What's involved?

Our Clean Learning Journey is a weekend of learning about yourself in a small group setting. You will receive several clean coaching sessions, interspersed with time to think, read, walk, draw, write or research. You can use the time to think about any aspect of your life or work.

What happens during a Clean Learning Journey?

The weekend starts with participant introductions (there’ll be no more than 5 participants to ensure everyone gets the time and attention they need) and together we set some ‘rules’ (e.g. respect confidentiality) for the two days.

• Your coach (Marian Way or Sharon Small) will then work with each person in turn, starting with, “What would you like to have happen?”
• Once you have a clear sense of your desired outcome, you’ll be invited to pay attention to it in other ways, such as drawing a picture or diagram, researching the symbols that have appeared in your ‘metaphor landscape’, writing, or just thinking. (You will have access to the internet and reference books to help you make sense of the symbols and metaphors that emerge in your work.)
• Once your inner world has been activated in this way, you’ll start getting new insights, different paths will open up, and you’ll discover (or be reminded of) new aspects of yourself – so there’ll be plenty to think about.
• During your subsequent facilitated sessions, you will choose which direction you want to explore next, based on what’s happened so far. No two journeys are alike.
• The weekend format gives you an opportunity to ‘sleep on it’ and people often get important new insights overnight.
• As the weekend continues, we will encourage you to consider what needs to happen (both in your metaphor landscape and in ‘real life’) for you to achieve your desired outcome, and to form an action plan for when you return home.
• While this is very much a personal journey we have found that many participants derive extra benefit (e.g.: meeting like-minded people; knowing you are not alone) from working in a respectful and supportive group setting.

What to work on?

The topic you choose to work on over the weekend is completely up to you, although we do suggest you spend time thinking about it beforehand, in order to make the most of your time with us. Craft your answer to the question, “What would you like to have happen?” so it sums up what you want as clearly as possible. It can be as ambitious – or not - as you want it to be.

Here are a few outcomes others have worked on:

• “I want to become more self-referenced, rather than spending all my time satisfying others’ needs.”
• “I am two years off retirement and I’d like to pack up earlier but I don’t know what I want to do.”
• “I’d like to understand why I’ve got to be interested in so many different things.”
• “I want to come away from this weekend being a more complete person in my own right. I want more self-belief.”
• “I need to learn how to be more direct.”
• “I want to be in control of my life and my work, not having decisions made for me by other people.”