NLP-South 7 February 2008 Headline report
‘Good Clean Fun’ with Marian Way of Apricot Island
Marian started the evening by giving us a brief history of how David Grove developed
‘Clean Language’ and the work of James Lawley and Penny Tompkins, who modelled him
and codified his work into the system they call ‘Symbolic Modelling.
Good Clean Fun session
Because this session was about Clean Language, Marian’s self-modelled her own ideas
about fun. And to avoid building her own assumptions into the evening programme,
she also interviewed Nigel to model his understanding of ‘fun’. You can listen to
audio excerpts from this interview by logging onto the NLP-South programme for February.
This gave her a clearer idea of what would work well for the NLP-South group. Perhaps
surprisingly, this was more about looking at the group’s concept of fun, rather than
just going through some fun exercises. Though if you know Marian, who is a clown
in another part of her life, it will be no surprise to learn she made the evening
fun anyway.
The group was asked to sort through magazines and cut out pictures which epitomised
fun for each of us - and then used a basic set of clean questions to elicit more
information about the pictures and what they meant to the person who had gathered
them. Taking on the role as the ‘Department for Fun’ We went through a process to
share the common phrases and ideas that meant fun, first of all in foursomes, then
with the whole group.
A fuller report including Nigel’s observations is also available.
