Clean Language is a groundbreaking approach being used in counselling, psychotherapy and coaching. Using 9+ powerful questions to work with clients' self-generated metaphors to create lasting change.

Facilitator Training

Recognised as one of the most effective forms of coaching there is, introduce this breakthrough Clean Language technique to your clients or into your business, and create sustainable change through a deeper understanding of your environment.

Our Clean Facilitator Certification programme comprises a total of 12 days in three parts:

  • Clean Facilitator Part 1 is 5 days of intense training that allows you to start from scratch and learn a complete framework for deep and lasting change using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling – see below for training dates.
    Click here to Download the flyer for Part 1
  • Clean Facilitator Part 2 is about expanding your Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling skills to include working with binds and double binds. Plus you’ll learn David Grove’s Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge models – training dates to be announced soon.
  • Clean Facilitator Part 3 is an intensive 2-day assessment process leading to certified Clean Facilitator status – training dates to be announced soon.









ICF Approved – Coaching with Clean Language (Clean Language Facilitator Training Part 1) – Sydney

27-30 June 2013 (less is more & more to explore)







We are pleased to announce that this Coaching with Clean Language (Clean Language Facilitator Training Part 1) Program has been approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for Continued Professional Development (CPD) points. So if you are a coach or know of a coach who would benefit from using clean and get can CPD towards their ICF membership please pass this news on.

This training will lead you to Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling Facilitator status

This workshop is based on the work of James Lawley, Penny Tompkins and Marian Way of Clean Learning

Clean Facilitator Part 1 allows you to start from scratch and in just 4 days learn a complete framework for deep and lasting change using Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling

Who is it for?

This training is for you if you are:

  • A coach, therapist or someone who helps other people think
  • The kind of leader who prefers to empower people rather than telling them what to do
  • Future oriented, outcome focused and fascinated by what makes people tick
  • Someone who enjoys learning new tools and different ways of thinking
  • Someone who can live with ambiguity and is comfortable not knowing all the answers

What will I get out of it?

  • A way to help people feel understood and gain new perspectives
  • A reliable method for helping people to achieve their desired outcomes by discovering their own inner resources
  • A greater understanding of the role that language, especially metaphor, plays in our lives, and how you can utilise that to create deep sustainable change

“Clean Language is an honouring, affirming and facilitatory language.”
Lawley, J. & Tompkins, P., “Metaphors in Mind”, p.28

Click here to Download the flyer Coaching with Clean Language June 2013.pdf

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Clean Language Facilitator Training Part 2 – Sydney
Dates for 2013 to be announced soon

Clean Facilitator Part 2 is about expanding your Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling skills to include working with binds and double binds. Plus you’ll learn David Grove’s Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge models.

Who is it for?

This training is for you if you:

  • already have the basic skills we teach in Clean Facilitator Part 1
  • want to build and refine your skills and be able to work with more complex issues
  • are working towards Clean Facilitator status

What will I get out of it?

  • Enhanced modelling skills
  • A way to help people recognise the patterns that are running their lives, how to draw attention to such patterns cleanly and what to do if they’re not working
  • The Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge models
  • New insights and breakthroughs, in the role of client

Click to register your interest

2013 Training Dates
To be announced soon.









Clean Language Facilitator Training Part 3 – Sydney
Dates for 2012 to be announced soon

Clean Facilitator Part 3 is an intensive 2-day assessment process leading to certified Clean Facilitator status.

Who is it for?

This assessment is for you if you:

  • Have completed 10 days of training in Clean Language, Clean Space and Symbolic Modelling
  • Want to find out how your skills compare with others with a similar amount of training
  • Want Clean Facilitator status

What will I gain?

  • An opportunity to practice and hone your skills
  • Verbal and written feedback from recognised assessors
  • Clarify your strengths as a facilitator
  • If you demonstrate sufficient of the core skills, you will received Clean Facilitator status

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2013 Training Dates
To be announced soon.



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