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What Is Clean Language
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http://www.judyrees.co.uk What Is Clean Language and why is it interesting to therapists, coaches, hypnotists, counsellors, consultants and anyone who helps people to change? Judy Rees, co-author of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds , explains. • Transcript: Clean Language is like the WD40 of change - or that's one person's definition, anyway. I like to think of it as a method of DIY brain imaging. A way of turning on the lights in a person's inner world so that they - and you - and see what is really going on. • Clean Language was originally devised by a chap named David Grove who unfortunately died a couple of years ago, and it was modelled out, it was systematised, with the help of two of my friends, Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. • It works by using the metaphors which underpin someone's thinking. Basically, we think in metaphor at a very profound level (you can read more about this in the world of cognitive linguistics). And because we think in metaphor, we talk in metaphor. • What David devised, in the form of clean language, was a way of using metaphor to really understand what people were thinking. • Now, as David used it, it was a stand-alone method of change. Because what he discovered is that when you help someone to really investigate the metaphors that underpin their thinking, those metaphors will change of their own accord. The person does not have to put work into making them change, and those changes can have a very, very profound effect on the person. • Now, David was using the approach in terms of very deep trauma. He was working with Vietnam veterans and so forth, but the same methodology can also be used in coaching, in consulting, in counselling, in a whole bunch of different contexts. Because David's approach used the metaphors that underpinned people's thinking, it really provokes profound change in lots of different contexts. • The other thing that's interesting about Clean Language is that the model of it, particularly Penny and James' model of it, appears on the face of it to be incredibly simple. • It sort of boils down to nine, or twelve depending on how you look at it, questions which you use. You use only those when you're doing pure Clean Language, and as a result it becomes possible to model out different aspects of change processes and to generalize at quite a high level. • So, you get methodologies coming out of Clean Language like Lynne Cooper's Five-Minute Coach model, or Penny and James's Framework For Change, which don't exploit this metaphorical aspect as much but simply say, Well, this is what can happen when you just use the questions. • Because they're perfectly ordinary questions. There's nothing particularly revolutionary about the questions. The point is how they're used. • In future videos, I'll explain more about that.
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