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# 2 Listening to Each Other
In this 2nd edition of the Clean Learning Pocast, I'm joined by NLP Trainer, Coach, Certified Clean Facilitator and Intuition expert, Bev Martin. Bev lives and works in Portland, Oregon, USA and four years ago she asked if I would run a Clean Language training there. I took up the challenge and have been back every year since. In the first part of the show we cover a wide range of topics, including: how Bev and her friend got started by reading "Metaphors in MInd"; how she has since…
Posted on 09 Jan 2012 by Marian Way in Podcasts
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Clean Language is like… Origami
Metaphor is to the human mind what folding is to science.
Everything is made of folds - the earth, our DNA, illness and health in the folding and unfolding of protein molecules, the human brain, our clothes, the folding and unfolding of our memories, metaphors and dreams ...
A few weeks ago, as I was watching a documentary about origami (Between the Folds by Vanessa Gould) I found myself thinking about Clean Language, what it means to me, my experiences with it and how I have formed a…
Posted on 22 Nov 2011 by Sharon Small in Clean Language, Creativity, Metaphor
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A Common Vocabulary?
Last week a friend sent me a link to a discussion on TED - the ‘good ideas’ website - where leading lexicographer Erin McKean posed the question:
How important is a common vocabulary for sharing ideas, and how do we arrive at one?
Do we need to all be "on the same page" to have productive conversations? Do we have to use the same language or talk about ideas in the same way? What are some examples of vocabulary that's divisive, rather than helpful?
Unfortunately by the time I clicked…Posted on 11 Nov 2011 by Marian Way in Clean Language
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As or When?
At our practice group meeting on Monday we focussed on the syntax of Clean Language and in particular, the use of 'as' and 'when'.
There are three parts to a Clean Language question. First of all, we acknowledge what the other person has said by repeating some, or all, of their words, prefaced by the word 'and'. Secondly, we pick out a word, phrase or gesture to direct their attention to and do so by saying, "And when... [client's word(s)]" or "And as... [client's word(s)]". Finally we ask a clean question.
Posted on 19 Oct 2011 by Marian Way in Practice Group
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#1 A Good Clean Laugh
In this first episode of the Clean Learning Podcast, listen to an interview with laughter coach, Lisa Sturge. She describes what attracted her to Clean Language and how she uses it in her coaching, her business and with her family. And in the second half of the show, I ask Lisa some clean questions about her laughter.
Lisa helps people to laugh and works with schools and organisations as well as individuals to help them create more laughter every day. She describes it as 'a joyous way…
Posted on 11 Aug 2011 by Marian Way in Podcasts
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Weight Loss: If at First You Don’t Succeed…
…do you try again, or give up? If change is hard, do you see it through, however long it takes, or do you compromise on what you really want? There are plenty of stories about how one or two Clean Language sessions radically changed someone’s life. And what about all the sessions that gave someone a fantastic insight or two, but which did not result in the desired behavioural change?
My story is about losing weight. Not based on a single flash of inspiration, but with repeated attempts – and Clean Language sessions - over a long period of time, each of which has moved me forward in my quest to eat in a healthy way for good. After five years of accumulated learning, I believe I am now finally doing this.
Posted on 05 Aug 2011 by Charlotte Ellis in Client Stories, Health, Metaphor, Outcomes
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Just Three Questions - and Similar Rules
We created the format for this month’s practice session by asking everyone at the start of the meeting, “What would you like to have happen?” And while some people said they would like non-specific practice in pairs, a few of us had read a note from James Lawley on the LinkedIn Clean Facilitators in Business group, in which he suggested some practice exercises from the www.cleanlanguage.co.uk website. He says:
“There is something about restricting practice to a specific skill that seems to accelerate learning. Counter-intuitively, creativity and learning often thrive on constraints. For a start, Clean Language is a itself a huge constraint on the facilitator. Often the bigger the constraint the more learning, e.g. see how long you can keep going using just one of the Clean Language questions.”
Posted on 25 Jul 2011 by Marian Way in Practice Group
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Exploring Nominalisations With Clean Language
This is an account of a session I ran at NLP South in July 2011. Their theme for the year is "The Map is Not the Territory" - and I decided that a nominalisation is a good example of this...
We started with the ‘five senses’ activity devised by Caitlin Walker, exploring differences in people’s perceptions of the following: see an elephant; hear an alarm; smell smoke; taste a lemon; feel velvet
Elephant, alarm, smoke, lemon and velvet are all nouns. They are things we can sense – see, hear, smell, taste, feel. Each of them can be put into a wheelbarrow. And yet our experiences of these things are all different, and so our representations of them are all different. And not only that, the way we make those representations differs too.
Posted on 15 Jul 2011 by Marian Way in Clean Language, NLP
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