Clean Summer School, Cambridge 2007

We did it! Above, happy but exhausted participants, assistants, trainers and assessors celebrate the end of their gruelling intensive Clean course at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

Some in the Clean Community were sceptical when Clean Change Company announced this event. Could it be done? All four foundation-level modules, plus assessment and certification, in a single, non-stop block?

It seems that it could - thanks to hard work by everyone concerned. And a new crop of 17 Certified Clean Facilitators have been unleashed on the world as a result.

A key reason for staging the event was to enable people from outside the UK to experience Clean Change Company’s training led by Wendy Sullivan. In the end, eight countries and four continents were represented at the event.

Despite a mixture of backgrounds, the group was soon working well together. There was no time for much else, since practice sessions continued well into each evening! Wendy in particular seemed to be working round the clock to keep the training running smoothly.

All that meant that by the time Penny Tompkins and James Lawley arrived for the two days of assessment, the group was ready to match the high standards set at other Certification events this year.

Ten-year-old Amanda Stanton-Nelson became probably the youngest person ever to have formal training in Clean, attending the first four days of the Summer School and reaching an impressive level of skill. Look out for more news of her in the future, as we predict she’ll go far.

Many thanks from the Clean Change Company to everybody involved in making this event such a success. And if you’d like to join us next year, please get in touch! Judy Rees

What they said…

"In all honesty I have not been involved in anything so challenging, thought provoking and vision enhancing as the last few days doing Clean Language.  It certainly was a skill changing experience and I am going to be putting the process into action as soon as possible." Summer School 2007 participant Pamela Hadfield, UK

"Thank you for a wonderful experience. Moving from nervous questioning to joyful curiosity was great.

"I am so pleased that you and Wendy went ahead with the summer school. It has added so much more to my understanding of clean and the environment seemed to push us all along so easily. Congratulations on a wonderful job.

"I am already studying the schedule for modules 5-8 in 2008 and wondering how I’ll get there.

"Before committing to the summer school, I had expressed uncertainty about the effectiveness of Clean as a change agent as I had little personal experience of it. Well, I am now convinced. I think the breakthrough for me was when we did the ‘enacting the metaphor’ exercise. As a client I started off with a picture, from a previous session, of a baby eagle on a cliff top needing to learn to fly. When I ended that earlier session I didn’t see how I was going to convince that birdy to jump. The enacting changed all that. I gathered so much information by being that chick that flying off became completely natural." Summer School 2007 participant Rasjad Johnson, Australia

What they did…

Fun and games

Riverside speed Clean

Venue: St Catherine’s College, Cambridge

Some rare time off

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This entry was posted on Thursday 28 August 2008 and is filed under Event Reports.

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