Welcome to our Clean Collection!

Penny, David and James, 2003
Our purpose for this site 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. Transferring them all to the new-style website has taken some time, but we are almost there.

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’.

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:

Also we have compiled a list of over 130 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 during the transfer, please let us know via the Contact page. We’d appreciate your help.

Penny Tompkins and James Lawley