Clean Language

Would you like better relationships, a deeper understanding of the people around you, and a simple yet powerful way to help them achieve their life goals?

Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds can offer all this and more. This book will teach you a new way to communicate which gets to the heart of things! By asking Clean Language questions to explore the metaphors which underpin a person’s thinking, you can help people to change their lives in a way that intrinsically respects diversity and supports empowerment. Both you and they will gain profound new insights into what makes them tick. Devised by David Grove, this elegant and powerful questioning technique is simple to learn and opens a door to a new way of thinking about how people’s minds actually work by using metaphor. If you want to truly understand people, to motivate them, or to help them to change, you’ll find it much easier when you use Clean Language to ask the questions that really matter. The approach was originally used to help clients to resolve deep trauma. It is now being used to get to the truth and to cut through complex problems by some of the sharpest and most innovative people in the world, such as business people, coaches, educators, health professionals and many others. In this book, two of the world’s top specialists in Clean Language bring this fascinating new approach within reach. Expect to change the way you think about the way we think! Essential reading for coaches, healthcare professionals, parents, business people, teachers, therapists and anyone who wants to improve his or her communication skills.

Author Biography

Wendy Sullivan is a specialist international trainer of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling who has worked with the founders of that field – Penny Tompkins, James Lawley and David Grove – for more than eight years. Her students span five continents and include private individuals and corporate clients, who use these powerful approaches in personal development and to improve communication, relationships and business success. She is a registered psychotherapist and a certified trainer of NLP and, with Judy Rees, runs West London-based Clean Change Company (www.cleanchange.co.uk).Judy Rees is a Certified Clean Facilitator – an expert in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling – who runs West London-based Clean Change Company (www.cleanchange.co.uk) with Wendy Sullivan. She works with individuals and groups to facilitate transformative ‘adventures’ which can tackle issues ranging from personal relationships to sales effectiveness. A former news reporter and media executive, she also uses Clean in interviewing, online networking, and business development. She is a Master Practitioner of NLP.