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Metaphors in Mind
3-day workshop in Sydney, Australia
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
January 31 - February 2, 2009
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley (biography), developers of Symbolic Modelling (which includes the Clean Language of David Grove) will be in
Sydney, Australia in January/February 2009 and running a
workshop to: - Demonstrate Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language live
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Show you how to model systemically to encourage conditions for organic change
- Discover your own Metaphor Landscape
Find out why the influential cognitive scientist and linguist, Steven Pinker, highlighted (in The Stuff of Thought) “A book on psychotherapy
called Metaphors in Mind calls on therapists to work with their
patients’ metaphors like: 'I have a sensitive radar for insults' and 'I’m trapped behind a door'.”
Outside the workshop,
James and Penny will be available for
private therapy sessions with individuals,
or for small group work.
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Below you will find details of:
- The Workshop, Jan 31-Feb 2
- Venue
- Cost, Booking and Contact Details
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Other Events - January 14 and 21st
- Recommended introductory articles
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THE WORKSHOP
Metaphors in Mind: Personal change through the new science of emergence
“Science
has now moved from the Age of Reductionism to an Age of Emergence, a
time when the search for ultimate causes of things shifts from the
behaviour of parts to the behaviour of the collective. There can be no
doubt that the dominant paradigm is now organizational.”
Nobel Prize winner for Physics, Robert Laughlin, A Different Universe, 2006 Cognitive
science and psychology are part of this fundamental paradigm shift. No
longer do leading thinkers use metaphors of machines, engineering,
linear cause-effect, problem-solution, centralised control and power.
It seems the world is decentralised and complex through and
through. Reductionism is having to hand over its crown to the new
science of emergence. The paradigm shift is based on three new ways of
making sense of human experience:
- Humans,
individually and collectively, self-organise. Self-organising systems
have no central control. Instead they are based on dynamic intelligent
networks, that are complex, adaptive and emergent.
- Metaphor is not some figurative icing on the narrative cake, it is intrinsic to language, thought and deed.
- Knowledge
for the most part is not based on abstract concepts and well-defined
categories, but embodied through and through in a fuzzy, non-linear
logic.
These
developments require a radical new view of how human's change. One that
accepts that although transformative change is indeterminate and
unpredictable, the conditions for serendipitous events can be
encouraged. Symbolic Modelling,
has been rooted in this new worldview since its inception a decade ago.
Symbolic Modelling is not just about thinking in terms of systems, it
is a way to facilitate systemically.
Few
approaches implement the new paradigm as congruently as Symbolic
Modelling. Based on the groundbreaking work of David Grove,
Symbolic Modelling integrates the Grovian 'clean' philosophy, the use
of client-generated metaphor, the facilitator as a modeller, and
systemic outcome orientation into one integrated package. The principal
focus of this approach is the client's relationship with their own
‘metaphor landscape’ — a psychoactive
4-dimensional, imaginative world existing within and around them. The
emergent dynamic feedback loop provides an inherent directionality,
often guiding the client to places they didn’t know they
needed to go, and to outcomes that surprise and delight both them and
their facilitator. WHAT YOU WILL GET AT THE WORKSHOP Attend for 1, 2 or all 3 days
We have arranged the workshop so you can attend for:
- Day 1 only, if you want a taster of what Symbolic Modelling is and how it works
- Days 1 & 2 only, if you can devoted a weekend to learning the basics of Clean Language, Metaphor and Modelling
- Days 1,2 & 3, for a more in-depth learning experience.
The workshop consists of:
Day 1 - Jan 31, 2009
- Live Symbolic Modelling client sessions demonstrated and debriefed.
- Recognising metaphors and how they represents the structure of experience.
- Discover
your own ‘generative metaphor’ and facilitate
others using the most common Clean Language questions.
Day 2 - Feb 1, 2009
- Demonstrations of identifying, developing and evolving Desired Outcomes.
- The embodied nature of metaphor and its psychoactive role.
- Work
with a desired outcome for a personal development topic of your
choosing and facilitate using the basic Clean Language question set.
Day 3 - Feb 2, 2009
- Demonstrations of working with problematic patterns.
- The significance of space and nonverbal metaphor in the change process.
- More practice using Clean Language, with coaching from Penny, James and an experienced team of assistants.
VENUE
TIGERS - Balmain Leagues Club
138-152 Victoria Rd, Rozelle NSW 2039
For directions to venue: www.tigers.org.au |
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PRICES
(in Australian Dollars)
Payment of a non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your place
Full payment is required by 31st December, 2008
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Price
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Non-refundable deposit
(20%)
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Day 1 only: Jan 31, 2009
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$250
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$50 |
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Days 1 & 2: Jan 31 and Feb 1, 2009 |
$450 |
$90
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Days 1, 2 & 3: Jan 31, Feb 1 and 2, 2009 |
$600 |
$120
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Metaphors in Mind - Therapeutic Modelling in Action
evening of January 21st 2009
“My admiration for what James and Penny have done is unbounded and it has — in the modelling tradition — enhanced what is available in the NLP world for us all to use.”
Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work; NLP Solutions; and NLP and Leadership.
Penny and James will demonstrate and debrief how they apply modelling as a change process by using Symbolic Modelling and David Grove's Clean Language.
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RECOMMENDED INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES
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Coaching: Coaching with Metaphor
Therapy: Tangled Spaghetti in My Head
Health: The Mind, Metaphor and Health
Education: Learning Metaphors
ALSO by Penny and James
Book: Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
DVD: A Strange and Strong Sensation
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We look forward to seeing you in January! |
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
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Penny and James have both been UKCP registered psychotherapists since 1993, supervisors, coaches in business, and
certified NLP trainers. They co-authored 
