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Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling Paperback – October 20, 2000

by James Lawley (Author), Penny Tompkins (Author)
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Describes how to give individuals an opportunity to discover how their symbolic perceptions are organized, what needs to happen for these to change, and how they can develop as a result.
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A significant work and for me, the essence of what NLP is really about. I do recommend this book. -- Sue Knight, author of "NLP Solutions"

A tour de force, a magnificent contribution to the study of the structure of subjectivity, therapy and personal change. -- NLP World, November 2000

Be prepared for this book to launch you on a personal journal of change and development. -- David Grove, author of Resolving Traumatic Memories

Presents deep perspectives about helping people learn how to facilitate their own creativity in solving their own problems. Well done! --Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., author of "Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing

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Caroline Myss, Ph.D., best selling author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Why People Don't Heal says:

"Tompkins and Lawley have written a book that provides people with a tool for profound analysis and insight. The use of Metaphors as a means of evaluating how you order your world, your relationships, your occupation, and interpret the experiences of your life is invaluable. This book should be read by everyone who has an interest in expanding their awareness of why they say the things they do, and discovering how the 'contents' of their lives are sources of empowerment."

Ernest Rossi, Ph.D. author of Dreams, Consciousness & Spirit, The Symptom Path to Enlightenment and The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing says:

"Metaphors in Mind presents a broad integration of deep perspectives about helping people learn how to facilitate their own creativity in solving their own problems in their own way. Well done!"

David Grove, MS. author of Resolving Traumatic Memories says:

"I have tremendous admiration for the innovative work they have developed ... I congratulate Penny and James on completing this valuable book ... a richly stimulating text that gently escorts the reader on a captivating journey. Be prepared for this book to launch you on a personal journey of change and development. The parade of thought provoking concepts, stories and challenges contained within will provide a reliable travelling companion to accompany you along the way."

Charles Faulkner, author of NLP - The New Technology of Achievement, says:

"It is a closely reasoned, well-referenced, and articulate contribution to therapeutic practice, the understanding of metaphor, and the importance of applied theory."

Michael Hall, Ph.D. author of Meta-States, The Secrets of Magic, Mind-Lines and many other books, says:

"James Lawley and Penny Tompkins have provided an excellent presentation of working with metaphors in order to model human experience. What I really like about this new work is their research in Cognitive Linguistic, Cognitive Psychology and self-organization theory."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown House Pub Ltd; Reprint edition (October 20, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0953875105
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0953875108
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 0.99 x 9.04 inches
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David Cisek
5.0 out of 5 stars All The Difference
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2003
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The nature of the book turns me toward testimony rather than review, because the book is where a change began for me. I thought Metaphors in Mind had something to do with literary analysis, which is what I was looking for. I was thus a little disappointed when I first opened the book, but then I couldn't put it down (see . . . it's impossible to live outside metaphors). So compelling was its proposal, metaphor is reality, that for the first time in my more than fifty years, I sought a therapist who ascribed to its principles. By happy coincidence I was able to meet with James and Penny--two of the gentlest human beings I think I have ever met. What has changed is my relationship and response to the images I live with and have lived through, once I spoke what they were, and where they resided in me, and what it felt like living with them, and what needed to happen to dispell--those ghosts, bugaboos and, ah yes those very symbolic ties that bind and double bind ones consciousness. For an English teacher to obtain reality through the life that exists in words is an awesome and radical experience. Without the book though there wouldn't have been a beginning . . . or, so as not to try logic, there wouldn't have been such a beginning. Metaphors in Mind is clear, precise and orderly, a succinct presentation of theory and pratice, even for the lay reader. It's an extraordinary introduction, and perhaps a great beginning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
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This book was recommended to me by one of the excellent therapists as a self-study. I wanted to explore in-depth neurofeedback to identify and unbundle some of the negative patternings in my subconsciousness. These sessions are similar in experience to medicinal plants. She suggested that I work with a therapist 1st to remove some of the fears and misperceptions or read Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling as an alternative to paid therapy. It proved very valuable, and I highly recommend to anybody looking to understand the true meaning of our language.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome information
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2008
I really enjoyed this book and it got me excited just reading some of the ideas! While it does seem a little strange the way the recommend you speak, I think anyone with a good solid ground in NLP/ hypnosis can take a plethora of information from this book and apply it in their field. Those interested in Jung and dream work can also benefit from this work as well. Heck, people just wanting to be better communicators will love this book. Just re-work the way they speak, people would think you have gone batty!
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Cecil McGregor
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this technique
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2017
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I love this technique! The concept provides a simple methodology of involving the client and the internals of the client while you become an unobtrusive guide. I am rereading this to pick up many of the tips in this delightful work.
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Dr. Leslie J. May
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent guide to practice of "clean language"
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015
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detailed approach to "clean language." I work as a consultant and had always wanted a guide like this which coaches me to listen and not "contaminate" the client's needs with my own ideas. well done.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Very important book for a serious coach or consultant, even a therapist.
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Edgar Rivera
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The ideal way to transfor your life
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Manolo Macchetta
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly good... and I mean Bandler-Grinder level good!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2016
Great surprise...
I am reading not so much book of "NLP" any longer coz the all say the same and mostly they are re-harsing stuff Richard Bandler & John Grinder (and Frank Pucelik + meta kids) discovered 40 years ago.
Also most of the books who brags about "I modeled this and that" are useless or the one which are actually interesting are sooo boring (yes I am looking at you Woodsmall  The Future Of Learning The Michel Thomas Method: Freeing Minds One Person At A Time  )
This one was a great discovery. Lawley & Tompkins did their homework and the made a NEW model, a new Content-free model which is taken from the "clean language" protocol.
From this they went further and developed a full kind of "coaching" strategy... and a new way to model (the symbolic modelling) which is kinda intereting.
The book is complete in the context, how to apply that, the exceptions, the road map...
it s as incredible as structure of magic, patterns of Milton erickson and trance-formation... and all the ones done by Bandler-Grinder in the 70s
Top quality NLP if you ask me. I wish more authors to love modelling as lawley and Tompkins.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
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Dietsche
5.0 out of 5 stars Metaphors in Mind
Reviewed in Germany on April 18, 2019
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Aussagen definieren Eigenschaften. Folgt man dieser Spur kommt man zu den Glaubensvorstellungen. Probleme
entstehen durch Unkenntnis dieser Abläufe im sozialen Netzwerk.
Hier bietet das empfehlenswerte Buch Hilfe an. Aussagen werden wiederholt und mit vertiefenden Fragen erweitert.
Durch dieses Herausarbeiten von Einflussgrößen wird eine Lösung möglich.
Das Ziel ist die Erleuchtung mit der Bedeutung einer klaren Erkenntnis von Einflüssen die etwas
verhindern oder ermöglichen.
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Maria Castro
5.0 out of 5 stars Respectful and Creative Modelling process through the use of metaphors
Reviewed in Spain on August 9, 2019
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This is an amazing book, which I read with great interest and commotion. I found the authors'approach to modelling by the use of metaphors a very intuitive and respectful one. I recommend this book to everyone who's willing to develop the knowledge and practice of modelling, in a open and surprising way!
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Joseph Augustine
5.0 out of 5 stars The implicit dynamics of symbolic modelling could easily correspond to Mcregor’s (1960) x/y theory to explain the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2017
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The first time I stumbled across the work of David Grove was his mention in Business NLP for Dummies which neatly slots his unique syntax model between the meta and milton models, i.e. in a chunking across movement rather than one of chunking down or up. Lynne Cooper, the author, no coincidence, is a symbolic modeller and clean language pioneer but little did I then get a sense of the origins of the model and where it was being taken by Lawley & Tompkins - which incidentally bears a loose resemblance to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth stages of separation, initiation and return.

The implicit dynamics of symbolic modelling could easily correspond to Mcregor’s (1960) x/y theory to explain the interaction of a heart-based transformation process (i.e. autonomy of an x axis) with a more regulatory head-based calculus (y axis).

For example, the heart purpose of the book is covered in Part Three which details the five generative stages (not remedial) and starts with where the magic begins for the client - entry into the world of metaphor (S1) and the developing sense of symbolic perceptions (S2); then next, the organising logic of symbolic patterns across perceptions which are realised (S3). Once the ‘metaphor landscape’ has been established a series of approaches help to encourage the conditions for transformation (S4) by: chunking down (focusing), chunking up (altitude), chunking across (band-widthing), temporal lengthening (before/after movement), identifying logical conditions necessary for change (especially by talking to the metaphors) and introducing a resource symbol as a catalyst. Maturing (S5), the final stage, acknowledges what has been learnt.

Grove’s 3-part full syntax of clean language is the glue that holds the system together, i.e. “And [client’s words/non-verbals] … And when/as [client’s words/ non-verbals] … [clean question]?” (which takes the last verbal/non verbal description to inform the client’s words). Strangely, applying a systematic framework over a metaphoric landscape might seem somewhat counter-intuitive; but to the client this approach helps to direct attention to their perspective of idiosyncratic time, space and form; and importantly divests the therapist from any tendency towards I-ness and “you” attributions. It is also said making professional boundaries implicit in the language minimises any influence from the facilitator’s map of the world to the point the facilitator may even cease to exist! A neat trick indeed and one wonders how much the techniques of hypnotism influenced Grove’s understanding in adopting a repetitive and consistent syntax.

Did Metaphors in Mind say miracles can actually happen? Well almost... Lawley & Tompkins states: “even after years of facilitating clients to self-model, we still find something magical and sacred about the moment when a binding pattern transforms...we are grateful to be working alongside the progressive arrow of evolution.” In order to do this be prepared to go beyond the sensory logic of cause-effect and conceptual logic of proposition into world of inherent symbolic logic.

Finally, a big aha moment for me was the observation that metaphors are the fabric that makes up the ‘structure’ of NLP’s Magic 1 (1975), and behind the ‘hypnotic techniques’ in Patterns 1 (1975) and underlying the ‘strategies’ in Subjective Experience (1980). The journey which awaits the self-modeller is like physicalising your way through the riddles of a real Escape Room while inadvertently releasing your Self from your psychological binds. This book might then be a real TV/filmscriptwriter’s dream too!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Le livre de référence pour le clean language.
Reviewed in France on May 14, 2015
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C'est un ouvrage extrêmement sérieux et complet sur le clean language.
Il mêle les chapitres théoriques à l'apprentissage de la pratique avec des exemples qui démontrent bien les possibilités.
j'utilise le clean language dans ma pratique d hypnotherapie et c'est un outil extrêmement utile. Sa parfaite maîtrise nécessite cependant beaucoup de pratique.
Le livre de Lawley et Tompkins est le livre de référence de cette pratique pas assez connue.
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