SOLWorld Conference 2008

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

08:30 - 10:00 am

Registration & Mingling

10:00

Pre-Conference
(in German)

10:00 - 11:15 am

Welcome Plenary: Learning and sharing at the conference

09:00 - 10:15 am

Practical Plenary: Michael Hjerth SF Micro Tools

09:00 - 10:15 am

Future Plenary:
Networking on hot and emerging topics

10:15 -10:30 am

Trailer show

10:15 - 10:30 am

Trailer show

11:30 - 12:00 noon Break

10:30 - 11:00 am Break

10:30 - 11:00 am Break

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Workshops 1

11:00 - 12:30

Workshops 3

11:00 - 12:00 noon

Workshops 5

12:30 - 1:00 pm

Book Launch

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Closing ceremony + Handover to SOL2009 Netherlands

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Lunch

1:00 -2:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Lunch

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Workshops 2

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Workshops 4

4:00 - 4:30 pm

Break

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Break

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Activity Market

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Open Space

6:00 pm Sol

Steering Group Meeting

7:30 pm

Pre-conference meeting at "Früh" Room: Kapellchen

7:30 pm

Dinner at Maternushaus & Sol Cabaret

6:30 pm

meeting point Maternushaus for Touristic outing: boat trip to "Das Fährhaus" in Rodenkirchen - Dinner

1.1. Agneta Castenberg & Kerstin Måhlberg (SWE)
SCC: Short-Cut Coaching
Special designed 7-10 minutes coaching sessions with video documentation.

1.2. Peter Szabo (CH)
Resource gossip - simply reinforcing
Incredibly simple practical tool rapidly creating an atmosphere of mutual appreciation and acknowledgement.

1.3. Alasdair J Macdonald (UK)
Managing Disagreement With Powerful Vested Interests
Tools and exercises to protect your freedom and choice also under bureaucratical or otherwise difficult situational contexts.

1.4. Björn Johansson (SWE) & Mark McKergow (UK)
Adapting complexity
How can we navigate in the shifting landscape of multiple processes going on in organisations? In what way might we create or sharpen our tools of dealing with what is happening as consultants or managers?

1. case study: Rinze Wartena, Rita Tjooink, Bert Garssen, Katrien Schober (NL)
Building a school for disabled children in a Solution Focussed way
Description of the multi-year process of converting a whole school to a SF way by those who succeeded to do so.

2.1. Stephanie von Bidder; Kati Hankovszky; Urs Limacher (CH)
Reflecting: 'A live demo'
Live coaching with a reflecting team - plus reflecting this demo in small groups in the audience.

2.2. Liselotte Baeijaert and Anton Stellamans (BE)
Resiliency at work: Bouncing back and forwards
How to discover resiliency after drawbacks, how to develop it in a SF way, and how to sell SF resiliency workshops to organizations.

2.3. Sue Lickorish (UK), Gesa Niggemann (GER)
More SOUL to SOL: Soul qualities in SF Coaching
Joint explorations: How to add "soul" and "spirit" to "beginner's mind" and other SF relationship qualities.

2.4. Caroline Klingenstierna and Michael Hjerth (SWE)
Affect, emotions, brains, and SF
Excercising the innate SF powers of our brains: the power of emotions and the power of confusion.

2. case study: Shaun Lincoln and Jackie Keddy (UK)
Inside job - SF coaching conversations within the Metropolitan Police Service
How SF coaching changed leadership behaviour in an public organization of 54000 people.

3.1. Roswitha Menke (GER)
SF Writing
Everyone has written and has to write. And on some (or even some more) occasions it does not seem to work: This workshop will make you aware of how it already works and how to write more of it.

3.2. David E. Weber (USA)
Teaching Solution Focus Consulting in College
Enabling participants to build their own consultant- or trainer-training programs in line with the SF perspective

3.3. Jenny Clarke (UK) and the 'SF Quality Forum'
Deming Meets Solutions Focus
Beyond ISO 9000 & co. - SF approaches to quality management.

3.4. John Sproson (UK)
Has the Solutions Focused Sales Process Arrived?
Co-constructing sales solutions together with the buyer-client - and having fun with it ...

3. case study: Bruce Woodings (UK)
Getting to the Future First - An SF Approach to Business Strategy Development
Strategy development and performance improvement with the BBC Performing Music Group.

4.1 Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman (UK)
How to introduce coaching into an organisation...
and how to do so in a sf way. Tips and techniques from the consulting stage to the implementation and the follow-up..

4.2. Marco Matera (I)
Miracle scaling
In this workshop you can learn and make experiences with a simple form of structural constellation work.

4.3. Hans-Peter Korn (CH)
Looking Back on the Future
Using scenic simulation to empower the engagement, the spontaneity and creativity of the participants for vision building.

4.4.Fredrike Bannink (NL)
Solution focused mediation in teams and organisations
SF questions to support clients' finding out what they would like instead of the conflict.

4. Case study: Alan Kay (CAN)
We know SF works - Highland’s College case study
We know SF works, but our clients have to use it in the hallway, in a meeting, in strategic projects, etc. How do we make SF useful for them - the way they work?

5.1. Dominik Godat (CH)
Random Coaching - The simple way of being not knowing
Simplify yourself - learn to coach from a "10" on a scale of not knowing.

5.2. Mark McKergow & the Karlstad Group (UK & EU)
Positioning SF in the landscape of ideas - update from the Karlstad Group
Investigate parallels between SF thinking and other different (but not too different) intellectual traditions - and practices.

5.3. Urs Limacher Koechlin, Katalin Hankowszky (CH)
Shared not-knowing as co-coaches working with a team
Sharing games and metaphors as helpful team interventions about the effects of not knowing including live demo of a meta talk by two coaches while working with a group.

5.4 Felix Hirschburger (CH)
SF Action in Everyday Work
I will share my personal experience in my HR environment, give some examples how I am using SF. Then we will build groups and you can work on putting useful ideas into your practice.

5. case study: Stephen Langer (USA) & Klaus Schenck (GER)
Implementing SF-Management: Evolution from practice model to management model.
Supporting a rather problem-ridden state agency to introduce SF management in a "parallel process" across hierarchical levels.