Symbolic Modelling Lite
and the Clean Language of David Grove
 8 - 10 June 2012with
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
in English and translated into French
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Symbolic
Modelling is a radically different way of facilitating change based on a
new view of how a person organises their internal world:
- Metaphor is not some figurative icing on the narrative cake, it is intrinsic to language, thought and deed.
- Humans,
individually and collectively, self-organise. Self-organising systems
have no central control. Instead they are based on dynamic intelligent
networks that are adaptive and emergent.
- 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.
No
change technique is required! Changes emerge spontaneously and are
matured organically until the client embodies new metaphors to live by.
The role of the facilitator is to encourage the conditions for change
and to follow every potentially serendipitous shift. What makes this
methodology so useful and innovative is its simplicity and its 'clean'
philosophy. Ernest Rossi, long time collaborator with Milton Erickson,
says this approach "helps people learn how to facilitate their own
creativity in solving their own problems in their own way."
Symbolic Modelling:
- Allows a client to work content-free, if they wish
- Makes it is easier to work at the process and structural level
- Operates at multiple levels simultaneously
- Is
like a gift that keeps on giving. In the session a process unfolds
which can continue for days, weeks and sometimes for years. A good
resource metaphor can last a lifetime.
The new, streamlined, Lite version of Symbolic Modelling is easy to learn, simple to use, and can
be applied in many contexts as wells as coaching and therapy
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This
event offers coaches, therapists, consultants and others an opportunity
to learn Symbolic Modelling Lite and Clean Language from two recognised
world leaders in the field. Others who have attended this course have
found that they are able to immediately apply their learning in their
own work setting.
Program
Day 1 - Introduction to Symbolic Modelling Lite
- How metaphors represent the structure of experience
- The importance of Clean Language when working in the symbolic domain
- Demonstration and debrief of a Symbolic Modelling Lite session
- Discover your own 'resource metaphor' and be a facilitator for others using the basic Clean Language questions
Day 2 - Facilitating desired outcomes through embodied metaphor
- Identifying, developing and evolving desired outcomes
- The Problem-Remedy-Outcome model
- Four fundamental modelling processes
- Working on a desired outcome of your choice for personal development
Day 3 - Facilitating Conditions for Change
- Demonstration of working with problem patterns
- Using specialised Clean Language questions
- The significance of working with perceptual space in the process of change
- More practice in the use of Symbolic Modelling Lite, supervised by Penny, James and a team of experienced assistants
Penny
Tompkins and James Lawley are supervising psychotherapists –
registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since
1993. They have provided coaching and consultancy to
organisations as diverse as GlaxoSmithKline, Yale University Child Study
Center, NASA Goddard Space Center and the Findhorn Spiritual Community
in Northern Scotland.
Their book, Metaphors in Mind (translated into French as Des métaphores
dans la tête was the first comprehensive guide to the approach which they demonstrate in a training DVD, A Strange and Strong Sensation, based on a live session.
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