Evan George responds to the idea of discharging people who are not making progress. In what circumstances and how might we do this and what are the risks?
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Posted on 07 May 2024
Posted on 07 May 2024
Evan George responds to the idea of discharging people who are not making progress. In what circumstances and how might we do this and what are the risks?
Posted on 30 April 2024
Diana Conroy shares her experiences of using the Solution Focused approach in Afghanistan and Kenya, working with humanitarians.
Posted on 09 April 2024
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.
Posted on 21 March 2024
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.
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?'.