SOLWorld - Africa

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Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on November 13, 2012 at 10:52

Good news - South Africa's connections with Solution-focused Brief Thinking & Practice is visible in the recently published celebration of Steve and Insoo's lives and work. At the moment the book is available in only German. Title: Begegnungen mit Steve de Shazer und Insoo Kim Berg. Editors: Manfred Vogt, Ferdinand Wolf, Peter Sundman, Heinrich N. Dreesen. 2012: SolArgent Media. ISBN 978-3-8080-0686-3. Order via www.verlag-modernes-lernen.de

Page 69 - a prose piece: 

"Tragedy Excavating to Compost-making: a Journey that Grew from Reading Minimal Elegance by Steve de Shazer"

followed by a poem "A pantoum of appreciation"

If you'd like the English versions let me know your e-mail address.

E: svea@solutionfocusedfutures.com

Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on September 18, 2012 at 19:19

EBTA conference is about to take place in Poland. And there is talk of creating some kind of body at which national associations are represented. Are there any African nations with national bodies for SF or SFB? If yes, please post where and who to contact.

I'd like to imagine that our voices and contributions will be welcomed at EBTA if it emerges in a re-structured form and / or in any new international organisation formed via national associations.

Is it time to develop a South African national association for SF(B)?

Please post your thoughts. Tx svea

Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on September 18, 2012 at 19:16

Well, it has been some time since I posted but, better sometime than never! At the recent SOL conference in Oxford I was privileged to talk with 2 women from Uganda who stood out for their incisive questions and comments about the intircacies of the langauge that is core to SF. We discovered we'd all participated in the SolutionSurfers Brief Coaching programme - and we were hearing it in each others language!

Anyone else got a story about making connections via hearing a familiar way of speaking?

Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on September 22, 2010 at 7:30

The diary project initiated by Gale Miller at the Malmo SFBT&P Summit in May 2010 is quietly gaining momentum here in South Africa. I am steadily conducting a snowball of conversations with people using SFB thinking and practice in their work. And, to spread the range and gather more contributions quickly, I have composed a set of questions that you can respond to, and then e-mail back to me.

This project is about locating SFB thought and practice in time and space as a way of developing a picture of how SFB thought and practice is manifesting in 2010.

You can e-mail me on svea@solutionfocusedfutures.com

Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on September 22, 2010 at 7:25

hello and welcome Madi. Good to speak with you recently. The book is about to leave Cape Town to be on its way to you. Happy reading. Would be interested to hear your comments about the two books by Peter Szabo - the earlier and longer blue book with Insoo and the more recent slimmer one with Daniel. Best wishes, Svea

Comment by Madi Hanekom on September 8, 2010 at 8:43

Good morning everybody, as a newbee SF'er, I'm excited to join this group. Thanks Svea for alerting me to this.
Greetings
Madi

Comment by Tina on August 24, 2010 at 12:02

I have finally found my way onto the ning-group, Svea :-). I am looking forward to lots of sharing of experiences wrt SFB practice in Africa!

Comment by Svea van der Hoorn on August 16, 2010 at 20:47

Good evening Switzerland (amongst other connections) in Africa.
Good to hear from you and welcome to having expanded your work to another continent. I look forward to trading training stories about Brief Coaching Cape Town and Brief Coaching Kampala when we see each other later in Basel. 24 participants - impressive and likely to create a ripple that makes a difference.

Comment by Peter Szabo on August 16, 2010 at 14:42

Good Morning - Africa
I have just delivered my first 4 training days of a Brief Coach Training in Kampala, Uganda. It was my first time in Africa and I was so pleasantly thrilled about the 24 participants:
- extremely hardworking when it comes to getting the most out of 7.5 training hours a days
- very serious in creating and maintaining a learning atmosphere of mutual exchange and discovery
- full of smiles, energy, rythm and laughter, when it come to playfully taking in "some theory"
- exceptionally fast-learning and brilliant in understanding the essence of Brief Coaching
- unstoppable in immediately trying out and putting to practice whatever works.
I am very much looking forward to next time in Ocotber

Comment by Elta Boshard on August 10, 2010 at 17:02

Great idea and thanks for zooming in on Ubuntu, Svea...!
I also agree with Lizette's sentiments about a space for Africa - and for discussions within a South Africa community there's also SOL-SA on LinkedIn....
We work in the private and public sectors, we train coaches and consultants and share the philosophies of SF-Thinking, e.g. in 'supervision' -- C-i-C, short for Coaching-Communities- in -Caring-Connectedness.

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