Resources, embodied metaphor and Clean Language
How we facilitate clients to recognise, access, develop and enhance personal resources – qualities that can be drawn on to respond more effectively to difficult circumstances.
Introducing Clean Language
How Clean Language questions embody the principles and spirit of a clean approach.
Modelling in the symbolic domain
Introducing David Grove, the field of Clean, modelling excellence, Symbolic Modelling, metaphor and a client case.
Going live
When a client is aware of what they are experiencing ‘in the now’, they get direct, high-quality information for self-modelling as it is happening.
The ‘When … what happens to …?’ question
Why is ‘And when X, what happens to Y?’ such a versatile question?
It’s about time
Why it is vital to model the timeframes, structures and evidence of a client’s desires.
Getting to ‘it’
How do experienced symbolic modellers use the information embedded in a client’s first words to guide the direction of a session?
Embodying others’ metaphors
Metaphor is a prime vehicle for the acquisition of knowledge, tacit or otherwise. But how do we ‘acquire’ or ‘take on’ or ‘incorporate’ metaphors that are not our own?
What do you say before you say goodbye?
How to use the end of a coaching or therapy session to maximise the benefit to the client.
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.
Applying cross-domain thinking
Domain dependence and it’s inverse, cross-domain thinking, occur in many different guises. We have collected ideas from a range of contexts.
REPROCess: Modelling attention
A new, simple, way to model where people are placing their attention. Published in ‘Acuity’.
Between a rock and a hard place
Defines three kinds of problem, and describes how to work with client problems involving ‘binding patterns’.
Inhibition
Nine functions of inhibition, how it affects learning and the body, and 12 activities exploring the value and problems of inhibition.
Symbolic Modelling Lite
Introduces the ‘lite’ version of our general method. Published as Chapter 4 of Innovations in NLP.
Metaphor, the body, and healing
Working with physical symptoms. the body as metaphor and a case study. Published in The CAPA Quarterly Issue1, 2011.
‘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’.
Modelling the written word
How to model text with a clean and metaphor perspective.
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.
Modelling Robert Dilts modelling
This report describes both the product of our modelling ‘Selecting what is essential’ and the process by which we arrived at our model.
Appendix to Modelling Robert Dilts modelling
Source material for the modelling project.
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
A window into the organisation of a person’s subjective world and a doorway into precise 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.
Vectoring and systemic outcome orientation
How excellent facilitators and therapists know how to navigate elegantly through a client’s information.
Maximising Serendipity: A systemic approach to change
A six-stage model of how to benefit by utilising unexpexted, unpredictable and random events.
Black Swan Logic
Exploring how ideas from The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb relate to working cleanly.
Iteration, Iteration, Iteration
Explains why this special kind of nonlinear process is so important in therapy and coaching – and life.
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
How to do a modelling project
A summary of our 25 years experience conducting full-scale modelling projects.
Modelling: Top-down and Bottom-up
Examines two types of modelling and lists some principles for applying bottom-up modelling
Thinking Networks II
Part 1 of how to think about the emergence of networks,, what they look like, and how they evolve.
Paying attention to what they’re paying attention
How we came up with our ‘Perceiver, Perceived, Relationship between, in a Context’ model – and its multiple uses.
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.
Tangled spaghetti in my head
Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in ‘Therapy Today’.
Feedback Loops
10 principles to support you to think systemically rather then linearly – an advanced mindset for working cleanly with human self-organising systems.
When and How to Use ‘when’ and ‘as’
Investigating how ‘when’ or ‘as’ (and other words) can be used to enhance the effectiveness of questions by framing the context
Thinking Networks I
Part 1 of how to think about networks: their emergence, what they look like, and how they evolve.
Learning to act from what you know to be true
Guidance on what you can do once you acknowledge you have been self-deceiving
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
Clean Space
The first description of David Grove’s shift to a physical self-organising process. Published in ‘Anchor Point’.
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).
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 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. 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’
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’.
Less is More … The Art of Clean Language
Our first article about David Grove’s extraordinary innovation. Published in ‘Rapport’.
And … what kind of a man is David Grove?
Our first interview with David Grove, the creator of Clean Language. Published in Rapport.