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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley’s book, Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling (2000) is designed for those wishing to learn how to facilitate the Symbolic Modeling process rather than for clients. It employs several client transcripts to illustrate its step-by-step discussion of the process and its rationale. A dense read, but one, as a facilitator, I come back to again and again.

Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees’, Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds (2008) offers both theory and lots of skill building in Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling. Less academic in tone than Metaphors in Mind, it’s an easier read and a rich resource for any facilitator.

A Strange and Strong Sensation, Symbolic Modeling; Change with Metaphor (2004) is a DVD of a full-length Symbolic Modeling session PennyTompkins and James Lawley co-facilitate. The session is annotated on screen to help beginning facilitators track the metaphors.

 

I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World (2011) by James Geary  offers an exploration of just how intrinsic  metaphor is to all we do. Geary inquiry includes the fields of politics, advertising, literature, science, and psychology. In this last chapter, Geary describes and discusses his Symbolic Modeling session with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley.

Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers  (2008) by Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman is a fascinating book about the subconscious metaphors that drive consumer choices. It includes an overview of how the Zaltman’s company helps clients discover and use those metaphors to design advertising and to guide company management. While they don’t use Clean Language, the similarities of the two approaches are clear. Click here for a Kindle copy.

 

The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge by Philip Harland (2009). Harland describes in step-by-step detail the process David Grove was working with at the time of his death, Emergent Knowledge. As an associate of Grove’s for years, no one could better explain the whys and hows of this six step therapy technique.