What is Clean Language?
Clean Language is a simple set of questions developed by counselling psychologist David Grove. These questions are used with a person’s own words to direct their attention to some aspect of their own experience.
Asking these questions in the right context often results in an interesting new insight or the recognition of some new possibility. And if that new possibility is then questioned using Clean Language, the result can be quite profound.
"With a tool like this you can change the world."
Want to practice Clean Language skills?
You can join in our FREE peer practice sessions every Tuesday and Saturday (except in the school holidays) by joining our community site: Clean Campus, which is also a place to share ideas about all things clean. We also have a more formal practice group led by Marian Way and for which there is a small fee. You can learn about this here.
Or gain a coaching qualification?
Join us in 2024 for our Clean Coach Certification Programme (Level 1 accredited programme with the ICF) to learn clean coaching methodologies to inspire capability in others and help transform their lives. Based on Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, this is an ideal opportunity to learn these skills within the context of an ICF accredited coaching programme. The programme will be delivered in-person in the summer and online in the autumn and includes access to a private space on our Clean Campus where you can connect with the other participants between sessions for discussion, practice and extra learning.
Upcoming events
ICF Coach Training: Your Questions Answered
- Places available
- Monday 25 March, 9:30am to 10:30am GMT
- Online via Zoom
- With Marian Way
ICF Coach Training: Your Questions Answered
- Places available
- Monday 25 March, 4pm to 5pm GMT
- Online via Zoom
- With Marian Way
1-Day Introduction to Clean Language
- Limited places
- Tuesday 26th March, 9am to 4.30pm GMT
- Online via Zoom
- With Marian Way, Doris Leibold
Fine Tuning
- 1 place left
- Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April 2024 10am to 5.30pm BST each day
- 14 Anson Grove, Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom
- With Marian Way
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
Featured products
So you want to be… #DramaFree
Caitlin and Marian's interactive journal to help you reduce unnecessary conflict in your life.
£17.50
Clean Approaches for Coaches
Marian Way's book about creating the conditions for change within a coaching session, using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling.
£20.00
From Contempt to Curiosity
Caitlin Walker's book about using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling to encourage the conditions for collaboration.
£16.00
Clean Language and Systemic Modelling DVD
A set of two DVDs with simple exercises for practising Clean Language and Systemic Modelling by yourself or in a group - by Caitlin Walker.
£10.00
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