Anthropologist David Grove was the originator of Clean Language and the inovator of many processes working with metaphor. Clean Space uses the rpcess of emergence to model human perception.

" It is fast beoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Complex problems are solved by a profusion of relatively simple elements. Order arrives friom the bottom-up, not top-down." David Grove

It was Penny Tompkins and James Lawley who developed Clean Space after observing David Grove facilitating individuals in small groups.

Penny Tompkins & James Lawley

This couple have become experts in the theory of metaphore, self-organising systems and symbolic modelling in facilitating psycho-therapeutic process. Go to: http:/www.cleanlanguage.co.uk xx

Perception Emerges
The Clean Space experience is being used throughout the world in organisations such as NASA and Government Agencies. I experienced it at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland where I found it to be a very powerful technique for exploring different perceptions around a common goal or issue.

What's interesting is that whenever we see, hear, feel or touch something it has a location or context. We just know it somehow. NLP Practitioners use sub-modalities and perceptual positions to understand how information is coded in our minds. The images in our mind are metaphors that exist in a mindscape. They can free us or imprison us. The metaphor of space is almost the medium for thought. For example, Quantum Scientists talk about Possibility Space being the place where all our potential thoughts live. They emerge into our conscious state when stimulated by other patterns of thought.

Spatial Sorting
In creating Clean Space a number of important things are going on. Change requires movement and direction. Hence the ability to behgin to see things from multiple prerspectives. Clean Space is a mixture of Perceptual Positions, Neuro-Logical Levels, SCORE and Timeline, without the facilitator defining any of the spaces; or defining the category of experience allocated to the spaces; or predefining the number of steps.

In Clean Space , each position is located by the client group and its attributes defined by them. As a result, the whole process emerges out of the client's innate ability to blend their perceptions of metaphorical space with their perception of physical space.

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