BRIEF Events Archive
Posted on 10th January 2011 by Mariama Turay
BRIEF offers you the chance to build your expertise in SF Practice beyond the introductory level. After 8 days of training with BRIEF you are invited to submit an assignment of 3,500 words. Satisfactory completion...
Posted on 10th January 2011 by Mariama Turay
Solution focused work with children requires special skills because small children do not yet have elaborated language skills and the therapeutic goals are mainly set by adults. Therese Steiner will present step-by-step methods for creating...
Posted on 10th January 2011 by Mariama Turay
“How do I apply solution focused questions to clients with this issue?” This is a common question. The answer is simple. You don’t. Solution focused therapy is not about applying or asking the right questions about...
Posted on 10th January 2011 by Mariama Turay
The course presents ideas from The Strengths Perspective, the Solution-Focused approach and Positive Psychology as they apply to the school context. These ideas offer ways of dealing with students (and colleagues) that provide more positive,...
Posted on 29th September 2010 by Mariama Turay
These one day courses will light up your work life and are the best short introduction to solution focused practice. Delivered by the founders of BRIEF, who have been developing their solution focused and teaching...
Posted on 30th June 2010 by Mariama Turay
Since the BRIEF team came together in 1988 every year has seen a change in how we talk about, and how we do, solution focused brief therapy.
Twenty-one years on our passion for this work is...
Posted on 29th June 2010 by Mariama Turay
BRIEF runs bi-annual ‘practitioner’ conferences on mental health which bring together front-line professionals at the leading edge of solution focused practice.
Implementing recovery
PROFESSOR GEOFF SHEPHERD
“Recovery is a truly radical idea. It turns mental health services’...
Posted on 8th January 2010 by Mariama Turay
Solution focused work with children requires special skills because small children do not yet have elaborated language skills and the therapeutic goals are mainly set by adults. Therese Steiner will present step-by-step methods for creating...
Posted on 8th January 2010 by Mariama Turay
The Solution Focused Approach is best known for being a pragmatic and positive approach to change, utilizing client strengths and assets. As a result the Solution Focused Approach is especially helpful in assisting couples to...
Posted on 8th January 2010 by Mariama Turay
Imagine a school where there are drastically fewer discipline referrals, where students develop their own academic strategies for success, where parents welcome the chance to come to school and participate and where teachers and students...
Posted on 8th January 2010 by Mariama Turay
It is one thing to use your solution focused skills in conversations with children and parents who come along armed with their ‘best hopes’, but what about all the other situations you find yourselves in...
Posted on 20th October 2009 by Mariama Turay
It is 10 years since BRIEF, now in its 20th year, hosted the first of its “Solutions” conferences to enable practitioners in specific areas of practice around the UK and beyond to present their solution...
Posted on 15th October 2009 by Mariama Turay
Those struggling with substance abuse problems bring with them to treatment their own unique set of challenges. In this two-day workshop, Teri, who works in Denver, Colorado will not only explain the hows and whys...
Posted on 15th October 2009 by Mariama Turay
Cynthia Franklin holds an esteemed position in the world of solution focused practice today. As Stiernberg/ Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health and Professor of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, she...
Posted on 16th June 2009 by Mariama Turay
Spend a lively two days with the BRIEF team. Be energized, excited and enriched by a mixture of live sessions, discussions and the very best of our constantly expanding repertoire of teaching exercises.
BRIEF have spent...
Posted on 16th June 2009 by Mariama Turay
Günter Lueger is a pioneer and a leading light in the world of Solution Focused organisations. He is a major figure in the business applications network SOL World, and is director of both the Brief-Management...
Posted on 9th June 2009 by David Cole
For several years increasing numbers of solution focused practitioners have been drawn towards mindfulness. Because its attention to the smallest details of life mirrors exactly solution focused techniques such as the ‘miracle question’ and, because...
Posted on 9th December 2008 by David Cole
He teaches coaching at several post-graduate university programmes throughout Europe and is founder and director of the largest coaching school in Switzerland which runs Coach Training Programmes in several languages.
The programme will enable you to...
Posted on 9th December 2008 by David Cole
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. is a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutice Change a private group of clinicians and researchers dedicated to studying “what works” in mental health and substance abuse treatment.
He...
Posted on 9th December 2008 by David Cole
We have been honoured to be invited to be the key-note speakers at the annual conference of the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association.
This is the American equivalent of the United Kingdom Association and of the...