The revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic in the category. This book outlines a unique and revolutionary program with a phenomenally high success rate in helping dyslexics learn to read.
THE POWER OF SIX A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge by Philip Harland
POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY "A fascinating, brilliant book on an extremely important subject," as one reviewer has said. "Philip Harland is uniquely placed to write it, having worked for an extended period with the originator of the approach," the innovative ...
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
Illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both clinicians and their traumatized clients. Traumatized people hold a memory of that trauma in their brains and bodies.
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel J. Siegel
This book goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. Daniel J. Siegel presents a ...
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social Change by David Tacey
The nature of masculinity is either treated critically from a sociological standpoint or analyzed from a psychological and spiritual perspective. Remaking Men argues that we must strive to bridge the gap between these separate tr...
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science ha...
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards by Richard P. Chait,William P. Ryan,Barbara E. Taylor
A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provid...
Language and the Pursuit of Happiness by Chalmers Brothers
What if one of the most powerful avenues to your achieving a balance of peacefulness and productivity - defined here as happiness - at home and at work, is so close that you may have missed it? What if by taking a new look here you can open truly un...
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy by Pat Ogden
Bridging the gap between cognitive and somatic models.Psychological trauma profoundly affects the body. Drawing on this insight, Pat Ogden and her co-authors present a body-based approach to the psychological and physiological symptoms...
Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author i...
Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership by William R Torbert
"Action inquiry" is the process of transformational learning that individuals (and even whole organizations) can undertake to better assess current dangers and opportunities, act in a timely manner, and make future visions come true. Through short st...
Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbolic Modelling by James Derek Lawley
What do you do as a therapist, teacher, doctor or manager when your client, student, patient or colleague says "It's like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall," "I've got a knot in my stomach" or "I'm looking for the right path to take"?
Our community is beginning to happen, a year after the first rush of excitement began. The idea of establishing a community was inspired by an article on the Clean Language web site: Building Community with NLP. Following this example described by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, I have asked some of my friends to attend a Metaphor Practice Meeting, to be held monthly. Also, I have arranged to be available at the Broadway Wellness Centre in Vancouver to meet with clients who want to experience a Metaphor Inquiry Session.
During the past year, I have practised Metaphor Inquiry, Clean Language and Clean Space techniques regularly with individuals. Now it is time for a group of people to share the experience. These are early days - and I look forward to the adventure that lies ahead.
On the afternoon of 15 May 2008, I was researching the internet for information about perspective development (Susanne Cook-Greuter) and NLP perceptual positions (as in first, second, third etc.)
I came across an item by John David Hoag describing the NLP approach to perceptual positions. At the end of the article John mentioned the work of David Grove and the book “Metaphors in Mind”, by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins, describing Grove’s theory and methodology.
“Who is David Grove? I’ve never heard of him! Let’s look him up.”
However, I was back again that evening, and downloaded Clean Language Revisited, before beginning research about metaphor therapy and David Grove that lead to the discovery of the Clean Forum and the Powers of Six website.
After that first exciting day, I began an intensive period of study that lasted for months. Bursts of downloading files, followed by periods of study and integration.
As is my usual habit when into something new, I started mentioning ‘Clean Language’ and ‘David Grove’ to the people around me. Nobody seemed to know about it, or him. However, one person was interested. This friend had a challenge that they wanted resolved – something undiagnosable, untreatable, unexplainable, yet bothersome, that had not yielded, no matter what was tried. My friend wanted to apply the methods described in the articles, so see if their condition would improve.
Despite our inexperience, which caused us to constantly refer to the articles we had printed out, the very first session produced immediate results – a shift in perspective, a redeeming metaphor that gave new leverage on the old problem. Since that first impactful session, positive changes have continued to unfold for my friend.
And so we embarked on a ‘Do It Yourself’ exploration of Clean Language and Clean Space. We each took our turn, facilitating or being the client. What happened was wonderful, but definitely did not follow the explanations of what to do. Somehow or other the universe guided us to develop our own unique way of doing things that produced amazing results, despite our lack of formal instruction. We were ‘Keeners’, not ‘Cleaners’. Although we had language, and we had space, and we had breakthroughs, trained ‘Cleaners’ would have been surprised by our technique.
That is how we spent the summer of 2008, reading, downloading, studying, practicing, integrating. Now, in November of 2008, this Clean Decisions web site is how we are sharing our perspective of what we experience. Enjoy!
So this is the personal development experience I am going through to set up this web site!
It is a Web 2.0 design powered by Joomla. I came across Joomla for the first time on 21 September, 2008, while browsing the internet. An article by Elliott Saxby on Dynamic Self Governance used Joomla. After investigating it for a while on my local computer, and deciding to go ahead, I looked for a hosting platform, and ended up choosing Host Papa. On October 22nd I took the plunge, and set up the account, and since then I have gradually been adding functions and getting the site up and running. Along the way, I've been greatly helped by Joomla, a User's Guide, written by Barrie North. There is a web site that goes with the book, and that helps too. As of today (October 30th) quite a lot of the framework is established, and I will have to settle down to adding content.
The inspiration for the Clean Decisions web site came from two main sources - firstly, in May of 2007, when I began to learn about Holacracy, a form of Integral Governance, and secondly, in May of 2008, when I came across the work of David Grove on Clean Language, Clean Space and Therapeutic Metaphor. Since then I have been steadily practicing, learning and integrating.
