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.  A review of the ideas from The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb who asserts that "our world is dominated by
the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable — and all the while we spend our time engaged in
small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated. In spite of our progress and growth, the
future will be increasingly less predictable, while both human nature
and social 'science' seem to conspire to hide this idea from us."
 The notes of a prototype model of how to use Vivian Gladwell's (of Nose to Nose) approach to training clowns to develop any skill that can benefit from in-the-moment feedback which does not interupt the process. The example given is enhancing skills of Symbolic Modelling.  "In all living creatures, from snails to people, knowledge of space is central to behavior. We live in it, move through it, explore it, defend it. Space is unlike other senses [because it] is not analyzed by a specialized sensory organ. The brain must combine inputs from several different sensory modalities and then generate a complete internal representation that does not depend exclusively on any one input. How, then, is space represented?" I n Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, Eric R. Kandel, Norton, 2007 ‘Meta comments’ are those verbal and
nonverbal expressions which comment on what is being or has just been
experienced. These ‘about-the-now’ comments can
range from fully conscious and explicit to the completely unconscious
and implicit. They are much more common than you might expect. Find out how to recognise and make use of them in your facilitation.
Iteration, Iteration, Iteration
If you search for 'iteration' on the web you will find precious little
outside the domain of mathematics and computing. And yet iteration is
commonly seen in nature as a way for organisms to grow and develop and
as a change process in an increasing number of psychotherapeutic
procedures. So what is iteration and how can we make use of it? These are unpublished notes written for The Developing Group.  Our aim is "To get you to think networks. It is about how networks emerge, what they look like, and how they evolve. ... Networks are present everywhere. All we need is an eye for
them."  An introduction to the Perceiver-Perceived-Relationship-Context (PPRC) model. It enables a client’s verbal and nonverbal behaviour to be used to infer how they construct their model of their world, i.e. it is a model of perception from the client’s perspective.  A joined-up model of how methodologies derived from the work of David Grove invoke the psychoactivity of spatial relations in therapeutic, as well as in other settings. Once a space becomes psychoactive a person is effectively 'living in their metaphor'. Then, when something changes in that perceptual space (often spontaneously), more of their mind-body is involved. This usually produces a more embodied and systemic change. ‘When’ and as’ one of the primary ways to cleanly invite clients to attend to an aspect of their perception of their Metaphor Landscape. These notes describe how ‘when’ and ’as’ can be used: - To enhance the effectiveness of your questions by more precisely directing the client’s attention
- To specify or frame the context in which the question is answered
- In a variety of ways
- At different times in the process.
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