Start here: Clean Language for the real world
Practical resources for passionate practitioner-advocates
Clean Language gets most interesting when it meets the real world: in healthcare, in tech, in conversations and in complexity.
Let’s use this space to make the handshakes happen, together. #CleanInTheWild
What is Clean Language?
Clean Language is a way of asking questions that helps people explore their own thinking, with minimal leading or interpreting. It’s especially useful in complex situations, when clarity, autonomy and understanding matter.
👉 Read my What is Clean Language? article
Choose Your Focus
Community connections
📬 Subscribe to my linkletter. It’s been delivering weekly news of minds and metaphor, #CleanInTheWild and much more since 2009.
🎟️ Come to Metaphorum. Gathering Clean Language enthusiasts online since 2016.
🩺 Join the Clean in Healthcare community to find allies and share practice.
💬 Comment on my posts here on Substack to connect with others and share your perspective.
Essential resources
📘 Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds: the book
📺 Who uses Clean Language? YouTube playlist
🎓 Practical Clean Language recorded course
FAQs, academic citations, translated materials, case studies, and more are all here:
👉 Browse my favourite Clean Language resources
Work with me
🧭 Mentoring for Clean Language advocates and trainers
🎓 Teaching conversational Clean Language skills, especially in healthcare
🔗 Network weaving for Clean Language enthusiasts, connecting people, projects, and ideas
🗣️ Conference workshops and team awaydays using conversational Clean
About Judy Rees
I’m a facilitator, trainer, and writer: co-author of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds. I’ve spent the last 20-ish years helping people apply Clean Language in the real world: in offices, factories, hospitals, startups, and other places where time is short and clarity matters. My focus is on conversational Clean — practical, flexible, and usable in messy, human situations.