Last week, I was involved in publishing a brand-new case study about how Clean Language can support professionals to actually have conversations about the kind of death a person wants. Read the case study here »
It got me thinking about why. What’s going on that means Clean Language helps here?
The result was a bit of a mega-list. Check it out in this week’s main Substack post.
I’ve been asked to explain. There are two Liberating Structures books just out.
What are Liberating Structures? “Simple, powerful interaction patterns that ignite widespread local action to spark global ripples.” You could call them meeting formats, designed to include everybody. I love them. They inspired Metaphorum.
The two new books are:
The Liberating Structures Fieldbook by Keith McCandless and Nancy White. This one is the long-awaited big update to the method, increasing the 33 original structures to 43 and including guidance for both online and face-to-face facilitation. It’s been published in the USA and my copy is currently stuck somewhere mid-Atlantic.
Liberating Structures: Stories From The Field edited by Anja Ebers. This is the crowdsourced book of real-life stories. “Drawing on the real-world experiences of 39 practitioners across 6 continents, this book brings the global Liberating Structures movement to life through compelling, practical stories from the field.” It’s been published in Europe.
Each book offers something different, and valuable. Lots of love amongst everyone involved in both books. My recommendation: if you ever run meetings or work with groups, get them both!
The Liberating Structures Fieldbook >>
Liberating Structures: Stories From The Field >>
Costing consultant Neil Milner wrote on LinkedIn: “One of the biggest problems in NHS improvement is that people use the same words to mean completely different things…
”Take the word “capacity.”
For operational teams that might mean appointment slots.
For finance it might mean affordability.
For workforce teams it might mean staffing hours.
For estates teams it might mean physical space.
“All valid. But all different.”
What an opportunity to put Clean Language to work in healthcare! (And yes, I had a chat with Neil this week.)
How did Ukraine become a major hotspot for Clean Language in psychotherapy?
Hanna Statyvka has written up the full story.
Read about the roots and growth »
Any UK mental health practitioners reading? Clean enthusiast Lorraine Tolmie would like your help with research about therapy and counselling for intense spiritual or extraordinary experiences.
She says: “There are lots of different terms for these experiences including ‘spiritually transformative experience’, ‘spiritual crisis’, and ‘spiritual emergency’. People often describe unusual or expansive states of consciousness, intense emotional states, physical/energetic shifts, heightened perception, and other experiences that are out of the ordinary.”
She hopes to learn about the practitioner perspective of these experiences, and discover what helps and what doesn’t.
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