Read on for your very LAST CHANCE to book on our Clean Language for Coaches training course - starts WEDS 12TH APRIL with choice of class times. Plus a short excerpt from my book "Clean Coaching: The Insider Guide to Making Change Happen"

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Hurry if you want top quality online Clean Language for under £200.00...

It's your very last chance to book on our very popular and intensive introduction to Clean Language course, specifically designed for coaches. Click here for full details

This online course covers all the basic Clean Language questions and a variety of ways to use them in a coaching context. Not only that, you will learn how to spot metaphors and how to explore them with the coachee to enable them to make transformational change in their lives. Above all, this online course is not a hands-off, distance learning, it's up close and personal and you will practice, participate and get comprehensive feedback on your use of Clean Language and how to improve.

With a minimum of 12 hours of learning as part of this course (and a whole lot more optional materials, exercises and demo recordings/transcripts) this is an excellent way to not only gain understanding of Clean Language but actually learn HOW TO APPLY IT in your coaching, AND have the confidence to do so...

Course starts on 12th April, further class dates: 26th April, 17th May and 24th May 2017. Class times 11.00am or 6.00pm (UK time)

As a recent participant said:
"I just wanted to drop you an e-mail to say how much I gained from the module. I found it extremely informative and the practical application sessions have proved invaluable. It has most definitely helped me to embed clean techniques in my own coaching sessions and the results have proved very effective."

FAQs
Q: I've already learnt the basics about Clean Language - why do I need this course?

A: You will have the opportunity to practice, practice, practice and be given the opportunity to embed your learning into your real-life coaching conversations and get results

Q: I can't make all the class dates, is it worth attending?

A: Of course it is better to attend the classes live whenever you can. However if you miss one or two classes, you can easily catch up by listening / watching the class recordings that are always sent after the live event. Angela will also be available for a short catch up call on a one-to-one with anyone who misses a class. If you can put in the time to listen to the missed class and extra time to get in touch with Angela, it will not lessen your learning experience at all.

Q: I'm curious about Clean Language and working with metaphors but know very little about it. Will this course start from the basics?

A: Absolutely, the course assumes no prior knowledge and will gradually build your understanding of working with metaphors, by looking at individual Clean Language questions one by one and showing how they can be used

Q: I'd love to attend a course but I have no experience of joining an online course and I'm not familiar with the technology

A: We will make it simplicity itself for you. You can have a 'test' call to make sure you can connect okay and all your settings work, then be given a private tutorial on how to mute yourself, switch on and off your webcam etc., all ensuring you get the most out of the live classes. IN ADDITION you can, if preferred, join us the old fashioned way by any landline telephone, normal call charges apply. You will be emailed the class visuals so you can see any presentations. pictures etc to support your learning.

Q: How do I book?

A: Just email me on coach@angeladunbar.co.uk and I'll reserve your spot and send you a booking form

THE ART OF ASKING 'STUPID' QUESTIONS?

Asking stupid questions?
When I was in my early twenties, I earned myself a reputation for asking ‘stupid’ questions. I was working in my first proper corporate position, in an internal sales support role. I was part of a team, and attended regular meetings. Sometimes the meetings were about planning ahead and making forecasts. Sometimes they were more creative, aimed at generating new ideas for solving existing problems. I was curious about and questioned EVERYTHING. I wanted to check and double-check what people meant when they talked about things like ‘raising the bar’ or ‘tightening our belts’. I wanted to be clear on jargon, vague terms or buzzwords like ‘profitability’ and ‘customer-centric’. When meetings invariably overrun and I was STILL raising my hand to query another point, my colleagues would groan.

People who didn’t know me thought I was new or dumb. Those that did know me knew I was neither of those things, but still didn’t understand why I was asking so many questions. They would tease that I was being attention-seeking or being manipulative by playing dumb. But the truth of the matter was that I was asking questions about stuff that everybody said they knew, but no-one ever actually discussed. These were the taken for granted rules of working: the situations that everybody knows full well; the assumptions we all thought matched everyone else’s; the limitations we just have to put up with. I quickly learnt that once a question like this was raised, the ‘truth’ was up for debate! People saw these supposed universally agreed areas very differently once you scratched beneath the surface. I learnt that when I said “This may be a stupid question, but...” - What followed was a very necessary and important clarification. To do this I needed to be both brave and a little bit naive.

Over the years I’ve continued to ask so-called ‘stupid’ questions and it’s become the cornerstone of my career. Clean Coaching could be considered the art of asking stupid questions. By asking another person to clarify the meaning of their words, you raise questions about apparently obvious things that need no explanation or exploration. But the answers you get are far from obvious, as the assumptions we make about people’s meanings are rarely correct. Clean questions hold a mirror up to the coachee, so they can see their own meanings reflected back at them. This allows them to explore and develop their own thoughts in sometimes astounding ways.
So called ‘stupid’ questions can evoke especially clever answers.

Excerpt from book "Clean Coaching: The Insider Guide to Making Change Happen" by Angela Dunbar. Buy from Amazon here.

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