Panning for Your Client's Gold
12 Lean Clean Language Processes
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If you are a miner and you want to find gold, there are two ways to go about it. You can mine it, going deep in the earth to search for veins of it. With luck, you tap a primary vein: “hit the mother lode”. The other option is to pan for it, to sift the gravel carried by a stream through a sieve to find what are usually small nuggets. Chance upon a large nugget or find enough smaller ones, and you can amass a wealth of gold. As a helping or healing professional, you can assist your client in finding his gold, that valuable material that enriches his life by bringing understanding, new perspectives and sometimes significant shifts and healing. To find it, you can invite him to go deeply into his past, his issues, and his mind/body system, like a miner. Or you can guide him to pan for it; you encourage information from the subconscious to come to the surface, touching upon it lightly and briefly. The 12 Clean Language counseling and counseling processes in this book, designed to be easy-to-learn and easy-to-facilitate, access your clients’ inner knowing by accessing his internalized metaphors. “I keep going around in circles.” “I can’t hear myself think.” “I want to open my heart to others.” These phrases reveal typical ways your clients encode their subconscious representation of their experiences, beliefs, and theories about how to survive and manage in the world as they conceive it. Clean Language experiential processes draw out the wisdom of the mind/body system, with all its strengths and weaknesses, insights and confusions, strategies and maladaptations, to where it can learn from itself, heal, and grow. Helping and healing professionals like therapist, counselors, coaches, and workshop leaders can easily master these unique ways to guide their clients' self-exploration as they physicalize their inner world with simple drawings or by moving around in space. Each process is thoroughly explained and illustrated with examples.
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Looking for easy, effective, and creative ways to engage your client's deeper knowledge of their learning and healing processes?
Psychotherapist David Grove had an insatiable curiosity about how a client subconsciously structures their experience and how change at the subconscious level happens. With a deep respect for the accumulated wisdom in a client's internal world, Grove determined to find ways to keep the facilitator from contaminating the client's experience while fostering self-discovery and self-healing. The result is Clean Language, carefully-worded questions incorporating a client's exact words coupled with strategic processes that create ideal conditions for a client to learn more about themselves. The Clean facilitator directs their client’s attention, trusting that as the client collects information about their mind and body systems’ strengths and weaknesses, insights and confusions, strategies and maladaptations, the system learns from itself, heals, and grows.
Discover twelve easy-to-learn Clean Language processes that combine the science of emergence and Metaphor Therapy as only creative innovator David Grove could.
Clean Language expert Gina Campbell presents twelve Grovian processes for therapists, counselors, coaches, and other helping and healing professionals looking for ways to guide their clients in experiential self-exploration. From among the many process Grove developed, Campbell has selected ones that are easy to master and easy to use. You will learn step by step how to facilitate clients to access their inner knowledge and experiences by projecting them onto a drawing or into the surrounding physical space. Spread out before them, your clients' deeper understandings and perspectives readily reveal themselves.
"Gina Campbell has marshaled an admirable array of material into a wonderful resource. For the first time in one book are twelve golden nuggets from David Grove's life work. Whether you are a new coach or an established therapist, your clients will be delighted with how elegantly you facilitate them to find their own resources and solutions. Panning for Your Client's Gold is a wellspring that you will want to return to again and again."
—James Lawley and Penny Tompkins, authors of Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
About the Author
Gina Campbell, MEd
Gina Campbell has led trainings in Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling since 2005. Drawing upon her decades of experience as an educator, developmental counselor, poetry therapy facilitator, and a certified Clean Language practitioner, she expertly guides her trainees to master and apply these profoundly powerful Clean processes. She resides in Baltimore, Maryland, where she trains helping and healing professionals and conducts private sessions for individuals engaged in personal development.