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.
Self-Deception, Self-Delusion, Self-Denial
How we cling to misleading beliefs when deep down we know them to be untrue
Self-Organising Complex-Adaptive Systems
A preparatory paper for the facilitation over four days by the ‘Clean Team’ of a Large Group Metaphor Process for 80 members of The Findhorn Community
It’s happening now!
Part 6 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
A developmental perspective
Part 5 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
Clean Space
The first description of David Grove’s shift to a physical self-organising process. Published in ‘Anchor Point’.
Levels
Part 4 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
Multiple perceptions, perspectives and perceivers
Part 3 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
Context matters
Part 2 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
Constructivism
Part 1 of the philosophy underpinning Symbolic Modelling.
Endings and beginnings
Thoughts and activities on a universal way of punctuating experience into starts and finishes.
Utilising autogenic metaphor
How to make use of your symbolic resources
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).
Metonymy
Part-whole relationships – a process fundamental to language and cognition.
Mind, Metaphor and Health
How to recognise and work within a metaphor to activate an individual’s personal healing process. Published in Positive Health.
Modelling dynamic equilibrium
What it is, why it matters and how to make use of the idea of stability through change.
Perspectives to model by
Where and how we perceive makes a difference to what we perceive. Where do Symbolic Modeller’s perceive from?
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’.
Metaphors of Organisation – Part 1
Describes Gareth Morgan’s use of metaphor to analyse and facilitate 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. Published in New Learning.
Metaphors in Mind: A case study
Using Clean Language to facilitate change through clients’ metaphors. Published in Anchor Point
Learning Metaphors
A practical approach to understanding students by noting and using their metaphors. Published in the SEAL Journal.
Symbolic Modelling in Education
How Symbolic Modelling came into being and ways it is being applied in education. Published in New Learning.
Modelling the structure of binds and double binds
Describes four ‘prototypical binds’, ‘double binds’ and a process for facilitating clients to transform their binds. Published in Rapport 47.
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
Symbolic Modelling and the Emergence of Background Knowledge
How to model background structures using embodied metaphor schema. First published in ‘Rapport’.
Symbolic Modelling: An overview
The first article describing a new way to model subjective experience.
Published in ‘Rapport’.
The application of metaprograms in the classroom
Presented at the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group Conference, 1995. Published in Rapport, 37.
Meta, Milton and Metaphor
Sensory and abstract are different kinds of subjective experience and there is a third kind not coded by Bandler and Grinder.
Less is More … The Art of Clean Language
Our first article about David Grove’s extraordinary innovation. Published in ‘Rapport’.
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.
And … what kind of a man is David Grove?
Our first interview with David Grove, the creator of Clean Language. Published in Rapport.
The most successful NLP Practice group in the world?
How the London NLP group built a self-organising community.
Your thinking virtually creates your reality
Living out of the two most fundamental NLP Presuppositions. Published in Rapport, 20.