Theory & Models

Although the guiding principles of 'Clean' are rooted in a therapeutic past, they are applicable in almost any arena where gathering High Value Information is important in the interests of effective communication.
Teachers, parents, managers, counsellors, supervisors, coaches, mediators, trainers, interviwers, CEOs, group facilitators, adoption panels, social-workers, youth-workers, authors, negotiators, architects, foster-carers, classroom assistants, sales-persons, and anyone whose work involves helping, guiding, motivating, inspiring or otherwise influencing people.
Symptoms are unsuccessful attempts by the mind and body to heal itself. Our job is to create a suitable context in which we can encourage symptoms to be successful.
    Every negative symptom has within itself a deeply coded solution which will not only abate the initial presenting symptom, but will also contribute a confidently positive resource (which compensates the client's psychic economy for the negative effects of the symptom's habitation).
Until his untimely death in 2008 David innovated numerous therapeutic methods and he conducted training seminars in the USA, UK, France and in his country of origin New Zealand. In 1989 he co-authored with B.I. Panzer, Resolving Traumatic Memories: Metaphors and Symbols in Psychotherapy. He was the originator Clean Language, Clean Space, Emergent Knowledge and a host of other processes.
 
                                    
Assume there is no such being as a resistant client/ team member/ student. There are therapists/coaches/ teachers/ managers who don't understand that  'Resistance' is the other person's way of helping us to ask better questions.