List of transcripts with Ukrainian therapists
Links to annotated demonstrations of Symbolic Modelling with Clean Language
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Context makes Clean clean
What makes a question contextually clean in coaching and therapy? What is the value of these questions? Under what conditions does it makes sense to ask such a question?
Evaluating Coaching
A full transcript of Clean Language Interviewing (CLI) in action. The annotation focusses on the process of interviewing with Clean Language, rather than the interviewee’s content.
The secret ingredients of AWWYLTHH?
My answer to: When you ask ‘And what would you like to have happen?’ it has a different effect to when I ask it. What is the secret ingredient in how you ask this question?
Publications using David Grove’s ideas
List of articles published in academic and professional journals that have incorporated the ideas of David Grove.
Do we want agency over our inner signals?
The case of a client who wanted to be able to ‘light the match’ and ‘decide and do’ at will.
Ten questions and answers about Symbolic Modelling
Our answers to ten questions raised by a group of Ukrainian psychologists and psychotherapists in preparation for our first workshop with them.
Origin and Development of the Cleanness Rating
A review of the key dates in the development of the cleanness rating used in Clean Language Interviewing
The evolution of the Problem-Remedy-Outcome (PRO) model
The history of the invaluable PRO model with explanatory diagrams.
I want a clean house
A transcript of Penny Tompkins facilitating with Symbolic Modelling using the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and working ‘live’ with the client’s here-and-now embodied experience.
Steve Andreas on ‘What would you like to have happen?’
A leader in the field of NLP comments on the standard opening Clean Language question, and my reply.
Choosing a modelling project
I was asked: (a) what a modelling outcome should look like, and (b) what I mean by: Scope, Timescale and Presupposition.
A modeller’s perspective
An investigation of an under-reserached aspect of modelling – the perspective adopted by the modeller when modelling an exemplar for an ability or behaviour.
I don’t know what I want
Given Symbolic Modelling is an outcome orientated methodology, what if a client cannot identify a desired outcome?
Facilitator choices
A conversation with Maarten Aalberse about ‘The Tree of Wisdom’ video in my last blog.
The Tree of Wisdom
When a client comes for coaching or therapy with a topic that presents a conundrum, what do you?
Pointing to a New Modelling Perspective
Examines why physical and attentional pointing is a perfect metaphor for Symbolic Modelling. Published in ‘Acuity’.
Difficulties Modelling David Grove
Answers to: 1. How long after you started modelling David Grove did you start training others?; 2. What were your main difficulties in modelling David Grove?
What are Double Binds?
Double binds defined and why “Be spontaneous!” and “Damned if I do and damned if I don’t” are not examples of double binds.