10. Applications Room

We are now in the Applications Room on the upper floor of The Gallery. James and I always ask people to let us know how they apply and develop this work. In this way the clean community can share its wealth of knowledge and learn from each other.

It is heart warming to see the list grow and grow, and extend into undreamed of areas. In this room you will see that people have written about applying clean methods and principles to: Psychotherapy & Counselling, Coaching, Business & Organisations, Education, Health,  Sport, Reseach & Interviewing and Self-Development.

While it is difficult to pick out a couple of articles from the dozens available, to get an idea of the range of applications I suggest:

•  Like a Kid in a Sweet Shop, an example of creative metaphor work with Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant, The Fat Duck, was named the best in the world.

• Learning Metaphors, a guide for teachers and trainers.

• Clean Language in Sport, based on work with the GB Open Dragon Boat Team.

• Metaphors of Organisations - Part 2, a review of work being done with individuals, teams and companies.

There are numerous other interesting applications that have not yet been written up.  Some are: teaching Clean Language to the Police for interviewing vulnerable witnesses; using Clean Language for research and interviewing in a renewable energy project; preparing long-term unemployed for work; consulting to a Yale University team designing questionnaires for schoolchildren; training opera students to reach high notes; journalists teaching interviewing skills to other journalists; analysis of Food and Drugs Administration meetings; teaching systems theory in a university; accessing enhanced meditative and spiritual states; teaching the principles of Clean Language and some of the questions to thousands of Weight Watchers group leaders across the world — I could go on and on.

If you would like to let the world know about what you are doing and how you are applying this work in your particular area of interest, contact us to find out how to have your work published in this room of The Gallery.

Even if your only language is English, I think you will find it interesting to see what is going on outside the English-speaking world, so let’s go next door and find out about Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language Worldwide.