Category: Metaphor

Embodying others’ metaphors

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?

November 2014

Cutting Edge Metaphors

How developments in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive linguistics related to metaphor can be relevant to a surgeon.

September 2012

Metaphors we think with

Five experiments about how metaphors influence the way that we reason.

October 2011

Metaphor as mistake

How 'mistakes' can be an accidental authentic acts of symbolising.

June 2011

The secret life of metaphor

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

February 2011

Coaching with Metaphor

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

September 2006

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.

January 2006

Using metaphors with coaching

Metaphors in everyday language are a 'key' to deciphering our unconscious wisdom. Published, Bulletin of the Association for Coaching.

October 2005

Tangled spaghetti in my head

Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in 'Therapy Today'.

October 2005

Utilising autogenic metaphor

How to make use of your symbolic resources

October 2002

Mind, Metaphor and Health

How to recognise and work within a metaphor to activate an individual’s personal healing process. Published in Positive Health.

July 2002

How to create a ‘clean’ company

A 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference workshop held in Prague, October 2001, for a strongly multi-cultural audience.

June 2002

The Magic of Metaphor

Learning to use your personal metaphors and symbols in order to read and understand your own symbology. Published in the 'Carolyn Myss Newsletter'.

March 2002

Metaphors of Organisation – Part 2

Describes a new approach using client-generated metaphors to facilitate individual and organisational change. Published in 'Effective Consulting'.

November 2001

Metaphors of Organisation – Part 1

Describes Gareth Morgan's use of metaphor to analyse and facilitate organisational change. Published in 'Effective Consulting'.

September 2001

Learning Metaphors

A practical approach to understanding students by noting and using their metaphors. First published in the SEAL Journal.

December 2000