Marian Way
Director
A highly skilled facilitator and trainer, Marian, who founded Clean Learning in 2001, has developed and delivered training across the world. She is the author of Clean Approaches for Coaches, co-author, with James Lawley, of Insights in Space and co-author, with Caitlin Walker of So you want to be ... #DramaFree.
Marian is an expert Clean facilitator, an adept modeller, a programme writer and an inspirational trainer. She has a natural ability to model existing structures, find the connections between them and design new ways for people to learn.
Marian was a leading innovator within the Weight Watchers organisation, which included developing the “points” strategy, a local idea that went on to become a global innovation. She is a director of both Clean Learning and Training Attention CIC, world leaders in clean applications for corporate, educational and community development.
She designs our programmes and workbooks, leads workshops and teaches on all our courses. She’s trained people in Great Britain, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Japan and the USA. Marian has a Level 5 qualification in coaching and mentoring from the ILM, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and is a recognised Clean Assessor.
Upcoming events
Clean Coach Certification Programme - autumn 2025 - afternoons
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Tuesdays 4 November 2025 to 24 February 2026, 2pm to 6pm GMT each day
Clean Space Fundamentals
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Wednesday 5 November 2025, 9am to 1pm GMT
Practice Group November 2025
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 17 November 2025, 7pm to 9pm GMT
Practice Group December 2025
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 15 December 2025, 7pm to 9pm GMT
Practice Group January 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 19 January 2026, 7pm to 9pm GMT
Advanced Fine Tuning January 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Fridays, 23, 30 January and 6, 13, 20, 27 February 2026, 9am to 12.30pm GMT each day
Fine Tuning January 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Fridays, 23, 30 January and 6, 13, 20, 27 February 2026, 2pm to 5.30pm GMT each day
Practice Group February 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 16 February 2026, 7pm to 9pm GMT
Advanced Fine Tuning April 2026
- Places available
- 14 Anson Grove
- Friday 17, Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2026, Day 1 10am to 5.30pm, Day 2 9am to 5.30pm and Day 3 9am to 4.30pm
Adventures in Clean 2026
- Places available
- The Practice
- Sunday 12 July (2:30pm BST) to Wednesday 15 July (2pm BST), 2026
Northern Taste of Clean 2026
- Places available
- The Practice
- Saturday 18 to Sunday 19 July 2026, 9:30am to 5:30pm BST each day
Blog posts
How Metaphor can Evoke Awareness in Coaching
26th Sep 2024
9 Reasons to Learn and Use Clean Space
14th Apr 2019
How do you remember?
28th Mar 2019
Testimonials
Marian and I worked together over a number of weeks, and I addressed a couple of significant issues that I had been challenged by for a number of years. I had worked with a therapist on these too, and while that had helped a great deal, the work with Marian shifted my thinking and behaviour significantly. Marian, and her work, is gentle and incredibly powerful. She is a pleasure to work with and I rate her and Clean Language highly.
Gillian McCready, Executive Coach and Business Consultant
Marian is a highly perceptive trainer and introduced a wide mix of activities to embed our learning.
Gill Rudge, HR Consultant
The training was such a great course! Fun and at the same time practical. Inspiring, meaningful and useful in so many areas. A simplicity, cleanness and playfulness in the philosophy of Clean Language, while at the same time so profound, serious and demanding. Training brings skills. I'm so glad I joined! Develops me in all my roles, as a manager, management consultant, coach, educator, mom, wife, fellow human and human being. I highly recommend it!
Margareta Carlsson, ICF Coach