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Workshop Booking Open: 27th September, Central London
Clean Touch: Integrating Clean Language, Massage and Bodywork
A one-day workshop with Jackie Calderwood and Jeni Edge
Resource for London
356 Holloway Rd
N7 6PA London
Friday, 27 September 2013 from 09:30 to 17:00
(registration from 9.00 am)
Cost: £75.00
Book online here
Having had a great response to Clean Touch workshops at The International Clean Language Conference, London and Northern Taste of Clean 2013, this is the first one day workshop exploring the integration of Clean Language, Massage and Bodywork.
Clean Touch is a process that invites a client to access their body’s wisdom through the creation of metaphor in a shared dialogue of giving and receiving touch.
The day will involve a refreshing mix of background information, guided meditations, exercises, demos, and practical experience to develop the skills of Clean Touch. The workshop will take place in a safe environment with all practical exercises taking place through clothing.
No previous experience of Clean Language, Massage or Bodywork is required as the workshop will integrate the essentials whilst learning new techniques and will be tailored to all abilities.
This Clean Touch workshop will offer transferable ways to:
- Learn a rich way to develop rapport with clients
- Combine the verbal, physical and metaphorical in a way that opens up a new space for communication on different levels
- Integrate a playful, inquisitive wonder and curiosity applicable to any kind of practice in bodywork and beyond
- Experience the inner wisdom of your body expressed through metaphor and movement. Learn a language of communicating through touch
- Experience giving and receiving Clean Touch on your own, in pairs and as part of a group
- Explore your own personal development and the way you invite touch into your life
- Learn how to facilitate a client’s greater awareness, active involvement and agency during a bodywork session
- Expand your thinking about your own practice, whatever that may be
Book online through eventbrite or contact us:
jeniedge [at] yahoo.co.uk
jackie.calderwood [at] btopenworld.com
Concessions available: please contact us for more details.
About Clean Language:
Clean Language is a technique developed by counselling psychologist David Grove which is now used around the world by coaches and therapists, as well as in business, research and education. The process uses the client’s own self-generated metaphors which are elicited through asking ‘clean’ questions that do not impose any values, judgements or beliefs onto the client’s way of viewing their stuff. David Grove and others have discovered that metaphors seem to have a deep connection with how we think about the world and our place in it, therefore working with metaphor in this way can evoke very powerful healing and change. He believed that client’s have the knowledge and ability in their own ‘system’ to overcome many of the challenges and difficulties in life, the role of the facilitator is to help bring that into greater awareness through the use of metaphor.
This is a very brief introduction into Clean Language and there are two good websites with more information about Clean Language, Systemic Modelling and later developments by David Grove such as Emergent Knowledge:
A Northern Taste of Clean 2013
Friday 28th June: Individual sessions, as 1:1 and 2:1 (Jeni and Jackie co-facilitating an individual session of Clean Touch).
Saturday 29th June: Two workshop sessions introducing Clean Touch. 11-12.30pm and 3.30-5pm.
http://www.trainingattention.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/A-taste-of-Clean-2-+booking-form8.pdf
Session at the International Clean Conference 2013, Central London
Clean Touch: Sunday 12th May, 10.30-11.30am.
With: Jeni Edge and Jackie Calderwood
Level of Clean Experience required: some
The session will share practical exercises from our explorations with Body massage, using inspiration from Clean Language, Clean Space, Emergent Knowledge and Caitlin Walker’s Clean Setup. Working in pairs with simple guided hand, foot or back massage (through clothing). Safe and supportive session in which to explore movement and stillness, spoken word and the listening touch, mind and body responses.
Participants will leave with:
- First-hand experience of Clean Touch – giving and receiving.
- An opportunity to explore relationships of body-mind perception through language and touch.
- The chance to relax, observe and learn from your body’s inner wisdom.
- Discoveries about how metaphor and massage may combine.
Speakers’ Biographies:
Jackie Calderwood is an artist and researcher, working with people, landscape, media and technology. Thanks to Clean Change training Jackie explores Clean throughout her research practice. Since training in holistic massage (MT1,1992) she has practiced bodywork professionally, taught and created massage-inspired artworks.
Jeni Edge is a human and equine masseur who started exploring clean massage whilst attending workshops with Caitlin Walker, David Grove and Penny and James Lawley in Hull. She is currently study Psychotherapy with Beeleaf and working in an Independent Girls School in Wilshire as one of the equestrian yard managers.