Instructions

Step 1: Read this page of instructions, tips, and notes.
Step 2: Read the Sample Clearing (see link below).
Step 3: Read the FAQs.
Step 4: Begin Clearing.

1) After you have read this page, the sample clearing, and the FAQs click on Begin Clearing. A new browser window will open. It will take you to The Clearing Process Message Board (it's free - registration required). You'll still have this page with these instructions in the background.

2) On the message board click on "new topic."

3) Enter the word "Clearing" as the subject.

4) Write spontaneously whatever comes to mind. Empty your mind. Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, or grammar—swearing, blaming, and lying is allowed. Don't correct or edit it to look good, nice, or smart, just post it.

5) Watch and see what happens in the next few days. The more candid and honest the more value. Used daily, say for five days in a row, the process will produce even more value.

6) Then, come back in a few days and post a brief acknowledgement of the value we co-created. Acknowledgment expands upon the value, it completes our relationship, and creates space for even more value. The ultimate acknowledgment is a donation (optional).

Tip 1

The most value to be gotten from clearing is to recall and share your very first lie, your very first theft, the very first time you did something sneaky, the very first time you cheated, the very first time you were abusive to another (these firsts are referred to as incompletes). If you can't recall a first incident, from which patterns were formed (unconscious decisions were made) then begin by recalling and sharing your second, third, and all subsequent incidents. Or, begin with your most recent (such as yesterday's) and work your way back in time.

Tip 2

Read Reunion Conversations. If you read each page it will trigger memories of incompletes.

Remember, what you're looking for is unacknowledged perpetrations and withholds, things you have hidden from others or even yourself.

Tip 3

Do the mini-tutorial (About Lies and Lying) it will triggers memories of unacknowledged perpetrations.

Tip 4

After your first clearing, your first post, come back here and reread everything. It will make more sense the second time around. It will remind you to look for your firsts as you post your next clearing.

Note #1 In your clearing please do not comment on, refer to, or reply to other's posts. It won't work to compare your post with others. Yours will be unique.

Note #2 Use the Message Board or your tutorial Message Board to ask questions or to deliver feedback/suggestion communications.

Note #3 All posts are read and gotten (acknowledged) by the coach, and by agreement, nothing is done with them.

Note #4 Do not ask questions or use the clearing process as a means of delivering communications to the tutorial coach. For example: If you acknowledge in a clearing that you have murdered someone, the coach is bound to not address the subject of murder until you bring it up in a tutorial message board.

Note #5 The Clearing Process works to the degree that you're willing to communicate openly, honestly, and spontaneously. To choose to lie or deceive (including withholding thoughts) adds to the confusion, of whether undesirable results are a consequence of your integrity or simply the effects of your leadership-communication skills.

Note #6 If your perpetrations are legally serious—murder, rape, felony, etc.. first go here.

Here's a sample of what a clearing might look like.