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Designing a Clean Workshop
How can we create a workshop that's 'clean' (i.e. attempts to not give people our models, theories, ideas, suggestions, advice and metaphors but instead creates experiences that enable them to learn from themselves and others) AND which has a distinct topic?
This is the challenge Penny Tompkins and I set ourselves when we first conceived our Discover Your Assertive Self workshop - and it took a LOT of thinking about. We were so tempted to add in a few pearls of wisdom, and to talk about our favourite models! We had to be strong for each other when one of us made a 'let's tell them' kind of suggestion. We had to notice what assumptions were going into activities we were designing. And we had to acknowledge that it was impossible to make no assumptions at all. Even the name of the workshop has an assumption or two: that everyone has an 'assertive self' for example, and that it's possible to 'discover' it.Posted on 03 Sep 2009 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Creativity, Emergence, Training
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Clean Language as a Coaching Tool
Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Hampshire Coaching Group last night, I used the metaphor of Clean Language as a 'powerful tool' to illustrate the upsides and downsides of using metaphors to explain things. This metaphor is often used of Clean Language and since coaching draws from many different disciplines, it's an obvious one for coaches - who tend to collect new tools as they develop themselves, gathering different skills from different disciplines and being able to choose the right one for the situation.
Posted on 15 Jan 2009 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Coaching, Metaphor
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How We Explored Three Topics at Once
Practice Group Report
Welcome to Maggie and Keith, who joined us for the first time this month. We explored our group metaphor (What kind of group do you want to belong to?) again and newcomers since its last outing added some ideas of their own, including: stepping out and back in again and a glass elevator. TV programmes 'The Lost Jaguar' and 'Pacific Abyss' put in an appearance, too.
As with previous meetings, we started with the question "What would you like to have happen?" and posted some ideas onto the flipchart. These were:
Posted on 18 Aug 2008 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Practice Group
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What is Clean… and Clean Is Like What?
I ran a session with Nancy Doyle at this year's Clean Conference, where we asked: What is Clean? Where did Clean come from? Clean is like... because... and Clean is not like... because…
Participants worked alone and then in small groups to answer these questions - and here are all the responses:
Posted on 06 Aug 2008 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Metaphor
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Clean Set Up
Practice Group Report
We started the meeting by explaining our 'melting pot' metaphor to our two new members, Karen and Rachel, who then both contributed their ideas about the kind of group they'd like to belong to. Rachel added an armchair because she wants the group to be safe and comfortable. Karen talked about the group having an intention and being vibrant and added yellow 'sparkle' to our metaphor map.
Next, we had a go at the Clean Set Up Caitlin describes on her DVD.
Posted on 14 Apr 2008 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Practice Group
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Problems, Remedies, Outcomes
Practice Group Report
The theme of last night's meeting was the PRO (Problem, Remedy, Outcome) Model. This followed on from last month's meeting when we were looking at what aspects of experience to 'go for'. At the start of a session, developing the client's outcome makes it easier to know what to go for as the metaphor landscape develops: you know what you are trying to achieve. And sometimes, developing the outcome is all that is needed for the client to have a significant 'shift' in their perception.
Posted on 20 Aug 2007 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Outcomes, Practice Group
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Aspects of Experience: What Do You ‘Go For’?
Practice Group Report
When you're working with someone using Clean Language, how do you decide which aspect of their experience you will get them to pay attention to?
That was the question at the heart of last night's Practice Group meeting...
We started the evening by reviewing our 'Melting Pot' metaphor from last month and inviting our two newcomers, Andy and Helen, to say what they want to get from belonging to the group. They want:
Posted on 16 Jul 2007 by Marian Way in Clean Language, Practice Group
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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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