TRAINING OFFERINGS
Learn to easily access your clients’ most powerful inner resources—their personal metaphors– with a client-centered, systematic process that helps them get unstuck, heal, and move forward.
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- Be more effective with clients and enjoy doing it!
- Better your listening skills
- Establish instant empathy
- Be assured you are working with your clients’ content, not your own ‘stuff’
- Take the guess work out of what your clients need most right now
- Empower your clients to trust their inner knowing and find their own solutions
- Work on the mind/body level
- Use an experiential process that enhances brain neuroplasticity
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Most class sizes limited to no more than 12 participants so you’ll have plenty of personal encouragement and guidance. Classes are open to helping and healing professionals.
Get certified as a CLEAN LANGUAGE FACILITATOR (CLF) or CLEAN SPATIAL FACILITATOR (CSF)! Learn more…
WE’VE CHANGED OUR TRAINING MODEL: WEBINARS OR COME-TO-YOU
ONLINE CLASSES
Introduction to Clean Language
This webinar is designed to help you understand what Clean Language is, who finds it useful, and why it is effective. You will observe a Clean Language session in action, be invited to schedule your own Clean Language session, and determine at the end if you want to take the next step towards becoming a Clean Language facilitator yourself.
It is expected that you will be familiar with the material in this course before registering for the next course, Learning Clean Language Basics Part One.
Prerequisite: none
Now available as a webinars!
Learning Clean Language
Basics Part One: Facilitating Clarity
The training balances didactic explanations with lots of practice so you’ll understand the what’s and why’s of Symbolic Modeling and Clean Language AND gain basic skills. We’ll practice utilizing these skills with verbal, drawing and space-related approaches so you can find your preferred way of working with a variety of individuals and/or groups.
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- Introduces the most basic Clean Language questions used with everyday information or metaphors.
- Works with Desired Outcomes, starting with the fundamental question that guides all Symbolic Modeling sessions, ”What would you like to have happen?”
- Teaches a systematic questioning process to assist your clients in clarifying any issue, idea, or sense of themselves.
Text: Mining Your Client’s Metaphors: A How-To Workbook on Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling…..Basics Part One: Facilitating Clarity by Gina Campbell
Webinars: You can register at any time for the self-paced course. If you prefer to learn with others, join an online cohort group, with biweekly meetings with Gina coaching. Participants are limited to 6 to assure personal attention to your learning. See our Upcoming Events page for the start date of the next cohort group and price details.
Prerequisite: The cohort group course is for helping and healing professional such as therapists, counselors, life coaches, and health care providers. The self-paced model is open to all.
In-person training: we will come to you with a custom-designed course if you have a group and do the on-the-ground management. Class size is limited to 12 when in-person. Contact gina@miningyourmetaphors.com to discuss possibilities.
Certification: This course is required for the Clean Language Facilitator (CLF) certification by Mining Your Metaphors.
Learning Clean Language
Basics Part Two: Facilitating Change
Basics Part II skills are well-utilized by therapists, counselors, Asian body workers, coaches and others in the helping and healing professions as we will focus on what to do when a client wants change. Theory and explanations are balanced with lots of hands-on practice and feedback from trainers as well as opportunities to be a client.
With Basics Part Two training, we’ll:
-Move from clarity to encouraging conditions for change
-Continue to build on the basics by further developing your facilitating skills
-Add powerful additional questions for working more deeply still with metaphors
-Emphasize ‘thinking like a modeler’—on the logic of selecting questions and guiding the session
Text: Mining Your Client’s Metaphors: A How-To Workbook on Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling…..Basics Part Two: Facilitating Change by Gina Campbell
Webinar offers two options: self-paced or progress through the course with biweekly meetings with a cohort group led by Gina. Cohort group are limited to 6 participants to assure personal attention to your learning. This course is not yet available in the self-paced model, but you can register for the online Cohort Group that starts January 7th. Contact gina@miningyourmetaphors.com to be sure you are ready for this class before you register. For details, see Upcoming Events.
Prerequisite: Basics Part One training or the equivalent with another trainer (Instructor must approve. Please contact gina@miningyourmetaphors.com.)
In-person training: we will come to you with a custom-designed course if you have a group and do the on-the-ground management. Class size is limited to 12. Contact ginaq@miningyourmetaphors.com to discuss possibilities.
Certification: This course is required for the Clean Language Facilitator (CLF) certification by Mining Your Metaphors.
Coming soon in webinar format!
Hold It Right There!
Discover what there is for clients to learn about themselves by pausing at the threshold of a change. A doorway, a foot bridge, a gate… a metaphoric marker that divides two spaces contains a wealth of information.
There is unique wisdom in this space that is rich with the potential to both thwart and support change. Poised between the past and the future, the moment may hold fear and determination, regret and anticipation, a pulling back and the energy to move forward.
You will learn a script-based activity you can easily do with your clients that will deepen their self-exploration and enable them to identify and address what holds them back and to help build motivation for what lies ahead.
Appropriate for those with or without previous training in Clean Language.
There’s Gold in Them Metaphors!
Use Clean Language questions to help your clients get clear about their thoughts and plans, and they will be amazed at how empowered they feel. Ask them the same questions about their metaphors, and you strike gold! Because the metaphors are the keys to their inner worlds, where how they respond to the world each and every day gets determined.
You will get to experience your own inner resourceful metaphors, the ones you use to embody feelings you find helpful, like confidence, focus, and calm. The experience will give you insight as to what you can help your clients access and what techniques make for effective facilitating of this experiential process. Learn some Clean Language tools to help your clients access and strengthen their resourceful feelings.
Discover how working with metaphors can be a game changer!
Yes, but…
Untangling Problems and Outcomes for Greater Effectiveness
As we grow up, we are often taught to solve problems by thinking and learning more about them, so it’s no wonder clients tend to focus their attention on what they don’t want or like. It can be challenging to redirect their attention to their desired outcomes. It can be even more difficult to determine which problems need to be included in the solution and which should be set aside.
In these skill-building lessons, you will learn Clean Language questions and strategies that address both issues. Learn how to empower your client to recognize their own unproductive patterns and chart new paths for greater success.
Appropriate for those who are new to Clean Language and for those with beginner level Clean Language skills.
ARRANGE FOR US TO COME TO YOU!
Arrange for Gina and, if needed, an assistant trainer(s) to come to your location to train a group you have assembled for courses lasting two or more days. Contact gina@miningyourmetaphors.com to discuss the possibilities.
In addition to the courses described above, you can elect to have one of the courses below delivered to a group you assemble. The content may be able to be modified for your group’s specifics needs and interests.
5 Lean Clean Processes for Helping and Healing Professionals
Are you looking for an easy-to-learn, easy-to-facilitate experiential processes that:
- Are client-centered ?
- Actively and creatively engage the client ?
- Can help a client gain clarity and make new discoveries about any topic ?
- Work with both mind and body ?
- Can rapidly address thoughts, feelings, beliefs and more ?
- Can guide an individual to develop an action plan ?
- Can be used in as short a time period as 15 minutes, if necessary ?
- Easily compliment other methodologies?
Just as you can imagine a real, physical space in your mind, you can reverse the process, and project your inner knowing into the physical space around you. Move in that space, and you’ll discover that what you know standing in different spots is different! Space becomes the metaphor you work with. You’ll have opportunities to enhance your self-awareness as you move about in space and discover new ways to work with it creatively.
We’ll cover 5 easy-to-learn, easy-to-facilitate processes developed by counseling psychologist David Grove that you can use to help clients explore any issue and gain clarity rapidly: Clean Space, Clean Start, Clean Networks, and Clean Spinning and Clean Action Steps. You can structure a session to last from 15 minutes-1 hour, making it easy to make these experiential explorations part of what else you do. Appropriate for counselors, therapists, coaches, and group facilitators seeking ways to facilitate clients with a kinesthetic experience.
With an introduction to Grovian spatial theory and demonstrations, you’ll practice with the technique as both client and facilitator and leave ready to apply them with your clients immediately.
Text: Panning for Your Client’s Gold: 12 Lean Clean Language Processes by Gina Campbell
Training runs 14 hours over 2 days. Click here for details on price, location, etc..
Certification: This course is required for the Clean Spatial Facilitator (CSF) certification by Mining Your Metaphors.
ADVANCED COURSE
All Together Now
This course will give you an opportunity to put together all you’ve learned in Basics Parts I and II and practice with an experienced trainer at your side. You’ll again benefit from being a client, improving your facilitating as you learn from your own responses to different facilitating styles and choices. (Your personal growth is an added bonus!) In the spirit of clean, aside from some planned practice themes, we will have some time to see what emerges for the group to work on.
Training 11 credit hours over 2 days
Prerequisite: Basics Parts I and II or the equivalent with another trainer. (Instructor must approve. Please contact Gina.)
Class size limited to 12.
A Window into Clean Language
Are you wondering what a Clean Language sessions would be like for your client? Curious as to how you could use Clean Language processes with your clients?
Get an opportunity to experience three kinds of Clean Language sessions as a client and observe another participant’s sessions, as you travel together between Clean facilitators who will help you explore your internal world. She will help you develop your personal metaphors (1) verbally and (2) using a simple drawing. You will also discover the clarity being guided to move about in space using Clean questions can foster.
BONUS: You just may be surprised at what you discover for your own personal development!
LIMITED TO SIX PARTICIPANTS.
Cost: $70
Facilitate Self-Exploration with Clean Language as Your Client Draws
Innovative psychotherapist and coach David Grove described a page or objects in the act of being created by clients as “psychoactive” when they are actively engaged with these portraits of their inner experiences. Ask ordinary questions of your clients as they create, and you are likely to interrupt their connection with their subconscious knowing. Instead, they search their conscious, cognitive awareness for answers. To address this problem, Grove developed Clean Language, carefully worded questions using a clients’ exact words to elicit their subconscious, internalized metaphors and deepen their self-directed exploration. Hidden blocks and maladaptive strategies are rapidly revealed, while inner resources are strengthened when working at the metaphoric level.
In this course, you will learn some basic Clean Language facilitation questions and strategies for directing your clients’ attention to deepen their experience AS they make art. For trainees new to Clean Language, it’s a great introduction, and you will gain some powerfully effective ways to get clients connected with their subconscious knowing easily and early in their session.
For trainees who have taken the Intro to Clean Language course(s), this course gives you an opportunity to refresh and practice your most basic Clean Language questions and skills. If you really responded to the work we did in Parts One and Two with client drawings, you will appreciate learning a few new Clean Language questions and two of the Emergent Knowledge processes that David Grove experimented with late in his life– Clean Boundaries and Clean Hieroglyphics.
Whether you’re an art therapist who regularly engages with clients and their art work or a helping professional who likes having this versatile tool in your tool box for the right client at the right moment, being able to work with the metaphors always in view for both you and the client has unique advantages.
Training runs 9:30am-4:30pm for 2 days.
Class size limited to 12.
Text: Panning for Your Client’s Gold: 12 Lean Clean Language Processes (2015) by Gina Campbell
