Category: Clean Language

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What makes a question contextually clean in coaching and therapy? What is the value of these questions? Under what conditions does it makes sense to ask such a question?
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Why is ‘And when X, what happens to Y?’ such a versatile question?
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'Clean Language' has been used in many ways since David Grove coined the term in the early 1980s. This is my attempt at defining and contextualising it.
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How to recognise and respond with Clean Language to a client's Problem, Remedy or a desired Outcome. Published in 'Coach the Coach'.
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Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in 'Therapy Today'.
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How our model of David Grove's Clean Language has undergone revisions since our first article in 1997.
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Once we accept that we always affect a person with whom we interact, we can also realise that there are many ways to avoid clumsily trampling over another’s map and even attempting to re-write it for them.
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Using Clean Language to facilitate change through clients' metaphors. Published in Anchor Point
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How to use your voice and body to utilise clients use of space, their body and non-verbal sounds. Published in 'Rapport'
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A summary of a 1998 talk where David Grove discusses 14 principles of Clean Language.
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The first article describing a new way to model subjective experience. Published in 'Rapport'.
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Our first article about David Grove's extraordinary innovation. Published in 'Rapport'.
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Our first interview with David Grove, the creator of Clean Language. Published in Rapport.