BRIEF News

In these unprecedented times BRIEF has decided to suspend our own training programme until the end of August 2020. This seems to us to best fit the advice received to date and the need for education, social work and health staff to be available for work in services that are likely to become increasingly pressured .

Over the next few days BRIEF will contact all those who have booked on our courses between now and the end of May outlining the possibilities. In the meantime BRIEF wishes all of you our very best in these difficult times. Perhaps now our communities really do require us to be the 'best versions of ourselves', truly at our best as we might say in the Solution Focused world. BRIEF would also wish to thank those of you who are continuing to work to protect the health and well-being of all of us.

In these unprecedented times BRIEF has decided to suspend our own training programme until the end of May 2020. This seems to us to best fit the advice to date and the need for education, social work and health staff to be available for work in services that are likely to become increasingly pressured .

Harvey and Chris have each recently published co-authored books exploring two of the flexible and varied applications of the Solution Focused approach. Harvey, writing with Yasmin Ajmal, has focused on work in Schools and Chris, with Susanne Burgstaller, on work with Teams.

Why is Solution Focus making such an impact in Education? Whether it be in the classroom, in the Senior Management team, or in the staff room, Solution Focus is making a difference. Find out more in our new book and on a great course.

Exciting new course from BRIEF. Completely newly designed to fit with UKASFP (United Kingdom Association for Solution Focused Practice) accreditation criteria.

Available from 20th September a special edition of the Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with an article by Chris Iveson and a very short piece by Evan George. This 'crowd-funding' edition is designed to raise funds for more regular publication in the future. Click below to find the link that enable you to buy this special edition.

YOUNG people should be encouraged to fight back against society’s “problem addiction” and instead be taught solution-based techniques, according to an Edinburgh-based academic, therapist and life coach.

It is not every day that we find Solution Focused work turning up in a national newspaper here in the UK. And it is not often that we see a positive account of Social Work. So have a look at this.

Over the past few years one of the quickest areas of growth and expansion of the Solution Focused approach has been in Education and the Gonzalo Garza High School has been a stand-out exemplum. Find out more at this exciting conference.