The Work and Life of David Grove
The Work and Life of David Grove: Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge
by C. A. Wilson
In the 1980s David Grove devised a technique called Clean Language for healing patients with traumatic memories, such as child abuse or wartime trauma. The process enabled patients to resolve the effects of their experiences through visualisation and metaphor. He converted the work into a spatial technique called Emergent Knowledge and his techniques have attracted practitioners from all over the world including the UK, Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand.
Performance Coaching pioneer Carol Wilson worked with David until his death in 2008, developing courses to train coaches and business psychologists to use his methods in the workplace, in order to relieve mental blocks and limiting behavioural patterns such as fear of public speaking, bullying and thwarted personal potential.
This book is the most comprehensive work so far published about David Grove and contains a record not only of his work with Carol, but with leading practitioners across the world, including detailed descriptions of techniques, case histories and biographical details of David’s life. Performance Coaches and Leadership Practitioners will be able to enhance their existing techniques by incorporating ideas, methods and principles from this book. It will help experienced and potential practitioners to gain an overview and a history of David Grove, and to know where to go for further research and learning.
Available currently on Amazon Kindle, and as a paperback.
Reviews from Amazon and Goodreads:
A significant contribution to the field
It includes Carol’s work with David Grove between 2005 and 2007 and contains original transcripts of both his workshops and client sessions. Carol’s inclusion of others’ recollections and case histories adds richness and diversity.
It reveals some pieces of the jigsaw of what David meant to those many, many lives he touched. And by not editing these contributors’ descriptions she demonstrates a congruence with David’s approach of preserving his clients’ exact words, and respecting each person’s subjective experience.
But Carol has done much more than than collate others’ work. She has documented a large number of David’s processes involving metaphor, Clean Language, Clean Space and those that come under the umbrella term, Emergent Knowledge.
On top of that, her own cases studies show how she has applied Clean principles in real-world business situations.
We can think of no better way for Carol to honour David Grove’s memory than to have produced this book.
★★★★★
A remarkably simple book about a brilliant and complex man, David Grove
A remarkably simple book about a brilliant and complex man, David Grove
Carol Wilson has written a remarkably simple book about a brilliant and complex man.
I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about Clean Language, Emergence, and Clean Space, or, like me, to refresh their memory of his mindset when he encouraged us to become independent.