Using Clean Language can be a spectacularly effective way to create deep rapport with another person. The Clean Language questions compel you to listen carefully to what the other person says, so that you can use their exact words in your questions. This...
As we explained in this article, although Clean Language is a stand-alone change/coaching/therapy technique, it can be combined very effectively with NLP techniques. And that applies not just at the basic level - some of the most advanced NLP practitioners are very...
Many practitioners of Neuro-Linguistic Programming combine Clean Language with their other tools for helping people to change: the two approaches are highly complementary. This can be done in two main ways: by using Clean Language and NLP in separate sessions, and by...
No! Well, not very like, anyway. Both are questioning techniques, and both can be used to help people clarify things. There the similarity ends. For while the meta-model is typically used to challenge the way people perceive the world, Clean Language aims to...
This is one of the ways in which Clean Language is rather different from NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming). NLP pays particular attention to the representational systems (also known as sensory modalities or VAKOG) being used by a client. When they think about a...
There's definitely a relationship between Clean Language and NLP, but the precise nature of it is debatable. Is it a subset of NLP, or a separate field? In 2006, on the one occasion I interviewed David Grove, the creator of Clean Language, he told me that he had been...
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