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When exploring new ideas it is important to;

1. Have a process that is known
2. Start with positives + pluses to allow the idea a chance of survival.
3. Give ideas there P.R.O.PS

Pluses, Positives

• Start with what is good about the idea, finding the good stuff…

Reinforcements

• Building…

This year the SFBTA (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association) conference was held in Banff, Alberta - in the heart of the …

Still learning solutions focuses I attempted using scaling questions with a leadership team. Below is a story of what happened, and how great it turned out!

Working with a leadership team of 5 people including the COO of the organization. I was called in to facilitate and consult the leadership team with the following objectives

defined;

Leaders will be able to reflect upon their own behaviors and adjust…

Your Brain at Work is a pop psych book.…

Paul Jackson on Solution Focus Applications #1 from alankay1 on Vimeo.

I love questions; asking them, answering them, writing about them, thinking about them, driving Christine (Wife)crazy with them. Whether you are a facilitator, coach, leader, person in the toilet-stall next to me – asking 2 to 3 questions beyond the point of where we agree

develops understanding of each other. Additionally asking questions

beyond the…

Scaling Challenge of Choice

High Ropes Course Processing & Reflection…

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…

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 –…

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…