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Clean in Montana

Clean Language with Caitlin Walker Phd: Three-Day In-Person Workshop in Bozeman, Montana
$1,200 - $2,400
insert_invitation Thu, Apr 24, 2025 9:00 AM (MDT) - Sat, Apr 26, 2025 4:30 PM (MDT)
location_on Story Mansion in Bozeman, Montana, Bozeman, Montana
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Thanks for your purchase, and we look forward to seeing you in beautiful Bozeman, Montana in April 2025. We have a list of FAQs that you will be receiving via email shortly.
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$2400.00
$2400.00
This is the cost of a single ticket for the three-day Clean in Montana workshop in Bozeman, Montana April 24-26, 2025.
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$1200.00
$1200.00
We have reserved six half-price tickets for people for whom the full cost of these three days of Clean Language might not be possible.
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Story Mansion in Bozeman, Montana
811 S. Willson Avenue
Bozeman, Montana 59715
Would you like to get better at working with others? 

If you want to build stronger teams by creating safety, belonging, and freedom, these three days of Clean Language training and practice are for you.

How to know you’re a fit for Clean in Montana 

You lead, manage, or collaborate with others, you’re involved with strategy, or you facilitate, coach, or consult. You want the skills to uncover, work with, and change the complex, unseen narratives that govern how we communicate. You’ll learn to:

  • Build trusting, resilient teams

  • Hold people accountable in a respectful way

  • Encourage creation and testing of new ideas

  • Create a culture where it’s safe to make mistakes

  • Be open to others’ intentions

  • Have productive conversations with people with whom you disagree
What to expect 

Too often, workshops are all presentations, no practice. Not here. The work you do in Bozeman will give you small, easy-to-implement tools to improve understanding and reduce miscommunication. Caitlin will teach you to help groups be deliberate about their growth and collaboration. You’ll leave with frameworks, experience, and a community of practice. 

Agenda
Day 1: Learn the basics of “Clean Language.” It takes a split second for things to go wrong. On day one, you will learn to use that moment to change the trajectory. You’ll also explore what you're like at your best and worst, and practice asking clean, clarifying questions that reveal why group interactions go astray.
 
Day 2: Explore creativity with Clean Language frameworks. You don’t need to wing it. On day two, we’ll explore Clean Language frameworks to help you align a team on shared outcomes. 
 
Day 3: Move from contempt to curiosity to collaboration. On day three, you’ll have the opportunity to facilitate groups and unpack potential conflict, live, with support from practiced clean facilitators. This will illuminate the invisible architecture that can cause clashes and practice these new tools and frameworks.
About Caitlin Walker and systemic modeling

Caitlin Walker, PhD, author of From Contempt to Curiosity, has led innovative projects in settings ranging from at-risk students to corporations, law enforcement, and universities. Growing up in Ghana, California, and the UK made her curious how we develop cultural rules and internal systems. Through her work, which builds on the original Clean Questions created by David Grove, Caitlin aims to help people learn about themselves and others through a methodology she developed called “systemic modeling.” Caitlin has used this method in small groups and large-scale cultural change. Her bespoke programs address diversity, conflict, leadership, mergers and organizational learning. Hear Caitlin talk about Clean Language and systemic modeling on her TED Talk or the Drama-Free Culture podcast.

About the organizers: Emily and Erin

Emily Stifler Wolfe is a facilitator and coach who helps leaders and teams leverage their impact. Through her podcast, Food, Montana, she explores the intersection of local and regional food systems with other levers of change and power such as finance, climate, governance, and conservation. As a former journalist and mountain rescuer, she is all about clear communication and teamwork.

Erin Randall is a veteran systems coach working with universities, pharmaceutical companies, fintechs, mining companies, and more. She listens for what is emerging in people and systems, helping to make change bearable, sustainable, and even enjoyable. But mostly, she is all about happy people doing great work. You can find her at Ad Meliora Coaching

Why we're in Montana

Bozeman is a small city in southwest Montana, about 90 minutes north of Yellowstone National Park. A popular destination, Bozeman has a hip, historic downtown and easy access to outdoor adventure. The snowmelt that flows from the surrounding 11,000-foot peaks become the mighty Missouri River, the longest in the country. Other Montana waters flow to the Pacific and the Hudson Bay. Likewise, the ideas we develop together at Clean in Montana will flow elsewhere. Montana is a headwaters state — for water and ideas, both. What we do over these three days matters.

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Story Mansion in Bozeman, Montana
811 S. Willson Avenue
Bozeman, Montana 59715