A Developing Company Press Production
"A Strange and Strong Sensation"
Symbolic Modelling - Change with Metaphor
A training film on DVD or VHS featuring Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
USA and Canada: from: Crown House Publishing UK & elsewhere: from: Anglo American Book Company
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Advances in contemporary psychology have matched recent breakthroughs in the science of self-organising systems and complexity theory. This video offers coaches, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals an opportunity to experience the benefits now available through these innovations.
Symbolic Modelling is a new way of thinking about the change process. At its heart is Clean Language, a profoundly respectful questioning process developed by internationally acclaimed therapist David Grove.This training video accompanies Penny and James' book, Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling. It contains a film of a complete Symbolic Modelling session with on-screen annotation. The client discovers her personal metaphors and symbols and learns how these weave together to form a Metaphor Landscape. She is facilitated to identify the conditions necessary for organic change within this Landscape, so that new ways of perceiving herself and her world emerge. 4 months after the video session, the client commented:
"Things are much calmer, more settled and more in my control. I have a stronger sense of my own identity. I know where I am and what my place is. So that's been very, very nice for me."

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Contents of Video |
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Introduction |
1 min. |
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Client session (annotated) |
48 mins |
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Client's comments: |
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- immediately after
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3 mins |
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- 4 months later |
6 mins |
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Information and credits |
2 mins |
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Total time |
108 mins |
This film helps you follow the client's process by highlighting her key metaphors on-screen so that you can see how they arise and how they change.
Includes a 36-page booklet with a full transcript and unique three-perspective explanatory annotation.
Published by The Developing Company Press,
March 2003
VHS: ISBN 0-9538751-1-3 DVD: ISBN 0-9538751-2-1
The DVD version has 19 Chapters allowing you to go to any part of the process directly.
DVD and VHS video list price: £25.53 (Pounds Sterling, includes VAT)
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Production: |
Phil Swallow |
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Assistant: |
Wendy Sullivan |
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Music: |
Peter McAven
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
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