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Please note that this workshop is in three parts: 2hr online intro and 2 full days of in person teaching.This course is for you if you work with body, breath or movement as a therapist, teacher or coach and want to integrate Clean Language into your practice.
What is Clean Language?
Clean Language is a set of very simple questions which help your clients listen to themselves in a different way - questions that take them beyond everyday language into mindful, embodied inquiry. It’s called ‘Clean’ because the questions are designed to stop us, as practitioners, bringing our own models, presuppositions or unconscious bias into the process.
This creates a clarity which, for many clients, is like being listened to in a much deeper way. Actually, they are listening to themselves more deeply, discovering the meaning of the sensations, gestures, movements and metaphors that are outside normal awareness.
Instead of theorising or analysing bodily experience, this simple mindful inquiry process activates the organic healing power of the body-mind, ensuring your clients reap the maximum benefit from their sessions with you by
Developing their somatic awareness
Making insightful connections between symptoms and the life issues underlying them
Devising realistic steps towards healthier behaviour patterns
'I find clean language such a resource, in my own life process, client work, supervision and teaching. I love its simplicity, clarity and the way it supports direction, creativity, insight and resource in working with others.’ Paul Beaumont RSMT Dip IBMT, Registered Somatic Therapist, Supervisor & Trainer: Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapist
Course Dates And Content
Online Introduction: 29th October 6-8pm on Zoom.
In this introductory session we explore how the skills we have as mind-body practitioners - working with grounding, alignment, and somatic awareness - are just as important when we work with language. With a live demonstration and practical breakout room exercises, we look at how most language distances us from the body and how Clean Questions help us re-connect with our ‘felt sense’ and the embodied intelligence that it has to offer.
Key themes: Somatic Empathy, Creating Collaboration, Communicating with Symptoms
In-Person Days: Both In-person days include practical work in pairs and small groups to help you integrate Clean Language into your own form of mind/body practice.
Mind, Matter and Metaphor
4th November 10am - 5.30pm
In this first in-person day we focus on how a few simple questions can help your clients listen to their symptoms and develop a more mindful relationship with their own somatic intelligence through the visual, verbal and embodied metaphors that arise in answer to Clean Questions. Metaphors are at the heart of how we communicate, (‘at the heart’ is a metaphor) and underlie many of our beliefs about health. You’ll learn how to recognise these invaluable signals from the body-mind, how to respectfully bring your clients’ metaphors into awareness and help them discover the inner resources that these metaphors have to offer.
Key themes: Three Characteristics of Metaphor, Verbal and Non-verbal Metaphors, Mapping the Client’s Interior Landscape
What Would You Like To Have Happen?
10th December 10am - 5.30pm
In this session, we explore how to help clients get a felt sense of what they really want and to take an active role in creating a healthier life for themselves. When clients continue with unhealthy habits and become dependent on us to 'put them right', challenging these habitual patterns without seeming judgmental is a delicate art. In this session we explore how to help your clients get clear about what they really want, and how to use Clean Language in a way that really fits with your own kind of bodywork practice. We also look at how Clean Language can help when working with trauma.
Key themes: How to ask about Outcomes, TheGuiding Principles of Clean Language, Working with Trauma and ‘Post-Traumatic Growth’.
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