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Evan George extends the 'taxi-driver' analogy which many Solution Focused trainers use to explain the nature of the collaboration between client and worker in the approach.

Steve de Shazer in his early writings on SFBT not infrequently referred to Trance, often name-checking Milton Erikson as a key 'influencer'. So why has the concept receded into the background, almost invisible in modern thinking about the approach.

Words and the careful and purposeful use of language lie right at the heart of the Solution Focused approach and we fall into linguistic traps over and over as Evan George outlines.

Kerry Drummond from Perth in Australia shares her thinking about the impact on practitioners of the focus on resilience in clients.

Sorting out so-called 'under-performing' teams does not have to be complicated nor does it necessarily require expensive consultants. Evan George has sketched out three simple steps for team leaders to try out.

Evan George addresses a concern that many share coming to the Solution Focused approach for the first time. Do the questions feel intrusive to people?

Solution Focused Practice is often described as a 'question-based' approach, although 'answer-based' may be a more accurate way of describing it. But are our questions enough Evan George asks.

Another in the 'What if . . . ?' series - 'what if people give us the answers that they assume we want to hear?'.

How is it that at the heart of a brief therapy is the necessity to 'go slow' - Evan George shares some thoughts.

Chris Iveson's clinical account in an extreme situation points us to the power of answers and of the questions that facilitate them.