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Modelling metaphors of force dynamics

Metaphors of force are the second most frequently used metaphors in all languages. We model the subjective dynamics of force, how it affects behaviour and the role it plays in Symbolic Modelling.
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It’s about time

Why it is vital to model the timeframes, structures and evidence of a client’s desires.
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Learning from a Master

Reflections on David Grove's mastery published in Carol Wilson’s The Work and Life of David Grove: Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge
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A modeller’s perspective

An investigation of an under-reserached aspect of modelling – the perspective adopted by the modeller when modelling an exemplar for an ability or behaviour.
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Pointing to a new modelling perspective

Examines why physical and attentional pointing is a perfect metaphor for Symbolic Modelling. Published in 'Acuity'.
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Nobody duped me

How we use a person’s language to model the way they self-deceive.
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Difficulties Modelling David Grove

Answers to: 1. How long after you started modelling David Grove did you start training others?; 2. What were the main difficulties modelling Grove?
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REPROCess: Modelling attention

A new, simple, way to model where people are placing their attention. Published in 'Acuity'.
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Modelling Shared Reality

Introducing Modelling Shared Reality, a new qualitative research methodology which is rooted in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. Published in Kwalon.
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How to start a modelling project

The opening question in an exemplar modelling interview is often hard to keep clean. I offer some tips on how to do it.
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How DO you know?

Modelling criteria: the principles, values or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
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The role of identifying

Experienced Clean facilitators make maximal use of just four fundamental modelling processes.
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Am I visualizing a spatial model?

How I model a client's metaphor landscape during a session.
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What Makes a Modeller?

A discussion with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley about the core skills required of a good modeller. Published in Rapport.
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Modelling the written word

How to model text with a clean and metaphor perspective.
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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.
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Appendix to Modelling Robert Dilts modelling

Source material for the modelling project.
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Embodied Schema

A window into the organisation of a person's subjective world and a doorway into precise Clean Language.
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Maximising Serendipity: A systemic approach to change

A six-stage model of how to benefit by utilising unexpexted, unpredictable and random events.
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Coaching in the moment

A model of Vivian Gladwell's method of in-the-moment directing of trainee improvisational clowns, adapted for developing Symbolic Modelling skills.
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Modelling Conflict

How to think about and model the systemic nature of this kind of relationship
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How to do a modelling project

A summary of our 25 years experience conducting full-scale modelling projects.
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Modelling: Top-down and Bottom-up

Examines two types of modelling and lists some principles for applying bottom-up modelling
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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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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.
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Clean Language in Sport

metaphors give performers greater awareness of their sensory/intuitive processes and provides a language to discuss the previously difficult to describ' processes like: "How to get into the zone".
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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).
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Modelling: A tribute to Simon and David

Acclaim for an exceptional exemplar, Simon Bland, and a master modeller, David Grove. Published in Rapport
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Perspectives to model by

Where and how we perceive makes a difference to what we perceive. Where do Symbolic Modeller's perceive from?
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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
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Symbolic Modelling and the Emergence of Background Knowledge

How to model background structures using embodied metaphor schema. First published in 'Rapport'.
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