Using Clean | - Part 2

Case study: Leadership skills

GlaxoSmithKline approached Wendy Sullivan to design a customized course for all employees with managerial or support functions to develop their key leadership skills. Intervention A customized, two-day interactive training course was designed and has been run on average twice a year since 1999. Using a range of tools for professional and ...

Concrete and cornfields – a beginner’s Clean success story

“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

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: Analyst’s Clean questions save 34-million Euro project

Roland Hill*, a business analyst for Dutch IT specialists IPROFS, used Clean Language to reveal a number of misunderstandings which could have caused the collapse of an 34.9 million-Euro project involving financial institutions across Europe. He joined the project after the functionality of the new computer system had apparently been agreed. ...

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

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 ...

Case study: Preparing a strategy workshop

A business wanted higher quality from its major supplier, and had agreed to hold a joint workshop involving representatives from both companies. Certified Clean facilitator Hans-Peter Wellke was called in by the meeting organiser as a catalyst and facilitator to accelerate his thinking process as he planned the joint event. Hans-Peter asked: ...

Using Clean with groups

Working with groups is a deep and rich topic – and an area in which Clean is developing quickly. Here’a an idea to whet your appetite, based on the Metaphors@Work process devised by Training Attention. One way in which Clean is used with groups is in team alignment events, to help a team come up with a shared metaphor for working well ...

Getting clear in Whitehall

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

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

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 ...

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