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We Fear Change - But a Future Perfect Helps!

A good friend, fellow Buddhist and fellow coach, by the name of Jñānagarbha, came on an SF-Coaching Course I was running. When asked to summarise the Future Perfect, he made a very interesting point, even drawing on the film "Wayne's World"!



Apparently in the film, Wayne's friend Garth says "We Fear Change" - and anyone who's ever been involved in a change management programme can testify to that! But.... when we imagine the future perfect in vivid detail, we make our desired change… Continue

Added by Shakya on January 13, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

Meeting with Agile software pioneer Alistair Cockburn

UPDATE January 2010 - Alistair has posted his comments on SF and how to use punchier language at http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method. Go and check it out, and see my comments there.



As you will probably know, I enjoy meeting people who have led developments in other field which seem to have some resonance or connection with SF practice. (See the Karlstad Group section of the site…

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Added by Mark McKergow on January 3, 2010 at 15:22 — 5 Comments

SF conqueres Software Development

At the XP Day Benelux, which is an international conference about agile software development, intended for software development and business people from all walks of life, Pierluigi Pugliese offered a well-received workshop "Solution Focused Agile Coaching"

Here is his ==>… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on December 11, 2009 at 9:30 — No Comments

Clean Language and SF

Hi, great to discover this site! Following a couple of conversations with Mark McKergow recently, I'm becoming increasingly curious about the relationship between Clean Language and Solutions Focus.



The two approaches seem to share a philosophy, and may have even more in common than that.



Like SF, Clean Language comes from the world of therapy and is moving into the business world. It was devised by the late David Grove, who was working with trauma victims, and turned into… Continue

Added by Judy Rees on November 25, 2009 at 16:30 — 4 Comments

Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" (which is discussed in SOLWorld since a longer time, see http://www.solworld.org/group/karlstadgroup/forum/topics/solution-focused-agility-in ) is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30 — 5 Comments

SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

Yesterday was marked by the Autumn lecture of the British Wittgenstein Society, and Kirsten Dierolf and I were very pleased not only to be invited to the lecture, but also to be included in a special dinner following the event. The lecturer was Prof Rom Harré (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Romano_Harr%C3%A9) who has added Chair of the LSE’s Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences to his large collection… Continue

Added by Mark McKergow on November 3, 2009 at 15:54 — 2 Comments

Art of Hosting - interesting meta-method of emergent change approaches

As a practicing consultant, coach and facilitator I always try to keep developing myself by attending trainings and other events from time to time. Within the SF world this is not always easy – after 17 years I feel as if I’ve seen quite a lot. Some of you will know of my recent work on developing the idea of Leader as Host, and part of my research led me to the Art of Hosting group (www.artofhosting.org).



Art of Hosting (AoH) is a movement… Continue

Added by Mark McKergow on October 5, 2009 at 17:00 — No Comments

Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

My paper with Kirsten Dierolf on the Grammar of Neuroscience (published in the SFCT journal InterAction and available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/lqb7p5) has come to the attention of Professor Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (http://herts.academia.edu/DanieleMoyalSharrock) at the University of Hertfordshire and founder of the British Wittgenstein Society. She is a Wittgenstein specialist, and… Continue

Added by Mark McKergow on September 25, 2009 at 14:00 — No Comments

Internet Radio Host Michael Neil use of miracle question

Michael Neil is an NLP coach. I sometimes listen to his weekly show on hayhouseradio.com, "Supercoach". It's a call in show where people ask for advice. He often uses the miracle question with his coachees.

Added by Barbara Green-Studer on September 21, 2009 at 6:16 — 1 Comment

Brain, science, and SF group revided

Hi, after a long while being elsewhere than here. I'm back, and have decided to start sharing more of the wonderful stuff on neuroscience and psychology I've encountered during my google-travels. First in line. The pleasures of uncertainty: research by Tim Wilson and Daniel Gilbert. More social psychology than brain-science, but cool stuff. See you in the SFBS group http://solworld.ning.com/group/sfbrainsandscience

Michael

Added by Michael Hjerth on August 28, 2009 at 14:37 — No Comments

"decentering" from problem by using different forms of expressive art

I am just reading this new book:



Lösungskunst: Lehrbuch der kunst- und ressourcenorientierten Arbeit

von Herbert Eberhart (Autor), Paolo J. Knill (Autor)

# Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (17. Juni 2009)

# Sprache: Deutsch

# ISBN-10: 3525401590

# ISBN-13: 978-3525401590…

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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on August 27, 2009 at 13:13 — No Comments

Solution - Focus practices as an open process

I strongly believe that the effectiveness of Solution-Focused practice is linked to its radical simplicity.



That is what makes Solution-Focused practices beautiful and elegant.



I also believe that what we are doing today is the seed of what we will be doing tomorrow.



In other… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on July 28, 2009 at 1:37 — 3 Comments

Share J-SOL TWO : Workshops

Hello everyone,



It has been almost 2 weeks since J-SOL TWO.

People are sharing their experiences of J-SOL in a mailing list.

Similarly, sharing about what happened in their work place after J-SOL.

Of course they don't forget about reflecting on it.



Now, I want to share you some of J-SOL TWO.

These are the workshops with speaker's name.

I'm curious they are comon or very Japanese to you.



I try to introduce eahc one in… Continue

Added by Ruiko Aoki on July 13, 2009 at 13:59 — 2 Comments

At last... Inbetween is finally published - read it here

You may remember that Harry Korman and I have been working on an epic paper about the radical simplicity of SF, and I put up a draft some time ago. Well, it's finally out in Journal of Systemic Therapies (following quite a lot of revision after the various peer reviewers comments), and you can read the final version at www.sfwork.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=6d8.



The reference is McKergow MW and Korman H (2009), Journal of Systemic… Continue

Added by Mark McKergow on July 6, 2009 at 9:30 — 6 Comments

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools!

One of the SIMPLE principles of SF says:

Inbetween - the action is in the interaction

and an other says:

Every case is different - beware ill-fitting theory

and in the "Agile Manifesto" two of the four values are:

Responding to change over following a plan

Individuals and interactions over processes and… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 27, 2009 at 14:17 — 3 Comments

Solution focused practice wiki project

I'm looking at ways to generate an solution focused practice or solution focused approaches wikipedia page. This will look at solution focused approaches in other contexts outside therapy. There are a number of UKASFP members planning on setting up a virtual openspace possibly on the 31st July between 10am and 4pm UK time (to be confirmed very soon).. I will provide links to the virtual meeting places and sort out any technical issues beforehand.

The idea is to have a minimal… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on June 25, 2009 at 6:43 — 3 Comments

Could or should SF be scientifically researched?

In the book "More than Miracles" Steve deShazer wrote in one of his chapters, called "don't think, but observe" on page 109 something that could be understood in a way, the solution focused approach couldn't or shouldn't be scientifically researched.

More about this you can read in a discussion running just now in the SOLUTIONS-List here:…

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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 21, 2009 at 21:56 — 1 Comment

Distinction: SF coaching vs. "being positive"

Inspired by the latest posting by Kirsten Dierolf,

I wrote something about SF vs. "being positive":



Solution-Focused coaching is not about “being positive”.

Solution-Focused is not about denying the reality of tough situations.



Solution-Focused coaching is about noticing what works - in a fact-finding manner.

It is about helping clients… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on June 19, 2009 at 11:58 — 5 Comments

Distinction: SF & Positive Psychology

New posting on my blog. Here is an excerpt:



Therefore:



IF therapy is about treatment and about helping people function in society (Using a sports metaphor, a therapist makes sure that an injured athlete recovers to compete again, via an effective rehab program)



AND



IF coaching is about helping people function well in society, if it is about living better and about performing better (Using a sports metaphor, a coach makes sure that the… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on June 15, 2009 at 21:48 — 2 Comments

Video of the TEXEL Conference!!!

Get to see what a conference is like! Have a look at the Texel 09 Conference video just recently uploaded by Tabea Szabo!

Added by Stephanie von Bidder on June 3, 2009 at 17:00 — No Comments

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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…

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Created by Hans-Peter Korn Dec 25, 2009 at 10:25am. Last updated by Mark McKergow Nov 3, 2014.

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 Jesper H Christiansen Aug 22, 2017.

Open Space at SOLworld conferences

SOLworld Open Space instructions as it was used at the 2011 conference, by Mark McKergow

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Created by Katalin Hankovszky Dec 30, 2015 at 10:18pm. Last updated by Katalin Hankovszky Dec 30, 2015.

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 Mark McKergow Dec 2, 2022.

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