Article: What's clean about Clean Language?

[phil]

You can view the page at http://www.cleanforum.com/forums/con...Clean-Language

[Ned]

In my view, Clean Language is a process of "facilitating the client to self-model their experience". As soon as a facilitator uses clean questions with any of their own stuff, then it ceases to be clean language. This does not make it 'wrong' but it has become something else. So can there be clean influence? If we direct the client's attention to their perceptions, then 'yes': this is the nature of clean questions. If it is to influence the content of the client's perceptions then I say an emphatic 'no'.
Ned Skelton
Director of Clean Coaching Company Ltd

[GinaC]

One aspect of working 'cleanly' with clients I've come to value more and more over the years is how empowering it is for clients to have their exact words taken so seriously, to have them be the focus of so much attention. When unexpected riches emerge from exploring their words, clients increasingly value their full mind/body selves as a source of wisdom. They learn to attend to and respect their own deepest knowing.
Gina Campbell
Director, Mining Your Metaphors

[hansvl]

Clean language is for me being mindfully present in the therapy session: accepting and acknowledging all that the client presents, without judgment and without trying to control or change, while at the same time becoming aware and letting go of my own assumptions and interpretations.

Hans