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What’s different about Clean Language coaching?

Judy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:39:32 +0000

Like other coaching approaches, Clean Language coaching is outcomes-focused, with an emphasis on getting clients to set their own goals, writes Clean Language coach Margaret Meyer. But unlike some other coaching approaches, this is done by asking questions – the simple but powerful Clean Language questions, which are used to gather ...

Brave inner worlds that lead to the top

Judy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:14:11 +0000

Writing in 1998 about the philosophy and principles of Clean Language, David Grove wrote that the role of a Clean Language facilitator was to ‘visit the client’s model of the world, and unfold solutions that are conducted within the language and logical boundaries of that world’. What Grove was referring to was the inner world everyone ...

New book by Clean Language coaching enthusiast

Judy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:19:27 +0000

If you’ve been wondering about how to use Clean Language in coaching, then a new book, Essential Life Coaching Skills by Angela Dunbar, may help you. Due to be published by Routledge at the end of August, the book promises a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach. And coming from ...

Leading coaches endorse Clean Language

Judy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:39:10 +0000

Clean Language and coaching principles sit well together. And so unsurprisingly, the approach has been endorsed by many of the UK’s leading coaching experts such as Max Landsberg and Professor David Clutterbuck. Max Landsberg, author of The Tao of Coaching, former partner at McKinsey & Co, and Partner at Heidrick & Struggles said: ...

Concrete and cornfields – a beginner’s Clean success story

Judy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:00:25 +0000

“I had an executive coaching client recently who was in good spirits but rushing around all over the place. She described herself as ‘in danger of being a busy fool’ and could not see how to take control. “Using Clean Language, we looked at her situation and a wonderful landscape emerged with cornfields and blue skies ...

New energy for IT man from Clean Language coaching

Judy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:24:29 +0000

IT consultant Matthew Dodwell was unhappy with the way his career was going: so unhappy that he was hoping to escape from the industry and do something completely different. But after a series of Clean Language coaching sessions with Judy Rees, he’s found new optimism, new energy and a new direction. He explained, “I’d got myself stuck, ...

Case study: Clean Language unlocked my pent-up business energy

Judy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:21:21 +0000

Steve Preston, a career development coach specialising in redundancy outplacement and career change, found his business life transformed by a short Clean Language session with colleague Mary Casson. He explained: “I suddenly had much greater focus. I had had balls in the air all over the place, but after the session everything started to ...

Getting clear in Whitehall

Clean Change Company — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:58:06 +0000

Ken Smith, head of Learning and Development at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in Whitehall, has completed Modules 1-4 of our Clean training programme. He offered this example of how he used his skills at work. "One of my team had reached a time when he wanted to move on to something new. He wanted some clarity on what this ...

Symbolically modelling IBS

Clean Change Company — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:02:12 +0000

By Angela Dunbar, June 2008 My first coaching session with G. was pretty straightforward. We agreed to work together over 6 monthly sessions, and G. set 3 goals: To get more structure into her life (including fitness and social activities) To take better care of her partner, children and home To get a part-time job. We talked a while about ...

A Walk In The Park

Clean Change Company — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:08:52 +0000

Coach Cathy Foster says: “I have a client who is frequently ill and waiting for a big operation. She can’t be anywhere as near active as she normally is, and gets very down. “One day she was fed up with being stuck in her flat and very tired, so I asked her to come on a virtual walk with me over the phone using Clean ...