Welcome to Angie and Ros who joined us for the first time this month; we hope you enjoyed the meeting and found it useful - and that you will come again! Having been indoors for the last couple of weeks because of the snow, it was great to have an evening out and see everyone again.
Our topic this month was 'problems'. We normally emphasise the need to help clients to focus on their desired outcomes, using the PRO (Problem, Remedy, Outcome) model.
]]>Welcome to Gill and Kaaren who joined us for the first time last night, both travelling quite some way to be with us. We hope you both enjoyed the evening. And thank you to Robin for providing some seasonal cheer in the form of mince pies.
Our topic this month was “Directing Attention”. Of course, every Clean Language session is an exercise in directing attention. That’s what it’s all about – every question is designed to have someone pay attention to some aspect of their experience and to find out more about it.
]]>No new members this month, so we got straight on with the main event: an activity based around the 'PRO' Model. This model was devised by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley to give facilitators a way to keep a client's attention on their desired outcome:
Start by asking the question, "And what would you like to have happen?"
]]>Welcome to Alison, who joined us for the first time this month. The meeting topic was 'Pure Practice', meaning that group members were free to choose which aspect of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling to focus on. To help everyone decide, Marian handed out copies of the assessment criteria and briefly explained the various bits of terminology.
]]>Welcome to Jennie and Sarah-Jane who joined us for the first time this month. We hope they enjoyed the meeting and look forward to seeing them again next time!
Our topic this month was "Modelling Perspectives". This was inspired by Penny and James's presentation at the recent Clean Conference, and indeed we used their ideas as the basis for our evening. We started with "I can't see my legs from here" - a short role play of a client session, acted out by Nigel and Marian, with everyone drawing models of what was happening. This was followed by a small group discussion about what perspectives the drawings were from. Some people had drawn their models from their own perspective and some had drawn them from the client's perspective. It was interesting to see all the different variations in the diagrams.
]]>Thank you to everyone who came along to our first meeting at Crofton Community Centre. As it is August and the holiday season, there were fewer of us than usual, but still enough to do some "Clean Experiments"...
To a large extent, it's the discipline of Clean Language that makes it such a powerful process. The deliberate constraints we put on ourselves as facilitators gives more room for our clients to explore their own inner world and for new information to emerge. So we designed three "Clean Experiments" with additional constraints, to see what would happen.
]]>Welcome to Jane and Gilli who came along to the group for the first time last night - and discovered they knew each other! Both joined in our 'first-timers' part of the evening, when we covered some of the basic principles of Clean Language as well as some of the questions.
The topic for the main part of the meeting was physical symptoms, and what difference it could make to pay attention to them using metaphor and Clean Language. We started by developing metaphors for the symptoms...
]]>Welcome to Sean, Cheryl and Liz, who joined us for the first time this month. Our 'first-timers' meeting before the main meeting gave us a good opportunity to say hello and highlight some aspects of Clean Language as well as what happens in the group. We hope you enjoyed the evening and will come again!
Our topic for the evening was feedback, and we spent about 40 minutes discussing the kind of feedback we like to receive, as well as the practicalities of giving feedback. Our aim was to draw up some guidelines for the group for this and future meetings.
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