Within a problem there are symptoms, and symptoms are a persons unsuccessful attempts to heal themselves. In Clean Language there is no attempt to remove a symptom, but instead to honour it and help it achieve its aim, the symptom has within it the seed for its own healing. One of the first steps is to evolve the symptom or the experience of the symptom into an object. This object can then evolve.
Many people use words which, deliberately or inadvertently, wound the recipient.
This is a Clean Language exercise which heals the hurt caused by words. The format starts and ends in almost conversation, 'normal' language. The client is invited into their own metaphorical domain and at the end they leave it gently. As always with Clean Language it is important to repeat back exactly the words the client used. Firstly the client is asked where they would like to sit and where they would like the questioner to sit.