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Evan has long been interested in the idea of making change easier an idea that oddly seems to meet with suspicion. It really does seem that we can make change harder for people or decide to make it easier and SFBT is really great at making it easier.

Describing the Preferred Future, the life that contains the 'Best Hopes', lies right at the heart of Solution Focused practice. Here Evan George picks out four of the key points that we can usefully bear in mind in our work.

Harvey Ratner describes his work with Project 5 offering a free mental health/support service to NHS staff working through the pandemic.

Chris Iveson explores the simple and yet crucial difference between the questions 'why?' and 'how?'. This distinction lies at the heart of the Solution Focused approach.

Evan George explores one of the small distinctions that makes a huge difference in our Solution Focused Practice - indeed it is both trans-formative and foundational.

Since the late 1990's when BRIEF started using this question it has spread across the SF globe. Here Evan George carefully deconstructs it and examines it in detail.

Should we think of Solution Focused Practice as an art or a craft or indeed as both and what difference does it make? Evan George ponders on the difference.

Lock-down has been really tough for many people. This series of 7 reflective exercises invites us to learn something that may prove useful about ourselves, those around us and our 'new normal' futures. Have a go.

Evan George responds to Yvette Stanley's interesting piece on 'creating an environment for excellence in residential care'.

This may be the time for others to learn something that SFBT practitioners have long known namely that it behoves us to choose the words that we use with huge care.