When the Remedy is the Problem
How attempts at solving a problem can perpetuate or exacerbate that problem or create another problem.
Using metaphors with coaching
Metaphors in everyday language are a ‘key’ to deciphering our unconscious wisdom. Published, Bulletin of the Association for Coaching.
Learning from relationship
Applying Gottman’s research plus five exercises.
Tangled spaghetti in my head
Making use of metaphor in counselling and psychotherapy. Published in ‘Therapy Today’.
Clean Language in Sport
metaphors give performers greater awareness of their sensory/intuitive processes and provides a language to discuss the previously difficult to describ’ processes like: “How to get into the zone”.
Steve Andreas on Symbolic Modelling
Extract from Six Blind Elephants: Understanding ourselves and each other with extensive comments by James Lawley.
Clean Conversations
How to use Clean Language in everyday conversations.
Emergent Knowledge and Clean Coaching
How David Grove’s Clean Coaching using EK differs from conventional coaching. Published with Carol Wilson in The Model.
Feedback Loops
10 principles to support you to think systemically rather then linearly – an advanced mindset for working cleanly with human self-organising systems.
Six Degrees of Freedom
The history and principles of David Grove’s Emergent Knowledge process. Published with Carol Wilson in ReSource.
Preferences
What and how we like: Distinguishing between different kinds of perceived preferences.