Putting it into Practice

In the Applications Room on the upper floor of The Gallery, Penny Tompkins and James Lawley ask people to share how they apply and develop this work. In this way the clean community can share its wealth of knowledge and learn from each other.

It is heart warming to see the list grow and grow, and extend into undreamed of areas. In this room you will see that people have written about applying clean methods and principles to: Psychotherapy & Counselling, Coaching, Business & Organisations, Education, Health,  Sport, Reseach & Interviewing and Self-Development.

While it is difficult to pick out a couple of articles from the dozens available, to get an idea of the range of applications, Penny suggests:
  •  Like a Kid in a Sweet Shop, an example of creative metaphor work with Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant, The Fat Duck, was named the best in the world.
 Here are some examples of how clean is being applied:
  1. teaching Clean Language to the Police for interviewing vulnerable witnesses;
  2. using Clean Language for research and interviewing in a renewable energy project;
  3. preparing long-term unemployed for work;
  4. consulting to a Yale University team designing questionnaires for schoolchildren;
  5. training opera students to reach high notes;
  6. journalists teaching interviewing skills to other journalists;
  7. analysis of Food and Drugs Administration meetings;
  8. teaching systems theory in a university;
  9. accessing enhanced meditative and spiritual states;
  10. teaching the principles of Clean Language and some of the questions to thousands of Weight Watchers group leaders across the world.
There are numerous other interesting applications that have not yet been written up.