Clean Language Practice Group
Hampshire & West Sussex
If you've an interest in Clean Language and are looking for some opportunities to practise and hone your skills, please join us. Meetings are held at my home in Portchester, Fareham, usually on the THIRD MONDAY of each month. Arrive at 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. We finish between 9.30pm and 10.00pm.
The journal entries below will give you a flavour of the meetings. Just call or email in advance to let me know you're coming; I will send you the directions.
Phone: 023 9221 5355; email: marian@apricotisland.com
Next Meeting: December 15th
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 01:40PM The next meeting will be held on Monday December 15th, 2008. Jenny Heath will be bringing an NLP activity for us to 'clean up' and we'll be talking about how to clean up processes in general.
If you'd like to come along, please email marian@apricotisland.com
Here are the dates for our meetings in 2009:
Clean Space
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:40AM November 17th 2008
Welcome to Dawn, Lyn and Phil who joined us for the first time last night. We started by having everyone remind the group of their metaphor for 'the kind of group I want to belong to' and then newcomers (and some who we seem to have missed) added their ideas to our metaphor map.
Remembering the Questions
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 02:48PM October 20th, 2008
Welcome to Carol, fresh from the recent Less is More training. As usual, we showed her our "This is the kind of group we want to belong to" metaphor and invited Carol to add to it. She added a stetch of a person being held in the palm of a hand (for support) and being tickled (for laughter). Carol said she also wants to learn through getting feedback from group members.
The topic for this meeting was suggested by Cathy, who was unable to be with us due to a nasty virus. We hope you are better soon, Cathy. Bad weather and bad traffic kept others away, so we had fewer members than usual. However, we decided to keep to Cathy's topic: creating methods for remembering the Clean Language questions...
Where Did That Question Come From?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 06:03AM September 15th, 2008
SERIOUS FUN - this is what new member Dave said he would like when we asked him what kind of group he'd like to belong to. So he added the word 'serious' in front of the 'fun' on our metaphor map, along with two stars.
Our topic this month emerged from last month's meeting when we began to explore the question: How do you know what question to ask?
How We Explored Three Topics at Once
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 09:49AM August 18th, 2008
Welcome to Maggie and Keith, who joined us for the first time this month. We explored our group metaphor again and newcomers since its last outing added some ideas of their own, including: stepping out and back in again and a glass elevator. TV programmes 'The Lost Jaguar' and 'Pacific Abyss' put in an appearance, too.
A Really Clean Evening
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 08:45AM July 21st, 2008
Welcome to Janet, who joined us for the first time this month.
Since last time, some of us had attended the Clean Conference which we agreed was well organised and worthwhile. It was particularly good to see so many people from the Clean Community altogether in one place, and the presentations were of a high standard.