Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast SIMPLY FOCUS Podcast: The Good Life Approach - Your podcast with the little extra Solution Focus for your daily life!

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Elfie Czerny & Dominik Godat answer your questions. In today’s episode, we celebrate 100 episodes of the SIMPLY FOCUS podcast with your questions. We talk about what fascinates us about Solution Focus at the moment, what fascinates us even more now than when we set out on our journey, what has had the most profound impact on our practice, and the differences SF has made to our lives. We explore what tells us that episode #100 is really unique and significant, our favorite questions we love to ask, how our knowledge changed, what surprised us the most during our 100-podcast journey. We tell stories about the “making of“ of the podcast with painful, funny, and hilarious moments as well as some scary situations on our journey. Check out how Solution Focus fits to volatile and insecure times, solution-focused everyday interventions that work very well in our family, how we manage both to look so good and charming, and the many heart-touching and moving encounters that influenced our lives. We share the first feeling about episode #100, our podcast statistics, the possibility to support the SIMPLY FOCUS podcast with donations - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED US! – and the things we have learned and things that pleasantly surprised us on our podcast journey. Listen to our favorite story of how it came that we are doing this and what we are thankful for. And check out the Challenge of the Week: We invite you to comment on our podcast, to share what inspired you in this episode, and to write a review about our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and other platforms, so that other people can find it, too. When you post on social media, please add the hashtags #sfontour #simplyfocuspodcast

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Sharon Casey on SF in schools. In today’s episode, we talk with Sharon Casey, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Teacher, Consultant & Trainer, and Co-Organizer of the SFBTA conference in Montreal, about using Solution Focus in schools. She shares what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how it is to have access to another way of looking at the world, and what attracted her towards this approach. Find out how she started applying SF with teenagers with drug addictions and in the field of suicide prevention, what fascinates her about bringing Solution Focus to schools, what helped her in bringing SF to schools, and what changed for the teachers. Check out a solution-focused way to start the school year, how to develop the rules together with the children, and different ways to explore what adolescents want. Hear how SF fosters sincere and genuine connections with teenagers, how you don’t have to get to the 10 on the scale, and how you can also value the lower numbers. Join us in the Challenge of the Week: Look for your sixes, fives or fours: Allow yourself to celebrate your fours, fives and sixes and recognize the effort it takes to get there.

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Rob Black on doing SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Rob Black, accredited solution-focused practitioner by the UKASFP, qualified social-worker, clinical team leader at Bath Spa University, about how Solution Focus can (also) look like in practice. Check out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, in what settings he is adapting Solution Focus, and the differences in language when working with different client groups. Rob talks about the value of problem-free talk and connecting with our clients. Find out what supported him in connecting with young people, how he first came across Solution Focus and how watching people do the work helped him develop his practice, how he let Insoo Kim Berg guess football results, and what Guy Shennan would love to hear Rob talk on this podcast. Rob shares detailed stories of how he applies Solution Focus with young people where silence, giving people space, trusting the process, and adapting the next question to fit (even) better were key elements. We also talk about pace, enthusiasm, staying with the client’s perception, and the art of Solution Focused practice and keeping on learning. Find out what Rob discovered about himself since working virtually with clients and how he established an evidence-base for his own work. At the end he also shares two funny stories with Chris Iveson. The challenge of the week: Notice the times when you used silence effectively and the differences that made in terms of the interaction in the conversation.

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Joe Chan about working with young people. In today’s episode, we talk with Joe Chan, Solution-Focused Practitioner and Head of Youth Services at Reach Community Services in Singapore, about their work with young people. Check out what fascinates Joe with Solution Focus, where they are with their research project right now, how Solution Focus influenced the practice of the Youth Center staff members, and what he aims at with Solution Focus at the REACH Youth Center in Singapore. Learn more about the concept of ownership and how they support the young people to become owners of what they want, how they provide a spectrum of activities to fit the idea that every person is unique, how they integrate Social Media and internet activities in their programs, and how his practice evolved over the years with Solution Focus. Joe talks about being solution-focused as a leader, the Youth Resource Pack that they developed, and how they will notice that they are the place to go for youth work with Solution Focus. And he emphasizes the importance of embracing the stance of not knowing with young people. The Challenge of the Week: Put yourself out there on Social Media and share something about yourself and your SF practice.

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Brigitte Lavoie on becoming cancer free with SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Brigitte Lavoie, M.P.s, Solution Focused therapist, trainer, supervisor and receiver of the SFBTA Insoo Kim Berg Memorial Award, about what we can learn from going through cancer for this situation now. Listen to what fascinates her with Solution Focus right now after her cancer episode in the last 1 1/2 years, how she applied Solution Focus practices to her life with cancer, how she knows that she had more good days than bad days, and how she used exceptions from the past to deal with the situation. Learn more about how to talk about the preferred future in a way that effectively supports you, Ellen Quick’s appropriate caution questions that helped Brigitte in her situation, and the miracle question with bad days. She highlights how everybody has good reasons for doing things and differences the letter she wrote to her daughter about all the things she admires about her made. Check out what she kept doing that helps her now with COVID19, the ten positive emotions by Barbara Fredrickson and the connections to Solution Focus, and the fact that we often underestimate our capacity to get through rough times. And have fun with the Challenge of the Week: Ask yourself: What kind of animal would I like to be? And when in your past were you already more like this animal?

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John Henden on what it takes to thrive. In today’s episode, we talk with John Henden, Solution-Focused Trainer, Author, Therapist and Performance Coach about Solution Focused Suicide Prevention and severe trauma and stress recovery. Learn more about the Bristol Solutions Group that led to SOLWorld, what fascinates John with Solution Focus, and the triple twins of solution-focused success. John emphasizes the importance of being solution-focused and not solution-forced. He tells us about Solution-Focused suicide prevention with a zero suicide rate, working on the phone with people with suicidal thoughts, and even “smaller“ SF interventions. Check out what it takes to thrive after trauma, his work in severe trauma and stress recovery, what helped John to thrive after trauma, and vicarious resilience. John invites us to continually remind ourselves that all our clients can find a way and to the challenge of the week: Remind yourself that adopting a solution-focused stance will bring us all forward.

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Petra Müller-Demary on abundance. In today’s episode, we talk with Petra Müller-Demary, Solution-Focused Executive Coach, Team Coach, Business Consultant, and Founder of SolutionSurfers Romania, about the importance of the Solution Focused (SF) community for her, bringing SF to Romania in a Solution Focused way, sharing and spreading this mindset of abundance, and looking for the jewels in the dust. Get to know their format ‘solution café’ that is spreading worldwide, the language of space or how she combines Solution Focus with Systemic Constellation work, and micro-constellations or how she teaches this combination. Listen to some great examples of team coaching or the differences her Solution Focused work with teams can make and her frame for human connection. And enjoy the Challenge of the Week: Petra’s Good Morning Coaching – find out how it works at minute 33:17.

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Kenneth Kwan with stories of hope. In today’s episode, we talk with Kenneth Kwan, Solution-Focused Conference Speaker, Author, and High Performance Strategist, about Covid-19 and the differences Solution Focus can make and has made in Singapore. Check out how Solution Focus was useful when people started being affected by Covid-19 at the “Grace Assembly of God” church in Singapore, how they dealt with the sorrows and fears of people, how they started a dialogue of hope and optimism with their church members, and how they talked about their best hopes at the board level. Find out what we can learn from the experience they made in Singapore. Listen to the importance of sharing stories of hope, love and elements that work, asking and co-creating with people, and how people step up to help and support. Hear the good news and how life is slowly coming back on the streets after 5 weeks of staying at home. Kenneth also shares what small and medium sized enterprises could do during these difficult times and proposes a small next step that leaders could do, a small next step that facilitators and coaches could do, and a small step that everyone could do. And we focus on the silver lining - the good things that are happening during this crisis.

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Naomi Whitehead on Solution Focus as a celebration of who people are. In today’s episode, we talk with Naomi Whitehead, IASTI accredited Solution-Focused Practitioner, Coach, Therapist & Trainer as well as EBTA Board Member, about bringing Solution Focus to Communities. Learn what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how John Wheeler, Mathias Schwab, and Tara Gretton influenced her work, and how she sees Solution Focus as a celebration of who people are. Find out more about Curve Chats and how she brings Solution Focus to communities, e.g. to a barber shop in Sheffield. Check out how she supports equality in her work and fundamentally trusts her clients. Naomi tells us about her events that she is organizing in Sheffield and her workshop that she will do with Tara Gretton in Switzerland (stay tuned!). She elaborates how the lived experience of people can inform the service design, e.g. in her work with Ben’s Center and their vulnerable people project as well as her work with soul food. Listen to what kept her passionate about Solution Focus in the last 17 years and how that connects to her lived experience in Bolivia and her use of Solution Focus in her volunteer work in a prison in Bolivia. And do the Challenge of the Week: When at some point over the next week a person annoys you, acknowledge that and think about all the qualities that the other person has shown when doing this act and what else you appreciate about that person.

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Dr. Peter Röhrig on SF in Leadership and Conflict Management. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Peter Röhrig, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, and Author, about what fascinates him about Solution Focus, signs that showed him that Solution Focus could work in business settings, what he did differently in his trainings after being introduced to SF, and the differences this made for his participants. Check out what makes SF the perfect approach for leaders, how Peter trains leaders in Solution Focus, and how he spreads confidence in trainings. Learn how to prepare challenging conversations and hear more about Solution Focus in conflict management and the new book he edited with Martina Scheinecker. Check out the "User's Guide for the Future" and the country of the ants. Learn how to be a progress detective and get an idea of how to give advice in Solution Focus. And check out the Challenge of the Week: In your next team meeting, look back at last year. Check minute 27:05 for the full description of the Challenge of the week.

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Dr. Peter Szabó on re-tuning to a totally different mode. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Peter Szabó, co-founder of SolutionSurfers, Coach, Trainer, and Author, about walking alongside clients. Find out what fascinates Peter about Solution Focus, the quality of listening and the story of Momo by Michael Ende, the first experience of this completely different mode of interaction or walking alongside, and what becomes possible when not wanting to be helpful and useful. Check out how to know when to ask questions and when it’s time to listen. Peter elicits how his work has changed and the reinforcement through the developments at BRIEF. Learn more about the history of re-tuning and how it changed everything for him, his gratitude for being exposed to and supported by Insoo and Steve, and Insoo’s way of re-tuning and his public confession of deleting the most important chapter in his German book with Insoo. And the Challenge of the Week is the classical prediction task: „1.) Predict: Will you catch yourself in the coming days being present like Momo. 2.) Check if you were right. You get points for correct predictions (The full challenge at 35:19).

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Dr. Ursula Bühlmann on doing SF beyond language. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ursula Bühlmann, specialist in child and youth psychiatry and psychotherapy, supervisor, coach, trainer, and EBTA board member, with qualifications in solution-focused brief therapy, creative children’s therapy, hypnotherapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine, about using different forms of expression in Solution Focused therapy and coaching. Find out what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how she found out in her first job as medical doctor that she won’t be happy to be the expert and came to Solution Focus in child psychiatry. Listen to a story with Steve de Shazer and what differences it has made not be the expert. Hear how to do Solution Focus in other ways than with language and how to let your clients lead you to what you do with them. Check out what fascinates her with working with athletes and what she does with them, how she combines SF with other elements, and her experiences in training Solution Focus in China. She tells us stories of adapting Solution Focus to different contexts, how an experience with Steve de Shazer helped her to trust the process even more, and emphasizes the importance of joy when working with the Solution Focused approach. Listen to her thoughts about how much space there is for the problem or for difficulties in the Solution Focused approach. And do the Challenge of the Week: Once a day, find little things that work, give yourself a tap on the shoulder and observe what’s happening in your body and what differences that makes for you.

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Kirsten Dierolf about the ICF Core Competencies and Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with Kirsten Dierolf, M.A., MSFP, MCC, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, Coach, Author, and President Elect of ICF Germany about the ICF Core Competencies and Solution Focus. Find out what fascinates her with Solution Focus now, what attracted her in the beginning, and what kept fascinating her since. Hear how she got into working with organizations and leaders and what she likes about this work. Learn more about the core competencies of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the compatibility with Solution Focus, how the ICF Core Competencies influenced her work, and what could be interesting to explore more as solution-focused practitioners. Check out how she partners with clients and elicits what clients really want, her take on narrative and solution-focus as combination to ICF mastery, the difficulty of assessing coaching quality or recognizing solution-focus, and the good reasons to go for ICF certification. And try out the challenges of the week: 1.) When you are coaching someone (or do therapy or other solution-focused practice), and you notice yourself judging someone, find a hook to suspend your judgement and see how that feels. 2.) Listen to some of your recordings of solution-focused practice and look at all the situations where you could give your client a little bit more say in how the session is run. So, am I leading the session? Is the client leading the session? Are we co-creating it together? And what tells me that we are doing one of those three?

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Wei-Su Shu on SF in China and Taiwan. In today’s episode, we talk with Wei-Su Hsu, Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, about the cultural adaptions of Solution Focus (SF) in Taiwan and mainland China. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how her SF journey started, how she worked with Insoo Kim Berg, and what she learned from her. Enjoy her craziness for Solution Focus and what she learned from translating SF books into Chinese. Find out more about cultural adaptions of Solution Focus in Taiwan and mainland China (e.g. with the miracle question, scaling or complimenting), what helps her to learn Solution Focus, and how she benefits from practitioners, students, and clients. Learn more about SF in schools and her research “The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Group Therapy in Ethnic Chinese School Settings: A Meta-Analysis”. Hear her take on complimenting and reframing in the Chinese culture and persuading people to accept Solution Focused concepts. Wei-Su shares her teaching of Solution Focus in Taiwan and mainland China and her aim to be less the expert and to wonder more. She closes with two stories about Insoo Kim Berg or how she showed her not to be the expert and do her own things. The Challenge of the week: “I invite you all to practice to learn to believe in miracles.”

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Harry Korman on interviewing for efforts. In today’s episode, we talk with Harry Korman, Solution-Focused Psychiatrist, Therapist, Trainer, Speaker, about effort focused interviewing and microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue. Find out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, the difficulty of doing Solution Focus, complimenting for efforts instead of traits, and how he got into effort focused interviewing. Check out more about how effort focused interviewing has influenced Harry’s practice, the difference between interviewing for efforts instead of success, and recognizing the efforts in Solution Focused practice. Harry mentions the different listening posture with effort focused interviewing and tells us more about his journey with microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue. Together we explore how microanalysis has influenced our practice and the value of having videos of your own work and watching them. Hear the story of how Steve de Shazer told Harry that he is working too much and the six second rule or how to wait for answers. And do the Challenge of the Week: "Look for, when you ask questions that have to do with effort, without something necessarily being successful. Look out for it.“ Send an email with stories or comment in the comment section below.

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Jocelyne Lopez-Korman about trusting the model. In today’s episode, we talk with Jocelyn Lopez-Korman, mental health nurse, social worker, family therapist and supervisor of family therapy, about what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how she maintained her curiosity for Solution Focus over the last (almost) 40 years, how it was in the beginning in the 80’s,and what fascinated her back then, and how she started SF and learned to be more present in the room and to trust the model. Hear what helped her to trust the model, how SF therapy, teaching and supervision mutually influence each other, and the differences taping a conversation and looking at it with a microanalysis lens make. Check out how they looked at their tapes 40 years ago and how they do it now. And learn more about what she does when doing supervision, how she involves the group in group supervision, what intrigued her with doing supervision in the first place. Listen to her when she talks about finding a balance with SF in a relationship and tells a story with Steve de Shazer that made a difference in her practice. And do the Challenge of the Week: „Setup something very small you want to continue doing that is useful for you and do it for a while. Then evaluate it with someone that knows that you are doing it (in an SF way).“

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Tara Gretton about empowering young people. In today’s episode, we talk with Tara Gretton, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Solution-Focused Trainer, and Social Worker, about giving young people a voice. Find out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, what her best hopes from working with young people are, and how she introduces the solution-focused language in schools with her group work, e.g. doing solution-focused DJ and drama workshops. Check out what they do in their SF DJ workshops and how she uses strengths cards to support young people to see what they have coped and managed before. Learn more about the importance of giving space and really listening to young people, how she brought in young people into the workshop at the UKASFP conference, the differences the DJ workshops make, and what the teachers notice. Find out how offering an SF conversation early with young people could make a huge difference to mental health issues. Tara tells us about her mission to see Solution Focus in every school in her local area and how she focuses on the SF assumptions in training SF. Get to know how drama and Solution Focus inspire each other and the privilege to invite children to see them in all their glory. And enjoy the challenge of the week: „Think about something in your life that has worked well, that has helped you. While doing that close your eyes, consciously breath and just think about that thing, whatever it is, that helped you in that moment."

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Jesper H. Christiansen about Solution Focus everwhere. In today’s episode, we talk with Jesper H. Christiansen, Chaos-Pilot, Solution Surfer, Solution-Focused Facilitator, about what fascinates him with Solution Focus, where and how he uses Solution Focus in problem-oriented training settings, his program „Rethink your Business“ that he does with Edgeware, and the balance of non-profit and profit projects. Learn more about how he supports clients in their success and makes his contribution visible, SOS – the shiny object syndrome or how he applies Solution Focus everywhere, partnership for performance, making a different kind of conversation – his SF way of doing performance conversations, and the story of how he started doing SF writing master classes. Check out the SolutionSurfer’s class reunion and other ways of exploring the preferred future,examples of preferred future conversations under given circumstances, and how they apply SF in their family life and their marriage. And try out the challenge of the week: Challenge yourself to come up with ideas of how SF could be used and how it could look like in situations where SF doesn’t seem to fit.“

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Julia Kalenberg on daily SF habits. In today’s episode, we talk with Julia Kalenberg, a Solution-Focused Practitioner and expert in applying Solution Focus to yourself, about useful habits and tools to refocus in everyday life. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus and how she constantly strives to focus in her life. Learn more about her solution-focused tools that she applies for herself on a daily base, e.g. her little preferred future or the I-O principle, and the differences that makes for her and people around her. Find out how she applies tools for herself very consequently to create useful habits, her fascination of working with leaders of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and how she invites other people to use SF ideas for themselves, e.g. with the personal flourishing instruction, the smiley stones, resource gossip, the diary of solutions, the bean experiment and more. Listen to the ripple effects leaders create with the tools she lets them experience, her „fulfilled life“-project and the story of Aschi, as well as how she uses SF in her community, e.g. at the 10 years anniversary of the local store in Zimmerwald. She shares what is important to her in her work and how showing vulnerability is important for her. And check out the challenge of the week: „Ask yourself everyday the I-O questions: "What have I done that I am really happy with? Tap on your own shoulder. "What has another person done that made a difference in your life? And have you also told them?"

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Ira Mollay about an encouraging space for change. In today’s episode, we talk with Ira Mollay, Chief Encouraging Officer and Founder of the Mutmacherei, about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, about the Mutmacherei and how it started with the good news initiative, and about focusing on progress towards a preferred future for the world. Ira shares some of the initiatives that go into that direction, her preferred future, and her contribution as chief encouraging officer directing the attention to what is already working. She talks about the „Mut in the City“-walks and how seeing positive initiatives encourages people to participate, her „soil“ metaphor, and how to contribute to a fertile common ground. Check out how Ira’s space fascination – iridium flares, iridium satellites, orbital mechanics, the overview effect and more – informs her practice, how you can apply space metaphors in coaching, and the differences her space knowledge makes for her and the Mutmacherei. Ira stresses that there is beauty to be found everywhere and that it needs practice to see it. Let’s try that out with the challenge of the week: „Go out into the world and notice what you notice. What captures your attention? And then consciously try to spot the positive things and find the beautiful things.”

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Paul Z Jackson about improv and Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with Paul Z Jackson, Solution-Focused practitioner, author, improviser, co-founder of the Bristol group, SOLWorld and the Applied Improvisation Network (AIN), about the fit between improvisation and Solution Focus. Find out what fascinates him about Solution Focus (SF), how he got into Solution Focus, and how Solution Focus is very well aligned with improvisation. Learn more about what fascinates him with bringing together SF and improv, the improvisation space in Solution Focus, and how knowing improv in SF and knowing SF in improv could be beneficial. Check out how they train SF practitioners with improvisation and invite their participants to improvise and the „Yes, and…“-mentality in SF and improv. Paul talks about how we learn from what works and the misconception that we mostly learn from our mistakes, the differences between an interactional - co-created emergent - and an individualistic world, and how we support our SF conversation partners to improvise in their life. Hear more about how Paul integrated Solution Focus in his life, his applied improvisation course at a University in Austria, and how SF could be used for a better world and society. And check out the challenge of the week: „Notice how you are responding in the moment to something that is important to you, something you care about, something that you are working on and allow yourself to see possibilities. Allow yourself that moment to see what other ways there might be of doing it. And try it out and see what works."

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Janine Waldman on performance management and resilience. In today’s episode, we talk with Janine Waldman, MSc FCIPD, solution-focused coach, trainer, facilitator and author, about applying Solution Focus in performance management conversations and how Solution Focus amplifies resilience. Find out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how she learned Solution Focus and how her work changed with it, as well as how her understanding of being Solution Focused changed. Check out the Solution Focused tools that fascinate her and the projects where she currently applies Solution Focus. Learn more about Solution Focus in performance management conversations and in everyday interactions at the workplace, the brilliance of skillful managers applying Solution Focus, and offering Solution Focus as a choice in trainings. Janine shares her work on resilience and Solution Focus as well as the four dimensions of resilience. She emphasizes that clients are doing the work, so trust the process, as well as the power of using and amplifying positive differences. And check out the challenge of the week: „ Over the next week, rate your days at the end of the day. 10 is the best it’s been and 1 is the opposite. And ask yourself: "How come it was so high? What did I contribute? What was the best day? How come? What is useful in this?"

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Chris Iveson about the BRIEF minimalism. In today’s episode, we talk with Chris Iveson of BRIEF, about being neutral in Solution Focused conversations. Check out what fascinates him with Solution Focus and the BRIEF minimalism, how they developed lists, the best hopes question, the tomorrow question and much more. Learn more about how they got into Solution Focus and started BRIEF, the value of trying to be neutral in conversations with our clients, the shift from „doing“ to „noticing“, and what fascinates him about neutrality. He shares how to keep it simple and open up possibilities for our clients, the magic of detailed descriptions when using the miracle and the tomorrow question, and the importance of not using presuppositional questions. Check out how to help clients to formulate detailed descriptions and how to make questions content free. Get a glimpse of the work with Evan George and Harvey Ratner. And try out the challenge of the week: „Your next embrace with somebody you love: Notice how you show each other your mutual love in the way that you conduct the embrace, sort of microsecond by microsecond.“

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Sue Lickorish about spirituality in SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Sue Lickorish, a conversation changer and Solution-Focused practitioner, about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, her „wow“-moments in the beginning, and her solution-focused journey. Sue shares how she is mindful in her work to have a different kind of conversation, how her conversations changed with Solution Focus, and how she developed her own way of Solution Focus including what is important to her. She mentions he we leave imprints on each other and on our clients. And she tells the story of how her menopause experience influenced her solution-focused practice and helped her find a new kind of sovereignty. Learn more about how she is including spirituality and found her own way. Check out her reset for change spiral with the oneness in the center and the changing world at the outside of the spiral. We talk about the importance of showing up, finding your own voice in the solution-focused world, and radical acceptance with the possibility to make a small next step. And do the challenge of the week: "In your life, over the next 24 hours, take any moment and accept it radically. And ask, “From this moment, am I moving in the direction of my preferred future, with intention?”

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Rayya Ghul about Solution Focus and Problem Solving. In today’s episode, we talk with Rayya Ghul, MA (Ed.) Dip.COT, Solution-Focused Therapist, Life Coach, Trainer, and Lecturer in University Learning and Teaching at the University of Edinburgh, about differences between Solution Focus and problem solving or how humans are not washing machines. We explore with her what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how to identify the best in a person and reactivate their capabilities, her book „The power of the next small step“, and how she brings Solution Focus to everyday people and everyday life. Learn more about the differences between better and different or the question „what differences would that make?", Solution Focus as a language for being useful for each other, the differences Solution Focus can make for self-help groups as well as evidence-based compliments and her „moan, moan, moan“-exercise about how to listen to people who complain. Find out more about her show „Are you a problem addict?“ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and how Solution Focus should be available for everyone in everyday life. Check out the Challenge of the week: "At the end of every day, on a scale of 0 to 10 (on a topic of your choice) where are you today and how could you maybe do better tomorrow?"

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John Wheeler about the practitioner’s perspective. In today’s episode, we talk with John Wheeler, M.A., Social Worker, UKCP Registered Systemic Psychotherapist, Solution Focused Trainer, Supervisor and Consultant as well as Board Member of the EBTA, about what fascinated him with Solution Focus at the beginning and how his conversations changed. Check out how he and Greg Vinnicombe collected Solution-focused assumptions, categorized them into four groups, have been teaching them, and how this focus on assumptions keeps him on track. He shares a great story of learning from our clients or an example of how adapting to the session rating scale (SRS) changed his conversation - from roughly connecting to truly connecting to our clients. Learn more about Solution Focused Supervision and how to be mindful of our own special perspective and the different contexts. Listen how they bridge quality assessments in a solution-focused way in their SF trainings. And check out the Challenge of the Week: „Look out for what you love most about your use of SF, based on the benefit you see it bringing to the people you are working with.”

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John Brooker about Team Facilitation with Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with John Brooker, Solution-Focused Meeting Facilitator and Innovator, Author, and Co-President of SFiO (Solution Focus in Organisations), about how to facilitate change with teams with Solution Focus. Check out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, what differences Solution Focus made for him in the beginning, and how his team facilitations changed. Learn more about his constructive rant or how to turn difficult topics into „what they want instead?“ in the beginning, solution-focused collaboration, and John’s DNA metaphor. Listen how he navigates and maintains space and pace in team workshops and how his team impetus, an agile metaphor for teams, works. Check out SFiO and and his vision as co-president of SFiO (Solution Focus in Organisations). Join in the Challenge of the week: „Think about what you could contribute to the development of SF. What is one tiny little thing you could do?”

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Andrew Gibson and the URP. In today’s episode, we talk with Andrew Gibson who is helping small businesses and charities to grow with Solution Focus, about what fascinates him about Solution Focus, a story of how he helped someone recently and the differences this question can make, his Solution Focused process of how he helps small businesses and charities to grow, and what he enjoys most about his work and how he has a seven day „weekend”. Learn more about the idea of the URP (Unique Referral Point) and his new book „What’s your URP? Don’t just make a living; make a life.”. Find out more about what is helpful for small businesses to grow and how Solution Focus can be helpful in this process, the shift from „doing“ to „noticing“ observable noticeable differences and the differences this shift made for him, as well as the challenges that people face who want to bring Solution Focus into the business world. Andrew tells us about his passion as member of the committee of the UKASFP (UK Association for Solution Focused Practice) and SFiO (Solution Focus in Organisations) and the power of stories and why to make someone else the hero of the story. And do the challenge of the week: „Notice when someone has made a difference and compliment the person for it.”

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Jonas Wells about the history of SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Jonas Wells, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, Author and Manager about his story of exploring the history of Solution Focus. Find out more about what fascinates him with Solution Focus, the Solution-Focused playlist and music as a different language game, his interest in the history of Solution Focus and his learnings for today, as well as the importance of the early period and the vibrant learning atmosphere back then. Listen to the four versions of how the miracle question might have emerged, how this view on the history of SF could be useful for our own practice, and the political and ethical dimension of Solution Focus. Get in contact with the SF community, a rich and inclusive resource. And check out the Challenge of the week: Ask yourself the following five questions: „What am I doing? Why am I doing it? How am I doing at it? How am I doing in it? What am I bringing to it?". This episode is a tribute to Björn Johansson and all the people who contributed to Solution Focus.

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Dr. Biba Rebolj about unteaching SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Biba Rebolj, international Trainer and Practitioner in Solution-Focused Practice, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and co-founder of "Solution Focused Possibilities", about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, what she did have to unlearn to do Solution Focus and what helped her to unlearn, how she got referred to BRIEF and how she started training with them - or how she moved from Slovenia to London. Check out how the BRIEF training fit to her endeavour to be minimalistic. Biba shares her thoughts on unlearning and unteaching Solution Focus and talks about the SF Possibilities-trio - Biba Rebolj, Greg Oberbeck, and Ben Scott - and how they celebrate their differences. Find out how she started training people in Slovenia and what helped her doing that as well as her way of cooperating with young people and the value of observing and showing your own work. And check out the Challenge of the week: „Look for ways where SF is not present."

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Erin Cusanno is doing more of what works. In today’s episode, we talk with Erin Cusanno, Solution-Focused Practitioner, School Counselor (NCC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), about Solution-Focus in School Counseling. Erin shares with us what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how her conversations as school counselor have changed with Solution-Focus ,and what differences this has made for her and her students. Learn how she got in touch with Solution Focus, how she landed in a train-the-trainer course with Brenda Zalter-Minden and Heather Fiske at the SFBTA conference in Santa Fe and what fascinated her back then. Find out how she started using it in her own work as school counselor and how she started to train school administrators and others in her school district and in the community. We talk about how she builds on what works and does more of it, her experiences at the SFU conference and at BRIEF Summer School, and about the mastery and the art of Solution-Focused practice. Erin mentions the importance of acknowledging and honoring it when clients share their struggles, the power of a small step, and the valuable differences that talking with Solution-Focused practitioners can make. And join in the Challenge of the week: „Challenge yourself to take a small step in a direction that feels helpful to you.”

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Guy Shennan and the power of conversations. In today’s episode we talk with Guy Shennan, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Author, and former Chair of the British Association of Social Workers , about his fascination for the ordinary nature and the forward movement of solution-focused conversations. Guy tells us what changed in the 2nd edition of his book "Solution-Focused Practice: Effective Communication to Facilitate Change" and how hope is different from desire. We talk about the UKASFP conference and his best hope to have a collective and interactive ethos. Learn more about collectivising solution-focused practice, the Solution-Focused collective and their manifesto for a socially engaged solution-focused practice. Guy highlights the power of conversations and the importance of working with others. And check out the Challenge of the week: „Post poems about hope: Share your favorite or an own poem about hope in the comments section at www.sfontour.com/simplyfocuspodcast and then go to this episode.“

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Joel K. Simon about opportunities in dialogue. In today’s episode, we talk with Joel K. Simon, Solution Focused Clinical Social Worker and Therapist, LCSW, BCD, ASW, and program chair of the SFBTA conference 2019, about his Solution Focused journey. Joel shares with us what attracted him about Solution Focus and still fascinates him today, how and when he got in touch with Solution Focus, and how he introduced SF in the agenciy he worked for. Listen to his stories with the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer, Dan Gallagher and others. We talk about working with people instead of diagnosis or labels and “End of Life and Grief Counseling” with Solution Focus, his books in this field, and his article „Opportunities: Organizing the Solution-Focused Interview“ that he wrote together with Lance Taylor. As program chair of the SFBTA conference 2019 in Montreal he also shares what fascinates him about the program. And a classic as challenge of the week: „Find out what’s working and do more of it."

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Ute Habenicht & Norbert Wandl at the WANDeLHAUS. In today’s episode, we talk with Ute Habenicht and Norbert Wandl, hosts at WANDeLBERATUNG and the WANDeLHAUS in Klagenfurt, about their work combining Systemic Structural Constellations (SySt®) and Solution Focus. They share what fascinates them with Solution Focus, different ways to acknowledge the problem view of the clients, when and how to orient them towards a Solution Focus, and what fascinates them about being hosts and making people feel at home. Find out more about their journey into Systemic Structural Constellations (Syst®) and Solution Focus and they how they the two approaches. Learn more about the client and the representatives in Systemic Structural Constellations (Syst®), the differences their work makes for their clients, and how they decide what they do with their clients. They share lovely stories of how they apply Solution Focus in their private life as a couple or in their business and emphasize how making the context part of the change and seeing that change is happening all the time can be important. And for the first time, we have two Challenges of the week: 1.) Try to change the context when you get stuck. 2.) Collect friendly encounters.

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Sarah McVanel about greatness. In today’s episode, we talk with Sarah McVanel, Speaker, Author, HR & OD Professional about recognition and the flipside of failing. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus and what changed for her with SF. Learn more about the recognition of greatness when working with teams, FROG - Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness - and how to „frog“ people, and her new book the „Flip Side of Failing“. We talk about how people handle failing, Solution Focused questions to refocus and elevate, her vision for her life right now and the steps she took with her family to make this come true, how our conversation when visiting Sarah in her home inspired her for her new book, and how we can redefine the stories we tell each other and ourselves. Sarah also shares how being involved in the community helped her to start and grow her business. And she gave us this challenge of the week: Think of a label you give yourself, decide if it is working for you, and if no, allow yourself to envision a different possibility and a more helpful description.

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Kati Hankovszky about community building. In today’s episode, we talk with Katalin Hankovszky, Solution Focused trainer and coach, chair of the Swiss Network for Solution Focused Work, organizer of many Solution Focused conferences, and member of the SolutionSurfers, about how she is connecting people. Find out more about what fascinates her about Solution Focus, her Solution Focused journey and how she began to do the work her way. Kati tells stories about their SF-way of organizing the SOLWorld-conference 2005 in Interlaken, how they dealt with „troubles“ while organizing this year’s SOLWorld-conference in Budapest, and her best hopes from bringing people together, building SF networks, translating SF books, and encouraging SF exchange. Hear what she would like to see more of in the SF communities she is in, her transforming work inside organizations, like e.g. her work as Chair the Swiss Network for Solution Focused Work, and what she learned from her work of connecting people for her work in and with organizations. Learn how she is checking for the attractiveness of what people want to do, to foster the sustainability of their engagement. Let yourself inspire by their teamwork and how they managed for the right people to show up at the right time, and how she is going with her full energy for what she wishes for and enjoying what she gets. And do the Challenge of the week: „Think who you really want to do a task together with and tell them. If you have to do this task with someone else, be grateful for exactly the people you are doing it with.“

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Andrea Schovancová and Marek Koreň about Solution Focus in Slovakia. In today’s episode, we talk with Andrea Schovancová, HR Manager at GGB Slovakia and Marek Koreň, CFO at Team Industries, s.r.o., about what fascinates them with Solution Focus, their Solution Focused journeys and how their paths crossed, how they use Solution Focus in their companies and the differences this is making, and how they collaborate to share Solution Focus in their communities, in schools, in families, and in their everyday life. Find out more about Ben Furman’s Kid Skills and how they promote this in their local teacher’s community. We also explore how Solution Focus can support to build communities and the importance of stopping for a while and (re)focusing. And check out the challenge of the week: „Stop for half an hour. Make a list of 15-20 people or stories that inspired you. Select one of them and call or write the person and tell her or him about the differences it made."

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Jennifer Gerwing and Sara Healing about what sciences really knows about communication. In today’s episode, we debunk some myths of communication. We talk with Jennifer Gerwing, Ph.D., and Sara Healing of the International Microanalysis Associates, about what fascinates them with (microanalysis of) face to face dialogue. They share examples of communication myths (in Health Care) and what we really know when we analyze interaction. They debunk the myth of body language and explain the remarkable contributions of facial gestures, hand gestures and gaze in conjunction with our speech. Together we explore how to show the importance of looking very closely at specific, observable behavior in interaction, how to see what’s actually happening, and the difference of looking at individual behavior versus the looking at interaction. And they bust myths about listening and show the importance of really paying attention to the client and the interaction. Check out what the benefits of engaging in the interactional view and microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue are, and how Solution Focus fits to all this scientific research. And check out the Challenge of the week: Pay attention to conversations around you and observe how hand gestures, facial expressions, and gaze add to the speech.

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Dr. David Weber about communication choices. In today’s episode, we talk with Assoc. Prof. David Weber at UNC Wilmington about how he uses Solution Focused ideas in University teaching. Check out how he got into Solution Focus and what fascinates him with SF, how he supports his students to see Solution Focused communication choices, how he coaches his students to major in communication and develop their personal and team skills, and the concept of Tikun Olam. Listen to a story of a student using the miracle question in a team meeting and ways of teaching this question. David tells us what helped him to find his own SF style and the differences living in different countries made for him. We explore co-creation in the classroom and how he sees his students as solution searchers. And we talk about how he started using SF in the classroom, how these experiences encouraged him, the differences SF makes in his everyday life, and how the SF community provides this studio for being a real human being. And do David’s challenge of the week: "When you are in a situation ask yourself „What can I learn from this experience?“.

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Sébastien Vernieuwe about Luc Isebaert’s legacy. In today’s episode, we talk with Sébastien Vernieuwe of the Korzybski Institute in Bruges (Belgium), about Dr. Luc Isebaert’s “Three Questions for a Good Life”. Check out what fascinates Sébastien with Solution Focus, how he trained Solution Focus, and how this changed his practice. Get to know the ideas and the development of the “Three Questions for a Good Life” and the Bruges Model that integrates the greek classics with the Ethos, the Pathos, the Logos, and the Oikos. Listen how they chose „happiness“ and „gratefulness“ as topics for the 3 questions and learn more about the social media campaign „3 Questions on 3 May“ and Sébastien’s best hopes from the challenge. And we go out and ask participants of the conference of the Swiss Network for Solution Focused Work (NLA) about the differences these questions make for them. Check out what Katalin Hankovszky, Regula Flury-Wahlen, Dr. med. Ursula Bühlmann, Dr. Sandro Vicini, Sandra Dietrich, and Andy Balmer say and do the Challenge of the week: Try out the “Three Questions for a Good Life” and share your experiences with us in the comments section of this podcast episode (www.sfontour.com/simplyfocuspodcast).

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Dr. Adam Froerer about a shift in perspective. In today’s episode, we talk with Assoc. Prof. Adam Froerer about seeing people at their best. Find out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, how questions change with a different perception, how to be minutely curious about clients being at their best, or how to come to more meaningful places with Solution Focus. Learn how to focus on change in the past, present and/or the future. Adam also tells us about their „late nights“ family ritual or how Adam and his wife have important conversations with their children. And he talks about how he uses Solution Focus with his students at Mercer University and how staying persistent in seeing people as capable of figuring out their own answers pays off. We explore his research project about different presuppositions in Solution Focus and the importance of understanding how language is used, listening, and the meanings of the client. And check out his challenge of the week: Find a person that you don’t know and practice finding out about their brilliance. ”What do you do best? How did you get good at that? …”

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John Murphy about asking clients. In today’s episode, we talk with Prof. John Murphy about client-centered practice. Find out what has fascinated him with Solution Focus, how he came in contact with SF, and what kept him on this road. Learn from John what respect, respectful curiosity, putting the client in the center, and letting their answers drive the conversation, can mean. He stresses the uniqueness of conversations and how questions can open up for possibilities and different stories. He shares his thoughts about client-directed practice and the willingness to let ourselves be shaped into effectiveness by our clients, the common factors research and how Solution Focus Brief Therapy empowers the important variables, as well as the value of not assuming and instead asking clients about their experiences. Find out more about giving credit, the influence of personal agency questions, and about planting seeds with our questions and invitations. We also talk with John about his book „Solution Focused Counseling in Schools“, who should definitely read it, as well as taking the time and remaining open to learn more about the complexity of people. And what a rewarding challenge of the week: „Think of something you want to accomplish and make a list of people who want you to succeed with that. Select one person and ask yourself how you might go about recruiting this person to give you a hand.”

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Prof. Frank Thomas about learning from client feedback. In today’s episode, we talk with Frank Thomas, Professor at the TCU Counseling Program and former Archivist of the SFBTA about Practice-Based Evidence. He shares what fascinated him and drew him towards Solution Focus from 1985 on and what makes him passionate about Solution Focus today. Hear more about his article about the evolution of compliments and the importance of retaining complimenting in Solution Focus. Learn more about Practice-Based Evidence, how we can engage our clients in the process and learn from and with them, and the difference between Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence. Frank tells us a touching story with the taxi metaphor and the different ride with letting clients participate in the process. We explore how and what to ask clients to elicit client feedback on how it is going and how to involve them in the experience. And he shares how he teaches Practice-Based Evidence with his students at the TCU and how he invites seasoned practitioners to embrace this form of learning as well as the value of formalizing client feedback with FIT and/or PCOMS. As founding archivist of the SFBTA archive he saw the foreshadowing of future discoveries in the video tapes of the BFTC. And he stresses the rumor of Solution Focus, spreading the good news, and valuing differences in doing SF. Challenge yourself with the challenge of the week: „Choose one or two clients or conversational partners and simply have a conversation about your conversation. And see what similarities and differences come out of the understanding of what took place."

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Marcella Stark about SF supervision. In today’s episode, we talk with Marcella Stark, Assoc. Professor at the TCU Counseling Program and Board Member of the SFBTA, about her fascinations for Solution Focus, the differences it has made for her, and how Solution Focus is not only for positive people. Hear how she supports students that Solution Focus gets more natural and in becoming more curious about their own progress. Check out how creative Solution Focused ways, like working with miniatures when supervising students, or scaling and goal setting with horror figures and superheroes. Learn what fits best when or when the miracle question and when fast forwarding questions fit best. Get to know what drew Marcella to Solution Focused supervision, what differences applying SF makes for her and her students, her research projects and insights about applying Solution Focus in different settings, like counseling, leadership, and supervision, and the Solution Focused community and her engagement in the SFBTA. And do the Challenge of the week: „Look at how far you’ve come in your journey and answer yourself „how?“. How did I do that? How did I get here? How did I know to do that?“

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Becky Taylor about miniatures and sand trays. In today’s episode, we talk with Assoc. Prof. Becky Taylor at the TCU Counseling Program about Solution Focused work with children and adolescents. Becky shares with us what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how she started to focus on resources instead of deficits, her fascination for resilience, and how she got in touch with Solution Focus. Hear her tips and tricks on how to use miniatures and sand trays in a Solution Focused way with children and adolescents and what differences she has noticed. Learn more about her book "Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative and Play Based Approaches“ which is coming out in April 2019. Check out embodied learning or how she uses the miracle question, rehearsing the preferred future, and scaling with miniatures with children and adolescents, how she involves the parents, teachers, or friends of the child, and how she gets them playing. And accept her challenge to look for what’s right about people, the good things people do, and to help people realize that. Check out The Challenge of the week: When you see children and their parents, do something that lets the parents know that you appreciate something that they do with their children or let the children know that you appreciate them.

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Elfie and Dominik about connecting and sharing. In today’s episode we celebrate the anniversary of the SIMPLY FOCUS podcast with our guest host Prof. John Murphy who interviews us, Elfie & Dominik, about our journey. Find out what Solution Focused ideas have helped us to do our journey and have sustained traveling for almost 2 years or what kept us going, especially when it didn’t go the way we wanted it to. Learn more about the potential of the assumption that change is happening all the time, the power of our preferred future or the turn our journey took after connecting to the Solution Focused community in North America, and the meaning of receiving the Steve de Shazer Memorial award 2018 at the SFBTA conference. We talk about our aim to share the great Solution Focused work that people do and to build up an audio library for the SF community and beyond, about giving and receiving or how we bring Solution Focus to people who may not come in touch with it otherwise and the differences these conversations made for us, and about bringing joy and ease to the world and making differences in people’s lives. We share our view on appreciating differences and the advantages of different versions of Solution Focus, on supporting each other, and going the journey together as a Team Solution Focus. Check out the basic assumptions that most Solution Focused practitioners, who we met, share, the connections and the hope Solution Focus can instill in other people and ourselves, and how we engage people in meaningful conversations – in one to one meetings and when working with groups, e.g. with University students at several Universities we were invited to in the US. And check out John’s challenge of the week: „Go out and tell 5 people in your life about SF on Tour and tune in to the ideas of Dominik and Elfie.”

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