How to Have Even More Fun
with Clean Language
Thursday February 7th
7.15 for networking
Main event at 8.00 pm sharp
at Banister Park Bowling Club, Eastleigh
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Our speaker on February 7th is group member, Marian Way. Marian’s expertise is in
the Clean Language of David Grove. As many of you know, this is a way of asking questions
that keeps the questioner’s assumptions out of the interaction. This allows the person
being questioned to ‘self-
Marian says: “My task has been to create a session that combines some of the concepts and skills used in Clean Language with the concept of ‘fun’. I had lots of ideas about how I could achieve this, but as a Clean Language practitioner, I was aware that I may well be making some assumptions about what Nigel might mean by ‘How to Have Even More Fun with NLP’. So I decided to start by interviewing him – using Clean Language, of course.”
Nigel’s Sense of Fun (A few excerpts from the interview:)
When your theme for the year is “How to Have Even More Fun with NLP – Now Let’s Play”, what kind of fun is that fun?
- It’s really to do with a sense of life being fun. Fun for me is not about laughter or jokes, particularly, although on some occasions it is! But mostly fun is about a sense of feeling connected to the world, a sense of being in control of myself and how I interact with the world.
And is there anything else about feeling connected?
- It’s really to do with being in charge. Certainly I feel, in our society and in
our culture we aren’t allowed to take responsibility for the way we are and what
we do, and increasingly our laws prohibit us from doing things we ought to be able
to do as responsible grown-
ups. So the connection I get ,if I feel I am actually in charge of my life, that gives me a sense of fun. It gives me an opportunity to laugh at myself, to laugh at the funny things happening all around, because life is incredibly funny.
And what kind of connection is that connection?
- It’s an energy connection… like a wave form… it’s a 2-
way connection.
And a 2-
- Yes, it’s about making more connections. It’s about being able to use that to connect to more things. So it’s not just connecting to things one might traditionally consider fun, or I might traditionally consider fun. It’s me, I guess taking my idea of moving fun into an everyday occurrence flowing through everything I do, and hoping other people will get the same sort of sense, or will find themselves able to extend the way in which they have fun, or the things they call fun, so they have a wider range of fun happening in their lives too.
Our Session on Thursday February 7th
During the session we’ll explore how to use Clean Language as a straightforward modelling / research tool (i.e. with no intention to bring about change). What we’ll be modelling are our own models of ‘fun’: what do we mean when we talk about ‘fun’? And, based on what we discover, we’ll also consider what we would like to have happen as a result of this year’s meetings. And we’ll be doing all of this in a way that is different and fun (according to Marian’s model of fun, of course J).
You will:
- Find out more about Nigel’s model of fun
- Have an opportunity to explore / develop your own model of ‘fun’ – and have fun as you do this
- Start learning Clean Language or develop your existing skills
- Get a new a ‘way-
in’ to asking Clean Language questions which is fun and thought- provoking - Learn more about the potential of Clean language as a modelling / research tool
- Make new connections -
in every sense of the word
Do come and join us!
To find out more about ‘Clean Language’ visit Marian’s site
www.apricotisland.co.uk