Clean Coaching with Emergent Knowledge

Emergent Knowledge has been developed from David Grove's work in Clean Language, metaphor, Clean Space and the Six Degrees to Freedom.

Emergence is the science of how things are achieved through connections. It evolved from the theories of chaos and six degrees of separation and explains how through repetitive connections, knowledge which may be buried in the client's subconscious, can emerge.

What makes Clean Coaching powerful is that it treats everything that comes up during a client session as a system.

Clean Coaching follows a shape which is not dissimilar to the standard GROW coaching model but uses a different process for achieving the end results. The different Clean Processes, such as Spaces, Scapes, Pronouns, Spinning, Time, Hieroglyphics and so forth can be used to structure the entire session, or inserted individually into any other coaching structure.
Clean Coaching success is based on the principle that in a session everything is treated as a system and the client is part of that system. The sessions are about integrating the things the client is fighting so that they participate instead of working against them.

What the client will be able to achieve will emerge out of the experience rather than simply setting a goal and then trying to jump in order to reach it.

During the session the blocks that may materialise are explored 'cleanly' until the blocks disappear. As the client's starting position, the goal and anything in between works as an interconnected system, the goal that the client set in the beginning of the session may chance by the end of it. During the session new knowledge emerges without the physiology of effort.

Each Clean Process, also known as a Knowledge Exercise has its purpose. So for instance, Pronouns can be used to help the client understand that there is more than one self that may respond in any situation. These different selves of the client may have become disassociated at some point in their lives, so pronouns is a great way to re-associate and re-align using the emerged knowledge.

Clean Spinning emerges knowledge which may be uncovered when the client faces different directions in their lives, Clean Boundaries examines the spaces and boundaries around a goal or an issue.

The Clean Time is one of my personal favourites as although it is quite similar to that of the NLP timeline process, it is also very different and a powerful way to download information if used with Clean Scapes. Used together with scapes this results into a drawing of a map of the client’s perceptual relationship to time with a purpose to re-align or re-scale their internal time signature to match that of their current reality.

Clean Coaching is one of the cutting edge coaching methods used at Enable Potential. Contact for more details  info@enablepotential.com

A Moment Of Clarity

Have you ever had a moment of clarity when all of sudden you know exactly where you are, where you want to be, and most of all, know how to get where you want to be? If you have, then you are familiar with the feeling that came with the moment the realisation of this hit your brain and when you suddenly could hear and see what needed to be done. The victorious beat of your heart drumming this new found clarity further into your conscious mind telling you that you had arrived to significant knowledge.

I had one of those moments this  morning as I was standing in a busy London underground train amongst the many other commuters, trying to read a book to pass the time and to make my twice-a-day journey more interesting. I stood there, amongst the unfamiliar faces while steadying my balance to meet the movements of the train..the sudden stops  at signals and as we approached a station and then left again, doors opening and closing. The rhythm of this so strangely soothing that I found my eyes starting to wonder and leave the page until I found myself merely staring at it,  unable to see anything. My mind started to journey….

..and I don’t know where it went to… My thoughts simply disappeared for 10 minutes or so and there was simply nothing that would make sense, at least in order to describe in a sensible sentence. Perhaps some fleeting images, half constructed thoughts, memories from the past and recent weeks and days, parts of a dream? Nothing that I could really catch, just quickly passing moments of a whole lot of nothing.

I suppose I looked like any other passenger, standing there with glassy eyes, emotionless, waiting to get to my destination, to get off the train.

Then it hit me. The clear image of a vision of what I wanted. It came so clearly out of nowhere that I was taken by  surprise. The image of what I wanted to do and how to get there. Not the million, zillion little details, but the key ingredients of the buzzle that I had been consciously trying to solve for weeks and had almost given up on thinking that I wasn’t ready, that I needed to know more, to experience more, to have more reference points.  And there it was. The simple structure of my initiative and the knowledge that I was familiar with every single step that had revealed itself to me.

What happened, what had made this possible now? These were the questions I was asking myself as I stepped out of the train onto the platform and had steadied the fast, excited beat of my heart. I was relieved and happy at the same time with the new knowledge  I now had, but I was also curious to understand what had made this knowledge available now, on a typical morning to work and without any  conscious effort?

Was it the soothing rhythm of the train that had somehow sent my mind to the edge of the subconscious to retrieve information that I did not know I had? Was it the boring familiar journey that had switched on the autopilot and let my mind run loose? Was it the fact that I had a moment of no self-made thoughts, no worry, no content?

Perhaps it was all of those things and many more..  it just goes to show how there is a lot of power in a moment of  'nothingness' and how a vision can rise from the absence of conscious thoughts.. creating a  perfect moment of clarity for where you are, where you want to be and how to get there!

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What happened to me during my journey is an example of naturally occurring everyday trances, usually known as hypnoidal states that are so commonly experienced by us.

A Hypnotic trance is a natural everyday occurrence and most of us dip in and out of trance throughout the day, this is ofcourse what happened during my journey to work. May of us have experienced  this for example as 'driving on auto-pilot', having driven a car safely to the destination with no conscious memory of the journey itself. Or maybe you have been so entranced by a film that you forgot about an appointment or did not hear what someone said or asked? 

The term trance therefore refers to a dreamlike but highly focused state of mind experienced by people in everyday situations,  or when they undergo a hypnotic induction.  During a hypnotherapy session, the hypnotherapist will induce trance. This enables the client achieve focused inner awareness during which restrictions of conscious mind are bypassed, allowing information from unconscious to surface.

The trance-like state I entered during my journey to work enabled me to unconsciously process the problem that I had been thinking about and suddenly bring the information into my conscious awareness giving me the much wanted 'Ahaa'moment.

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A Ray of Sunshine

I woke up this morning feeling pretty good.

It was the morning of a second continuous day of sunshine and the birds were singing. I could hear them through the gap of the bedroom window I had left ajar before going to bed at night.

A little ray of sunshine sneeked through the curtains and made my nose tickle...

Somewhere in my mind I started to built an image of a younger version of myself lying on the soft but tickly green grass and I saw myself staring at the sky and the slowly moving clouds made of softest candy floss. I was trying to figure out what they resembled as they floated past my hazy vision. ‘That one, just over there looks like a boat, and there goes a squirrel’..

As I was lying there, in my imaginary place, I took a moment to look around my surroundings and sniffed the air to catch the fragrance of the honeyed nectar oozing out of the clovers that were blooming around me. The  velvet green grass with white and pale pink flowers reminded me of a cosy blanket and made me feel very relaxed and at peace.


 A gentle breeze with cool undertone touched my cheeks. It took me deeper to my memories and reminded me of the early summer mornings of my Scandinavian childhood when I woke up at the crack of dawn, feeling excited for no particular reason. It was enough for me to know that I had woken up to a beautiful summer morning.

Anything would be possible during the summer. This was the season, after all, when the Mother Earth revealed fully the secrets she had been hiding under a cloak of thick snow for several months. So many exciting things to do; Surprises to be found under stones (some with several legs) and so many pretty plants to be examined! Caterpillars hiding under the thick green leafs.

And afterwards, once my toes would get tired of climbing up rock faces, enjoying the feeling of the cool, soothing water massaging my hot toes as I would sit there tipping my toes in the freshwater lake and lazily splashing the water around, breaking the calm surface of it, making circles with my toes. Just like little tornadoes of water.

And the fish, what about the fish? The endless, quiet, time-stopping hours of sitting down by the lake trying to catch fish. The little float bobbing in and out of sight in the clear blue water. The feeling of excitement bubbling and shooting up my chest when I would notice a tiny fish circling around the wiggly worm, curious at first, then unable to resist a bite. The feeling of patient joy while waiting for the right moment for the sharp pull of the rod so I could  praise the hook out of the water to catch the unsuspecting victim.  Yes, anything was possible!

I continued to lie there, in the green grass of my memories and made up thoughts listening to the birdsong and the buzzing of the bees.

Isn’t it curious how much information can be packed into a ray of sunshine?


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I was inspired to write this little short story last year when a ray of spring sunshine invoked a set of memories from my childhood. It reminds me of the power of the unconscious mind and its ability to retain information and recall it at most unexpected times in response to various stimulus!