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Who knows better?

For a specific work assignment, I am brushing up on my NLP skills; more specifically, I'm reviewing my teaching materials on conversational hypnosis and persuasion strategies, as per a specific request by the client who hired me.



I am struck yet again by how traditional approaches differ from Solution-Focused ones.



Let's take negotiation skills: a topic that I teach in workshops and in which many clients want to be coached.

The NLP skills used in negotiation… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on April 5, 2009 at 11:30 — 5 Comments

Solution-Focused approaches & the Positive Deviance Process

In a recent posting I talked about an intervention for reducing hospital infections.

I noted how that intervention had all the ingredients of a Solution-Focused approach, and that the authors called that approach "Positive Deviance".

Some of my friends, in the comments, mentioned that "Positive Deviance" is a school of thought of its own.

That is… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on March 7, 2009 at 13:04 — 3 Comments

Change We Can Believe In - a case study of a brief coaching session

I learn a lot from my clients.

After a session, I review my notes; I think of the path taken and of the many paths not taken; I think about what I said, and I think about what the client said; and new insights, new perspectives emerge.

These reflections are very useful to improve my game.

Sometimes, they offer very interesting insights into how the mind works, how change happens, how people think.



A recent coaching session with a new client led me to musings about… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on March 1, 2009 at 14:58 — 2 Comments

A case study: a solution-focused approach to reducing hospital infections

It seems to me solution-focused strategies are blossoming everywhere. Or maybe I see them everywhere. Whatever the case might be, I was not expecting to find anything regarding Solution-Focused approaches in a book whose subtitle is: "a surgeon's note on performance" (the book is

BETTER, the author is Atul Gawande). Yet, there it was: a… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on December 7, 2008 at 12:00 — 5 Comments

Brain as anticipation machine... and SF for creating memories of the future

Jeff Hawkins, the guy behind the Palm Pilot, wrote a book published in 2005: On Intelligence.

The title says it all.

I found the book very interesting, because Hawkins’ point of view is very different from that of many brain researchers.

For example, basing his… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on July 18, 2008 at 0:23 — 10 Comments

SF & cognitive "biases"

Sometimes I think SF practice means skillfully navigating and using human biases and quirks.

Take, for example, the "anchoring bias".

if, in a questionnaire, I use the questions "how happy are you?" and "how often do you date?" in that order, the correlation of the answers to those questions is very small (0.1 or something like that).

But if I reverse the order of the questions, i.e. if I ask first "how often do you date?" and then "how happy are you?" the answers to the two… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on June 27, 2008 at 16:39 — 3 Comments

The infantilization of Italian (European?) culture

Multi-culturalism is a word I do not like, and it rates just above "plague" in my own dictionary.

That is because I do not believe in the relativistic nature of that approach, which caused more harm than good: it left us in Europe with increasing levels of anomie, and that is bad according to positive psychology and to my own experience.

Not having a theoretical framework, though, that means i am more curious about cultural differences!



One thing I noticed just by reading… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on May 31, 2008 at 21:22 — 1 Comment

Rolling with the punches

My client was another coach / consultant, familiar with the SF process.

Very strong and interesting personality.

A tough cookie.

I decided to co-create the process with her, so I engaged her expertise.

We started off alright...

until all of a sudden she gave me this feedback: "leave me more space; you are not leaving me enough space to think about the answers to your questions".

I was taken aback by the directness of the feedback.

I took it in good stride,… Continue

Added by Paolo Terni on May 17, 2008 at 12:30 — 2 Comments

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You want to learn more about "Solution Focus"?

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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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