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Modelling Tension
Practice Group Report
Welcome to Jerry, Liz, Brigitte, David, Letty, Alfie and Jackie who joined us for the first time. It is lovely to know there is so much interest in Clean Language. We hope you enjoyed the meeting and found it interesting, and will come again.
After the 'new member orientation' there was a choice of two activities:
Posted on 19 Apr 2010 by Marian Way in Modelling, Practice Group
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Modelling Perspectives
Practice Group Report
Welcome to Jennie and Sarah-Jane who joined us for the first time this month. We hope you enjoyed the meeting and look forward to seeing you again next time!
Our topic this month was "Modelling Perspectives". This was inspired by Penny and James's presentation at the recent Clean Conference, and indeed we used their ideas as the basis for our evening. We started with "I can't see my legs from here" - a short role play of a client session, acted out by Nigel and Marian, with everyone drawing models of what was happening. This was followed by a small group discussion about what perspectives the drawings were from. Some people had drawn their models from their own perspective and some had drawn them from the client's perspective. It was interesting to see all the different variations in the diagrams.
Posted on 21 Sep 2009 by Marian Way in Modelling, Practice Group
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Modelling Mysterious Power
The art and skill of modelling forms an intrinsic part of using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling well. Some facilitators seem to have a natural 'gift' for it, yet a satisfying description of what makes a good modeller remains elusive. Modelling is certainly not a mystical process, yet it has a touch of the mysterious about it, hard-to-describe, yet tangible. I have found that my occasional forays into the translations of old Chinese texts have taught me things about modelling and working cleanly that conceptual descriptions have not.
Posted on 02 Apr 2009 by Phil Swallow in Modelling
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Modelling Conversationally
Practice Group Report
We welcomed three new members to our group this month: Jackie, Sally and Cathy. And, rather belatedly (i.e. right at the end of the meeting), we shared with them our metaphor for how we want the group to be. Thanks, Nigel, for reminding us of this.
At the start of the meeting we acknowledged what a wonderful legacy David Grove has left us and how sad it is that he has died.
As our 'open space' meeting last month had gone well, we used that approach again. The topics people brought to the group were:
Posted on 21 Jan 2008 by Marian Way in Modelling, 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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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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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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