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
Practice Group October 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 12 October 2026, 7pm to 9pm BST
1-Hour Clean Language Taster October 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Thursday 15 October 2026, 4pm to 5pm BST
Clean Coach Certification Programme - November 2026 - mornings
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Mondays 9 November 2026 to 1 March 2027, 9am to 1pm GMT each day
Practice Group November 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 16 November 2026, 7pm to 9pm BST
Clean Space Fundamentals - December 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Thursday 3 December 2026, 2pm to 6pm GMT
Personal Journey - December 2026
- Places available
- 14 Anson Grove
- Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 December 2026, 10am to 5pm GMT each day
Practice Group December 2026
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Monday 21 December 2026, 7pm to 9pm BST
Mapping My Neurodivergent Self - January 2027 pm
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Tuesdays, 5 January to 9 February 2027, 3pm to 5:30pm GMT, with 2 March as a follow-up session
Clean for Teams January 2027 - Mornings
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Thursdays and Fridays, 14, 15, 21, 22 January 2027, 9:30am to 1pm GMT each day
Advanced Fine Tuning - March 2027
- Places available
- 14 Anson Grove
- Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 March, 2027, Day 1: 10am to 5.30pm, Day 2: 9am to 5.30pm and Day 3: 9am to 4.30pm
A Southern Taste of Clean and Art - March 2027
- Places available
- Portchester Community Centre
- Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21, 2027, 9:30am to 5pm each day
Adventures in Clean 2027
- Places available
- The Practice
- Sunday 18 July (2:30pm BST) to Wednesday 21 July (2pm BST), 2027
Northern Taste of Clean 2027
- Places available
- The Practice
- Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 July 2027, 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’s ability to keep an agenda, cover the content and at the same time follow the group was impressive.
Filippa Dietmann
Caitlin and Marian are a brilliant and highly skilled duo. Their style is approachable, down-to-earth and totally practical, providing insights, training and consultancy that will add value to any organisational issue or need.
Alison Bramall , Coach and Consultant
I have always found Marian's teaching and feedback focussed and extremely helpful. She is one of the best teachers I know. The teaching on each course was always layered so that we learned and experienced everything in tandem, with plenty of relevant examples from her experience. Being encouraged to have specific learning goals and getting focussed feedback afterwards was very helpful. Supported self-feedback was always encouraged and is a useful skill to learn. The quality of feedback was always excellent as Marian always pays exquisite attention and knows exactly where a landscape unravelled or a more helpful direction could have been chosen. This clarity enhanced my learning journey and has given me a voice in my ear when I find myself in similar situations now.
Alison Flanagan