Every moment with another person can be a collaboration, according to London-based coach David Saville. Collaboration is happening, even when it isn’t really what you’d expect - unless we get in our own way. In this interview, he describes how to attract people into that kind of co-creation. Judy’s Clean Language questions help him to discover for himself how metaphor - in his case, a metaphor of a dance - underpins his thinking about how he does his best work.
Judy Rees
Consultant Judy Rees helps groups and teams to develop creative collaborative dialogue. They learn to uncover and share the roots of their thinking by using a precision inquiry methodology, called Clean Language.
This process is unusual because it pays close attention to metaphor, the native language of the unconscious mind. Metaphor - comparing one kind of thing to another kind of thing - is so fundamental to the way we think that we rarely notice it, just as fish don’t notice the water they swim in. With Clean Language, as demonstrated in this podcast series, hidden metaphors become obvious, and can then be shared, enabling others to learn from them.
In this series you’ll learn from successful collaborators about how they think about what they do, enabling you to “try on” their way of thinking for yourself.
Judy is the co-author of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds. She is based in London, UK.