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Melting Pot Emerges from 1st Meeting
Practice Group Report
Last night was the first meeting of the new Clean Language Practice Group for the Hampshire and West Sussex area.
Seven people attended and we spent the time asking each other Clean Language questions to determine what kind of group we want to be...
Each person started by telling us what experience of Clean Language they have and what they want to get from belonging to the group. Then they were asked "And what kind of group do you want to belong to?"
Posted on 18 Jun 2007 by Marian Way in Practice Group
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Modelling Change: Giving Up Smoking
Clean Language can be used in many different contexts and for different reasons. For example, you can use it simply to model different aspects of experience. I have always been very interested in how change happens, so decided to use Clean Language to model a change that my husband experienced....
John had been smoking for about 25 years when he first attempted to give up - and he finally managed it about 10 years after that. He tried to give up several times during those ten years - and before his final, successful, attempt, the longest time he'd gone without cigarettes was seven months. Now, eight years after he smoked his last cigarette, John believes he will never light up again; now, it's easy not to smoke.
Posted on 23 Mar 2007 by Marian Way in Modelling
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Creativity is Change
Musing about creativity and wondering what it might be, since it is not a thing, it occurred to me that there are aspects of the creative process that are similar to the process of change in general.
There are, I suppose, many models of change – one that I am familiar with is known to me as ‘The Stages of Change’. James Prochaska, John Norcross and Carlo DiClemente developed this model, identifying 6 stages of changing fully described in their book Changing For Good. Many people find this a useful roadmap in evaluating where they are in the process of making changes. Have a look at this website to get a potted description of the model: http://www.proactive-coach.com/resolutions/theory/index.htm
Posted on 17 Feb 2007 by Phil Swallow in Creativity
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The Kaiser Chiefs’ Creative Process
On Radio 2 this morning, Alex Lester interviewed the Kaiser Chiefs (the inde rock band) about their creative process. It starts with a 'flash of inspiration' which may be a guitar or piano piece or some lyrics. This forms the main body of the song. The group then work together, playing, refining and developing the sound until it either works (i.e. it's sounds like Kaiser Chiefs') or it becomes clear it's not going to work. When it works, it can take just two hours to develop a song from scratch. And yet, even though they were 'desperate to get another album together', it took them almost a year to create their latest album, Yours Truly - eight months to write the songs and seven weeks to record them. when they are not writing they are busy playing and rehearsing.
Posted on 16 Feb 2007 by Marian Way in Creativity, Interviews, Modelling
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Creative / Not Creative
When I am working on the 'technical' bits of this website - choosing colours, getting columns to line up properly in a table, or buying stock photos, for example - I often wonder whether other people would describe the process as 'creative'.
I am a fan of Robert Fritz, author of "Creating" and "The Path of Least Resistance" - and I know that he would definitely consider this to have been a creative process. He describes the need to have a purpose (i.e. in this case, a good looking website) and to set up a tension between that purpose and current reality. To illustrate this, he uses the metaphor of an elastic band stretched between the two and suggests that the creative process is all about reducing that tension, so you gradually make it towards your goal.
Posted on 08 Feb 2007 by Marian Way in Creativity, Metaphor, Modelling
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Diana Orders Up Holiday Sunshine - and Gets It!
When Diana Gibbs jokingly remarked that she’d like some sunshine for her holiday, I (half-jokingly) replied, “OK – let’s give it a go”, and a clean coaching session was set up to explore this outcome…
It transpired that Diana was planning a sailing trip with her husband – except that she wasn’t! With only a month to go, she still hadn’t chartered a yacht – and she was aware that she was putting this off in the hope there’d be no boat available by the time she did get around to it. Then they’d have to do something else instead. But Diana was an experienced skipper and of the two of them was the big enthusiast… So why was she putting this holiday off?
Posted on 09 Nov 2006 by Marian Way in Client Stories
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Headless Chicken Gets to See the Big Picture
Have you ever felt you were behaving like a headless chicken, or as though you were under a big black cloud; have you suffered from jangling nerves or painful tension in your neck and shoulders?
If you are one of the estimated five million people in this country who suffer from work-related stress, it’s likely that you can relate to one of these symptoms, or if not, you can list one or, more likely, several of your own. If you work as a therapist or counsellor, you’ll be very familiar with the signs of stress.
Posted on 18 May 2006 by Marian Way in Clean Language, David Grove, Health, Modelling
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Healing a Physical Symptom at Long Distance
By Judy Yero, author of Teaching in Mind
After six weeks in a full arm cast for a broken wrist, I developed RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). I was unwilling to accept my doctor's prognosis that the condition was "chronic and progressive" and his limiting belief that there were things I would never be able to do, such as bend my fingers fully or regain full range of motion in my wrist. Initially, the condition was accompanied by significant pain and discomfort, as well as irritation over my "limitations." I chose several alternative therapies, such as some NLP patterns and listening for the metaphors I used to describe my symptoms, which included razor blades and sandpaper around my wrist.
Posted on 31 Dec 2004 by Judy Yero in Client Stories, Health
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