All posts by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
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Applying Cross-Domain Thinking
We are interested in modelling: – the phenomena in general – how individuals do them – and how...
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The Metaphor of Health
This article explains why metaphor is a natural way to describe illness and health, the importance of recognising...
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Deconstructing Feedback
Contents 1. What is feedback? 2. Six types of information to feed back 3. More distinctions 4. Three...
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Clean Space
David Grove, the originator of Clean Language and the innovator of many processes for working with autogenic (client-generated)...
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Rock and a Hard Place
Symbolic Modelling is an ‘outcome orientated’ methodology, but this does not mean we ignore problems. This article defines...
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Maximising Serendipity
The ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s brilliant new book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
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Self-Nudging
Choice architecture for the mind Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein propose that those of us who have a...
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Self-Deception
Self-Deception, Self- Delusion and Self-Denial We had known Mary for many years before she unwittingly started us on...
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Accepting Acceptance and its Paradoxical Nature
Introduction Recently we have been noticing what happens when people say they accept, and when they actually do...
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What is Emergence?
A little while ago someone gave us feedback that they felt our book, Metaphors in Mind, was a...
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Symbolic Modelling
“The inability to distinguish either behaviourally or cognitively the consequences and applications of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) from core...
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How You Manage to Lead
Leadership is oft talked about in the business world today. Is this because it is one of the...
