Clean Language: The Moving Light
Simple animation (2004) from a transcript of a brief intervention using David Grove's Clean Language. No audio - the words appear on screen.
It shows just how effective it can be to work within another person's metaphor landscape - if you are able to accept the other person's reality just as it is and know how to stay 'clean'.
Clean in this context is a metaphor too, representing the intention to minimise the effect of one's own metaphors on someone else's, not getting their words grubby, so to speak.
In fact James is careful to use the other person's words as much as possible. He doesn't replace them with his own descriptions and he sticks to just a few standard questions. These come from the small set of standard Clean Language questions devised and whittled down to their barest minimum by David Grove.
For loads more about Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, go to James Lawley and Penny Tompkins' website www.cleanlanguage.co.uk