Welcome
Clean Language was developed in the 1980s by David Grove to alleviate traumatic memories, by repeating a client's words back and asking a series of questions which would elicit metaphors and develop them with the least possible influence from the practitioner. David discovered that when people describe their experiences in metaphor they can move through a traumatic memory and resolve the effects more quickly and easily than by conventional therapeutic methods.
David went on to explore spatial remedies, literally moving clients around to gain insight from different perspectives, and in 2005 developed Emergent Knowledge, based on Clean Language, metaphor, spatial questioning and the new science of Emergence. He worked with Carol Wilson, co-founding Clean Coaching to translate his techniques into methods that can be used safely by coaches and other practitioners with no training in therapy.
For 25 years David's work has been breaking new frontiers and coaches have found his techniques effective in reducing blocks and phobias that hold their clients back. Clean techniques bear similarities to coaching in that they are 100% client led and make frequent use of the practice of reflecting back clients’ words.
David passed away in January this year and Carol continues his work with our Chief Course Director, Angela Dunbar, a qualified Clean Language practitioner who delivers Clean Language training at Oxford Brookes University.
Click the links below for further details on:
Our corporate in-house courses
"Let your intuition be your guide" - David Grove 1950-2008
STOP PRESS.............FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA
'Metaphors in Mind' - The Workshop
31 Jan - 2 Feb 2009 in Sydney
Find out why Harvard Professor and cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker says: "A book on psychotherapy called Metaphors in Mind calls on therapists to work with their patients’ metaphors like: 'I have a sensitive radar for insults' and 'I’m trapped behind a door'." The Stuff of Thought (2007).
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, authors of Metaphors in Mind and developers of Symbolic Modelling, will be in Sydney early next year giving a 3-day workshop based on the ground-breaking work of David Grove.
Please visit http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/articles/pages/Australia-Workshop-2009.html for full details. Then if you have further questions feel free to contact Zannie Barrett in England, or Judy Baker in Sydney (details below).
If you have any friends and associates interested in Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling and the role of metaphor in the change process, please pass this information on to them.
Zannie Barrett
The Developing Company
OZ@cleanlanguage.co.uk
+44 (0)845 3 31 35 31 (UK office hours)
or
Judy Baker, Sydney
judith.leila@yahoo.com.au
+ 61 2 9518 5325
New! Free Audio recording now available of David Grove himself describing the Clean Coaching process.
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David Grove's Clean Coaching
featuring Emergent Knowledge
