Welcome
Wayfinder Press is an independent, not-for-profit publisher founded by Philip Harland. Some of the material here is downloadable for personal use at no cost and some is available for sale via Amazon. There are two strands to the work: fiction and non-fiction.
Non-fiction Books and Articles range across a broad spectrum of psychology, therapy, client practice, science and philosophy, and are aimed at health and personal development professionals and the interested lay public. The Fiction is for everyone.
The photograph on the left is a view of the Tasman Sea from David Grove’s favourite beach on North Island, New Zealand. David and Philip were working on the therapeutic uses of Emergent Knowledge. The Wayfinder Press book The Power of Six is about Grove’s last work in this field and is dedicated to him.
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Philip Harland is an author, playwright, screenwriter and psychotherapist. He was brought up in Yorkshire, studied architecture at Durham University and had a successful career as a writer and director in theatre, film and television. He went on to train in analytic, humanistic and neurolinguistic psychotherapies, and collaborated over many years with the creator of Clean Language and Therapeutic Metaphor, David Grove, until Grove’s death in 2008. Philip founded the Clean Language Research Group and is the author of numerous articles on ‘Clean’ for professional journals and the cleanlanguage, powersofsix and wayfinderpress websites.
Philip Harland, Caitlin Walker, James Lawley and Penny Tompkins read excerpts from Trust Me, I’m The Patient at the launch of the book during the Northern Clean Conference in Liverpool. Carol Thompson provided a Clown commentary.