Category: Models Theory

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.

January 2025

Mapping Clean applications on to Wilber’s quadrants

The intersection of Ken Wilber’s quadrants model and Clean applications.

December 2024

The evolution of the Problem-Remedy-Outcome (PRO) model

The history of the invaluable PRO model with explanatory diagrams.

February 2020

It’s about time

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

July 2016

Deconstructing Feedback

This paper raises awareness of both the complexity of the feedback-giving process and the range of information that can be included in feedback.

July 2013

Applying cross-domain thinking

Domain dependence and it’s inverse, cross-domain thinking, occur in many different guises. We have collected ideas from a range of contexts.

May 2013

What are Double Binds?

Double binds defined and why “Be spontaneous!” and “Damned if I do and damned if I don’t” are not examples of double binds.

March 2013

REPROCess: Modelling attention

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

December 2012

Between a rock and a hard place

Defines three kinds of problem, and describes how to work with client problems involving ‘binding patterns’.

October 2012

More good DEEDS

My second blog about DEEDS delves deeper into the ideas which pose an alternative to the standard computational theory of mind.

August 2012

DEEDS: Putting minds back together

A cognitive science in which brain, body and world intertwine “beyond-the-skin”.

August 2012

Inhibition

Nine functions of inhibition, how it affects learning and the body, and 12 activities exploring the value and problems of inhibition.

July 2012

Making complex decisions rapidly

How do humans sum up a complex situation and rapidly decide what action to take?

March 2012

The chaotic nature of the reorganisation process

Does emergent change always create a desired rather than a less desired result?

February 2012

Theoretical underpinnings of Symbolic Modelling

The third draft of a summary of the theories behind the practice of Symbolic Modelling

June 2011

Metaphors of Movement & Symbolic Modelling

Discussions with Andrew Austin and Steve Andreas with comments by several others

April 2011

Joining up the work of David Grove

How to combine the three main phases of David Grove's work. Published in Acuity.

April 2011

Huh? – Shifting frames

We examine what happens when someone is asked a question within one frame and their answer appears to come from a different frame.

June 2010

Embodied Schema

A window into the organisation of a person's subjective world and a doorway into precise Clean Language.

June 2009

Vectoring and systemic outcome orientation

How excellent facilitators and therapists know how to navigate elegantly through a client’s information.

October 2008

Maximising Serendipity: A systemic approach to change

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

June 2008

Black Swan Logic

Exploring how ideas from The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb relate to working cleanly.

April 2008

The neurobiology of space

Quotes from, and comments on, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel

August 2007

Outcome Orientation

How desired outcomes can act as "dynamic reference points" for each and every thing the therapist does and says.

February 2007

Iteration, Iteration, Iteration

Explains why this special kind of nonlinear process is so important in therapy and coaching – and life.

February 2007

Proximity and Meaning

The significance of adjacency, next to-ness, how to recognise it and how to work with it for ourselves and our clients.

December 2006

Modelling Conflict

How to think about and model the systemic nature of this kind of relationship

October 2006

Thinking Networks II

Part 1 of how to think about the emergence of networks,, what they look like, and how they evolve.

June 2006

Becausation

Using Aristotle's four causes and a Cognitive Linguist metaphorical perspective to model causation.

April 2006

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.

February 2006

Once a space becomes psychoactive a person is ‘living in their metaphor’. A joined-up model of how David Grove's work invokes the psychoactivity of spatial relations in therapeutic and in other settings.

January 2006

Feedback Loops

10 principles to support you to think systemically rather then linearly – an advanced mindset for working cleanly with human self-organising systems.

June 2005

Thinking Networks I

Part 1 of how to think about networks: their emergence, what they look like, and how they evolve.

June 2004

Learning to act from what you know to be true

Guidance on what you can do once you acknowledge you have been self-deceiving

April 2004

BIG FISH in a small pond

Scaling - How people use metaphor to assess the relative size or extent of an experience – how to model it, and what happens when you change the scale of things to come.