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Clean Language: Core Skills

22 July to 9 September - Training: Tuesdays 9am to 1pm BST, Practice: Saturdays 8am to 9:30am BST

Price: £950.00 (£1140 inc VAT)

Community price: £850.00 (£1020 inc VAT)
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Venue details

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Training Dates

Tuesdays :

22, 29 July
5, 12, 19, 26 August
2, 9 September

all 9am to 1pm BST

Practice Dates (optional)

Saturdays:

26 July
2, 9, 16, 23, 30 August
6 September

all at 8am to 9:30am BST


Description

Join us for eight Zoom classes where you’ll start from scratch and learn how to help a client to access the metaphors and unconscious patterns that are driving their behaviours. Discover how to develop a person’s metaphor landscape and to encourage the conditions needed for deep and lasting change.

A key principle of Clean Language is that you do less, and your client achieves more. Its basic structure is a set of clean questions, and you will begin by learning these questions and how to ask them. You will find out how to unlock the power of metaphor and you’ll learn firsthand why it’s been described as a doorway to the unconscious mind. You will soon be able to guide others to access and delight in their own inner wisdom. And you will experience the intense satisfaction of being on the receiving end of such guidance.

As we go along, you will build on these basic skills by learning how to use Clean Language to work with clients’ desired outcomes. You will learn how to: steer their attention towards what they want; help them navigate their ‘metaphor landscape’; recognise changes that will happen before your eyes; and help your client to move towards their desired conclusion. And you will experience the power of this clean approach for yourself as your fellow participants work with you towards your own desired outcomes.

We take a step-by-step approach to teaching Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, with lots of practice, experiences and demonstrations for you to learn from. There will be plenty of time for your questions and you'll also have access to an online manual, where there will be interactive homework and activities between sessions. There will also be a private community space just for your group. Plus you’ll meet other interesting, inspiring people doing great work in different fields - members of the global Clean Language community. You’ll also have multiple opportunities between modules to practise your skills with your fellow participants.

Clean Language is a simple methodology for understanding the complexity of human beings. Every client is unique so you will always be learning. And that can be infinitely worthwhile and rewarding.


Week-by-week Agenda

  • Week 1: Introduction to Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling 
  • Week 2: Working with resources - developing conceptual words into symbolic perceptions
  • Week 3: Directing attention using words, gestures and voice
  • Week 4: Modelling - helping your client uncover the hidden structures behind their patterns of behaviour
  • Week 5: Working with desired outcomes 
  • Week 6: Navigating a whole session
  • Week 7: Change - how to create the conditions for change, how to identify change and what to do when things change
  • Week 8: Choice points and different ways to end a session

Who is it for?

The course was designed with coaches in mind and is also suitable for:

  • Counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists
  • Health workers
  • Managers who want to use a coaching approach with their team
  • HR professionals, team leaders and mentors
  • NLP Practitioners
  • Students of modalities such as Motivational Interviewing, Appreciative Inquiry, Servant Leadership, Solution-Focus Coaching/Therapy or Non-Violent Communication
  • Anyone whose role involves helping other people to think
  • People who are future-oriented, outcome focussed and fascinated by what makes themselves and others tick
  • People who enjoy learning new tools and different ways of thinking

What will I gain?

  • The Clean Language questions and how to ask them for maximum impact
  • A way to help people feel understood and to gain new perspectives
  • Awareness of the assumptions you’re making a split second after someone speaks - and how to keep them to yourself so you can work with clients’ actual experiences
  • The principles of Clean Language and how to apply them in many different contexts
  • How to help someone to uncover the structure of their own thinking by developing the metaphors they use to express themselves
  • How to identify and work with a client’s desired outcomes and encourage the conditions for change to emerge naturally within their ‘metaphor landscape’.
  • Strategies for where to direct your client’s attention at different stages of the facilitation process
  • A greater understanding of the role that language, especially metaphor, plays in our lives, and how you can utilise that to create deep sustainable change
  • ICF CCEs have been awarded for this programme (31 Core Competencies, 9 Resource Development)

You will also gain masses of personal development as you learn more about your own patterns, mental models and desired outcomes.


Your trainer(s)

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Jacqueline Ann Surin

Jacqueline is the leading Clean Language specialist in Asia. She is a Level 1 Clean Facilitator and a Master Level Systemic Modeller, and has a PCC with the ICF. She coaches and facilitates internationally both in-person and online.


Venue

Online via Zoom


Testimonials

I thoroughly enjoyed and felt fascinated and stretched and stimulated by learning Clean Language. I need more practice but am already using bits of it in psychotherapy to good effect. Amazing. As an educator I have also learned heaps about effective training; I had forgotten what it is like to be a learner in a group. Marian facilitates so well.

Mary McIntyre, psychotherapist

The structure of the course mirrors the structure of Clean Language, so not only do learners gain knowledge of clean, they practice it within the overall structure which reinforces it unconsciously.

Ian Crawford

I’m so grateful that I signed up for the Clean Language course. My rating is "Satisfied Over Expectation"! A training that shows a crisp, clean and useful method. The trainer was a model both of the method and as a course leader. Together with these wonderful colleagues, nothing could be better. Want to learn more.

Birgitta Keller, ICF Coach