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What is BRIEF Coaching?

Brief coaching is based on the solution focused approach developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg who worked together in Milwaukee, USA. Their research on successful interventions highlighted an interesting finding, namely that change is

10 Good reasons for using the Solution Focused approach

Probably the thing that matters most to the people that we work with and those who commission our work is effectiveness. An increasing body of research shows that Solution Focus works and that changes are well maintained.

The Solution Focused Approach: An Overview

Solution Focused practice emerged from Solution Focused Brief Therapy and was developed primarily by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and their team at the Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee, USA and later in Britain by members of BRIEF.

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BRIEF Practice notes: Language

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.

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What is SF - a 2020 version of the approach

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July 9, 2020