The Developing Group
A comprehensive list of all the topics presented between 2001 and 2022.
10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes more
How exploring and fully acknowledging a client’s current reality can spontaneously lead to insight and change.
I want the children to be alive
How we honoured and worked with a client’s desire for children who were killed during a rocket attack the night before to still be alive.
I am the Owner of my Head!
Working with a highly stable but unwanted symbol that has “the smell of hell” and spiritual aspects such as “soul” and a “previous life”.
A Fire that’s Good Enough
Annotated transcript of session with a Ukrainian psychologist
A Double Bind waiting for change
A complex session because the structure of the client’s inner world manifested as a double binding pattern.
I am freedom and I am independence
How to work with a symbol that prevents the client’s desired outcome from happening.
Finding Words in a Spiral Galaxy
How do you tell a chld his father has been killed in war?
From Pain to Calm Clear Sky
Even duing ongoing suffering, a valuable resource metaphor and several perspective-changing realisations emerge.
Starting to Feel the Movement of Life
Third annotated transcript of a demonstration of Symbolic Modelling using Clean Language with Ukrainian psychologists and psychotherapists.
Coping with Un-safety
Demonstration of how to use the Problem-Remedy-Outcome (PRO) model to facilitate a client to identify and develop a rich embodied experience of a desired Outcome.
A Journey with Whales
A transcript of facilitating a client who is living through traumatic circumstances to develop a resource metaphor using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling.
Learning from transcripts
Two ways we use transcripts for professional development: To model experienced facilitators; and to provide supervisory and developmental feedback to self and others
Questioning Clean Language questions:
Examining what happens when small variations are introduced into the ‘standard’ Clean Language question set
Saying ‘No’ to Self
How to cleanly facilitate people to self-restrain – when they have the desire to act in a way they would rather not?
Polishing the mirror of reflective practice
A model of effective reflective practice including both physical and perceptual contexts.
Calibration and Evaluation – 3 years on
As a coach, how aware are you of how your client and an expert would evaluate a coaching session? Does knowing your client and an expert’s opinion affect your own evaluation?
The leader-follower dynamic
Leader, leading, leadership. Follower, following, but not follower-ship; why not?
Solution Focus through a Clean lens
Identifying similarities and differences between SFBT and Symbolic Modelling enabled each approach to be enhanced by the other
Deconstructing Feedback
This paper raises awareness of both the complexity of the feedback-giving process and the range of information that can be included in feedback.
Foreward to ‘Clean Approaches for Coaches’
Our endorsement of Marian Way’s book about how to create the conditions for change using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling.
What’s in a Name?
All words are labels for experience, and every label slants our thinking in some way, we examine the effect of labelling on experience.
A Clean framework for change
A fully-formed stand-alone clean coaching process we used up to 2010.
The Clean Community
The clean community is a ‘community of practice’. Such communities are created by people gravitating to like-minded people who have a passion for something they do, the desire to learn how to do it better, and the motivation to interact regularly.
Clean evaluative interviewing
Using Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language as a research method to gather information through interviews about how coachees evaluate being coached.
Accepting Acceptance
What difference does it makes to the potential for change when people truly accept their current reality from an authentic, deep and cellular state of being?
Clean Language Revisited
How our model of David Grove’s Clean Language has undergone revisions since our first article in 1997.
Symbolic Modelling in Education
How Symbolic Modelling came into being and ways it is being applied in education. First published in New Learning, Issue 8.