Category: Metaphor

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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?
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How developments in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive linguistics related to metaphor can be relevant to a surgeon.
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Five experiments about how metaphors influence the way that we reason.
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How 'mistakes' can be an accidental authentic acts of symbolising.
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James Geary's personal reflections on metaphor and his first Symbolic Modelling session. First published in Ode Magazine.
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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
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We can help individuals recover from trauma by learning to communicate with them using their metaphorical language.
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Metaphors in everyday language are a 'key' to deciphering our unconscious wisdom. Published, Bulletin of the Association for Coaching.
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Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in 'Therapy Today'.
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How to make use of your symbolic resources
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How to recognise and work within a metaphor to activate an individual’s personal healing process. Published in Positive Health.
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A 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference workshop held in Prague, October 2001, for a strongly multi-cultural audience.
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Learning to use your personal metaphors and symbols in order to read and understand your own symbology. Published in the 'Carolyn Myss Newsletter'.
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Describes a new approach using client-generated metaphors to facilitate individual and organisational change. Published in 'Effective Consulting'.
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Describes Gareth Morgan's use of metaphor to analyse and facilitate organisational change. Published in 'Effective Consulting'.
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A practical approach to understanding students by noting and using their metaphors. Published in the SEAL Journal.