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Category: Symbolic Modelling

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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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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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Modelling in the symbolic domain

Introducing David Grove, the field of Clean, modelling excellence, Symbolic Modelling, metaphor and a client case.
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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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Ten questions and answers about Symbolic Modelling

Our answers to ten questions raised by a group of Ukrainian psychologists and psychotherapists in preparation for our first workshop with them.
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Going live

When a client is aware of what they are experiencing ‘in the now’, they get direct, high-quality information for self-modelling as it is happening.
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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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What do you say before you say goodbye?

How to use the end of a coaching or therapy session to maximise the benefit to the client.
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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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What do you know about Symbolic Modelling?

15 questions to assess the degree to which.participants have acquired our model of facilitating.
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What facilitators tend to do too early

The second 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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Theoretical underpinnings of Symbolic Modelling

The third draft of a summary of the theories behind the practice of Symbolic Modelling
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Metaphor, the body, and healing

Working with physical symptoms. the body as metaphor and a case study. Published in The CAPA Quarterly, 2011.
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Contraindications for Symbolic Modelling

Are certain client populations not suited to Symbolic Modelling?
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‘If only God would give us a sign’

The vital role of clients' meta-comments (verbal or nonverbal expressions refering to what has just been experienced) in Symbolic Modelling. Published in 'Acuity'.
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Attending to Salience

What we pay attention to in a client session that: (1) guides our line of questioning, and (2) gives the session its sense of directional flow.
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Coaching for P.R.O.’s

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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The Ethics of Change Work

John Grinder discusses what's ethical in NLP and what's not. We add our comments from a 'clean' perspective.
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Steve Andreas on Symbolic Modelling

Extract from Six Blind Elephants: Understanding ourselves and each other with extensive comments by James Lawley.
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Metaphor & Symbolic Modelling for coaches

How and why Symbolic Modelling works, the structure of a session and a case history. Published in Coach the Coach
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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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Metaphors of Organisation – Part 2

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

Highlighting some of the relationships with Neuro-Semantics.
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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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Symbolic Modelling: An overview

The first article describing a new way to model subjective experience. Published in 'Rapport'.
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