Clean Language 2

2010 Dates to be Announced

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Your trainer for this program is Marian Way.

 

 

 

 

Clean Language 2

5-Day Advanced Training
Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling & Clean Space
Portland, Oregon, USA

2010 Dates to be Announced

  • Uncover the hidden patterns that keep your clients from changing
  • Use space as your co-facilitator
  • Discover how to work cleanly with binds and double binds
  • Advance your skills in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling
  • Add another powerful - even cleaner - tool to your toolbox

This training is for facilitators, consultants, coaches and therapists (and anyone else who helps other people to think) who want to take their Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling skills to the next level. You will need to have attended Clean Language 1 or equivalent. More experienced practitioners are also welcome.

Marian Way, who teaches this program in Portland,is a skilled facilitator and trainer, who’s trained Clean Language in the USA, Russia and the UK.

"I'm interested in what's not there that means what is there has to be there."
David Grove

What you will learn over the five days:

  • Patterns - What are they and why spot them
  • Spotting patterns of form and function across time and space
  • Similarities and differences in a client’s Metaphor Landscape
  • Looking for patterns across metaphor maps
  • When you have spotted a pattern - then what happens?
  • Levels of organisation and the Five Stage Symbolic Modelling process of James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
  • How to model a sequence and so help people change habitual patterns
  • Modelling the network of relationships between metaphors
  • Working with binds and double binds
  • Paying attention to:
    • What your client is paying attention to
    • How they give the information
    • When a pattern changes
  • Yourself as facilitator: What patterns are emerging in your own facilitatory style?
  • Studying transcripts - looking for patterns within a single session, and across sessions
  • The PPRC model (perceiver, perceived, relationship, context)
  • How to facilitate Clean Space
  • Combine Clean Space with Clean Language
  • Spotting patterns across your own (client) spatial network
  • The relationship between Clean Language and Clean Space and how and when to combine these processes

  • How you can apply what you learn in your own field and in your life

A lively, interactive training, it will include:

  • Theory and practice sessions
  • Thought provoking activities
  • Demonstrations, discussions, practice, feedback,
  • Time for your questions and ideas
  • Your own personal development topics
  • Full-colour course manual

"To understand is to perceive patterns."
Isaiah Berlin

 

"We are but patterns that repeat themselves."
Gregory Bateson

 

Why Spot Patterns?

We are pattern matching beings: We see something with two wheels, a saddle, a chain and a pair of handlebars – and even if we’ve seen never seen that particular example before,we can easily identify it as a bicycle (providing, of course, that the parts are arranged in a particular way.)

But when it comes to our own patterns of thinking and behaviour, we are remarkably unaware. Our ways of behaving are often so habitual that we take them for granted, we don’t question them. Of course, many of these patterns of behaviour are really useful… but some have passed their sell-by-date…

"Human beings have a knack for getting trapped in webs of their own creation."
Gareth Jones, Images of Organization

 

Symbolic Modelling is ideally suited for the work of helping someone to become aware of their patterns – the useful, and the not-so-useful ones. And as a Symbolic Modelling practitioner, being able to help someone to model those patterns is a key skill, that starts with being able to spot patterns in a client’s metaphor landscape.

On this course, you’ll be flexing your pattern-spotting muscles with a range of activities designed to hone your skills. And while the focus will be on how to spot your clients’ patterns, there’ll also be plenty of opportunities to become aware of your own patterns – in the roles of client and facilitator.

Why Clean Space?

Clean Space is a facilitation process that emerged out of David Grove's continued search for a way to facilitate clients to do the work they need to do with the least possible intervention from a facilitator.

Even less intrusive than Clean Language, Clean Space involves using the space around your client as your co-facilitator. Your client moves from place to place, pausing as they find a 'sweet spot' that holds some information for them. In this way, they create a network of connections between the many thoughts, feelings and ideas in their mind and body.

Exploring this spatial network is like travelling down the pathways of the mind. Hard as it is to describe, typically people are surprised at the new understanding which doing this gives them. For the Clean Space facilitator, as with Clean Language, it is possible to work virtually content-free - yet there is plenty to do, as you will find.

During Clean Language 2 you'll learn how to facilitate this unusual and effective process and consider how to balance working in Clean Space with working with Clean Language. You'll have ample opportunities for personal development in the role of client, too. We will also spend some time enhancing your understanding and skills in the use of Perceptual Space within Symbolic Modelling.

Clean Space is a new way to utilize bottom-up modelling in human psychology.
James Lawley & Penny Tompkins,
Clean Space:Modeling Human Perception through Emergence, 2003

"I was keen to experience Clean Space - and I wasn't at all disappointed as my 'clean space landscape' quickly became psycho-active.The questions, which can seem illogical when taken out of context, make perfect sense when you are focusing on an issue you care about. It is tremendously valuing to have someone pay exquisite attention to what you say and how you say it."
Jenny Heath

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