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Welcome to our Clean Collection!
Our purpose is to provide a record of the continual development of the field originated by David Grove – in particular, applications of Clean Language, metaphor and Symbolic Modelling.
We created the original website in 1997 and it accumulated nearly 400 articles, blogs and resource pages since then.
Newly created and published
Clean Language Principles
Read about the process a group of Leaders in Clean went through to arrive at four principles for when a person is ‘being clean’.
Newly founded
International Clean Language Association
Supporting and connecting Clean Language practitioners and enthusiasts worldwide. We welcome those who are students, practitioners, trainers, researchers and the simply curious. Whether you are new to Clean Language or have decades of experience, there is a place for you here.
Are you new to Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling?
These three articles give an up-to-date introduction to our work:
Introducing Clean Language
Modelling in the symbolic domain
Resources, embodied metaphor and Clean Language
And here are some more introductory articles about particular applications:
- Coaching: Coaching with Metaphor
- Therapy: Tangled Spaghetti in My Head
- Health: The Mind, Metaphor and Health
- Education: Learning Metaphors
- Business: Metaphors of Organisation
Also we have compiled a list of over 150 articles published in academic and professional journals that have incorporated the ideas of David Grove – many available for instant download.
Publications using David Grove’s ideas
And finally, while browsing the site if you come across any errors, typos, and other gremlins that may have crept in, please let us know via the Contact page. We appreciate your help.
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
Recent Articles
A fully-formed Green Man
List of transcripts with Ukrainian psychologists
Bathing in healing waters
Publications using David Grove’s ideas
⼲净语⾔与象征性建模的文章
Latest blog posts
Referencing nonverbals cleanly
Throwing the adjective off the noun
Zen and the art of bottom-up modelling
Mapping Clean applications on to Wilber’s quadrants
Pulling time back cleanly
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