David Grove (Clean Language)

For other people named David Grove, see David Grove (disambiguation).

David John Grove (1 December 1950 - 8 January 2008) was a New Zealander and the originator of the therapeutic and coaching communication process called Clean Language. He died of a heart attack in Kansas City, USA on 8 January 2008, aged 57 years. His body was returned to Tauranga, New Zealand.

Born in Tauranga, of Maori and European descent, David took inspiration from his whakapapa and ancestral teaching.

He graduated from the New Zealand Universities of Canterbury and Otago before taking a Masters in Counselling Psychology at the State University of Minnesota, USA. David served as a consulting psychologist with the London Phobic Trust, and published a book with Basil Panzer, Resolving traumatic memories: metaphors and symbols in psychotherapy. (1989, Irvington).

References

• Death Notices in New Zealand Herald (Auckland) of 17 January 2008.
• Obituary, NZAC Counselling Today, June 2008