Thursday, May 10, 2007

Clean langauge and the use of metaphors

Over the last few weeks I’ve been much more aware of the metaphors people use in everyday – and coaching - conversations. And I’ve been noticing the metaphors I use, too. (I like to grasp and grapple with things and to push forward on projects.)

My heightened awareness has come about as the result of attending an introductory course on Clean Language with Marian Way of Apricot Island. This is a methodology for working with the metaphors people use to describe their experiences. There’s a lot of useful information contained in these metaphors and by developing them, it’s possible to get to the heart of the matter really quickly - and to find out what needs to happen for you to get the results you want. I really enjoyed the course - it was excellent.

Marian is running the course again on June 9th and 10th – in a beautiful room within the cloisters of Chichester Cathedral – and if you want to gain a real insight into the way people think, take your listening and questioning skills to a whole new level, and find out how to motivate yourself and others, then I can think of no better way to spend a weekend.

A great mix of theory and practice, it is a very well-structured course, run at a good pace. I am now starting to use Clean Language and can’t wait to learn more (the next course is in October…).

Marian’s also running a personal development workshop called “Discover Your Creative Self”, using the ‘clean’ approach. This is happening in July – also in Chichester. So if you want to experience expert clean facilitation and would like to be more creative, I’m sure this will be a real treat too.

For more information, contact Marian on 0845 330 1577 (local call rate) or email her at marian@apricotisland.com. Or see the relevant pages on her website:
· Clean Language training
· Discover Your Creative Self workshop

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