Episode 221
June 14th, 2023
Unmasking the Hidden Influence: The Clean Language Approach with Judy Rees
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Intro
Facilitation can be a messy business; what can we do to clean it up?
Judy Rees, who’s been working with groups for almost 20 years, thinks the answer lies in clean language. A focus on clean language in turn creates what Judy calls ‘clean facilitation’.
Specificity and neutrality is the name of the game, but can facilitators ever truly be neutral? Judy and I wrestle with the big questions of influence, manipulation, and communication in this episode as we try to clear up clean facilitation and explore how to apply it in our day-to-day work.
Find out about
- What Judy means by ‘clean facilitation’
- Practical examples of how clean language can help facilitators dig deeper into a discussion
- Why getting out of the group’s way is a noble goal, but not always possible
- The ways in which we manipulate without ever realising
- How to use our influence with the group in a beneficial way
- How clean language can help us better understand a group’s idiosyncrasies and uniqueness
- Why focusing our influence on the process, rather than the content, is a valuable path to follow
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Links
Watch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.
Free Clean Language ebook.
Judy’s Clean Language for Facilitators course.
Video guide for a Clean Language-based change process.
New Rules for Work experiment, applying Clean Language
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