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		<title>Don&#8217;t Sound Like A Dalek!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people worry about asking the Clean Language questions because they fear they&#8217;ll sound mechanical. Like a Dalek, in fact! The thing is, if you use Clean Language in a mechanical way, you&#8217;ll get results like the Dalek in the video above. But if you soften your voice tone, making it gentle and curious, as]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/17/dont-sound-like-a-dalek/</link>
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		<title>Where To Start With Clean Language?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading The Five-Minute Coach last week set me thinking afresh about a topic that&#8217;s bugged me for years: where&#8217;s the best place to start when learning to use Clean Language? For authors Lynne Cooper and Mariette Castellino, it seems it&#8217;s best to start with a highly-structured coaching model. I can definitely see advantages in this:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/14/where-to-start-with-clean-language/</link>
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		<title>The Five-Minute Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excellent! Another book I wish I&#8217;d written! If you want step-by-step instructions for using Clean Language in a business coaching context, this is the book for you &#8211; whether your role officially includes coaching or not.  The Five-Minute Coach model emerged from years of real-world, practical experience. Lynne Cooper and Mariette Castellino have taught hundreds]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/11/the-five-minute-coach/</link>
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		<title>It Is What You Can Remember</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” I was looking up this quote online recently when I discovered that it wasn&#8217;t Goethe who wrote it, as I had always believed. In fact, it was Scottish mountaineer W H Murray &#8211; but he thought it]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/08/it-is-what-you-can-remember/</link>
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		<title>Why Do You Do It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do you do what you do? That&#8217;s a big question. But when you can answer it, lots of other things become much easier. On a marketing course with Daniel Priestley at the weekend I loved honing, then sharing, my &#8220;rant&#8221; about the roots of my work. Here&#8217;s why I do what I do, based]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/02/why-do-you-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Are You &#8220;All In Your Head&#8221;? How Would You Know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started working with a personal fitness trainer. He&#8217;s got no idea about Clean Language or what I do. That&#8217;s a plus in lots of ways &#8211; not least because I can write about the experience here. In our session yesterday he was busy telling me I&#8217;m &#8220;all in my head&#8221; &#8211; and I]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/05/01/are-you-all-in-your-head-how-would-you-know/</link>
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		<title>How Can Your Body Make You A Better Coach?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re in a conversation &#8211; particularly a &#8220;coaching&#8221; conversation &#8211; how much attention do you pay to your own body?  If your answer is &#8220;Not much&#8221; then you&#8217;re probably missing out on a huge reservoir of information. That&#8217;s probably the main thing I learned at the London Coaching Group last night from a talk]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/04/25/how-can-your-body-make-you-a-better-coach/</link>
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		<title>Getting Specific With Clean Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable ways to use Clean Language in everyday conversations is to help somebody to get specific about something. For example, in coaching, I&#8217;ll often use the Clean Language questions to help my client to get really clear about what they want &#8211; and what the implications of getting that will be.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/04/24/getting-specific-with-clean-language/</link>
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		<title>How To Resolve Conflict Using Clean Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting ways of using Clean Language &#8211; and one that&#8217;s closest to my heart &#8211; is to resolve conflict. That might be conflict within families, between children, within work groups and teams&#8230; and longstanding communal conflict in places like Northern Ireland, Kosovo, South Africa and the Palestinian Territories. Earlier this week]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/04/17/how-to-resolve-conflict-using-clean-language/</link>
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		<title>Boosting Children&#8217;s Thinking Skills &#8211; And Stopping Playground Fights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if a simple set of questions could not only raise children&#8217;s thinking level by by two to three years &#8211; and also help resolve their playground battles? Teacher and coach Julie McCracken believes it is possible. She&#8217;s one of the foremost experts in using Clean Language with young children &#8211; and in this podcast]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xraylistening.com/blog/2012/04/16/boosting-childrens-thinking-skills-and-stopping-playground-fights/</link>
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