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Clean Language Event 2023

In 2022 we organised the Clean Language Event for the first time. This year we’re back to offer you four days of Clean Language. On this page you’ll find more info on each day if you have any questions please do get in contact with us!

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Our friends at Better Conversations have an AWESOME offer for you!

When attending any of the #CLE23 days described on this page, you’ll get the Better Conversations Experience Pass, worth £ 500, for free!

We are ironing out the technical details but we will do everything we can so that you can join in on the fun before our event in september! That way you can practice better conversations before the event and continue to do so well after, because the pass is valid for 6 months. You’ll be able to revisit any of the modules and deepen your learning.

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When you’re leading at your best, you’re like what?

Workshop: Caitlin Walker - When you’re leading at your best, you’re like what?

How our personal metaphors influence our leadership style.

On the 14th of September 2023 as part of our #CLE23 days Caitlin Walker (PhD) will facilitate a workshop on leadership and personal metaphors.

We encounter #leaders throughout our early years. They might be amongst our family; children in our neighbourhoods and schools; we may meet brilliant teachers or an inspirational lecturer – great leaders in schools and universities can change the abilities and thinking and outcomes for many many young people. In workplaces a leader can #inspire great thinking and behaviour or they can create the conditions that foster the opposite.

In this workshop we will explore your personal experience of leadership and the qualities of the leaders you’ve had through your life. We will take these idiosyncratic experiences and inquire into the possibility that there is a generalised model. We’ll look at your own qualities and where you naturally align with being the leader you’d like to be and where you don’t. Some of us are not at our best in a leadership position.

As well as our personal experiences we will look at the bias around leadership, who does and doesn’t get to hold leadership positions or how stories and myths around leaders can be told and retold to create social narratives that can preclude or include some people from leadership.

Caitlin has a vast range of experience working with leaders in community, education and work places. Although she’s usually called in when things are going wrong, she’s been lucky enough to work with high performing leaders who are doing a great job. She uses #clean #questions to help leaders build a model of their natural patterns and their #metaphors for themselves at their best and worst and with these to create a resilient model that they can use through their future work. These metaphor models help them to connect to their own #values and #principles and also to communicate these more clearly to the people around them. This will be an opportunity for leaders from different walks of life to come together for a deep dive into what leading means to you and what we can learn from one another and transfer, creatively into our own context.

This workshop is for people who are in a (senior) leadership position, or who will be in one in the (near) future.

When you’re leading at your best, you’re like what?

Facilitator: Caitlin Walker
Date: Thursday september 14th
Location: Hotel Guldenberg, Helvoirt, Netherlands
Cost: € 605,-

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Open Space – All things Clean

On Friday 15th of September 2023 we will hold an Open Space. This day is all about experiencing different applications of Clean. How we use Clean Language in an one-to-one setting (Symbolic Modelling), how we use our surroundings to facilitate in Clean Space, how we use Clean Language and cleanish questions to elicit ideas, models, metaphors and strategies from groups in Systemic Modelling, how we combine bodywork and Clean Language in Clean Touch, how we use the power of repetition in Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six, and much much more.

We invite everyone who would like to learn (more) about these things, whether it is to have a series of tasting sessions or to discover applications new to you as a more experienced Clean Language practitioner.

In the video we explain (in Dutch) what an Open Space is, we discuss some types of sessions you might want to facilitate and what the four principles and one law are that govern this type of event. On youtube there is an English video available of this.

 

  • Welcome
  • We open the Space
  • Time slot 1
  • Lunch
  • Time slot 2 through 5
  • Closing of the Space
  • Drinks

Open Space - All things Clean

Date: Friday september 15th
Location: Hotel Guldenberg, Helvoirt, Netherlands
Cost: € 150,-

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Clean Conference Day

For this conference all talks and workshops will feature the theme Trust

This third day of CLE23 is an conference day. On Saturday 16th of September 2023  we will have speakers providing keynotes and workshops. We will have both an English, a Dutch and a mixed track for you to pick and mix from during your day. We are working on the agenda for the full day, but we can already tell you we will have both international and national (Netherlands) speakers. To name a few: Annemiek van Helsdingen, Maaike Nooitgedagt, Wendy Nieuwland, James Lawley, Penny Tompkins, Caitlin Walker, Madelon Sinnige, Marcus Croman, Sofie Debie and Nick Pole. Once we have a full schedule of all talks/workshops we will post these here and on social media.

  • Welcome
  • We open the day
  • Keynote – Annemiek van Helsdingen
  • Workshop round 1
  • Lunch
  • Workshop round 2 and 3
  • Closing of the day
  • Drinks

Keynote: The Inner Work of Trust for powerful change

Annemiek van Helsdingen will invite us to explore what happens within us when we work as facilitators. What are the foundational practices that we can lean into to harbour trust? And how can we help our clients move into the physiological and psychological state, the field where powerful change can start to happen?

Embodied Leadership and Trust

The conductor, is the only person in the orchestra who doesn’t make any sound, communicates their vision of the music almost entirely through movement and facial expressions.
In this workshop, we will explore how the metaphor of the conductor helps embody leadership that builds trust and motivates people to excel. We will use haptonomy, qigong, and, of course, Clean Language to explore:
– How we can translate the three essential tasks of the conductor into any leadership role –
– How conductors lead by listening –
– How to embody your own personal Clean leadership style –
Nick Pole and Madelon Sinnige invite you to this playful, experiential workshop. They bring years of experience as mind-body practitioners to help you discover your own embodied metaphor for effective, engaging leadership. This workshop will be conducted in English and Dutch.

Trust as a building block in our VUCA world

Sofie Debie – We are currently in the midst of a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex en ambiguous) where organisations are confronted with tough issues and the need to often be able to switch quickly. Change has become a constant and so has the complexity of the challenges. There are no unambiguous or ready-made solutions and therefore there is a need to think in terms of experimentation. This requires teams to dare to walk in the fog while investigating and learning together and to be open to lessons hidden in failure, both cognitively and emotionally. Far from obvious, but because sometimes we have to be able to ‘rub’ with each other in order to bring out all the wisdom that is needed. A safe environment with a solid foundation of ‘trust’ is therefore crucial to arrive at new perspectives, fresh ideas and supported decisions through constructive conflict. In this workshop I would like to explore with you the landscape around ‘trust’ in this context by using ‘clean language’.

Lack of trust in change processes: deal with it!

Distrust also has a function

In 9 out of 10 change processes there is a certain degree of distrust. Sometimes it’s even an important factor in why a change doesn’t happen on its own.
What if we assume that there is mistrust, mistrust that you cannot solve or even remove at all? Then you have to deal with it, otherwise it paralyses everything.
In this workshop we focus on this other side of the coin. What kind of mistrust are we talking about? Where is distrust in the organisation? What function does it have here, at this stage, and where could it come from?
From this basis we shift to how you can deal with it. When there is this lack of trust, how can you work with it or at least despite this lack of trust?
– Maaike & Wendy from Gewoon aan de Slag

Understanding how differently we all build, maintain, or lose trust

Initially we will start with the question: When you’re thinking about trust, for you, trust is like what?
You will develop an initial model for each person in your small group and then unpack that model into where it comes from, what happens next, what happens to lose trust and then what can happen after trust is lost.
Next we will go on when we do not trust. We’ll ask you to think of an individual, a group or a leader in whom you have no trust and we will ask:
  • When you do not trust someone, that’s like what?
  • From here we can explore how trust changes for different contexts?
  • Trust at work?
  • Trust in relationships?
  • Trust in yourself?
  • Trust in a leader?
From this mini piece of social research we can reflect on what we know about how trust is built or lost across a diverse group.
– Caitlin Walker PhD

Trust for you is like what?

Trust is the central theme of this Clean Language conference. But what exactly does trust mean to you? And how does it work?
In our workshop, Michael & Pascal will explore these questions with you.
Spoileralert: Our workshop also includes a small trust exercise!

Restorative Embodied Self-Awareness

Embodied Self-Awareness (ESA) is “the present-moment experiencing of sensations that arise from within our bodies, including our emotions”. And it helps our physiological systems function better.
Restorative Self-Awareness (RESA) is an even more beneficial physiological state, that directly links us and our clients to our innate capacity for healing and change.
It’s said to be rare to see in coaching or therapy sessions, but we see it happen often when we work cleanly with embodied metaphor.
In the workshop, you get to explore your experience of RESA and look at the muscles you can practice to make RESA more easily available for yourself and the people you support.
– Annemiek van Heldingen

The structure of Trusting

A Clean Way to Model Trusting

Many models of ‘trust’ are (a) about how to gain someone else’s trust, i.e. how to be trustworthy, and (b) they involve a number of abstract concepts such as honesty, integrity, dependability, etc.

These models leave out many features we regard as vital to modelling the experience of trusting. In this workshop we will review some of these features.

Then we will demonstrate how Symbolic Modelling provides an ideal way to bring the idiosyncratic structure and process of trusting into a person’s awareness.

We’ll debrief our Clean Language demonstration, and include time for your questions about our approach.

– Penny Tompkins & James Lawley

Clean Touch

Marcus Croman – I am a sports therapist specialising in Realigning backs and joints and I use clean with bodywork to mainly deal with trauma in the body. I was very lucky to have meet Caitlin very early in my career who introduced me to David and James, and have been involved with Clean ever since mostly at the Northern Taste of Clean and Adventures in clean as well as the French Clean community and the wonderful Jennifer De Gant. The Clean touch that I have created goes back to working and talking about ideas with David and is a constant work in progress.
I plan to talk about trust and how setting up helps develop that trust, Putting the client in the driving seat and exploring their world.
I will ask for some volunteers to demonstrate and do one or two demonstrations depending on time and questions and answer session as well as give people a chance to have a try themselves.

Clean Conference Day - Trust

Date: Saturday september 16th
Location: Hotel Guldenberg, Helvoirt, Netherlands
Cost: € 290,-

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Supervised Symbolic Modelling!

Sharpen the saw

Workshop James Lawley & Penny Tompkins -<br /> Supervised Symbolic<br /> Modelling!

Sunday September the 17th 2023 will be a workshop day with James and Penny, two people with a vast experience (20+ years) of Clean Language. On this day you can deepen your knowledge by observing and facilitating and being supervised by James and Penny in the moment. This day is for anyone that has a solid understanding of Clean Language in one on one (coaching) sessions.

Please be aware that we expect you to have at least attended one or more of the following: Core Skills Symbolic Modelling, module of “Zuiver Communiceren” or a clean training from the Soul Based Academy (or equivelant).

Supervised Symbolic Modelling

Date: Sunday september 17th
Location: Hotel Guldenberg, Helvoirt, Netherlands
Cost: € 650,-

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