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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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Using Clean Language Principles in Coaching Sessions
Having had three clean coaching sessions with Marian working on my own challenges, I have now started to apply just two of the techniques she uses with my own coaching clients and I have been very impressed with the results: first the outcome question, "What would you like to have happen by the end of this session?" and second, repeating back exact words, regardless of grammatical sense.
Just to put this in context I should explain that I run Speed Coaching sessions with clients as a final step in a three day interpersonal skills programme. And so you know the setting I work in, my client is a large telecoms company.
Posted on 23 Jul 2009 by Marian Way in Coaching, Training
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Less is More and What Happened Next
By Sheryl Andrews, Step By Step Coaching
I attended Apricot Island’s Less is More training in March 2009. It was really amazing and I knew I wanted to do more, so I have booked all the other trainings and the Personal Journey weekend.
Immediately after Less is More I practiced Clean Language with my daughter who wanted to stop sucking her thumb, and although she has popped it in her mouth once she is now viewing herself as someone who doesn’t suck her thumb.
Posted on 29 Apr 2009 by Marian Way in Training
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