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I came to this book having trained as a Clean Language facilitator with Wendy and Judy and having read Metaphors in Mind by James Lawley and Penny Tomkins.

The power of ‘Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors And Opening Minds’ is in it’s simplicity and clarity.

It takes a reader step by step through a learning process – providing exercises and examples, taken from a variety of ‘real life’ contexts – that is so well structured that readers are able to learn the process and put it into practice without additional input.
It’s also a valuable resource for experienced practitioners because it covers the spectrum, from basic to advanced techniques in the same clear, concise style.

I’ve seen newcomers begin to use Clean Language having read the book and practised the exercises, with no other external support. I’ve also see students arrive at a live training, having read the book beforehand, and make accelerated progress as facilitators because of it.

As a teacher and coach I can see that it’s holds the kind of information that has the potential to transform the practice and effectiveness of educators and coaches around the globe and so it will make a valuable addition to anyone’s professional reading list.

I can thoroughly recommend it!

Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story

This book was a present to me from a student.
I’d taught him how to listen and facilitated his thinking
and his present helped me to listen better and to teach listening better.
It helped enhance my questioning skills as well. A virtuous circle!

Nancy’s book is an absolute treasure.
She presents a narrative to provide a context for the work she developed.
Anecdotes are balanced with bulleted guidance lists to create a practical guide.
Although this is a book about listening and questioning, to facilitate thinking,
it is fundamentally about respect and deals with practical ways to create respectful environments, which nurture the people in them, whatever the setting. (business, educational, family etc)

This book will benefit anyone who works with people in formal or informal contexts
- parents, teachers, managers, friends, spouses – the list is endless.

Time To Think would make a valuable addition to every teacher’s and parent’s wish list.

If you want to do your bit for the next generation, buy it for a teacher near you!

Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

For those of you who want explore in depth, then this tome is ‘full to brimming’ with explanation, theory and examples of modelling experience, through the use of metaphor. Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbolic Modelling by James Lawley and `~Penny Tompkins

If you’re keen to read more about the listening and questioning you’ve seen here on the blog, then I can thoroughly recommend Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds By Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees.