Clean & Emergent Research Group

Below is a list of the topics applied by the Clean and Emergent Research Group (originally called The Metaphor and Clean Language Research Group) established in 1999 from an initiative by Philip Harland.

I have begun to add links to articles related to each topic, suggestions of other resources on the web welcome.

Date	Topic	Links to Resources
Sep 1999	Relationship and Interaction
Jan 2000	Pattern	Resolving Problem Patterns - Harland
Apr 2000	Thresholds	Feedback Loops - Tompkins & Lawley
Nov 2000	Perceivers	The Perceivers - The Research Group Multiple Perceptions, Perspectives and Perceivers - Tompkins & Lawley
Mar 2001	Relating	Learning from Relationship - Tompkins & Lawley
Jun 2001	Sex and Sensuality
Sep 2001	Death and Renewal
Dec 2001	Couples & Systemic Therapy
Mar 2002	Categories
Jun 2002	Leading Cleanly	Clean Conversations - Tompkins & Lawley
Aug 2002	Creativity
Dec 2002	Connections
Feb 2003	Group Dynamics
May 2003	Clean Space	First Clean Space Process - David Grove Clean Space - Tompkins & Lawley Clean Space Revisited - Tompkins & Lawley
Oct 2003	Wellness and Illness
Jan 2004	Attention	Paying attention to what they're paying attention to - Tompkins & Lawley
Apr 2004	Purpose
Jun 2004	Sin and Evil
Oct 2004	Dreams
Jan 2005	Sex  and Gender
Apr 2005	Group Metaphor #1 / Mapping
Jun 2005	Group Metaphor #2 / The Preposition ‘In’	Embodied Schema - Tompkins & Lawley
Oct 2005	Memory
Jan 2006	History of Metaphor Landscapes #1
Apr 2006	History of Metaphor Landscapes #2
Jun 2006	Landscapes of Time	Endings and Beginnings - Tompkins & Lawley
Oct 2006	Props and Ink Blots
Jan 2007	Deciding	How The Brain Feels: Volition - Harland
Apr 2007	Guilt and Shame
Jun 2007	Forgiveness
Oct 2007	Seeing Similarity & Making Connections
Jan 2008	Emergent Knowledge and The Power of Six	Emergent Knowledge and Clean Coaching - David Grove with Carol Wilson Six Degrees of Freedom - Grove & Wilson What is Emergence? - Tompkins & Lawley
Apr 2008	The Power of Six: Witnessing and Reflections	www.powersofsix.com - Harland & Hudson
Jul 2008	Modelling Somatic Awareness	Body Awareness - Tompkins & Lawley
Oct 2008	Six of one and half a dozen of the other	The Power of Six: A Six-Part Guide to Self-Knowledge - Philip Harland
Jan 2009	Boundaries and Thresholds
Apr 2009	Psychogeography & Other Aspects of Space	Proximity and Meaning - Tompkins & Lawley Neurobiology of Space - Tompkins & Lawley When Where Matters - Tompkins & Lawley
Jul 2009	The Six Space Symptom
Oct 2009	Tenth Anniversary (joint with Paris Group)
Jan 2010	The Wobble
Apr 2010	A Future For The Past
Jun 2010	The limits of Clean
Oct 2010	What is clean?	Clean Conversations - Tompkins & Lawley
Apr 2011	Spring Clean (joint with Paris Group)
Jun 2011	Polarities
Oct 2011	Inhibition

James Lawley

James Lawley is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, coach in business, and certified NLP trainer, and professional modeller. He is a co-developer of Symbolic Modelling and co-author (with Penny Tompkins) of Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling. For a more detailed biography see about us and his blog.