmental counselor, a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator, and a Certified Clean Facilitator. Gina has been facilitating individual clients in person and by phone using Symbolic Modeling since 2003. She offers experiential workshops and training in Symbolic Modeling and Clean Language. Gina is a certified National Board for Certified Counsellors CEU provider and recent past president of the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy.

Session: Mining Your Metaphors

Gina Campbell introduces the basics of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. You’ll learn why we use metaphors, why we stay ‘clean’, and how change happens. Gina enlivens her presentation with plenty of stories of her counselling clients’ metaphors. She’ll offer a demonstration with a volunteer, and an opportunity for you to briefly facilitate and be facilitated by a partner.

Jennifer de Gandt and Lynn Bullock (France)

Jennifer de Gandt first introduced Clean to France in 2000 after working closely with David Grove, Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. She has over 40 years experience as a Trainer, Coach and Therapist. Lynn Bullock, a Feldenkrais Practitioner specialising in vision and perception, is also trained in Clean Processes and Symbolic Modelling and has worked with David’s Emergent Knowledge.

Session: Metaphor and Movement

Tania Korsak’s research and practice explores three developmental lines: cognitive, physical and psychological. She values a heuristic approach, i.e. a way of solving problems by exploring past sensations related to developmental stages moving by trial and error to a resolution.

Session: A Polynesian journey through childhood

Life is a journey! For David Grove it was a Polynesian journey! How to ride the currents and brave the storms of life’s destination-s?

Peter Y. Rangelov (Bulgaria)

Peter is a general practitioner and homeopath who practices medicine and psychotherapy in Moscow, Munich, New York, San Francisco, and many other places around the world. For the past 13 years, he has been developing a holistic approach that integrates scientiﬁc medicine, natural healing, psychotherapy, and spiritual healing.

Session: Clean Language Application for Mac and iPhone

Introducing a first Clean Language application for Mac, which gives structure to the session and helps navigate through a detailed framework for change, acting as a dynamic reference point for the work. 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.

Dena Robins-Deckel (Israel)

For 20 years created and performed children’s shows throughout Israel. 10 years ago entered the world of NLP becoming a certified Trainer at NLPU. Three years ago, together with 3 partners, opened a centre for studying NLP in Israel called NLPPLUS. Have also a private practice. Body work always being of importance, studied Rio Abierto, a method originating in Argentina which combines music, movement, massage, and visualization. Conduct a group which meets once a month combining the various disciplines in “Clean NLP in Motion.”

Session: Clean NLP in Motion

This session will be devoted to creating a resource state that can be of value and later available in one’s daily life. The very concept of resource will be investigated through movement, gradually creating an organic personal resource metaphor through the discovery of the rhythm and scope of the movement. Also to be explored will be how to can stay in one’s own metaphor and at the same time belong to and enrich the group experience. The experience of Clean NLP in Motion really needs to be experienced to understand. In the words of Isadora Duncan: “If I could explain it I wouldn’t have to dance it.”

Annemiek van Helsdingen (Netherlands)

Annemiek van Helsdingen has worked in the UK and Holland as a facilitator, trainer, coach and consultant for over 10 years. She works with managers, organisations and teams to help them make the changes they want, and get the results they want. Modelling individuals and groups cleanly is a basic attitude underlying almost everything she does.

Session: Towards shared reality

Experience a robust way to model experience across (large) groups, while feeding back the information in a way that enables shared sense-making and actioning. Originally developed by Stefan Ouboter, this session shares the results of a modelling project that presents the essence and track-record of this Clean Methodology. Applications include marketing research, (large scale) evaluations as well as change projects.

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Conference presenters: Personal development, NLP and psychotherapy

Judy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:09 +0000

With such a wide range of presenters at Clean Conference 2009, it’s a real challenge to categorise their biographies and session summaries into groups for easy reading!

Therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, I have divided them into the following groups, with plenty of overlap:

‘Personal development, NLP and psychotherapy’ sessions’ are listed below.

Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, authors of Metaphors in Mind and creators of Symbolic Modelling

Session: “I can’t see my legs from here” — A Symbolic Modeller’s Perspective

A modeller has to make a key decision: What perspective am I going to model from? NLP has identified three modelling perspectives: 1st, 2nd and 3rd position. We discovered that David Grove was using a different perspective which we incorporated into Symbolic Modelling. More recently Ken Wilber has expanded his quadrant model to include something similar as one of his 8 fundamental perspectives. In this presentation you will have a chance to experience a range of modelling perspectives, and in particular, how to adopt the primary perspective of a Symbolic Modeller.

Gina Campbell (USA)

Session: Mining Your Metaphors

Philip Harland is a practising psychotherapist, a leading exponent of Clean Language and the Power of Six, and a researcher into Emergent Knowledge. He worked closely with David Grove, co-facilitated clients with him in the UK and New Zealand, and has written a book, ‘The Joy of Six’, that they planned together.

Session: Clean and Emergent

Tania Korsak (Belgium)

Session: A Polynesian journey through childhood

Life is a journey! For David Grove it was a Polynesian journey! How to ride the currents and brave the storms of life’s destination-s?

John Martin retired from the Open University in 2005. A neo-Reichian training in the 1970s led to a role as a creativity trainer and an interest in imagery work. Preparation of an OU video on this in 2000 led to contact with Caitlin Walker and with Clean. John has been a member of the Clean Language Research Group since 2004.

Session: How others have worked with ‘metaphor landscapes’

‘Metaphor landscape’ work existed for at least a century before Grove’s methods appeared. Though not ‘clean’, the techniques were effective and awareness of them can enrich your understanding of the ‘language’ of internal representation, even if you choose not to make use of them. I will draw particularly on Shorr’s very comprehensive ‘Psychotherapy Through Imagery’ (1983).

Dena Robins-Deckel (Israel)

Session: Clean NLP in Motion

Steven Saunders

Steven is a genuine innovator across engineering products, business process and human development; having collaborated closely with David Grove in its development, he is presently spreading emergence worldwide through business partnering arrangements, and training trainers in emergence to manage worldwide demand.

Session: Story Busting

Two of the pillars of David Grove’s work were: working with the “symptoms” to help them do their job, and avoiding the “tyranny of the narrative”, where the client’s story takes over; one of the main reasons for creating Grovian Metaphor Therapy. I show how to work WITH the story for it to complete, without tyranny and with amazing ease.

Richard Stacey and Caitlin Walker

Richard Stacey draws on extensive training with David Grove, Ernest Rossi and Joseph Riggio, Caitlin Walker contributes her exquisite skills of verbal and non-verbal pattern recognition.

Session: From here, anything is possible – working with Embodied Awareness

We think with our whole bodies, not just with our minds. In this session you’ll explore the physiological and kinaesthetic aspects of being at your best. Using clean attention you will elicit the body sensations that underlie a state from which anything is possible.

Margaret Meyer and Norman Vaughton

Session: Memories, metaphors and reflections: Norman Vaughton on David Grove

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Clean Conference presenters: space and body work

Judy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:28:25 +0000

With such a wide range of presenters at Clean Conference 2009, it’s a real challenge to categorise their biographies and session summaries into groups for easy reading!

Therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, I have divided them into the following groups, with plenty of overlap:

‘Space and body work’ sessions are listed below.

Jennifer de Gandt and Lynn Bullock (France)

Jennifer and Lynn work in Clean and Emergent Trainings to give participants a double perspective of their mental and physical patterns and habits. They will be sharing with you the themes they use to give facilitators this double mind-body perspective:
• “Knowing what I am doing so enhancing awareness of my client’s doing.”
• “Perceiving differences: simultaneous awareness of body sensations and mental perceptual shifts.”

Philip Harland is a practising psychotherapist, a leading exponent of Clean Language and the Power of Six, and a researcher into Emergent Knowledge. He worked closely with David Grove, co-facilitated clients with him in the UK and New Zealand, and has written a book, ‘The Joy of Six’, that they planned together.

Session: Clean and Emergent

Experience the complete range of ‘Clean’ in one simple session. David Grove told me he thought this process was “such an amazing discovery, so amazingly, blindingly obvious, yet we missed it all these years.” The exercise combines Clean Language, Clean Space, Therapeutic Metaphor, Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six in one seamless procedure aimed at relieving or resolving a physical or psychological symptom.

Nigel and Jenny Heath have spent two years researching and developing a model for relationship coaching. Building on the shoulders of giants like John Gottman and David Grove, they have added their own composition of life skills, Clean, NLP and other techniques, which they use in their relationship coaching practice in the New Forest.

Session: Clean Space meets the Four Horseman of Relationships

Session: Clean NLP in Motion

Richard Stacey draws on extensive training with David Grove, Ernest Rossi and Joseph Riggio, Caitlin Walker contributes her exquisite skills of verbal and non-verbal pattern recognition.

Session: From here, anything is possible – working with Embodied Awareness

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Clean Conference FAQs

Judy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:12 +0000

Where and when is the conference being held?

University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY, on the weekend of 12 and 13 September 2009.

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.

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

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?

The conference fee includes two full days of activities (approx 9.30am to 5.30pm), including a buffet lunch on both days and tea and coffee at breaks. Please bring your own drinking water.

What happens in the evening?

There are no official evening events but groups of participants are likely to organise informal meals together on the Saturday evening.

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.

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Clean Conference testimonials 2008

Judy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:51:26 +0000

“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

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Clean Conference 2009

Judy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:44:38 +0000

Just 12 months ago, we were in the final run-up to the very first Clean Conference. Little did we know how successful it would prove to be! It attracted presenters and delegates from all over the world and generated a massive buzz. Book now

This year’s Conference takes place on the weekend of 12 and 13 September, and the list of presenters is now available here.

Once again we have a fantastic line-up, including presenters from the USA, Israel and Bulgaria as well as France, Holland, Belgium and across the UK. Whether you are newly curious about Clean and want to discover what all the excitement is about, have done some learning and want to develop your skills, or you are an expert in the field, there’s something here for you.

Top names include:

Penny Tompkins and James Lawley

Wendy Sullivan

Caitlin Walker

Marian Way and Phil Swallow

Angela Dunbar and Carol Wilson

Lynne Cooper

Michael Mallows

Steve Saunders

Judy Rees

Gina Campbell

and many, many more.

“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.” 2008 Participant David Leeper

Our venue is in central London, close to Euston main line station. The University of London Union in Malet Street enables us to locate all three streams of parallel sessions close together. We have level access, a lift and other convenient facilities, and there are plenty of hotels and a Youth Hostel close by.

We’ve also included lunch in the price, to encourage the informal networking which delegates found so valuable last time. And a wide range of books and other publications will be available from the bookstall, provided by Anglo American Books.

You can:

Enjoy your first experience of Clean
Discover the latest developments in this fast-moving field
Meet and learn from the biggest names
Debate and discuss with specialist trainers, consultants and coaches
Experiment with new applications.

“It was 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.” 2008 participant Jane Turner

The cost for the whole weekend is still only £199 - amazing value, as you’ll probably agree.

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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Video testimonials for Clean Change Summer School

Judy — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:02:27 +0000

Eddy’s video testimonial

Ceila’s video testimonial

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