<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Michael,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes I would agree that experiencing how clean language and clean coaching works is important, and then clean space as well. It is a bit like open space, some people just don't get it until they jump in and then in makes sense in the first minutes!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The clean approach that I experienced really made sense to me because of my open space experience. Open space supports the force of self-organisation in groups, clean language supports the force of self-organisation in individuals.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Let me try to explain my understanding of it. Normal coaching approaches are quite directive, like many facilitation processes. They involve a series of steps, usually starting with goal identification, and then questions are used as a way of controlling the process and therefore the person to some extent. There are times when this is useful, and other times when it is not.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The clean approach recognises that we are deeply complex individuals with all sorts of stuff going on inside. We are influenced by so much internal and external stuff of which we are only slightly aware and out of all that comes that small part of reality that we are conscious of!!! So WHO KNOWS how it all works, we barely know ourselves... and then add to that all the cognitive science pattern detecting biases that we have.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">One way to work with a complex adaptive system called a person is to use symbolic language / metaphor. Words will never describe that deep complex reality of ourselves, however metaphors probably get the closest to expressing it because they can hold so much more than explicit descriptions can. Abstraction rather than explicitness may be much more important than we presently recognise when it comes to human learning.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So the clean approach has 9 very light content free questions that provide just enough minimal structure to support a person work with their dynamic self-organising complexity through noticing their metaphorical landscape from which emerges self, meaning, and all else.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Clean does not attempt to define a goal and reach an action plan like most coaching does. It starts wherever the client wants to start, and even starts wherever the client wants to sit down, and even how they want to sit down, if they want to! Once it starts the coach simply asks the relevant question from the 9, and then sees the response and then based on that asks the next question, and the client ends up wherever they end up by the end of the session.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So if someone is wondering if you can use open space with one person in a coaching context, the clean approach gets close to it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">As I said that is my take on it. Here is an article with the two people I spent 3 days with: <a href="http://www">http://www</a>.<span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.22" style="" class="">cleanlanguage</span>.co.<span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.23" style="" class="">uk</span>/<span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.24" style="" class="">CleanLanguage</span>.html<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Smiles <span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.25" style="" class="">Bhav</span>...<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 August 2016 at 21:37, Michael Herman via <span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.26" style="" class="">OSList</span> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank"><span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.27" style="" class="">oslist</span>@lists.<span tabindex="-1" id=":2qk.28" style="" class="">openspacetech</span>.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">thanks Jan and Bhavesh for the references to clean space. i think i only half-understand what it is or means or how it works. maybe i will raise it at the metaphorum event. maybe i need to see it working. i think i need to discover the shape of mind that allows one to ask these questions and have them feel/sound normal, rather than like a set of hoops to jump through. m</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">312-280-7838 (mobile)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br><a href="http://OpenSpaceWorld.org" target="_blank">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Jan Höglund via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr>org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">This is a sidetrack. Clean Language seems to be related to Clean
Space.<br><br>Found this...<br><br>"The technology that came
to be know as 'Clean Space' evolved alongside Clean Language. Space was
no longer empty area. It had properties and peculiarities of its own.
Physical space became psychoactive and therapy took a new dimension."<br>—Philip Harland, The Power of Six, p. 18.<br><br>The Power of Six, by the way, seems to be simplicity itself (the exact wording varies depending on the situation):<br><br>- What do you know? x 1<br>- And what else do you know? x 5<br>- And <i>now</i> what do you know? x 1<br>- Repeat x 6 (or as needed)<br><br>Jan, Sweden<br><br><div><hr>To: <a href="mailto:michael@michaelherman.com" target="_blank">michael@michaelherman.com</a>; <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:12:49 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering<br>From: <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><div><div><br><br><div><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Clean Language! Sounds a little suspect to me. But walking the talk, and talking the walk is definitely what it (real invitation) is all about. Doing all of that is not something you will learn in a “facilitation” class. Actually, don’t even try. Find a native speaker.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">ho</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Winter Address</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">7808 River Falls Dr.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Potomac, MD 20854</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="tel:301-365-2093" value="+13013652093" target="_blank">301-365-2093</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Summer Address</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">189 Beaucauire Ave</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Camden, ME 04843</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="tel:207%20763-3261" value="+12077633261" target="_blank">207 763-3261</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Websites</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.ho-image.com" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181,196,223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif""> OSList [mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.o<wbr>penspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Herman via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 26, 2016 11:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> OSLIST<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering</span></p></div><p> </p><div><div><p>there's something interesting happening that some of us might want to join on september 9th. i don't think it's been mentioned here yet.</p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p>i first heard about "clean language" from harold shinsato. it seems useful in our conversations with sponsors about invitations, to help us work with their story in their own words. it'll be useful in other settings, too, like coaching. </p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p>the event on the 9th is a 12-hour online gathering, i would say heavily informed by open space or maybe it's an experimental online adaptation of open space. but come for the topic, the ideas and practice, and the learning, not for the process.</p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p>here are the links where you can check it out. i'm planning to participate in the window that will be daytime in chicago. </p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p>what is the metaphorum online gathering?</p></div><div><p><a href="http://judyrees.co.uk/metaphorum-2016/" target="_blank">http://judyrees.co.uk/metaphor<wbr>um-2016/</a></p></div><div><p> </p></div><p>what is clean language?</p><div><p><a href="http://judyrees.co.uk/what-is-clean-language-2/" target="_blank">http://judyrees.co.uk/what-is-<wbr>clean-language-2/</a></p><div><p> </p></div><div><p><br clear="all"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>Michael</p></div><div><p> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates</p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:7.5pt"><a>312-280-7838</a> (mobile)</span></p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br><a href="http://OpenSpaceWorld.org" target="_blank">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a></p></div><div><p> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________
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