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.
BRIEF Practice notes: Language
Posted on 07 March 2024
Posted on 07 March 2024
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.
Posted on 24 February 2024
Kerry Drummond from Perth in Australia shares her thinking about the impact on practitioners of the focus on resilience in clients.
Posted on 08 February 2024
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.
Posted on 27 January 2024
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?
Posted on 15 January 2024
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.
Posted on 04 January 2024
Another in the 'What if . . . ?' series - 'what if people give us the answers that they assume we want to hear?'.
Posted on 20 December 2023
How is it that at the heart of a brief therapy is the necessity to 'go slow' - Evan George shares some thoughts.
Posted on 11 December 2023
Chris Iveson's clinical account in an extreme situation points us to the power of answers and of the questions that facilitate them.
Posted on 04 December 2023
Evan George thinks about the key question 'how can brief therapy lead to sustainable change?'.
Posted on 27 November 2023
A lovely exercise that you might like to try - with thanks to Ben Furman.