Fear of who I would be

‘A victim’ is a perspective on a situation which can develop into a perspective on life. The question is, do we also have the choice to be other-than-a-victim?

A New Year’s gift

A ‘thought experiment’ to appreciate more or to be more grateful for someone or something in your life.

The dieter’s paradox

A new study which concludes that weight-conscious individuals are likely to believe in “negative calories”. But do they really?

Thinking is simulation

Cognitive scientists believe the brain simulates experience from the past in order to make sense of the world today, how does that influences who we think are?

‘If only God would give us a sign’

The vital role of clients’ meta-comments (verbal or nonverbal expressions refering to what has just been experienced) in Symbolic Modelling. Published in ‘Acuity’.

Huh? – Shifting frames

We examine what happens when someone is asked a question within one frame and their answer appears to come from a different frame.

Clean Space revisited

With the benefit of hindsight and seven years of experience and experimenting, we thought it was time to revisit our first 2003 model.

Embodied Schema

Modelling embodied scema will give you something like ‘second sight’ into the organisation of a person’s psychescape (their interior, subjective world), leading to the more precise use of Clean Language.

Attending to Salience

What we pay attention to in a client session that: (1) guides our line of questioning, and (2) gives the session its sense of directional flow.

Black Swan Logic

Exploring how ideas from The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb relate to working cleanly.

The neurobiology of space

Quotes from, and comments on, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel

Outcome Orientation

How desired outcomes can act as “dynamic reference points” for each and every thing the therapist does and says.

Modelling Conflict

How to think about and model the systemic nature of this kind of relationship

Coaching with Metaphor

Together metaphor and Clean Language are ideal for working with out-of-the-ordinary problems and high-level goals. Published in Cutting Edge Coaching Techniques Handbook

Thinking Networks II

Part 1 of how to think about the emergence of networks,, what they look like, and how they evolve.

Coaching for P.R.O.’s

How to recognise and respond with Clean Language to a client’s Problem, Remedy or a desired Outcome. Published in ‘Coach the Coach’.

The Ethics of Change Work

John Grinder discusses what’s ethical in NLP and what’s not. We add our comments from a ‘clean’ perspective.

When ‘Where’ Matters

Once a space becomes psychoactive a person is ‘living in their metaphor’. A joined-up model of how David Grove’s work invokes the psychoactivity of spatial relations in therapeutic and in other settings.

Feedback Loops

10 principles to support you to think systemically rather then linearly – an advanced mindset for working cleanly with human self-organising systems.

Thinking Networks I

Part 1 of how to think about networks: their emergence, what they look like, and how they evolve.

BIG FISH in a small pond

Scaling – How people use metaphor to assess the relative size or extent of an experience – how to model it, and what happens when you change the scale of things to come.

Clean Space

The first description of David Grove’s shift to a physical self-organising process. Published in ‘Anchor Point’.

A model of musing

How would you work with a client who says “”I want to stop going into blank”? Published in Anchor Point, 16(5).

Mind, Metaphor and Health

How to recognise and work within a metaphor to activate an individual’s personal healing process. Published in Positive Health.

The Magic of Metaphor

Learning to use your personal metaphors and symbols in order to read and understand your own symbology. Published in the ‘Carolyn Myss Newsletter’.

What is Emergence?

How to think in terms of ’emergence’, a fundamental feature of the dynamics of self-organising systems

Metaphors of Organisation – Part 2

Describes a new approach using client-generated metaphors to facilitate individual and organisational change. Published in ‘Effective Consulting’.

Conversing with Metaphor

Teachers with exquisite rapport skills listen very carefully to their student’s metaphors, dialoging within the logic or frame of the metaphor. First published in New Learning, Issue 9, Spring 2001.

Learning Metaphors

A practical approach to understanding students by noting and using their metaphors. First published in the SEAL Journal.

Clean Language Without Words

How to use your voice and body to utilise clients use of space, their body and non-verbal sounds. Published in ‘Rapport’

Introducing Modelling to Organisations

What is this thing called NLP modelling? A checklist of preparatory considerations and an overview of the five stages of a modelling project. Published in Rapport 40

Vision is not black and white

How a case from Oliver Sacks’ An Anthropologist on Mars can enrich the NLP model, and an NLP perspective can make sense of the functioning of the brain. Published in Rapport, 34.