Teenage life comes with its ups and downs, bringing with it emotions that can feel confusing and overwhelming at times. As a parent of a...

A music teacher friend recently shared her experience of working with a pupil who has Asperger's syndrome and struggles to manage his em

Asking a child Clean questions can help them understand their emotions better so that they can deal more calmly with the ups and downs of th

I’d like to introduce you to Sophie – a mother of two young children; Ella, who is eight years old, and Sam, who is five. Having found...

I recently interviewed Annie Rappeport, a 32 year-old American PhD student, about her experience of chronic illness as part of a...

What happens if we resist the temptation to rescue? If we are willing to sit alongside a person in their discomfort rather than go into ‘fi

Clean questions help to keep a conversation going without me having to think of clever things to say.

When someone is feeling tension all around the top of their body, how could just two simple questions be as helpful as a massage? Clean...

The Listening Space can be used for joint exploration, facilitating two people together to explore an issue that is important to them. Wheth

Meet Jo – a police sergeant who manages a community policing team. Over the past couple of years the demands of Jo’s work have changed...

There is an African Zulu greeting that people give when they meet one another: Sawubona . More than our traditional ‘hello’, this word...

Change the way we listen to ourselves and we make better decisions, imagine our future more clearly, and take more pleasure in what we...

Naoki Higashida's powerful description of living with autism is a salutary reminder that we should never assume to know what another per

If you're a parent you may well identify that raising children can be one of the most rewarding experiences that life has to offer. But

The whole world is a metaphor for something else. And metaphors do just arise spontaneously. When we are asked  Clean questions of the meta

Asking Clean questions is a great way of helping someone explore and develop creative ideas. The Listening Space helps to give structure to

Sophie had been suffering from awful daily headaches and was reluctant to take the strong medication for chronic migraine that her GP had...

Asking Clean questions of the metaphors we naturally use to describe our experience helps us to bring them into focus, making them more defi