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. >>> To read the full article click here

Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees (2008) Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds, Crown House, Carmarthen, 205 pages >>> To read the full article click here

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. >>> To read the full article click here

Teacher Julie McCracken was working in the playground when two six-year-olds came running up to her, hurt, upset and angry. She used her Clean Language training to resolve the dispute. >>> To read the full article click here

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. >>> To read the full article click here

All our courses appeal to people who like to challenge, think and integrate new learning. Don’t attend if you prefer to be “sheep-dipped”! >>> To read the full article click here

Metaphors are very powerful. They bundle a lot of information into a small package, and make the conceptual more tangible. >>> To read the full article click here

There are a number of reasons you might want to elicit a person’s metaphors. >>> To read the full article click here

1. Because it turns out to be the most effective way of bringing a person’s unconscious metaphors ‘to life’, to consciousness. >>> To read the full article click here

It started with Clean Language – a set of simple, powerful questions that were developed by therapist David Grove during the 1980s and ‘90s. >>> To read the full article click here

The originator of Clean Language, David Grove, was an NLP Master Practitioner before he went off to become a clinical psychologist and originally, his meaning of ‘clean’ was presumably the same as the NLP one - the intention to use only the client’s words etc. >>> To read the full article click here

When used well, it brings into awareness information held outside the client’s everyday consciousness, in the realm of metaphor. >>> To read the full article click here

Clean Language uses the metaphors which underpin our thinking to facilitate powerful and lasting change. >>> To read the full article click here

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. >>> To read the full article click here

By Angela Dunbar, June 2008 >>> To read the full article click here

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. >>> To read the full article click here

A 13-year-old boy was aggressive and sometimes violent, liable to ‘explode’ without warning in the classroom or playground. He was among a group of teenagers, all in danger of being excluded from their school in Derby, who were sent to independent learning consultant Pamela Hadfield for six hours over six weeks in an attempt to salvage the situation. >>> To read the full article click here

Amicas case study: South East London Shared Services Partnership >>> To read the full article click here

As team members explore their metaphors for the team, their work or any shared goal, they start to relate to each other in a different way. There’s a new sense of what it is like for the other members. There are often knock-on benefits outside the team too, as team members take their awareness of metaphor and Clean into other work situations and beyond. >>> To read the full article click here

Clean Language is a questioning technique which can form a bridge between the right and left brains, by using the metaphors which underpin our thinking. >>> To read the full article click here

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By Angela Dunbar, coaching Christine Compton >>> To read the full article click here

One of Wendy’s clients, Paul, wanted to be able to develop a long-term relationship with a woman and settle down with her. He discovered that he ‘put on a fantastic dressing up costume’ so that a potential partner wouldn’t see the real him and be put off by ways in which he wasn’t perfect. >>> To read the full article click here

Amicas case study: National Audit Office >>> To read the full article click here

by Ken Smith, October 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

Martin Roemer from Munich, Germany was asked by a colleague for help to develop a structure for the management book he is about to write. >>> To read the full article click here

Situation >>> To read the full article click here

By Michael Mallows, May 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

Clean Summer School, Cambridge 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

Situation >>> To read the full article click here

By Judy Rees >>> To read the full article click here

This is an animated transcript of a short exchange between James Lawley and a training participant. James uses Clean Language questions and the participant’s own words to facilitate the other’s exploration of their metaphor, with surprising results. >>> To read the full article click here

From The Times, October 21, 2006 >>> To read the full article click here

By Judy Rees, for The Model magazine, Christmas 2006 >>> To read the full article click here

Situation >>> To read the full article click here

by Phil Swallow and Wendy Sullivan >>> To read the full article click here

Coach Jane Malyon had a client who had super-fast behaviour in every respect: driving at breakneck speed – he had written off two cars in two years - talking so fast it sounded like a foreign language, using drugs to boost his muscle-gaining speed in the gym etc. Just being with him for a few minutes felt a bit exhausting! >>> To read the full article click here

by Judy Rees >>> To read the full article click here

In our March newsletter we mentioned a blogger who claimed ‘Clean Language is easy enough to learn in five minutes’, and asked what you thought. >>> To read the full article click here

by Judy Rees, February 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

by Wendy Sullivan and Marian Way >>> To read the full article click here

Lorenza Clifford, learning and development consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers said:
"We run a two-day senior manager benchmarking and development planning event that is innovative in its design. >>> To read the full article click here

by Ken Smith >>> To read the full article click here

By Judy Rees >>> To read the full article click here

By Philip Harland >>> To read the full article click here

Annemiek van Helsdingen runs a programme on stress prevention in Holland which uses Clean in various ways. >>> To read the full article click here

A Siemens department of eight people who were responsible for organising sports and gymnastics to keep managers fit and healthy hired Hans-Peter Wellke to deliver a strategic workshop to help them create a motivational corporate identity. >>> To read the full article click here

by Judy Rees, July 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

Recommended reading on the importance of metaphor in thought. >>> To read the full article click here

by Judy Rees, first published in ICM Journal, December 2007 >>> To read the full article click here

Teacher Julie McCracken uses Clean both in the classroom and in the playground with her five-, six- and seven-year-old charges. >>> To read the full article click here

Wendy carried out an NHS project exploring how clinicians, skilled in relating well to patients, do what they do. She found they had metaphors that unconsciously guided them, for example being a ‘chameleon’ blending into the patient’s world, or conducting a ‘South East Asian business meeting’ (conversation, doing business, further conversation). >>> To read the full article click here

Weight Watchers Leaders are learning how to use Clean Language principles to motivate members to lose weight. Members have just a few minutes of the leader’s personal attention each week, so the organisation wanted to discover the fastest, most effective way to make a real difference. >>> To read the full article click here

Martin Snoddon uses Clean in his post-conflict reconciliation work in some of the world’s toughest hot-spots - Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Serbia. >>> To read the full article click here

by Judy Rees, first published in Resource magazine February 2008 >>> To read the full article click here

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