Pattern Spotting:
Even More of the Jigsaw
Already using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling with your clients?
- Ready to enhance your modelling skills?
- Want some feedback on how you’re doing?
“We are but patterns that repeat themselves."
Gregory Bateson
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 Less is More and More to Explore or their equivalents. More experienced practitioners are also welcome.
"I'm interested in what's not there that means what is there has to be there."
David Grove
This 3-day course includes:
- Comparison: Spotting Similarities and Differences in a Client’s Metaphor Landscape
- Looking for Patterns Across Metaphor Maps
- How to Model a Sequence
- 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?
- Time for Your Questions and Ideas
- Plenty of Practice and Feedback
"It was a privilege to be part of this training."
Maggie Convery"This training clarified much for me and raised my confidence. I enjoyed Marian and Phil's way of supporting our learning. A great weekend - thank you!"
Gaby Horsley"Marian and Phil have an authentic and open approach, with a framework yet flexibility to go with the participants' needs within that frame."
Helen Harrison"It was a perfect follow-on from Less is More and More to Explore... the course took me to another level in my understanding and practice of Clean Language. I can't wait to go on the next course - but in the meantime, I will be practising everything I've learned."
Rachel Hankins"An excellent training programme that excels in taking something very complex and making it very available and understandable"
Susan J Bates"Relaxed, informative programme. A good balance of theory and practice with much fun and laughter. Thank you :)"
Sarah-Jane Whitehouse-Line"I've been a therapist for more than 30 years and the Clean Language / Symbolic Modelling paradigm has expanded and enriched my ways of working with my clients. It's so powerful a tool - I've seen some quite amazing breakthroughs"
Barbara Rosen
"To understand is to perceive patterns."
Isaiah Berlin
Why Pattern Spotting?
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.
The course in more detail
Here’s what you’ll learn over the three days:
- Patterns - What are they and why spot them? - Course overview
- How to spot patterns across time and space
- Levels of organisation and the Five Stage Symbolic Modelling Process of James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
- When you have spotted a pattern - then what happens?
- Lots of fun activities to get you into Pattern spotting mode
- Studying transcripts - looking for patterns within a single session, and across sessions
- How to model a sequence and so help people change habitual patterns
- Working with binds and double binds
- How to notice when a pattern changes and what to do when it does
- The PPRC model (perceiver, perceived, relationship, context)
- How you can apply what you’ve learned in your own field and in your life
We take a step-by-step approach, with lots of practice and experiences for you to learn from. And there’ll be plenty of time for your questions. You’ll receive a full colour manual to support your learning.
What if none of the training dates work for me?
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Get together with a group of 6 or more others and email charlotte@apricotisland.com or call us on 023 9221 5355 to find a suitable time for Phil or Marian to come to you, and to tailor the course to your needs.
I already have these skills. Is there a more advanced course?
Clean Space is a 2-day course that will enable you to facilitate another of David Grove's methodologies and sharpen your ability to work with clients' psychoactive space.
Assessment for Learning is an opportunity to practice your skills and receive detailed verbal and written feedback.
Do I need any knowledge of Clean Language in order to attend?
You need to have attended Less is More and More to Explore or equivalent courses with another training company.
Cost
A place on this Pattern Spotting training costs £375.00.
To Book
Please click here to go to our bookings page.