Work and Life of David Grove

Carol Wilson

Description

In the 1980s David Grove devised a technique called Clean Language for healing patients with traumatic memories, such as child abuse or wartime trauma. The process enabled patients to resolve the effects of their experiences through visualisation and metaphor. He converted the work into a spatial technique called Emergent Knowledge and his techniques have attracted practitioners from all over the world including the UK, Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand. Performance Coaching pioneer Carol Wilson worked with David until his death in 2008, developing courses to train coaches and business psychologists to use his methods in the workplace, in order to relieve mental blocks and limiting behavioural patterns such as fear of public speaking, bullying and thwarted personal potential. This book is the most comprehensive work so far published about David Grove and contains a record not only of his work with Carol, but with leading practitioners across the world, including detailed descriptions of techniques, case histories and biographical details of David's life. Performance Coaches and Leadership Practitioners will be able to enhance their existing techniques by incorporating ideas, methods and principles from this book. It will help experienced and potential practitioners to gain an overview and a history of David Grove, and to know where to go for further research and learning.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Psychology

Informations

• Publié par: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 28 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788033831
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE WORK AND LIFE OF DAVID GROVE
CLEAN LANGUAGE AND EMERGENT KNOWLEDGE
Carol Wilson
Copyright © 2017 Carol Wilson

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To Penny, James, Angela and all the dedicated practitioners of David Grove’s Clean work, especially those who have contributed to this book.
Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION


PART ONE
CLEAN LANGUAGE

Chapter One
The Principles of Clean
Metaphor

Chapter Two
Technique
Element 1: Position
Element 2: The Questions
Element 3: Reflecting words back
Element 4: Tone and pace
Element 5: Syntax
Element 6: Intuition
Example of a Clean Language session

Chapter Three
Aspects of Clean Language
Body Language
Structure of a Clean Language session
Clean Practice in Coaching
How Clean Coaching Relates to Standard Coaching
What Not to Do
Negative Metaphors
Redemptive Metaphors
Clean Language at Work
Clean Language by Telephone


PART TWO
EMERGENT KNOWLEDGE

Chapter One
Theory
Clean Space
Transition to Emergent Knowledge
Map of a Client’s World

Chapter Two
Small World Networks, Clean Worlds and Six Degrees of Freedom

Chapter Three
Techniques
Structure of an Emergent Knowledge Session
• Clean Start
• Clean Process
• Clean Finish
• Clean Action Space
Clean Processes
• Clean Pronouns
• Clean Ancestry
• Clean Networks
• Clean Spinning
• Clean Hieroglyphics
• Clean Boundaries
• Clean Time
• Clean History of Goals
• Clean Scanning
• Clean Aid
• Clean Scapes

Chapter Four
The Senses’ Census
Introduction: Map of Your World
Part I: Real World Questions to A
• Sense of A
• Time of A
• The body physical
• The body parts
• Body storage
• Body internal
• Body position
• Body movement
• Body metaphysical
• Body of speech
Part II: Real World Questions to B
Part III: Real World Questions to C
Part IV: Real World Questions to D


PART THREE
THE LIFE OF DAVID GROVE

Chapter One
Biography

Chapter Two
Recollections by Co-Practitioners and Friends of David Grove
Rob McGavock
Caitlin Walker
Jennifer de Gandt
Tania Korsak
Philip Harland
Lynne Burney
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley


PART FOUR
CASE HISTORIES BY DAVID GROVE’S PRACTITIONERS

KEIKO IZUMI
Workshop with David Grove at the World Bank

CAITLIN WALKER
1. Clean Sports Development in a University
2. Clean Team Building in a London Business School

IAN HALDANE AND DIANNE EMMERSON
Clean Language and Clean Space Workshop for the Te Ihi Tu Programme

CAROL WILSON
1. Transformational Change through Metaphor: delivered by Carol Wilson, Angela Dunbar and Wendy Oliver 2007 at the BBC
2. Project for Doctorate in Professional Studies: an Exploration of the use of Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge Techniques by Corporate Coaches Delivered by Carol Wilson 2011 at the BBC.
3. Clean Language Session With A Business Executive

ANGELA DUNBAR
1. Clean Worlds Session delivered by David Grove: “My Personal Journey”
2. Clean Language Session Transcript by Angela Dunbar, facilitating Christine Compton

ADRIAN GOODALL
Clean Space Workshop


PART FIVE
TRANSCRIPTS OF DAVID GROVE’S SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS

Session With Private Client 28 May 2005
Clean Pronouns Workshop At The Thatched Cottage 31 July 2005
Clean Hieroglyphics Session With Deborah Henley
Group Session By Phone 15 March 2006 Featuring Clean Start And Clean Networks
Session With Angela Dunbar “I’m Getting Fitter” Featuring Clean Boundaries
Session With Client Featuring Clean Spinning
Session With Lynn Bullock December 2007
Group Session By Phone October 2006 Featuring Clean Networks


PART SIX
LIST OF BOOKS, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES

Books And Articles About David Grove’s Clean Work

Books About The Science Of Emergence
Popular Culture Featuring The Science Of Emergence
Websites

References
FOREWORD
David Grove was a Character (with a capital C) who had a genius for innovating new ways to do therapy. He also had a remarkable generosity of spirit. This was exemplified in a metaphor he created while staying with us in London in 2002. One afternoon Caitlin Walker joined us in identifying metaphors for the role each of us wanted to play in the development of the clean community. David’s metaphor for himself was a “launch pad” from which others could lift off to discover new and unexplored worlds. David had an ‘open source’ ethos. He never trademarked or registered Clean Language or any of his wonderful innovations. His suggestion to his students was always “take my work and make it your own”.
Once we had won David over with, as he put it, “Penny’s tenacious won’t-take-no-for-an-answer style and James’ inquiring, penetrating questions” he was completely supportive of our desire to produce a model of his work and to disseminate it to those who were interested. And it wasn’t just us – the same was true of everyone whose heart he could see was touched by his work.
Remarkably little of David’s prodigious output exists in published form since writing was not his forte. Among David’s gifts were his voice, his powers of observation, his focussed attention, his memory, and his love of the nuances and rhythm of the spoken word – no doubt derived in part from his Māori heritage. (The Māori language was not translated into the written form until 1820, although the symbolic meanings embodied in carving, knots and weaving have a much longer history.)
Carol Wilson is imbued with a similar generosity of spirit and showed remarkable fortitude in supporting David. She not only let him stay in her beautiful English thatched cottage from which he ran all manner of impromptu and experimental workshops, she worked with him to systematise some of his ideas into teachable processes for coaches and other facilitators. Carol is one of the few people who managed to pin David down long enough to write about his work and to get it published. That is no mean feat when, as we know only too well, David never stood still for long. He developed ideas and processes at a pace that was hard to keep up with.
When David ‘chased an idea’ he pursued it with every cell in his body. For instance, David stayed with us in 2003 and the night before he was due to leave the country he picked a book off of our bookshelf and started reading it. “Nexus: Small Worlds & the Groundbreaking Science of Networks” was just the right book in the right place at the right time to stimulate David’s latest pursuit, Clean Space. The next morning he hadn’t finished the book and thoughtfully placed it back on the shelf before going to the airport. Imagine our surprise when two hours after leaving our home a taxi pulled up outside – containing David and all his luggage. He said he decided to miss the flight because he wanted to finish reading the book. He left his bags on the landing, and took the book to his room where he read it cover to cover – twice. He wouldn’t even come down to join us for meals, so we took him food on a tray for the duration.
“The Work and Life of David Grove: Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge” is a significant contribution to the field. It includes Carol’s work with David Grove between 2005 and 2007 and contains original transcripts of both his workshops and client sessions. Carol’s inclusion of others’ recollections and case histories adds richness and diversity. It reveals some pieces of the jigsaw of what David meant to those many, many lives he touched. And by not editing these contributors’ descriptions she demonstrates a congruence with David’s approach of preserving his clients’ exact words, and respecting each person’s subjective experience.
But Carol has done much more than than collate others’ work. She has documented a large number of David’s processes involving metaphor, Clean Language, Clean Space and those that come under the umbrella term, Emergent Knowledge. On top of that, her own cases studies show how she has applied Clean principles in real-world business situations.
We can think of no better way for Carol to honour David Grove’s memory than to have produced this book.
We’ll leave the last word to James Hillman, whose instruction for a life well-lived perfectly describes David Grove’s contribution:

“All of us, each one of us, can and ought to give as much of himself as he possibly can – nay, to give more than he can, to exceed himself, to go