Some people worry about asking the Clean Language questions because they fear they’ll sound mechanical. Like a Dalek, in fact! The thing is, if you use Clean Language in a mechanical way, you’ll get results like the Dalek in the video above…
Reading The Five-Minute Coach last week set me thinking afresh about a topic that’s bugged me for years: where’s the best place to start when learning to use Clean Language? For authors Lynne Cooper and Mariette Castellino, it seems it̵…
Excellent! Another book I wish I’d written! If you want step-by-step instructions for using Clean Language in a business coaching context, this is the book for you – whether your role officially includes coaching or not. The Five-Minute C…
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” I was looking up this quote online recently when I discovered that it wasn’t Goethe who wrote it, as I had always believed. In fact, it was…
Why do you do what you do? That’s a big question. But when you can answer it, lots of other things become much easier. On a marketing course with Daniel Priestley at the weekend I loved honing, then sharing, my “rant” about the roots …
I’ve recently started working with a personal fitness trainer. He’s got no idea about Clean Language or what I do. That’s a plus in lots of ways – not least because I can write about the experience here. In our session yesterday…
When you’re in a conversation – particularly a “coaching” conversation – how much attention do you pay to your own body? If your answer is “Not much” then you’re probably missing out on a huge reservoir…
One of the most valuable ways to use Clean Language in everyday conversations is to help somebody to get specific about something. For example, in coaching, I’ll often use the Clean Language questions to help my client to get really clear about w…
One of the most interesting ways of using Clean Language – and one that’s closest to my heart – is to resolve conflict. That might be conflict within families, between children, within work groups and teams… and longstanding com…
What if a simple set of questions could not only raise children’s thinking level by by two to three years – and also help resolve their playground battles? Teacher and coach Julie McCracken believes it is possible. She’s one of the fo…
