Forthcoming Clean Coaching Online training dates - book now and get discounted price

Clean Language for Coaches Module One: “Exploring Metaphors with Clean Language”:

Covering traditional Clean Language processes as created by David Grove and developed by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. You will gain an understanding of how to enter a client’s inner world through metaphors and help them explore issues and reach solutions from a deeper source of knowledge.

Cost: £198.00 for 12 hours interactive learning including four classes and supervised practice sessions. Or pay just £178.20 early bird rate if you book and pay by NEXT WEDNESDAY 15th February. Further discounts available for booking all modules together. Module Two and Three dates tba.  
 

Spring dates: Weds 15th March, 29th March, 12th April and 26th April, class times 11.00am to 12.30pm UK time – plus alternative evening classes available as required.  

All classes are recorded so you can catch up if unable to attend any live.

For further information and to book, go to: http://www.cleancoaching.com/#/clean-language-for-coaches/4532940976

 
Or email me now to reserve your space or ask any questions.

For previous attendees - remember you can repeat this course free of charge if we have spaces available, Please register your interest now if you can make the dates.
***Each module counts towards our ILM endorsed “Clean Coaching” accreditation scheme***

LEARN “CLEANER THAN CLEAN” TECHNIQUES WITH:

"Gaining Insight through Movement"  - From 13th April 2017
 

The clean techniques of “Emergent Knowledge” created by David Grove later in his life are far less familiar to most, however in many ways  it has advantages over Clean Language as it is easier to learn and simpler to use effectively, especially in a coaching context.  Emergent Knowledge capitalizes on space, movement and iteration as powerful triggers for accessing knowledge that already exists – but just outside the coachee’s conscious awareness. As Nancy Kline says: “You know much more than you think you know” and this is one method for accessing that knowledge.

 
This module covers 'Clean' techniques and processes developed by David Grove later in his life, for working  with coachees, incorporating space, movement and the science of emergence. Learn how networking principles apply to thinking processes and how an iterative and recursive question process can ‘breakthrough’ stuck thought patterns and create new perspectives leading to change without effort.

Spring dates: Thursday 13th April, 27th April, 11th May and 25th May 2017, class times 11.00am to 12.30pm UK time plus alternative evening classes available as required.  

This includes four live online classes, audio recordings of all classes plus demonstration sessions, transcripts and most importantly supervised practice sessions amongst all class participants.

Cost is just £178.20 early bird rate if you book by 13th March, or £198.00 at full price. Further discounts available for booking all modules together.

Email coach@angeladunbar.co.uk now for more information or visit our website www.cleancoaching.com 

WHEREABOUTS ARE YOU HEADING AND HOW DO YOU KNOW?

One of the most common metaphors people use is the ‘path’ or ‘journey’ metaphor.

People often represent their imagined future, including their desired goals, as though it were in some kind of mental space or destination somewhere out there, (usually) in front of them.

The path or journey, then becomes the steps along the imagined road ahead.

Coaches often talk about helping their clients get from where they are now to where they want to be, and journey / travel metaphors crop up frequently within coaching conversations. Even the word ‘coach’ is a metaphor for a vehicle to get you someplace else.

Like all metaphors, the journey metaphor is both constructive – it helps us to understand complex concepts (such as future time) and constrictive – in that it takes limitless possibilities and wraps it up into a single bounded parcel called a goal.  In our mind’s eye we imagine our outcome as existing somewhere ‘out there’, in a single location and even having a certain form, shape and size. David Grove referred to this mental ‘goal’ space as ‘B’ and our current reality as ‘A’. But rather than needing to travel along a single, linear path between the two points, coachees often need to challenge their mental representations to think outside the goal as they see it. Anthony Grant, in his paper on “An Integrated Model of Goal-focused Coaching” points out that goals are not monolithic. Rather than one giant, single homogenous destination to be aimed at like an arrow reaching for bulls-eye, goals tends to be multiple, diverse and conflicting. He describes coaching as supporting a ‘self-regulation’ cycle that is iterative rather than a step by step process. For instance, as the coachee reflects more deeply on their current circumstances,  what they know about their goal ‘destination’ is likely to shift. As the goal emphasis changes, so does their perception of their current reality. And so on around and around in a feedback loop where personal, higher-order values gradually emerge. Grant suggests there are over twenty types of goals that can be used in coaching, and although he is supporting a goal focused approach he points out that inexperienced  coaches tend to rush towards the first goal that comes along in a coaching session rather than allow for more meaningful and congruent goals to emerge.

Clean Coaching helps the coachee to literally map out their internal mental spaces in the ‘real’ space around them and by physically  moving into different spaces, new perspectives and possibilities can be tried on for size.  Clean Language questions provide a means of giving shape to formless concepts through metaphors, in such a way that the coachee can experience and experiment with mental images and bring creative ideas alive. In this way, what they know about their goals and what needs to happen to reach them can gradually become clearer and new pathways for progress be discovered.