Clean Language Articles
Book review: Business NLP For Dummies by Lynne Cooper
Want a straightforward, practical book to help you make a start with NLP? If you work in any kind of business or organisation, this one fits the bill. All the most useful concepts and activities from the world of NLP are here, potted into neat bite-sized pieces. And,...
Can you give me some examples of Clean Language applications?
There are almost as many applications of Clean Language as there are people using it! Clean Language is a very flexible way of working, which combines well with other tools and techniques in a huge range of contexts. Personal change The most common example of Clean...
Can I explore images of organisations with Clean Language?
One of the ways Clean Language is used in business is to help groups to develop shared images of organisations. This is particularly useful when a company’s board of directors, for example, wants to become clearer about its shared mission, vision and strategy....
What is Clean Language?
Clean Language uses the metaphors which underpin our thinking to facilitate powerful and lasting change. It’s a great way to align your head, heart and gut – to harness the power of your unconscious mind to work towards the life you desire. Metaphors have a profound...
What does Clean Language actually do?
When used well, Clean Language brings into awareness information held outside the client’s everyday consciousness, in the realm of metaphor. Both client and facilitator use this to create their own dynamic models of whatever’s going on for the client, which in turn...
What was David Grove actually like?
I wasn’t a close friend of his, but I was lucky enough to interview David Grove, creator of Clean Language, at the NLP Conference in November 2005 at the very beginning of my own journey with Clean. It was the first interview he’d given since 1996, and I was fresh...
Influencing skills for call centre professionals
Members of the Professional Planning Forum, an independent industry body, are involved in resourcing the call centres of large, often blue-chip organisations, making sure staff are available round the clock to respond to customers’ calls. To do their job effectively...
What’s different about Clean Language coaching?
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...
What exactly is Clean Space?
One of the most fascinating aspects of Clean Language facilitation is what it reveals about the role of space in our mental processing. As you use the Clean Language questions to find out about a client’s inner world, you’ll discover that most metaphoric symbols (as...
