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BRIEF has partnered with the Connie Institute to create a new organisation, BRIEF International. Both BRIEF and the Connie Institute will maintain their current work while BRIEF International will develop new, international opportunities for learning and exploring the Solution Focused approach.

Does SFBT just take emotions more seriously than other approaches?

The therapeutic alliance is often seen as crucial in bringing about change. How does the Solution Focused approach think about it?

Might thinking be over-rated as an activity? What are we doing when we sit with people, whether in therapy, coaching or counselling?

‘The goal is best thought of as some member of the class of ways that the therapist and the client will know that the problem is solved rather than any particular member of that class.’ Steve de Shazer Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy

‘Several studies have shown that a belief in the disease model of addiction increases the probability of relapse. And that shouldn’t be surprising. If you think that you have a chronic disease, how hard are you going to work to get better?’ Marc Lewis (2016)

Henri-Frederic Amiel puts these two words, respect and humility, both key to Solution Focused practitioners together. They spark off some interesting thoughts.

Is the taxi-driver analogy useful in high-lighting some of the key features of the Solution Focused approach? At BRIEF we think so.

Does Solution Focused Brief Therapy have a theory of change and if we do does that theory of change adequately serve our purposes? Evan briefly explores this question inspired by Mark McKergow's workshop at the 2016 UKASFP Conference in Swansea.

As our thinking about what goes on in solution focused conversations has changed so has the way that we end conversations.