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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... 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. ...

Reviewing the sweep of David Grove’s psychotherapeutic work from the early 1980s until his death in 2008, one can identify three major phases. Each phase deals with a separate domain of experience and for each one Grove created a... more

Reviewing the sweep of David Grove’s psychotherapeutic work from the early 1980s until his death in 2008, one can identify three major phases. Each phase deals with a separate domain of experience and for each one Grove created a different language model – Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge.
While the content of this article is about joining up the three phases of David Grove's work, the article can be read as a process for integrating many other techniques and approaches as well.

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... 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-by-line 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. simpler, contain less therapist-introduced content (especially metaphors) and fewer leading presuppositions, giving the client a wider scope within which to answer. Areas of SFBT which could be given more attention in Symbolic Modelling were also identified.
Conclusions: While Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Symbolic Modelling have broadly similar aims, these are often achieved by quite different means. With minor modifications, some of the basic principles, process and practices of Clean Language could be incorporated into Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and some of the methods of SFBT could be given more attention in Symbolic Modelling, while preserving the unique nature of both.

We describe an approach, Symbolic Modelling and the Clean Language of David Grove, that can inform psychotherapists and counsellors how to use their voices and bodies to honour and utilise the ways clients express themselves nonverbally... more

We describe an approach, Symbolic Modelling and the Clean Language of David Grove, that can inform psychotherapists and counsellors how to use their voices and bodies to honour and utilise the ways clients express themselves nonverbally via: (1) a mindbody-space; (2) the body as metaphor; (3) physical symptoms.

People meta-comment more frequently than might be expected. In our small survey of psychotherapy clients, they averaged more than one per minute. Despite their frequency and significance, meta-comments are all but ignored by most... more

People meta-comment more frequently than might be expected. In our small survey of psychotherapy clients, they averaged more than one per minute. Despite their frequency and significance, meta-comments are all but ignored by most facilitators. In so doing vital information about the current status of the client's experience can be missed.
For psychotherapists, coaches and other facilitators, perhaps the most significant kinds of meta-comments are those that indicate the client is operating at a pattern level or that something has just changed.
In this paper we identify several ways to make use of meta-comments, and give examples using the Clean Language of David Grove.
While facilitators can overtly utilise their clients' meta-comments, we suggest their main value is to keep the facilitator informed about what is happening for the client, and to point to how they can support the next step in their unfolding process.

This is the second of a two-part article: Part 1 of this article explained that underlying every theory of management or organisation is a metaphor. It described eight commonly used metaphors and Gareth Morgan's method for analysing... more

This is the second of a two-part article:
Part 1 of this article explained that underlying every theory of management or organisation is a metaphor. It described eight commonly used metaphors and Gareth Morgan's method for analysing and facilitating organisations to change.
Part 2 describes a new approach, Symbolic Modelling, which uses client-generated metaphors to facilitate individuals to understand and change themselves and their organisations. Symbolic Modelling can be used as an alternative, or as a supplement to Gareth Morgan's methodology.

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... 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. ...

Drawing on the investigation of physical pointing by Raymond Tallis’ in Michelangelo’s Finger, this article explores the metaphorical role of attentional pointing in a modelling process called symbolic modelling. It suggests that this... more

Drawing on the investigation of physical pointing by Raymond Tallis’ in Michelangelo’s Finger, this article explores the metaphorical role of attentional pointing in a modelling process called symbolic modelling. It suggests that this provides a description of a new perspective in addition to the well-know first, second and third perceptual positions.

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... 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. ...