Clean Language:Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds

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And [client's words/non-verbals] ... and when/as [client's words/ non-verbals] ... [clean question]? Coaching your staff, where you get to deeply understand what motivates your people and become the boss they really want to work for more like a quiz team member, placing a high value on knowing the facts. In this respect, Clean Language can help us to deal with different personality types, without requiring great knowledge of personality theory itself. In general, speaking slower and with emphasis on the metaphor will give better results. Try varying your pacing and emphasis and see what works best for you. Everyones style is different and so not everyone will get the same results for any given approach. Videos

Clean language aims to support clients in discovering and developing their own symbols and metaphors, rather than the therapist/coach/interviewer suggesting or contributing their own framing of a topic. In other words, instead of "supporting" the client by offering them ready-made metaphors, when the counselor senses that a metaphor would be useful or that a metaphor is conspicuously absent, the counselor asks the client, "And that's like what?" The client is invited to invent their own metaphor. Clean questions are clean, simple and repetitive. The small iterations, repeated over and over are what make the questions powerful. with people. When you use their language, they will feel supported, respected, and heard. They will also be motivated to improve their situation. Getting started with David Grove’s Clean LanguageThe 12 Basic Clean Language questions are all that you need to develop, work with and mature changes as they occur with client metaphor. Clean Language 12 Basic Clean Language Questions

A former journalist and media executive, Judy has been working with Clean Language since2005 and has trained people from all over the world in its use. Clean Language questioning typically reveals a network of linked metaphors within a person's thinking, referred to as a metaphor landscape. The Five Minute Coach– An easy-to-learn, practical Clean coaching approach that is perfect for a business context Lawley, J. & Linder-Pelz, S. (2016). "Evidence of competency: exploring coach, coachee and expert evaluations of coaching". Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. doi: 10.1080/17521882.2016.1186706 Example 2 - Team Coaching: The tools within the Clean for Teams toolbox are excellent for creating the conditions for more autonomy, engagement and less drama within a team. A favorite activity is to get the members of the team to model (ask clean questions of) each other’s answer to this: When you are working at your best, you are like what? The Working At Your Best exercise allows the uniqueness of each person’s needs to be drawn out. I think it makes an excellent supplement to any generalized team agreement rules. The team agreement rules are sometimes too generic to create the best conditions for individuals - and perhaps these two techniques can be used in tandem for greater effect.Within the power switch, we can string many negative metaphors together such as “And when you are struggling and your ideas are falling on deaf ears and you feel like you’re slipping on the ice, what would you like to have happen?” More information There are many different views who created the term ‘clean language’ as it’s such a generic phrase, In NLP we have evolved clean language from the ‘ Meta-Model‘, which is a process of asking specific questions which dig deeply into a persons reality to uncover hidden ‘truths’.

Example 3 - Assumptions - I like to ask teams to hunt for assumptions, that is to ask clean questions about words which may cause ambiguity. A good example is in agile “User Story” statements during planning, where discovering missed assumptions can alleviate many problems early on. Sometimes these are the ‘unknown knowns’ the Product Owner simply forgot to include. When you ask each part of the story statement any number of clean questions, you’ll methodically tease out hidden things that weren’t considered. It allows the team to ask the questions playfully and collaboratively of the Product Owner, rather than them guessing the answers or asking them midway through the Sprint. The biggest advantage is ‘no question is stupid’; everyone plays the “game” of asking. Coach 9: And get the upright bit and then do. And do the right things. And what kind of things are those right things? During the 1990s Penny Tompkins and James Lawley (leading figures in the Clean Language community) codified and developed David Grove's work, and wrote about it in their book Metaphors in Mind (2000). Tompkins and Lawley used the term 'Symbolic Modelling'Clean Language is a communications methodology, developed by David J Grove, a New Zealand Counselling Psychologist', during the 1980s and 1990s. Research (Gibbs, Raymond W Jr., 'Categorization and metaphor understanding', Psychological Review 99[3]) has shown that we use up to six metaphors per minute in English, mostly unconsciously and unnoticed. This is because metaphors underpin our thinking, Applications using 'Clean' principles, but not necessarily using the Clean Language questions or using metaphor. Owen, Ian R. (1989). "Beyond Carl Rogers: The Work of David Grove". Holistic Medicine, 4:4, 186–196, doi: 10.3109/13561828909046386 Although Clean Language originated in psychotherapy, there are many advantages to its use in the workplace.