I recently discovered a blog that claimed “You can learn Clean Language in five minutes!” The anonymous author said he’d got great results with Clean, just from reading the questions online. I can relate to that: I remember that when I first came across the Clean Language questions and started experimenting, without training, I found they would uncover new levels of information for whoever I was working with. Then I trained with Wendy Sullivan and my eyes were opened again - what I’d thought were great results were just the merest glimpses of what was possible using this amazing approach.

Now I’m wondering, whereabouts are you on your Clean journey? What do you make of the ‘five minutes’ claim? Do drop us an email and let us know! Judy Rees

Success story: Recruiting Cleanly
Cleaning Tip: A-where-ness
Learn Clean Language with Clean Change Company
The Cleanest Place in France
Clean worldwide: Holland leads the way
REPRO-spective
“Everything Fell Into Place”
Good Question! Free book chapter

Success story: Recruiting Cleanly
Management consultant Will Izzard has been using Clean in recruitment interviews. He said: “I co-interviewed a candidate with a rather sceptical friend of mine, and I didn’t want to risk alienating her with a very obvious-sounding technique, so I went for a very gentle approach. And here is the true power of Clean. Even with just a few “What kind of…?” questions and a couple of “Is there a relationship…” ones, my colleague was genuinely taken aback with the depth of information I’d managed to obtain from the candidate. She proceeded to tell lots of people in our company about how I somehow managed to “magic” amazing and revealing information! “Well of course I was very flattered, but far more impressed with the effect Clean had had on my friend, who has now seen the benefit without knowing what was happening!” Read more of this success story and others here And please send us yours!

Cleaning Tip: A-where-ness
Are you nervous of asking the Clean Language question: “And where is X?” Don’t be! It’s true that it sounds unfamiliar, and so doesn’t trip off the tongue like: “And what kind of X is that X?”
But it can unlock a great deal of information quickly. When a client discovers something new in their metaphor landscape, they may be able to access its location before anything else, and starting by asking them where it is can help them find out more. At a recent London Practice Group meeting we found that increasing the number of ‘where?’ questions to as many as 50% of the total number asked was still helpful - whereas 97% was thought to be too many!
Details of the group’s monthly meetings are here

Learn Clean Language with Clean Change Company
If you’ve tried the ‘five-minute’ approach, or experienced a Clean taster session, you’ve had a hint of the power of Clean Language. Is it time to take your skills to the next level? In four days with Wendy Sullivan and Clean Change Company you’ll have mastered the principles of Clean, the
Clean Language questions, and learned to spot the powerful ‘hidden’ metaphors in everyday language. You’ll be all set to use Clean to guide people as they safely discover new parts of their internal landscapes, bringing information to conscious awareness and unlocking exciting possibilities. That’s perfect for improving understanding in business, setting the stage for improved
communication. And in a coaching session, the process can lead to emergent change which fits perfectly - so it stays changed! Module 1, White Magic and Module 2, Enlightening Change, are on 23-26 April in Richmond, West London. Book now

The Cleanest Place in France
Summer may seem like a long way away but booking confirmations need to be in by Easter (April 5th) to join Penny Tompkins and James Lawley at one or both of the Symbolic Modelling workshops in Normandy, this June 30 - July 7. When else do you have the opportunity to to spend a week with Penny and James in a small group - and in such a beautiful setting? Come as a client, as a facilitator or both. “Of all my amazing training in Symbolic Modelling,
it was at this event last year that I truly grew from acorn to oak tree.” Participant, France July 2006. Read a client’s story from France here. Details of the Symbolic Modelling workshops can be found here (www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/Events-in-France.html).

Clean worldwide: Holland leads the way
A world first - on 9 and 10 May, Annemiek van Helsdingen and Maaike Nooitgedagt are teaching a version of Module 1 in Utrecht, in Dutch. For more information, click here. And there’s more international growth. Clean Change Company’s Summer School in Cambridge, UK, has already seen bookings from as far away as Australia - and looks set to provide a springboard for potential Clean trainers in a number of countries.

REPRO-spective
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley unveiled a new way of thinking about directing a client’s attention during a Module 5 training in Hammersmith recently. The model, called REPRO, takes their Problem, Remedy, Outcome model (studied on Modules 2 and 3 of Clean Change Company’s training) and adds Resources and Explanations to the mix. Expect to hear more about this
in future! Meanwhile, our picture shows the proud ‘parents’ with their ‘baby’. Read a review of Module 5 from coach and hypnotherapist Ken Smith here.

“Everything Fell Into Place”
If your ears prick up and you want to start asking clean questions whenever you hear a distinctive metaphor like this, you’re not alone… In an article of the same name, Marian Way describes how she used clean questions to figure out how her husband managed to stop smoking. Participants on Marian’s new introductory Clean Language training (12 and 13 April, Somerset) will learn how to find out how people change, and with Penny Tompkins on hand for personal coaching, newcomers and ‘old hands’ alike will benefit from this approach to modelling, which includes plenty of skills practice.

Good Question! Free book chapter
We would like to find out about our newsletter readers. Take part in a short (ten-question) online survey and you can download a free copy of Wendy Sullivan’s chapter about Clean Language from the coaching bestseller Good Question! (edited by Judy Barber). Follow this
link to join.

This entry was posted on Wednesday 20 August 2008 and is filed under Newsletter Archive.

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