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Asking the next question. Chris Iveson and the foundations of the Solution Focused approach
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- Taking BRIEF to Japan
- Matthias Freitag asks . . how do you paraphrase in Solution Focused Practice?
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- 10 ideas for times when the ‘best hopes’ are not forthcoming.
- Is interactional description important in SFBT?
- Integrating SF . . . or not.
- ‘I know I can do it’.
- ‘How does that make you feel?’
- What is it that gets you out of bed? Confessions of a Solution Focused trainer.
- How can we think about the client’s ‘best hopes’?
- BRIEF Solution Focused Training in Wales October 18 - April 19
- Relationally undemanding.
- The four foundations of therapeutic minimalism.
- Do we take our clients seriously?
- Do we really have to pin our clients down?
- ‘I just want to be able to sleep.’ Is sleeping somehow different?
- Thank-you thank-you!
- Monet really 'got' the Solution Focused approach
- Hopes, Successes & Sparkling Moments - Solution Focused Practice
- A tiny difference that makes a difference!
- Safeguarding
- 10 (or 12) ideas for working successfully with adolescents
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- Out of the shadows in Solution Focused Practice
- Blaming our clients!
- Why don't we ask the question" how will you move yourself up the scale?"*
- Managing Problem Focused Environments
- Trains and Planes
- Which Solution Focused words deserve ‘extra’?
- Taking a position in horrible times?
- What else? an infinitely various question
- Making tough decisions!
- The unsung heroes of Solution Focused Practice.
- A GP describes his integration of Solution Focus into consultations.
- 2019 at BRIEF
- 'Wilding' therapy
- Solution Focus in the Classroom?
- How does it work?
- Trusting or believing or trusting and believing?
- Putting Solution Focus to Work
- How scale questions prevent SF from ‘meandering’ (too much)
- The power of words . . . and why we must deploy them carefully.
- Residential care – working with children and young people and the contribution that Solution Focus can make.
- Learning the tuba!
- From ‘art’ to ‘craft’ or ‘art and craft’.
- A detailed deconstruction of the ‘Best Hopes’ question.
- Route or destination: a small and very important distinction.
- Egos and Inner-tubes.
- Using Solution Focus with front line professionals during the pandemic.
- The Preferred Future and 4 practice points.
- Making change easier.
- ‘Spontaneous’
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- Hope: a very brief and rather preliminary note.
- Two experts working together.
- Solution Focused and Person-Centred therapy: a brief note.
- Panning for gold in the garbage.
- Making it real.
- ‘Relapses’: a brief note
- Walking the Dog
- Who would be least surprised?
- ‘But I don't know how’.
- Taking our clients seriously.
- The Art Gallery
- To interrupt or not to interrupt . . . that is the question.
- LISTS: one of the simplest therapeutic conversational guides.
- Change or Continuity? Or both maybe.
- All about being positive? or not?
- Letting go part 1
- Letting go part 2
- Can you address how your approach can be applied to habit control/addiction issues?
- The Mandated Worker: 4 ideas
- Your SF pre-history.
- With shame I confess . . . .
- Solution Focus (SF) and Speech and Language Therapy by Alex Ford
- The dangers of passion.
- Even dogs do it!
- What’s better? Nothing.
- What’s better? Nothing - in fact it has been worse.
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- The Limits of my Language – Meditations on Depression
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- How do you know when . . . .?
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- Empathy – some tentative thoughts
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- Imposing our preferences on the people with whom we work.
- Describing the future
- Problem talk vs solution talk or problem talk as part of solution talk
- “It’s all technique! And none of it is!”
- ‘Normalising’: an old but useful idea
- Falling in love #1
- BRING ON THE RAIN
- Falling in love #2
- LESS SAID . . . .
- There are three levels of description – it’s obvious!
- Falling in love with the Solution Focused approach #3
- Turning ‘tough referrals’ into ‘easy cases’.
- The ‘confidence’ scale
- Integration: a common question.
- The next appointment
- Talking about the problem
- ‘Counter Cakeism’ and Solution Focused Practice.
- Endings: a personal journey
- A stepping stone
- Therapeutic distress is optional - not necessary or inevitable
- Simple but not easy – 5 reasons why this might be.
- Are you ready?
- Hope
- ‘What are the main advantages of SFBT?
- Can I have another go?
- A perfect day
- Not even a whisper
- Why ‘brief’ therapy?
- The Death of Resistance
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- On the sharing of personal stories
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- The father who asked for advice
- The place of intuition in Solution Focused Practice.
- How do we define Solution Focus?
- A Burning Compliment
- The White Cube: Death Defeated. A clinical story.
- Always there.
- Building Resilient Clients and Vicariously Resilient Workers
- Slowing down
- What if . . . ?
- BRIEF Practice notes: Language
- Are our questions enough?
- Sharing credit: try it yourself.
- Can it really be that simple?
- Does SF feel intrusive?
- TRANCE - Chris Iveson
- Come back when you are ready to take the next step.
- Taking the taxi further.
- Global solutions: Solution Focused therapy in the field
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- ‘But I need to know why . . . .’ 6 possibilities for practice.
- The client knows best - about many things!
- Understanding Solution Focused practice
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- What a privilege!
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