Clean Language as a journey Clean Language as a journey A journey implies starting from somewhere and arriving at somewhere else, which is an interesting metaphor for the process of using Clean Language. We start wanting to help someone discover more about an experience. This may be an experience from the past, an experience of a problem, a dream, a disturbing symbol, an empowering symbol, or whatever.
Discovery is on the part of the individual answering the questions.
It is not uncommon for the individual to arrive at a resolution to a problem and for the questionner to still have no idea what the original problem was. On this process, this journey of discovery, the explorer finds new information about their metaphor, about their experience. They find new symbols previously existing outside of conscious awareness. They also find power and strength and potency in elements of the metaphor previously considered to be weak and fragile and impotent. As the journey continues the metaphor begins a transition, as elements form new relationships, and the whole fundamental structure can transform.