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INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES:

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

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ALSO by Penny Tompkins & James Lawley:

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

DVD: A Strange and Strong Sensation

Featured Articles Joining Up the work of David Grove
This paper presents a model that ‘joins up’ the three main phases of David Grove's work. Rather than trying to integrate the phases into a single process I have maintained the individuality of each domain and language model. I used the metaphor of ‘join up’ because David was inspired by The Horse Whisper, Monty Roberts.
Vectoring and Systemic Outcome Orientation
Whatever happens during a session, excellent facilitators and therapists always seem to know where to go next. They are also able to pursue a line of questioning and to navigate elegantly through the client’s information.  To find out how they do this we undertook a modelling project. Our exemplars were David Grove, Steve De Shazer, Robert Dilts, Steve Andreas (and ourselves).  
Ethics of Change Work
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." 
Feedback loops

What is a feedback loop?
What are the ten principles of feedback loops?
What difference does it make to think in terms of feedback loops?
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What is Emergence?
The point is not to have another piece of knowledge called 'emergence'; rather it is to learn to think and operate in a new way. A way that is congruent with the subject matter: bottom-up, circular feedback loops, indirect control. While we may talk about emergence, our aim is to create conditions for you to 'think emergently'.

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