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The Secret Life of Metaphor
A best-selling author and journalist tells how to learn more
about symbolic modeling, a process that facilitates clients to create and explore
metaphors around crucial emotions or personal dilemmas, he booked a session with James Lawley and Penny Tompkins. His mother had died a few weeks before and he decided that
would be the starting point ...
What makes a modeller?
What actually makes
a great modeller? Penny Tompkins and James Lawley should know. They
are not only expert modellers themselves, but have undertaken a
number of modelling projects in which they have modelled great
modellers.
Modelling Robert Dilts Modelling
This extensive report describes both the
product of Penny Tompkins and James Lawley's modelling of Robert Dilts, and the
process by which they arrived at their model. It includes 9 video clips, transcripts and a host of source material.
Cleaning up the F word
Published in Rapport, November 2008 this article is based on
an academic paper presented at the British Educational Research
Association's conference in 2007, 'Training PGCE Teachers in giving
and receiving Clean Feedback in the classroomwhich'. It was delivered with our partners
at the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning at Liverpool John
Moores University.
David Grove and Clean Language A Tribute
The creator of Clean Language and the inspiration behind James Lawley and Penny Tompkins' Metaphors in the Mind, David Grove’s recent death has saddened people across the globe. This is a selection of tributes to him published in Rapport Magazine, Spring 2008.
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