Clean Language

What is Clean Interviewing?
7 September, 2017 by Jacqueline Ann Surin
What is Clean Interviewing and how does it differ from
Clean Coaching? These are two questions Jacqueline Surin had in mind when she
attended a workshop at the recent Northern Taste of Clean.

Clean and Clowning
9 July, 2017 by Marian Way
What does Clean Language have in common with clowning? And how can clowning morph into Clean Space. Read Marian's account of an improv session during a clowning course and the links she made with 'clean'.
5 Reasons To Read ‘Words That Touch’
28 June, 2017 by Louise Hockaday
5 reasons to read Nick Pole’s new book about Clean Language and body work: Words That Touch: How to Ask Questions Your Body Can Answer
Getting Clients To Trust Themselves
4 May, 2017 by Jacqueline Ann Surin
What
do you do when coaching clients ask you for advice, feedback or ideas? Jacqueline Ann Surin describes two clean
approaches for helping clients to trust the knowledge within.
Chalk and Cheese
9 March, 2017 by Sue Charman
How one member of the Online Practice Group resolved a tricky bind during a 2-hour practice session.

Setting Myself Up to be a Better Coach
3 March, 2017 by Jacqueline Ann Surin
Jacqueline Ann Surin explores how she uses the Clean Set Up
process to prepare for coaching sessions with clients – and how this improves
her coaching.

Fine Tuning Your Skills
25 January, 2017 by Marian Way
A key principle in all David Grove’s work is
that of iteration, which is what happens when the result of a procedure is used
as the starting point for the next application of the procedure. We ask a clean
question, a person responds and we then ask a clean question of that response.
This is one aspect of the work that makes it so powerful; ideas build one upon
another and new – or old – wisdom can emerge.

How do you describe Clean Language to a new or prospective client?
24 January, 2017 by Marian Way
This is a question that is often asked during
trainings such as Clean Language: Core Skills or Systemic Modelling. Participants become very enthusiastic about the
skills they are learning and begin to think about putting them into practice –
and then they hit a problem: “I don’t know how to describe this in such a way
that people will understand what I am talking about.”

People open up in a different kind of way with clean questions
23 January, 2017 by Marian Way
Rachel Gilmore has so far attended eight days of
training with us – Clean for Teams plus a couple of modules of our Systemic Modelling Programme – and she is already using clean with several of her clients. When she told us she was already getting better results than with her existing methods, we were intrigued, so Marian interviewed her to
find out more…

Focusing on What a Client Does Know
20 January, 2017 by Jacqueline Ann Surin
Have you ever had a situation where you asked a client a question, and their answer was “I don’t know”? Find out how Jacqueline Surin coped with this in two different coaching sessions.