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Papers by James Lawley
Metaphor and Symbol, 2007
It seems odd to be reviewing in this journal an excellent book about the practical use of metapho... more It seems odd to be reviewing in this journal an excellent book about the practical use of metaphor that is 6 years old, already has a couple of translations (Italian and French), and has summary papers in several other languages. But conversations at a recent conference suggested that the work it describes is not yet well known to metaphor researchers. Perhaps this reflects the gulf between the practitioner/trainer world of shared experiences and face-to-face contact versus the academic world of journal articles and statistics. But if I had a research student working on metaphor, experience of Lawley and Tompkins's work would be a key part of the basic training because of its striking capacity to bring our internal metaphorical worlds to life. The first page of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) says: "If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor." James Lawley and Penny Tompkins describe simple techniques that bring this metaphorical foundation to the surface as a vivid "reality." Their book is clearly written, well documented, and very practical, including transcripts that bring the techniques to life. Their Web site (http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk) includes a substantial collection of articles (mainly by them, but also by others, e.g., several important articles by Philip Harland), some of which describe developments since their book was published. Before introducing the techniques, it might help to set the context. The approach described in the book and on the Web site begins in the 1980s with a New Zealander, David Grove, who had moved to the USA as a psychotherapist. He found himself working with clients who had suffered from traumatic events in their childhoods-abuse, for instance. Initially, he adopted Ericksonian hypnotic strategies. However, he became concerned that recovering memories of traumatic events might re-traumatise a client, and a conventional practitioner-client power relationship might take on echoes of the original abuser-abused power relationship. Grove therefore began working indirectly via metaphor-based imagery, and developed a radically client-centered approach. Clients explored their own meta
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2021
Interviewing is the most frequently used qualitative research method for gathering data. Although... more Interviewing is the most frequently used qualitative research method for gathering data. Although interviews vary across different epistemological perspectives, questions are central to all interviewing genres. This article focuses on the potential for the wording of interview questions to lead and unduly influence, or bias, the interviewee’s responses. This underacknowledged phenomenon affects the trustworthiness of findings and has implications for knowledge claims made by researchers, particularly in research that aims to elicit interviewees’ subjective experience. We highlight the problem of the influence of interview questions on data; provide a typology of how interview questions can lead responses; and present a method, the “cleanness rating,” that facilitates reflexivity by enabling researchers to review and assess the influence of their interview questions. This clarifies the researcher’s role in the production of interview data and contributes to methodological transparency.
Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Jul 20, 2022
Allport, Tom Ambiguity 'And' See also Syntax Andreas, Steve and Connirae Applications: anger mana... more Allport, Tom Ambiguity 'And' See also Syntax Andreas, Steve and Connirae Applications: anger management classroom respect clinical rapport computer training corporate metaphors couples and families a doctor's shorthand forgiveness listening maths problem Meta-Aromatherapy modelling motivation to publish moving sound public speaking reaching agreement recruitment Refocussing spirituality symptom description 'As' See also Syntax Assignments for clients Clean questions: 'And can? And does X have a size or shape? And how do you know? And how far? And how many? And how old? And is X inside or outside? And is X the same or different to Y? And is there anything else? And is there a relationship between X and Y? And that's X like what? And then what happens? And what's between X and Y? And what could X be wearing? And what happens just before X? And what happens next? And what kind of ? And what would X like to have happen? And when X what happens to Y? And where are you drawn to? And where are you going? And where could X come from? And where is X Y-ing from? And where is? And whereabouts? And which direction? And would X be interested in going to Y? And would Y like? Client outcomes See also Desired outcomes Client terminology: accumulating backtracking repeating selecting Cognition Combs, Gene Conceptual domain: binds in converting from defined questions of
This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'co... more This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'content-empty' (non-leading) approach to second-person interviewing in the science of consciousness. Also presented is a new systematic third-person method of validation that evaluates the questions and other verbal interventions by the interviewer to produce an adherence-to-method or 'cleanness' rating. A review of 19 interviews from five research studies provides a benchmark for interviewers seeking to minimize leading questions. The inter-rater reliability analysis demonstrates substantial agreement among raters with an average intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.72 (95% CI). We propose that this method of validation is applicable not only to CLI but to second-person interviews more generally.
Anchor Point, 2003
David Grove, the originator of Clean Language and the innovator of many processes for working wi... more David Grove, the originator of Clean Language and the innovator of many processes for
working with autogenic metaphor, has created Clean Space, a new approach that uses emergence to model human perception and facilitate organic change.
British Journal of Management, Jan 17, 2014
The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of quest... more The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of questioning called `Clean Language' can enhance the authenticity and rigour of interview-based qualitative research. The paper explores the specific potential of Clean Language as a method for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors in order to provide in-depth understanding of a person's symbolic world, and also demonstrates how it can improve qualitative research more widely by addressing the propensity for researchers inadvertently to introduce extraneous metaphors into an interviewee's account at both data collection and interpretation stages. Despite substantial interest in metaphors in the field of organisational and management research there is a lack of explicit, systematic methods for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors. The issue of quality in qualitative methods has also been the subject of continuing debate. In order to explore its potential, Clean Language was used as a method of interviewing in a collaborative academic-practitioner project to elicit the metaphors of six midcareer managers, relating to the way they experienced work-life balance.
International Coaching Psychology Review, Sep 1, 2015
Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how... more Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how coachees experience and evaluate coaching. First, we explore the use of ‘Clean Language’ as a phenomenological approach to coaching research, including the eliciting and analysing of data into findings and insights for coaches and coach trainers (Tosey et al., 2014, p.630). Second, we explore the nature of events, effects, evaluations and outcomes reported by coachees after a single coaching session. Design: Three coaches accredited in the same coaching methodology each delivered a single session to two randomly allocated coachees. The coachees were subsequently interviewed twice using Clean Language, in person two days after the coaching and by telephone two weeks later. Methodology: The transcribed follow-up interviews were analysed by an expert in Clean Language (the second author), using a form of thematic analysis within a realist/essentialist paradigm (Braun & Clarke, 2006, p.85). Findings: The interviews elicited detailed information on many aspects of coaching without the interviewer introducing any topics. Coachees’ events, effects and evaluations happened during the coaching session, between that session and the first interview, and during the two weeks between the first and second interviews. Coachees emphasised coaches’ style of repeating back, pacing, setting goals and questioning, maintaining the focus of the session, confronting and challenging, as well as their responsiveness (or lack of it). Increased self-awareness was mentioned by all coachees. Outcomes occurring after the session were maintained two weeks later, at which time new outcomes were also reported. Conclusions: Clean Language Interviewing supplements and extends existing methods of phenomenological interviewing and data coding. The study yielded nuanced findings on the coach behaviours that led coachees to give favourable versus unfavourable evaluations, with implications for coaching psychologists with regard in particular to coaches’ ability to calibrate and respond to coachees’ ongoing evaluation of the coaching, the pace of the session and how the timing of coachees’ feedback affects the findings.
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'co... more This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'content-empty' (non-leading) approach to second-person interviewing in the science of consciousness. Also presented is a new systematic third-person method of validation that evaluates the questions and other verbal interventions by the interviewer to produce an adherence-to-method or 'cleanness' rating. A review of 19 interviews from five research studies provides a benchmark for interviewers seeking to minimize leading questions. The inter-rater reliability analysis demonstrates substantial agreement among raters with an average intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.72 (95% CI). We propose that this method of validation is applicable not only to CLI but to second-person interviews more generally.
Clean Language Interviewing
British Journal of Management, 2014
The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of quest... more The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of questioning called `Clean Language' can enhance the authenticity and rigour of interview-based qualitative research. The paper explores the specific potential of Clean Language as a method for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors in order to provide in-depth understanding of a person's symbolic world, and also demonstrates how it can improve qualitative research more widely by addressing the propensity for researchers inadvertently to introduce extraneous metaphors into an interviewee's account at both data collection and interpretation stages. Despite substantial interest in metaphors in the field of organisational and management research there is a lack of explicit, systematic methods for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors. The issue of quality in qualitative methods has also been the subject of continuing debate. In order to explore its potential, Clean Language was used as a method of interviewing in a collaborative academic-practitioner project to elicit the metaphors of six midcareer managers, relating to the way they experienced work-life balance.
Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the ... more Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...
experience. It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. An a... more experience. It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. An ant colony behaves with an intelligence no particular ant possesses; a brain is conscious although no particular brain cell is; a city develops districts and neighbourhoods no planner could impose. In each case, complex problems are solved by a profusion of relatively simple elements. Order arrives from the bottom up, not top down. Such systems display emergent behaviour: the movement from low-level rules to higher-level sophistication. (Cover of Book) !
Metaphor and Symbol, 2007
It seems odd to be reviewing in this journal an excellent book about the practical use of metapho... more It seems odd to be reviewing in this journal an excellent book about the practical use of metaphor that is 6 years old, already has a couple of translations (Italian and French), and has summary papers in several other languages. But conversations at a recent conference suggested that the work it describes is not yet well known to metaphor researchers. Perhaps this reflects the gulf between the practitioner/trainer world of shared experiences and face-to-face contact versus the academic world of journal articles and statistics. But if I had a research student working on metaphor, experience of Lawley and Tompkins's work would be a key part of the basic training because of its striking capacity to bring our internal metaphorical worlds to life. The first page of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) says: "If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor." James Lawley and Penny Tompkins describe simple techniques that bring this metaphorical foundation to the surface as a vivid "reality." Their book is clearly written, well documented, and very practical, including transcripts that bring the techniques to life. Their Web site (http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk) includes a substantial collection of articles (mainly by them, but also by others, e.g., several important articles by Philip Harland), some of which describe developments since their book was published. Before introducing the techniques, it might help to set the context. The approach described in the book and on the Web site begins in the 1980s with a New Zealander, David Grove, who had moved to the USA as a psychotherapist. He found himself working with clients who had suffered from traumatic events in their childhoods-abuse, for instance. Initially, he adopted Ericksonian hypnotic strategies. However, he became concerned that recovering memories of traumatic events might re-traumatise a client, and a conventional practitioner-client power relationship might take on echoes of the original abuser-abused power relationship. Grove therefore began working indirectly via metaphor-based imagery, and developed a radically client-centered approach. Clients explored their own meta
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2021
Interviewing is the most frequently used qualitative research method for gathering data. Although... more Interviewing is the most frequently used qualitative research method for gathering data. Although interviews vary across different epistemological perspectives, questions are central to all interviewing genres. This article focuses on the potential for the wording of interview questions to lead and unduly influence, or bias, the interviewee’s responses. This underacknowledged phenomenon affects the trustworthiness of findings and has implications for knowledge claims made by researchers, particularly in research that aims to elicit interviewees’ subjective experience. We highlight the problem of the influence of interview questions on data; provide a typology of how interview questions can lead responses; and present a method, the “cleanness rating,” that facilitates reflexivity by enabling researchers to review and assess the influence of their interview questions. This clarifies the researcher’s role in the production of interview data and contributes to methodological transparency.
Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Jul 20, 2022
Allport, Tom Ambiguity 'And' See also Syntax Andreas, Steve and Connirae Applications: anger mana... more Allport, Tom Ambiguity 'And' See also Syntax Andreas, Steve and Connirae Applications: anger management classroom respect clinical rapport computer training corporate metaphors couples and families a doctor's shorthand forgiveness listening maths problem Meta-Aromatherapy modelling motivation to publish moving sound public speaking reaching agreement recruitment Refocussing spirituality symptom description 'As' See also Syntax Assignments for clients Clean questions: 'And can? And does X have a size or shape? And how do you know? And how far? And how many? And how old? And is X inside or outside? And is X the same or different to Y? And is there anything else? And is there a relationship between X and Y? And that's X like what? And then what happens? And what's between X and Y? And what could X be wearing? And what happens just before X? And what happens next? And what kind of ? And what would X like to have happen? And when X what happens to Y? And where are you drawn to? And where are you going? And where could X come from? And where is X Y-ing from? And where is? And whereabouts? And which direction? And would X be interested in going to Y? And would Y like? Client outcomes See also Desired outcomes Client terminology: accumulating backtracking repeating selecting Cognition Combs, Gene Conceptual domain: binds in converting from defined questions of
This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'co... more This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'content-empty' (non-leading) approach to second-person interviewing in the science of consciousness. Also presented is a new systematic third-person method of validation that evaluates the questions and other verbal interventions by the interviewer to produce an adherence-to-method or 'cleanness' rating. A review of 19 interviews from five research studies provides a benchmark for interviewers seeking to minimize leading questions. The inter-rater reliability analysis demonstrates substantial agreement among raters with an average intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.72 (95% CI). We propose that this method of validation is applicable not only to CLI but to second-person interviews more generally.
Anchor Point, 2003
David Grove, the originator of Clean Language and the innovator of many processes for working wi... more David Grove, the originator of Clean Language and the innovator of many processes for
working with autogenic metaphor, has created Clean Space, a new approach that uses emergence to model human perception and facilitate organic change.
British Journal of Management, Jan 17, 2014
The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of quest... more The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of questioning called `Clean Language' can enhance the authenticity and rigour of interview-based qualitative research. The paper explores the specific potential of Clean Language as a method for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors in order to provide in-depth understanding of a person's symbolic world, and also demonstrates how it can improve qualitative research more widely by addressing the propensity for researchers inadvertently to introduce extraneous metaphors into an interviewee's account at both data collection and interpretation stages. Despite substantial interest in metaphors in the field of organisational and management research there is a lack of explicit, systematic methods for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors. The issue of quality in qualitative methods has also been the subject of continuing debate. In order to explore its potential, Clean Language was used as a method of interviewing in a collaborative academic-practitioner project to elicit the metaphors of six midcareer managers, relating to the way they experienced work-life balance.
International Coaching Psychology Review, Sep 1, 2015
Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how... more Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how coachees experience and evaluate coaching. First, we explore the use of ‘Clean Language’ as a phenomenological approach to coaching research, including the eliciting and analysing of data into findings and insights for coaches and coach trainers (Tosey et al., 2014, p.630). Second, we explore the nature of events, effects, evaluations and outcomes reported by coachees after a single coaching session. Design: Three coaches accredited in the same coaching methodology each delivered a single session to two randomly allocated coachees. The coachees were subsequently interviewed twice using Clean Language, in person two days after the coaching and by telephone two weeks later. Methodology: The transcribed follow-up interviews were analysed by an expert in Clean Language (the second author), using a form of thematic analysis within a realist/essentialist paradigm (Braun & Clarke, 2006, p.85). Findings: The interviews elicited detailed information on many aspects of coaching without the interviewer introducing any topics. Coachees’ events, effects and evaluations happened during the coaching session, between that session and the first interview, and during the two weeks between the first and second interviews. Coachees emphasised coaches’ style of repeating back, pacing, setting goals and questioning, maintaining the focus of the session, confronting and challenging, as well as their responsiveness (or lack of it). Increased self-awareness was mentioned by all coachees. Outcomes occurring after the session were maintained two weeks later, at which time new outcomes were also reported. Conclusions: Clean Language Interviewing supplements and extends existing methods of phenomenological interviewing and data coding. The study yielded nuanced findings on the coach behaviours that led coachees to give favourable versus unfavourable evaluations, with implications for coaching psychologists with regard in particular to coaches’ ability to calibrate and respond to coachees’ ongoing evaluation of the coaching, the pace of the session and how the timing of coachees’ feedback affects the findings.
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing
This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'co... more This article reports on Clean Language Interviewing (CLI), a rigorous, recently developed 'content-empty' (non-leading) approach to second-person interviewing in the science of consciousness. Also presented is a new systematic third-person method of validation that evaluates the questions and other verbal interventions by the interviewer to produce an adherence-to-method or 'cleanness' rating. A review of 19 interviews from five research studies provides a benchmark for interviewers seeking to minimize leading questions. The inter-rater reliability analysis demonstrates substantial agreement among raters with an average intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.72 (95% CI). We propose that this method of validation is applicable not only to CLI but to second-person interviews more generally.
Clean Language Interviewing
British Journal of Management, 2014
The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of quest... more The significant, original contribution of this paper is to show how an innovative method of questioning called `Clean Language' can enhance the authenticity and rigour of interview-based qualitative research. The paper explores the specific potential of Clean Language as a method for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors in order to provide in-depth understanding of a person's symbolic world, and also demonstrates how it can improve qualitative research more widely by addressing the propensity for researchers inadvertently to introduce extraneous metaphors into an interviewee's account at both data collection and interpretation stages. Despite substantial interest in metaphors in the field of organisational and management research there is a lack of explicit, systematic methods for eliciting naturally occurring metaphors. The issue of quality in qualitative methods has also been the subject of continuing debate. In order to explore its potential, Clean Language was used as a method of interviewing in a collaborative academic-practitioner project to elicit the metaphors of six midcareer managers, relating to the way they experienced work-life balance.
Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the ... more Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...
experience. It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. An a... more experience. It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. An ant colony behaves with an intelligence no particular ant possesses; a brain is conscious although no particular brain cell is; a city develops districts and neighbourhoods no planner could impose. In each case, complex problems are solved by a profusion of relatively simple elements. Order arrives from the bottom up, not top down. Such systems display emergent behaviour: the movement from low-level rules to higher-level sophistication. (Cover of Book) !
Faire réussir les acteurs clés de l'entreprise: avec les interventions brèves, 2012
Le chapitre en questions: • Qu'est ce qu'un exemple de processus de changement émergent et systé... more Le chapitre en questions:
• Qu'est ce qu'un exemple de processus de changement émergent et systémique?
• Comment le changement peut-il se produire sans technique de changement?
• Comment fonctionne la Modélisation Métaphorique?
• Pourquoi l’appelle-t-on méthodologie de modélisation?
• Pourquoi le Clean Language s’appelle-t-il « Clean »?
• Pourquoi les métaphores des gens sont-elles si importantes?
• Dans quels contextes peut-on utiliser la Modélisation Métaphorique?
• Qu’est-ce que le Clean Space?
BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE, 2017
Chapter 3 in BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE examines how an i... more Chapter 3 in BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE examines how an interviewer’s use of linguistic structures, such as metaphor, presupposition and framing can unintentionally influence the content of an interviewee’s answers, and how that may compromise the authenticity and trustworthiness of the data collected (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). These concerns are addressed by a description of the Clean Language interview method, and a method for checking the validity of research interviews. Finally, there is a discussion of the relevance of Clean Language interviewing to tacit knowledge research.
BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE, 2017
Chapter 2 in BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE concentrates on a... more Chapter 2 in BECOMING A TEACHER: THE DANCE BETWEEN TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE concentrates on a subset of the field of embodied cognition: embodied metaphor. It examines a variety of ways metaphors can be embodied and the links with tacit learning.
Innovations in NLP: Innovations for Challenging Times (Editors: L.Michael Hall & Shelle Rose Charvet), Nov 2011
Chapter 4: Before we introduced David Grove’s work into NLP, metaphors were mostly used to tell M... more Chapter 4: Before we introduced David Grove’s work into NLP, metaphors were mostly used to tell Milton Erickson-style stories. There was little use of autogenic metaphor—metaphors generated by the client. When we stumbled upon David Grove we realized he had devised a new way to "study the structure of subjective experience" —the raison d'être of NLP.
David Grove is best known for Clean Language—a questioning model designed for working with the metaphoric and symbolic domain of experience. In 1995 we decided to model his innovations which led us to write Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling. While we incorporated many of Grove's ideas we also drew upon recent findings in cognitive linguistics, self-organizing systems theory, and evolutionary dynamics.
Our aim was to create a model that could be applied to a range of contexts in addition to psychotherapy—in education, management, research, and so on. When we recently reviewed our model we saw that the process has a central core—Symbolic Modelling Lite—which is presented here for the first time.
Clean Language Interviewing is a landmark publication that defines the field for this important p... more Clean Language Interviewing is a landmark publication that defines the field for this important practice; it is essential reading for all researchers who seek to obtain data that are faithful to the experience of the interviewee. Clean language interviewing aims to improve the ability of academic and applied researchers to minimise the introduction of the interviewer’s own assumptions, to avoid ‘leading’ questions and instead to ask ‘clean’ questions.
Heather Cairns-Lee, James Lawley and Paul Tosey present a state-of-the-art review of the principles and practice of clean language interviewing to make this rigorous and innovative method accessible. Using real application examples, a global group of contributors analyse the use of clean language interviewing in multiple settings including business, education, and healthcare.
What do you do as a therapist, teacher, doctor or manager when your client, student, patient or c... more What do you do as a therapist, teacher, doctor or manager when your client, student, patient or colleague says "It's like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall," "I've got a knot in my stomach" or "I'm looking for the right path to take"?
Metaphors in Mind describes how to give individuals an opportunity to discover how their symbolic perceptions are organised, what needs to happen for these to change, and how they can develop as a result.
Based on David Grove's pioneering therapeutic approach and use of Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling is an emergent, systemic and iterative way of facilitating the psychotherapeutic process.
This comprehensive book covers the theory of metaphor, self-organising systems, symbolic modelling, the practice of Clean Language, the five-stage therapeutic process, and includes three client transcripts.
Cosa fate in qualità di terapisti, insegnanti, medici o manager quando i vostri clienti, student... more Cosa fate in qualità di terapisti, insegnanti, medici o manager quando i vostri clienti, studenti, pazienti o colleghi dicono “È come se stessi sbattendo la testa contro un muro” oppure “Ho un nodo allo stomaco” o “sto cer- cando la via giusta da intraprendere”?
Mente e Metafore descrive come dare agli individui l’opportunità di scoprire come sono organizzate le proprie percezioni simboliche, cosa deve accadere perché queste possano cambiare, e come da questo, come risultato, essi possano trasformarsi.
Basato sull’approccio terapeutico pionieristico di David Grove e sull’uso del Clean Language, il Modellamento Simbolico è una forma emer- gente, sistemica e iterativa di facilitazione del processo psicoterapeutico.
Questo libro parla in modo esaustivo della teo- ria della metafora, dei sistemi auto-organizzan- ti e del modellamento simbolico; della pratica del Clean Language; del Processo Terapeutico in Cinque Stadi; ed include tre trascrizioni di sedute con pazienti.