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If you have all the basics of Clean Language and Clean Space, (about 10 days of training), then your next step could be to join our Advanced Modules.  For the first time ever we intend running the first of the advanced modules, Module 5, by Skype, it will consist of 8 weeks of course material, with some reading, a recorded teaching session, an interactive Skype call, and practice group activities (some of them with trainer feedback) each week.

The entire training will be covered remotely.  Usually, all you will need for the interactive calls is an up-to-date version of Skype (free to download), and perhaps a headset with a mic.  Occasionally we may use webcams too.  For your practice group sessions, you may use a webcam more often, and this may mean that at least one person in your practice group will need a subscription to Skype to allow you all to see all the webcams, if you have a group of 3 people.  Such a subscription isn’t expensive.

In Module 5 you will:

• Step back to see the bigger picture, exploring fundamental models of human perception, development and growth and how they relate to Clean facilitation
• Learn to direct your Clean questions to specific details with pinpoint accuracy – or to use them to encompass entire landscapes
• Practice using metaphors of scales, hierarchies, levels and thresholds to take your facilitation skills to another level
• Gain tools to help clients escape stuck states
• Learn a useful response to clients’ endless explanations
• Beyond the Framework for Change, discover another six approaches to facilitating  change when it doesn’t happen on its own
• Explore ‘REPRO’, broadening your grasp of the nature of clients’ ‘stuff’ and your ability to work fruitfully with groups and individuals

In more detail, there will be:

• 8 recorded teaching sessions (in MP3 format, lasting about an hour).  This allows you to listen to the content more than once if you wish to.
• 8 interactive Skype calls lasting about 2 hours. These calls are used for questions and discussion about the recorded teaching content, and for demos and group activities. Sometimes we may split into smaller groups to do an activity, each group led by a trainer or assistant.  Assistants are very experienced Clean facilitators who have a wealth of Clean experience.
• 8 sets of pre-work/ practice activities
• about 1 –  1 ¾  hours facilitating/being facilitated in a small practice group of 2 or 3 people (depending upon numbers, and upon times that participants are available.  Working across different time zones can make it tricky to get three people together, and so the prac  groups may consist of you and one other.)  A trainer or  assistant will listen in to 3 practice group sessions.
• up to about an hour of other activities such as reading the handout manual,  perhaps analysing a transcript, going through a worksheet-type exercise etc .

The course will be run over 9 weeks as there is a week’s break in the middle.  This break does not coincide with the UK school half-term holiday but you could catch up if you miss a session: see below.

It is possible to miss an interactive session, and to make up a missed practice group session: we record the interactive calls and put them, along with the recorded teaching sessions and the pre-work/practice activities up on our online Academy, so that anyone who has missed one can listen later (and those who attended can listen again if they wish to).  The times/dates on which the practice groups meet is up to the groups themselves to arrange, so you can plan those sessions around the availability of the group members.

Dates & time of interactive calls:

All calls are 7pm UK Time

Oct  19 and 26

Nov 2, 9, 23 and 30 (no session on 16^th)

Dec 7, 14

The course is led by Wendy Sullivan, co-author of Clean Language: revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds,  but this time Penny Tompkins and James Lawley have agreed to have a role on this training.  The exact nature of their input is still to be agreed and it may only take shape as the training progresses, but you can expect the benefit of having them involved to some extent.  I would be very surprised if they were to be involved every week, and their involvement is best regarded as an extra bonus, rather than as part of the official plan.

What some of the participants on the last Module 5 (in person) said:

‘I feel I am receiving world class training’ DS

‘There is a coherent flow of stepped building/learning.  Great stuff.’  Ian Crawford

‘Really high quality training – the brain-ache at the end of each day was well worth it!!’ Tamsin Hartley

‘It is bringing my clean understanding to another level – it’s very rewarding… I understand it more subtley now. ..  I think I’ve got to a new place in terms of observing the play between two people – how much one can affect the other out of one’s own consciousness unless you are really awake.’ Emily Walker

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