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Paul Z Jackson EBTA Malmo, what else was useful and interesting?

Anton Stellamans led a sparkling session, in which he took us on a quest for a different kind of philosophy, suggesting that perhaps SF itself is a different kind of philosophy.

I’m not sure I understood all of what was said, but here are my more or less useful misunders

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Added by Paul Z Jackson on September 8, 2010 at 7:36am — No Comments

Coert Visser Solution-focused interaction matrix

Here are some suggestions for questions for solution-focused coaches or therapists to help clients improve their interactions with others. I present the questions in the form of matrix. This matrix is based on 'the interaction matrix' which is described in the Walter & Peller, 1992. Only, I have changed both the structure and the content quite a… Continue

Added by Coert Visser on September 7, 2010 at 7:44am — No Comments

netti kutsche-roch EBTA 2010 – Crossing the bridge. An sf coach´s glimpses from a sf brief therapy conference

The solution focused brief therapy annual conference 2010 “bridges” walks the talk and builds bridges! - Obviously this was not a therapeutical only conference. Even more, as the SFCT

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Added by netti kutsche-roch on September 6, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Paul Z Jackson Stories from behind the mirror. Recollections of SFBT’s early days, by the founders of brief therapy.

Notes from a session at EBTA conference, Malmo, 5 September 2010


Brian Cade with Gale Miller, Eve Lipchick, John Walter and Wally Gingerich.


Eve: The difference now is that the dream has come true. From six people with no money in a think tank – and it happened. Here we are at an international meeting of people with the ideas we developed and trained.


The prevailing Milan model was to c

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Added by Paul Z Jackson on September 5, 2010 at 9:00am — 8 Comments

Alan Kay SF applications success - working for the client organization.

The words of the client (from Linkedin): "Alan Kay has been training our staff on using Solutions Focus methods and the results have been amazing. Today he returned for a refresher, with our staff teaching new staff who had not been through the program. It was a stimulating day. We realized how much we learned two years ago, and how significantly the principles of Solutions Focus have become truly integrated into the fibre of our organization. Most meaningfully, we are all using Solutions Focus… Continue

Added by Alan Kay on September 2, 2010 at 11:54pm — No Comments

Anton Stellamans The retreat goes on

Savouring my recollections of the SOL Summer Retreat, one of the phrases that lingers in my mind is Paul Z's: "I could live like this". "Me too!", I thought, "yet, the retreat will be over soon." It was Friday afterno

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Added by Anton Stellamans on August 30, 2010 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Hennie Beelen photosSOLretreat2010

As you all can see the title under the potos is not correct. Never the less the pictures give a good impression of the great atmosphere.

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Added by Hennie Beelen on August 28, 2010 at 8:18pm — 1 Comment

Alan Kay SFCT annual general meeting, 2010

The SFCT board and a number members met near Frankfurt to share succeses, plan forward and have fun. Continue

Added by Alan Kay on August 28, 2010 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Hennie Beelen Thanks to the group of six!

Dear Eva, Bjorn, Liselotte, Anton, Kati and Jesper,

Thank you all for the fantastic way you organized this retreat. We enjoyed it very much and still have a lot of nice and warm flashbacks. We learned a lot and were also very pleased by the humouris atmosphere.

Overall the high quality of all the participants.

We are sure this will not be the first and only summerretreat. Looking forward to the next meeting.

warm greetings from Hennie and Bert

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Added by Hennie Beelen on August 24, 2010 at 9:40pm — 4 Comments

Liselotte Baeijaert Strong Summer Retreat Ripple...


BJörn Johansson caused a very strong ripple during the summer retreat. As we were having dinner, he asked me: why does it seem so simple for people to have conversations about what they want to get, how to make business or how to find health and develop themselves, but ra… Continue

Added by Liselotte Baeijaert on August 22, 2010 at 12:48pm — 13 Comments

Paul Z Jackson The most important thing you need to know if your workshop isn’t working. What to do when you are facilitating or training with an SF approach.

Report of group discussion at SOL summer retreat, Switzerland.


We shared stories of times it was not going so well – from trainings that went slightly off track to open rebellions from individuals or from the whole group.

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Added by Paul Z Jackson on August 20, 2010 at 12:12pm — 1 Comment

Alan Kay The Solution Focus applications movement – beyond the theory:

Solutions focus (SF) has been around for 30 years, possibly longer. First, in the world of family therapy and more recently in
organizations. Deeply researched it is an approach to help people find ways to
move beyond things they believe are preventing them from making progress, i.e.,
when they are stuck. One of the unique aspects of SF is that the client is in
charge of the change – the changes they want to make.


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Added by Alan Kay on August 20, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

Sue Lickorish Emergent swarm activity in the mountains

I'm seriously impressed with how the Summer Retreat is unfolding. The Group of Six have created such a fabulous platform as our starting point. The setting is unbelievable, the service great, and the 30-ish community members are co-creating an amazing experience.

So what is contributing to

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Added by Sue Lickorish on August 20, 2010 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

Coert Visser Solution-focused planning

Here is a nice and simple solution-focused technique to plan and manage what you have to do on a certain day. You can view it as your solution-focused alternative to-do list. Here is how it works.

Two circles
Hang a flip-over sheet on your wall and draw two circles on it, an outer circle and an inner circle. The outer represents what you have yet to do. The inner circle represents what you have completed. So, write everything you have to do, this day, on small post it note… Continue

Added by Coert Visser on August 19, 2010 at 10:00pm — 10 Comments

Paul Z Jackson Making SF more visible in the world - SOL summer report

Alan Kay – SF Applications

Session with Alan Kay facilitating group discussion at SOL summer, Aug 2010

How to expand the reach of SF

How to get stuff out there. Martin Seligman – only talk to the senior people. He succeeds with this, even though one might say that PP has few applications. And many of those are written for research. Sf is strong in applications.

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Added by Paul Z Jackson on August 19, 2010 at 9:50am — 2 Comments

Mark McKergow Are conversations emergent? Are ALL conversations emergent?

Discussion at the 1st International Workshop on Complexity and Real World Applications, Botleigh Grange Hotel, Southampton, 21-23 July 2010

Present: Mark McKergow, Ed Olsen, Eileen Conn, Stefanos Michiotis, Martin Reynolds and ot

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Added by Mark McKergow on August 17, 2010 at 3:48pm — 1 Comment

Coert Visser Competence without comprehension - doing what works without understanding why it works

In this presentation, the great Daniel Dennett explains how comprehension is often not a prerequisite for competence. In nature, comprehension is not the cause of competence but the effect. Natural selection, over many generations, shapes characteristics into organisms which makes them competent without them realizing why they are competent. There is no evolutionary advantage to shape understanding into the… Continue

Added by Coert Visser on August 16, 2010 at 9:37pm — No Comments

Dominik Godat Bottomless wonders...

Elta Boshard pointed me to this wonderful video - a TED talk of Benoit Mandelbrot a Mathematician on "Fractals and the art of roughness"

"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules...repeated without end" Benoit Mandelbrot









Reminds me of a lot of t
hings we do (e.g. simple questions over and over again, IfContinue

Added by Dominik Godat on July 15, 2010 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

Stanus Cloete SOL-SA1 for 2011 gained momentum today

The aspiration to have a Sol event for South Africa in July 2011 gained some momentum today. Nine people got together for two hours in Centurion, Pretoria, to discuss what would make this event worthwhile f

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Added by Stanus Cloete on July 2, 2010 at 7:44pm — 2 Comments

Gwenda Schlundt Bodien Solution focused conversation with a student

The University of Groningen regurlary asks me to assist them in conducting solution focused conversations with students. Here is an example of a solution conversation between an University coach and a student:

Coach Hallo, welcome. It is good to see you.

Student Yes, I am quite curious; it’s nice that this is being offered.

Coach That’s good to hear. Shall I tell you a bit about the reason why we offer you this appointment?

Student Yes, that’s OK

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Added by Gwenda Schlundt Bodien on June 29, 2010 at 10:43pm — 3 Comments

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Paul Z Jackson

EBTA Malmo, what else was useful and interesting?

Posted by Paul Z Jackson on September 8, 2010 at 7:36am

Coert Visser

Solution-focused interaction matrix

Posted by Coert Visser on September 7, 2010 at 7:44am

Anton Stellamans

The retreat goes on

Posted by Anton Stellamans on August 30, 2010 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Hennie Beelen

photosSOLretreat2010

Posted by Hennie Beelen on August 28, 2010 at 8:18pm — 1 Comment

Alan Kay

SFCT annual general meeting, 2010

Posted by Alan Kay on August 28, 2010 at 6:01pm

Hennie Beelen

Thanks to the group of six!

Posted by Hennie Beelen on August 24, 2010 at 9:40pm — 4 Comments

Liselotte Baeijaert

Strong Summer Retreat Ripple...

Posted by Liselotte Baeijaert on August 22, 2010 at 12:48pm — 13 Comments

Notes

Jumpstart into Solution Focus

You want to learn more about "Solution Focus"?
You prefer a "step by step" introduction instead to start with reading some
voluminous books?
You would appreciate to have a complete "helicopter view" on SF after the first step already?
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Created by Hans-Peter Korn Dec 25, 2009 at 10:25am. Last updated by Hans-Peter Korn May 28.

Making the most of SOLWorld.ning.com

If you’ve just arrived at SOLWorld.org (the SOLWorld ning group), you may be looking at all the features and wondering where to start.  This note might be helpful…

 

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Created by Mark McKergow Jun 3, 2008 at 4:55pm. Last updated by Katalin Hankovszky Jul 20.

SOLWorld Resources

Welcome to the SOLWorld Resources section.  This part of the site features information about the SOLWorld network, our past events and materials from our previous website.  It will take some time to update all the information, so thanks for your patience. 

Information in this part of the site is 'read-only'.  If you want to start discussions, please go to the Forum or Groups. 

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Created by Mark McKergow May 12, 2008 at 4:08pm. Last updated by Hans-Peter Korn Dec. 25, 2009.

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