If you “collect” change processes, listen up! I’ve just uploaded a video demonstration of Clean Space – one of the most powerful processes around.

When I need the “big guns” – to help my clients change several things at once, or perhaps to sort out for themselves how to handle a bind – this is frequently my technique of choice.

The late David Grove, creator of Clean Language, devised Clean Space to help his therapy clients to make dramatic breakthroughs. He felt it helped them to “nail their history to the floor” so that they could move without it, enabling them to free up their thinking and come up with new insights.

Some people feel this process has similarities with various spatial anchoring processes from NLP, such as Robert Dilts’ SCORE model. However, others take the view that this process has some striking differences from NLP.

Indeed the (possibly apocryphal)  story goes that when Dilts was facilitated through SCORE by someone trained in Clean Space, he didn’t put the spaces in that order, or in a line… but came up with something new.

After spending some time working with Clean Space, David Grove moved on to invent and use a group of processes called Emergent Knowledge/Powers of Six. Depending how you categorise these things, Clean Space is either the first of the EK processes, or an interim stage.

Please note this is “real life”, recorded over skype – the quality is low, there is background noise and skype lag. In fact the lag meant that for most of the process, I was working blind, unable to see my client in real time. But I’m used to doing this process on the phone, audio only!

If you would be interested in a higher-quality video of the process, let me know: I’ll consider creating something more formal if it seems there is a demand. If you would like to experience the process for yourself, then why not book a session with me.

Many thanks indeed to demonstration client Brian Lagoni of powerlanguage.org. His report on the real-life effects of the session is included at the end of the video.