Category: Applications

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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.
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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
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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?
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I Don’t Know What I Want

Given Symbolic Modelling is an outcome orientated methodology, what if a client cannot identify a desired outcome?
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The Tree of Wisdom

When a client comes for coaching or therapy with a topic that presents a conundrum, what do you?
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Macabre Metaphors

"And what would you like to have happen now?" "I want to go back down the hole and pick up the dead bodies there." Bob's affect was at once intense and deeply sorrowful. What would you do next?
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Cutting Edge Metaphors

Reviews developments in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive linguistics related to metaphor and how this might be relevant to a surgeon.
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Symbolic Modelling Lite

Introduces the 'lite' version of our general method. Published as Chapter 4 of 'Innovations in NLP'.
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Calibrating whether what you are doing is working or not

How facilitators calibrate when “it’s working” and when it’s not. Definitions, considerations, assumptions and an annotated transcript.
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The secret life of metaphor

James Geary's personal reflections on metaphor and his first Symbolic Modelling session. First published in Ode Magazine.
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