Clean Language was originally devised as a therapeutic process by the late David Grove. He was a counselling psychologist, working therapeutically with trauma victims such as Vietnam veterans and sexual abuse survivors. In workshops, he presented his ideas to...
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...
Clean Language was originally devised by the therapist, David Grove. He discovered that as clients explored their internal metaphoric worlds, they reported that the symbols seemed to change and transform of their own accord, resulting in healing of the issues they...
As a matter of principle, a Clean Language facilitator 'keeps himself out of the process', giving centre stage to the client's language, the client's metaphors, the client's content. So people new to the Clean process are often curious about how it could possibly be...
Writing in 1998 about the philosophy and principles of Clean Language, David Grove wrote that the role of a Clean Language facilitator was to ‘visit the client’s model of the world, and unfold solutions that are conducted within the language and logical boundaries of...
If you’ve been wondering about how to use Clean Language in coaching, then a new book, Essential Life Coaching Skills by Angela Dunbar, may help you. Due to be published by Routledge at the end of August, the book promises a comprehensive guide to the complete range...
Clean Language and coaching principles sit well together. And so unsurprisingly, the approach has been endorsed by many of the UK’s leading coaching experts such as Max Landsberg and Professor David Clutterbuck. Max Landsberg, author of The Tao of Coaching, former...
You're the star of your own show, so make the most of yourself! Clean Change can help you do just that. By using Clean Language questions we'll help you to uncover useful resources which may be masked in everyday life. For example, have you ever had a hunch or...
"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...
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, he’s found new optimism, new energy...
Hans-Peter Wellke writes: I had a one-day one-2-one coaching with a client. At the very beginning he asked me, "Are you able to coach yourself with your own coaching tools?" I said, "No, I use paid coaches like you, and in my network of coaches we coach each other."...
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...
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