Clean Decisions

The Basic List of Clean Questions

David Grove developed a set of Clean Questions, and these were condensed into a list of nine basic questions.

Most of what is described below  is developed from the excellent on-line resources (Clean Language, Power of Six) as well as the book by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins (Metaphors in Mind).

STARTING: And what would you like to have happen?
KEEP MOVING: And now what's happening?

DEVELOPING (THE CURRENT PERCEPTION)

ATTRIBUTES
· And is there anything else about ... ?
· And what kind of ... ?
LOCATION
· And where/whereabouts is ... ?
RELATIONSHIP
· And is there a relationship between ... and ... ?
· And when ..., what happens to ... ?
METAPHOR
· And that's ... like what?

MOVING TIME

BEFORE
· And what happens just before ... ?
AFTER
· And then what happens/what happens next?
SOURCE
· And where does/could ... come from?

INTENTION

DESIRED OUTCOME
· And what would ... like to have happen?
NECESSARY CONDITIONS
· And what needs to happen for ... ?
· And can ... ?

ENDING: And is there anything else you would like to add before we begin to finish?

So take some time to get to know what all this means for you and what difference it will make when you leave here.

[pause]

Do you have any comments, thoughts or feelings about what you've experienced?

Metaphor Inquiry

Ian Johnson uses the Metaphor Inquiry method as a way of integrating his broad life experience.

A Momentum Perspective on Clean Space

I have labelled the positions used in the Clean Decision-Making practice with action verbs - tensing, objecting, steering - and so on. This is because people who are unable to deal with a situation store it in a static, frozen manner. That is what dissociation does. And the experience is stored in whatever way is convenient. So the clean decision-making process is designed to help people move, in a comfortable, manageable way, through whatever is stuck and static. Then the trapped energy is released, and becomes available for us to harness in our daily living experience.

This dynamic feature of CDM was inspired when I read an article by Steven Saunders about Emerging Moving.

And now what is happening?