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List of transcripts with Ukrainian therapists

Links to annotated demonstrations of Symbolic Modelling with Clean Language
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Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy and Clean Language

This paper explores the encounter between the Focusing and Clean Language therapeutic approaches, highlighting their points of convergence and divergence, as well as their theoretical and practical compatibility.
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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.
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When to model a problem

27 situations when I consider facilitating a person or group to self-model a problem:
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Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling in Psychotherapy

An interview with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, translated into Russian by Maria Demidyuk, and published in the online journal Atenor.
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Saying ‘No’ to Self

How to cleanly facilitate people to self-restrain – when they have the desire to act in a way they would rather not?
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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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Solution Focus through a Clean lens

Identifying similarities and differences between SFBT and Symbolic Modelling enabled each approach to be enhanced by the other
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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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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.
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Maximising Serendipity for Personal Change

First published in the SerenA newsletter whose aim is "to transform research processes by proactively creating surprising connection opportunities."
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Between a rock and a hard place

Defines three kinds of problem, and describes how to work with client problems involving ‘binding patterns’.
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Not making decisions for the client

The third of four parts of my general feedback to advanced facilitators.
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Questions I frequently ask facilitators

The first of four parts of my general feedback to advanced facilitators
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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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Addicts, maps and sharp syntax

Penny Tompkins' thoughts on Clean Language's use with addictions.
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When science and spirituality have a beer

Video of a Symbolic Modelling session in English & French, and annotated transcript with seven Indicators of a binding patten.
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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 Other Therapeutic Relationship

As well as 'the' therapeutic relationship between client and facilitator, the relationship between the client and themselves is just as important.
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Clients who dismiss their metaphors as fantasy

How to work with someone who can develop rich metaphors for their desired outcomes but later dismisses them as only fantasy.
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Modelling how to act from what you know to be true

How to act from what you know to be true when you don't know how to, or you’re frightened of the consequences
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Accepting Acceptance

What difference does it makes to the potential for change when people truly accept their current reality from an authentic, deep and cellular state of being?
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What is Therapeutic Modelling?

The similarities and differences between therapeutic and product modelling. Published in ReSource 8
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The role of metaphor in recovery from trauma

We can help individuals recover from trauma by learning to communicate with them using their metaphorical language.
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When the Remedy is the Problem

How attempts at solving a problem can perpetuate or exacerbate that problem or create another problem.
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Tangled spaghetti in my head

Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in 'Therapy Today'.
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Learning to act from what you know to be true

Guidance on what you can do once you acknowledge you have been self-deceiving
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Self-Deception, Self-Delusion, Self-Denial

How we cling to misleading beliefs when deep down we know them to be untrue
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Use of images and Symbolic Modelling with torture survivors

A case study of working with a Kurd whose life has been marked by regular instances of detention and violence at the hands of authorities.
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Polished Verse

An interview with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley by the editor of the New Therapist.
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Metaphors in Mind: A case study

Using Clean Language to facilitate change through clients' metaphors. Published in Anchor Point
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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.
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Persist with Clean Language

A therapist and client describe their experience of Clean Language and Grovian Metaphor Therapy
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Problem Resolution through Metaphor Therapy

Problems exist within four realms. Each provide information guiding to a solution that is just right for the problem.