Metaphors for Life

An Introduction to Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling

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We so often live our lives according to metaphors. Love may be: a Battlefield, a Many Splendored Thing, a Red Red Rose. If you see business as a sport, are you aiming for a home run, or do you prefer to collect singles and doubles, do you have the home field advantage, or are you relying on that Hail Mary Play. If your life is a journey, do you prefer to follow others, or take the road less travelled.

Metaphors act as mental models or maps for our unconscious minds to follow. Symbolic Modelling allows us to select useful metaphors and explore the links between that metaphor and our reality. We are then able to understand and make changes in our metaphors that can lead to understanding and making changes in our reality.

Clean Language acts as a tool for coaches and therapists to hold a space for their client to explore their metaphors without undue input or influence from the therapist or coach.

During this course you will

• Come to appreciate whether your life runs like a well oiled machine, or an out of control freight train headed for disaster, whether you see your life as an Oscar winning movie, or merely live a life story written by others, or something else entirely!
• Explore the metaphors that run your life
• See the pictures you paint of future and past, problems and peak state experiences
• Learn to notice when others are using metaphor, explicitly or implicitly
• Learn how to use language patterns (including Clean Language) to elicit metaphors and how to use those metaphors to communicate directly with others unconscious minds