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Module 1: Introducing Clean Language and Metaphor

Curious about Clean Language?  This elegant and powerful questioning technique may seem simple — but it opens a door to a new way of thinking about how people’s minds actually work.

Latest research reveals that metaphor is the very stuff of thought.  So if you want to truly understand people and how they tick, you’ll find it much easier when you can help them explore their internal metaphoric worlds.

In these two packed days you’ll get to grips with the basic Clean Language questions (devised by David Grove) and start to use them to investigate the metaphors people use.  The results will surprise and delight you.

With Clean, you’ll be equipped to:

  • Help people escape their well-worn 'prepared scripts' and uncover their own secret truth

  • Avoid 'leading the witness' by staying ‘Clean’

  • Fully recognise difference and diversity

  • Reduce the risk of unconscious bias or unwitting unhelpful suggestions

  • Gather rich layers of knowledge to encourage creative development and change.

In this Module you will:

  • Learn four different types of Clean question, and find out how and when to use them

  • Come face to face with the importance of metaphor, both in language and in thought

  • Start to notice and exploit the ‘casual’ metaphors in everyday conversation

  • Take your listening skills to a new level

  • Discover the value of your own metaphors.

http://www.cleanchange.co.uk/store/module-1-introducing-clean-language-and-metaphor-p-4.html

“Want to bag a bargain?  You could start your Clean Language training next month for a fraction of the normal price by joining the Ebay auction   Selling a seven-day training via the online auction site is a little unusual - the site is better known as the place to shop for concert tickets and collectables.  But we've recently been experimenting with the site for selling Clean Change Cards and CDs, so when we realised we still had some spaces on our course from 9 - 15 October in London, we thought, 'Why not?'  As I write the price stands at just £3...  who'll be the lucky buyer?”

Judy Rees

More Hot News:  New book “Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds” Wendy Sullivan & Judy Rees. pbk. Crown House Publishing 28th November 2008. £16.99.  Available on Amazon prepublication at £11.21