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This book advances your ability to listen to yourself and others, using rapport at the heart of your practice. It will also help you get even better at facilitating others, using Clean Language to gain and maintain that rapport. You will be introduced to use 9 core questions which are used to reflect how a person experiences their lives, symbolically. Conversations become moderated with these stimulating questions and clients really enjoy listening to themselves.

People “love' products and people that echo themselves. They adore anything that reminds them of themselves. In fact, listening out for anything that strikes a chord, or rings a familiar bell, are the starting points of rapport.

The basis for NLP, which is the foundation for this body of work, is rapport. Rapport is one of the most important features or characteristics of unconscious human interaction. Within ourselves and between others. It is about commonality of perspective, being in “sync”, being on the same “wavelength” as the person with whom you are talking or within yourself. Anyone exposed to NLP learns that there are a number of techniques that are supposed to be beneficial in building rapport such as: matching your body Language (i.e., posture, gesture, and so forth); maintaining eye contact; and matching breathing rhythm. Sullivan and Rees now expose you to how eliciting a person's inner symbols, (may it be sound, a fragrance, a movement, a picture, and in what ever combination), is vital to intra rapport and internal health. By using Clean Language questions; you can then apply the benefits of rapport within oneself.

Sullivan and Rees shows how , the second part of rapport, i.e. leading a conversation, by using the relevant symbols, only happens once your listening ears have mirrored back to a person what their own metaphors are to themselves. Sullivan and Rees maximises your ability to amplify your own personal participation in your own symbols. It is this personal participation in the way your symbols are organised which provides you with the source power to shift your own personal momentum in and around a given topic.

Advisors in any capacity may enjoy this introductory book .This foundational text brings to you simple tips for examining the power of personal symbolary. A person remembers their private symbols much more clearly than any external advice you may offer. In fact any one involved in offering advice may recognise what's it like when you advice fails to be taken on board. You may be really caring, yet the advice is not taken. It is ignored, or uncared for. Clean Facilitators recognise that happens because their personal metaphor has not been connected to your advice. So Instead, Clean Facilitators use core open ended questioning which becomes their equipment and process. Through that they recognise and respect that the person knows the real solution within themselves. So Clean Facilitators recognise that advice is not always a useful way of assisting a person. Instead of advising, they use Clean questions, to help get to a symbolic blueprint or symbolic flowchart of the way the topic is organised. Using these questions, no issue is off limits. Imagine mapping out,' Allowing happiness' or “Allowing Good Things'. Or mapping out your own symbolic laws for “Allowing Peace, Unconditional Love, Generosity, Success, Enjoyment', and much more. -˜I don't know', responses, get answered, after using these special open ended questions. It's your personal wisdom, being remembered. Being re collected and put back together as a whole.

Personally, I call this work the “Honouring of the Twin flame'. As the practitioner and the client go about, mapping out the symbolic representation of an issue, any practitioner, who masters work, is privileged to open up another person's world and enter it if they are so invited. This book is so refreshing. It's like breathing fragrant air. Relaxing and allowing you to unfold a metaphor. Focusing on the personal laws and rules you must respect as set out in the metaphor are opened up and disclosed. You cannot skip this step of identifying the nature of the metaphor, which is indeed the internal organisational structure of a personal success contract.

Sullivan and Rees write in such an understandable manner that it becomes clear that enjoying the development of the symbol is truly fun. By experiencing the 9 Grovian Clean questions, a person engages in a personally meaningful, verification, and clarification process for themselves. Creating a space to learn how to handle the symbols they use for their own experience. Manipulation, or persuasion, is removed from the agenda. Instead, facilitators use these special open ended questions to remove their own contamination from someone else's world whilst respectfully making their inquiry into the person's metaphor

The work of Sullivan and Rees is really important for anyone who is responsible for appreciating what symbols, signify for groups of people. Marketers as well as educators, and healers may want to carefully work with the “easy to put into practice' material for “customer listening projects'.

Chapter after chapter, Sullivan and Rees offer an easy to implement set of activities, to help you to reinforce within yourself how to use these meaningful questions in lots of different situations. 16 brilliant chapters, identifying and examining your personal metaphor. They are: Getting Started, Great Questions, The Magic Of Metaphor, Attending Exquisitely, The Developing Questions, Sequence, Source And Initiation Questions, Modelling Cleanly, Transforming Metaphors, Maturing Changing, Putting It Together For Yourself, Directing Attention More Precisely, Beyond Words And Into Space, Frequently Asked Questions, What Else Can Clean Be Used For? Clean Success Stories, Next Steps

I really love this book. It's a gift book for any helper. I praise the 16 chapters of Clean Language. The book is so well constructed. So refreshingly clear to read. So it is with pleasure, that its comes highly recommended to others.