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Wayne Turmel host of The Cranky Middle Manager Show talks to Penny Tomkins and James Lawley about using 'Clean Language' and the value and psychology of metaphors. Listen in at cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com

INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES:

Coaching: Coaching with Metaphor
Therapy: Tangled Spaghetti in My Head
Health: The Mind, Metaphor and Health
Education: Learning Metaphors
Video + Annotated Transcript

ALSO by Penny Tompkins & James Lawley:

Book: Metaphors in Mind
In-depth explanation of Clean Language

DVD: A Strange and Strong Sensation

Featured Articles Ethics of Change Work

By Penny Tompkins & James Lawley

A response to a request by John Grinder (co-developer of NLP) for information about David Grove's work and Symbolic Modelling as examples of processes that involve "transactions that are designed to provoke change without the imposition of the agent’s own material." 

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Steve Andreas on Symbolic Modelling

By James Lawley

Steve Andreas has generously allowed us to reproduce the pages of his new book, Six Blind Elephants, where he analyses Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. Following the extract we have copied our response to Steve's original manuscript as it contains some valuable distinctions about clean questions and a clean methodology.

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Clean Space: the first workshop

By David Grove

These may be the first written notes of David Grove describing his embryonic Clean Space process during a workshop in Auckland, New Zealand in February 2002.

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