Learning Clean Language
Clean Language is at heart a facilitation methodology. But many people have adapted that base and tailored it to their own field or audience, so it carries a wide palette of applications. On this page you’ll find where you can learn the basics, where you can make the applied variants your own, and where to start if you simply want a taste of the methodology first.
Clean one-on-one
Want to learn how to coach individuals using the Clean Language method?
Clean Language Core Skills (in Dutch)
Take the six-day coach training Clean Language Core Skills: coaching with Clean Language.
The Clean Language Core Skills training teaches you to guide people using this powerful methodology. You discover Clean Language by actively practising with it. What you take with you is a way of making contact you can apply in your life and work. More concretely, this training is suitable for:
- Coaches (work and life) who want to substantially expand their skill set;
- Coaches (work and life) who sometimes face multi-issue situations;
- Counsellors and therapists who want to grow their clients’ self-reliance;
- Body-workers (haptonomists and Shiatsu therapists among others) who want to be less directive in their contact with the client;
- NLP practitioners who want to make more impact with simpler tools;
- Managers (team leaders and managers) who don’t want to back off when employees bring up more personal issues.
Core Skills via Clean Learning
Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling, Systemic Modelling and Clean Space were all developed in English. It’s only logical, then, that much of what’s offered in Dutch is also available in English. We want to point out that in the UK — and online — there are plenty of opportunities to work and learn in English.
Alongside Core Skills there’s also an ICF-accredited training available. These are offered, among others, by Marian Way and Caitlin Walker through their training organisation Clean Learning.
Clean and space
You can use the room you work in as a co-facilitator when coaching individuals with Clean Language.
Clean Space training (in Dutch)
Want to learn how to use physical space to help coachees move forward? Take the one-day Clean Space training.
In this training you learn to use a spatial facilitation form. It’s best compared to family constellations — but with much less interpretation from the facilitator. The ideal training for facilitators who’d like to work less hard and let the space do the work.
Clean Space via Marian Way
Clean Space was developed by David Grove and the people around him. It was James Lawley and Marian Way who described this technique in depth in the book “Insights in Space”.
Marian Way still regularly teaches Clean Space in English — click the link below for the Clean Learning website for more information.
Clean in groups
Want to learn how to use Clean Language when you work with groups or teams?
Systemic Modelling training (in Dutch)
Not running smoothly in the team? Working in a group, or with groups, and wishing collaboration would improve? Caitlin Walker has applied Clean Language to group work to reach more clarity, alignment and better collaboration.
If you want to know how to use Clean Language and related models (Systemic Modelling) to help teams or groups work better together, this is the best option for you. By staying Clean as a facilitator and putting the group interest first, you can invite everyone in the group to support themselves and each other. That way the group works towards better collaboration where everyone performs at their best.
Pascal Clarkson teaches Systemic Modelling.
Clean for Teams via Clean Learning
When Caitlin Walker encountered David Grove and his Clean Language she immediately saw the potential of this simple, effective way of asking questions. (See also her Tedx talk!) That was the start of the work she eventually came to call Systemic Modelling.
To take the Systemic Modelling training with Caitlin you’ll need a basic foundation (Clean for Teams or Creating Drama Free Conversations). More information is available on the Clean Learning website.
Clean for gathering information
Want to learn how to coach individuals using the Clean Language method?
Clean Language Interviewing (in Dutch)
In our work and personal lives we often fall back on verbal questioning to gather information. In some situations this is so important that we interview others to get precisely the information that matters to us. It can really matter that we don’t carry our own opinions into our questions, because doing so contaminates the data we collect.
When you apply Clean Language to interviewing you can avoid this. If you’d like to learn to interview from a clean stance, using the Clean Questions, then Clean Language Interviewing is the right entry point into the Clean world for you.
Pascal Clarkson teaches Clean Language Interviewing.
Clean Interviewing via Clean Learning
Clean Language Interviewing is a foundation training to help you get started with Clean in an interview context. For training in English and for advanced training, look to Caitlin Walker (Clean Learning).
Clean Language Taster
Want to learn more about Clean Language and experience the breadth and depth of the methodology, so you can decide whether it’s for you? Come along to one of our free online tasters. Sign up via Ticket Tailor (button below). You’ll receive a confirmation from us and a phone call about what you’d like to take away from the taster.
Online Practice Group
Once you’ve been introduced to Clean Language — in the taster, through a book, or during a training — you’ll naturally want to practise. That’s what the Online Practice Group is for: we get together to practise the Clean questions and the methodology. Practice is usually paired with a theme so we also gain new insights about ourselves, each other and the theme.
Joining the Practice Group is free.
Want to take part? Check Ticket Tailor for the next Online Practice Group.