Blogs - UK Association for Solution Focused Practice

Solution Focusd on the floor of an Mental Health Inpatient Unit Australia

Just spent 2009 exploring the use of SFBT in mixed acute mental health unit, has been interesting and fun. Spent many episodes talking with clients about what works, whats better, asking them how will that make a difference? Done scaling, explored exceptions asked miracle question many times now.

I think that this has been a great way of talking with my clients and I have established some "champions" of SFBT.

Was lucky enough to get Michael Durrant to come and pr… Continue

Added by Albert Morrison on March 15, 2010 at 1:38pm — 1 Comment

Open Access Training February 2010

Have just been commissioned to train, in the solution focus approach, Integrated Youth Services across a major local authority - about 150 people, over six days in the early part of 2010. These are closed trainings. However, I still have an open two day training coming up in February 2010 to which I'd like to invite you - or perhaps you could pass the info on to someone who might want to come? Either way, the training is there and I look forward to working with people who wish to come - either… Continue

Added by Paul Avard on December 12, 2009 at 10:57am — No Comments

Spock says.....

I found it really interesting that the actor that played Spock in Star Trek said that after a while playing the role, he started becoming more logical and disciplined in his personal life and continued taking on Spock's positive behaviours. How Erickson would have mused over that. Continue

Added by Eileen Murphy on November 6, 2009 at 1:42pm — No Comments

The radical simplicity of SFBT... in image form

Wordle image made with great respect to M McKergow and H Korman's fantastic article... Inbetween neither inside nor outside. Continue

Added by Carl Plant on July 9, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Organising the wiki project day

Hello, I'm hoping we can organise a date sometime in late July where we can meet virtually (and for some in person) to look at developing the wikipedia page on solution focused (practice/approaches). I feel this project has become more important since the recent press interest and their use of wikipedia to get first impressions of what SF is. I will be booking a day off work to set up the open space and so I need to know which days would be better for the group? The plan for the day would foc… Continue

Added by carlplant on June 20, 2009 at 7:59am — No Comments

Projects and preferred futures

There has been a number of potential projects developing within the association that look exciting and could prove to be very useful. I thought the first best move would be to make a list of them just to visualise the ideas, and then we can get an idea of where we are with these. We have the wikipedia SFA page project which a number of people have already joined the group on this site, the next move I guess would be to arrange a date so that we can organise the day. This will involve working vi… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on June 17, 2009 at 5:22am — No Comments

Conference

A fantastic experience Keele 2009! Feel inspired and challenged to develop my own skills and have made some amazing contacts. Continue

Added by Anne Collins on June 14, 2009 at 6:32am — 3 Comments

Video Supervision

As an enthusiast for skype, and just beginning to use TokBox and becomig aware of the uses they can be put to, I'd like to offer video supervision to anyone who would like supervision - particularly for folk who work with adolescents - in schools or the care system. Please email if you are interested and for details of costs. Paul Continue

Added by Paul Avard on May 26, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Chain reaction, working collaboratively

I am currently interested in a project called Chainreaction and feel very excited about the positive, collaborative and respectful focus of the project. This project aims to focus on mass collaboration with business leaders, activists, policy makers etc with the purpose of generating ideas for social change on a big scale. There's an opportunity for me to be involved (as a representative of the UKASFP) in the next conference in November. I would lik… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on April 27, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Carl's world pt3- wiki's

Ok here's a few words about wiki's. As many know there is the main wikipedia web site. This has millions of articles on just as many topics. This wiki is run as a community, where for every topic there is an open community of people able to edit the information, with the hope of making the information correct and well referenced. A wiki is typically based on: collaboration community crowds (crowdsourcing) discussion network effects change… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on April 15, 2009 at 8:35pm — No Comments

I have recently been invited to join a steering group and take part in an online experiment in colla…

I have recently been invited to join a steering group and take part in an online experiment in collaboration. The theme will cover: What tools and principles do we need to help change to unfold? Social and technological development as means for better organizations, and a better world. This online workshop will be a great learning opportunity in organisation development and change management… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on April 14, 2009 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Carl's world pt2- Skype

Skype have been around the block a few times and have a very good reputation for simplicity and being technically stable in what they do. Skype provide a telephone service through the internet with free skype to skype calls and cheap skype to other phones. Many businesses use skype because of a number of reasons: It's cheap to use it allows people to send instant messages (like inst… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on April 10, 2009 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Carl's world pt1- RSS feeds

As promised I will begin a series of blog posts looking at the concepts behind some of the tools available on the net. This post will look at RSS feeds which stands for really simple syndication. Imagine a morning in the Plant household, I sneak downstairs to avoid waking up the littlest Plants to grab a cup of finest tea and read through my emails and catch up on the latest goings on across an estimated 3 billion websites!! This used to be a bit of a headache as you can imagine until I disco… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on April 10, 2009 at 5:58am — 4 Comments

How the big media players miss the point about solution focusing

Recently the Guardian newspaper mentioned that CBT is a solution-focused approach...ouch. I think the use of the term soultion-focused is very much lost in translation, at first I intended to reply however there was no comments section available online to respond to and all previous attempts at contacting the Guardian over it's naive view of TT have not been acknowledged. I have tried in my ear… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on March 9, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

A quick survey on the future use of social networking with members of the UKASFP

A while back I ran a short survey with the members of the UKASFP on their current use of social networking tools and future use. It's taken me a few weeks to get a blog post together due to the many other projects on going, however here's a few words about this topic. What is social media and social networking? Social media (the type of content that drives social networking) is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media, which share most or all of the following characterist… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on February 18, 2009 at 3:29pm — 6 Comments

Advertising the UKASFP conference through the networks

The UKASFP conference tickets will be available soon and no doubt in great demand. Over the last few years we have advertised the event through email campaigns, adverts in journals and word of mouth, it's safe to say we have had success. Much of this success has been down to the viral effect in the network connections between people so in the spirit of SF we need to be doing more of what works here. This year we are moving with the times and advertising through a number of online social network… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on February 18, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

essay

My essay for the Brief Certificate is now underway and it is good to say that.Knowledge is fairly easy to deal with..experience more difficult for me. If there is anyone out there struggling with the need to get something done..good luck Continue

Added by Anne Collins on February 16, 2009 at 8:45am — 2 Comments

Lessons from social enterprise?

I was very lucky to be invited to the Voice 09 Social enterprise conference and trade fair on 10th February. The conference gave the opportunity to network with some very inspirational and successful social enterprises. I manned a UKASFP stall and met quite a number of people who could relate to the principles of solution focus… Continue

Added by Carl Plant on February 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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