Clean language
A questioning method that minimizes facilitator influence on client metaphors.
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Clean language began in counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching, and later spread to education, business, organizational change, and health. Instead of offering ready-made metaphors, the practitioner asks clients to create their own, such as by asking "And that's like what?" This technique also led to clean language interviewing for research.
Quick Facts
- Originator
- David J. Grove
- Decade of origin
- 1980s
- Notable publication
- Resolving Traumatic Memories: Metaphors and Symbols in Psychotherapy (1989/1991) with Basil Panzer
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Did You Know?
- Clean language is the basis for symbolic modeling, a stand-alone method for psychotherapy and coaching developed by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins.
- A life coach suggested a self-coaching exercise using clean language questions written on strips of paper, drawn randomly from a table.
- Clean language also forms the basis for clean space and systemic modelling, applied in organisational development.
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- Wikipedia: Clean language (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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