SOLWorld

Sharing and building Solution Focused practice in organisations

About Solution Focus

Solution Focused practice is transforming coaching, consulting, managing and leading in organisations all over the world. The approach values simplicity in philosophy and language and aims to discover "what works" in a given situation, simply and practically. The focus on what's wanted (not what's wrong), what's going well (rather than what's gone badly) and practical progress (rather than explanatory theory) leads to a positive and pragmatic way to work with organisations and individuals. SF has its roots in the therapeutic approach devised by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at BFTC Milwaukee and others.

This group was formed in 2002 and has so far held eight international conferences (the most recent in 2009 attended by participants from 20 countries) as well as three summer universities and events in Japan and North America. Read about the SOLWorld charter, past SOLWorld events, the Steering Group and the innovative and effective way that SOLWorld operates. To start finding your way around, read about making the most of SOLWorld.

Events

May 6

Thursday

June 26

Saturday

Forum

Megan Saxby

SF Practice by Government 3 Replies

Hi I'm new to this Discussion list and am interested in what people think about SF practice being used by government to achieve their policy goals. I work with the occupational health and safety g...

Tagged: Government, in, SF

Started by Megan Saxby in SF practice. Last reply by Megan Saxby Oct 26.

Hans-Peter Korn

Mentoring & Coaching - what's the difference? How to deal with a "coaching dilemma"?

Just now there are two interesting discussion in the SOLUTIONS-List: Mentoring & Coaching - what's the difference? More you find ==> here How to deal with a "coaching dilemma"? More you fi...

Started by Hans-Peter Korn in SF practice Sep 28.

Mark McKergow

www.solworld.org

Hi everyone Just to let you know that, as the Steering Group agreed in Texel, the old SOLWorld website at www.solworld.org is now closed, and the domain now points to the ning site at www.solworld...

Started by Mark McKergow in Using this network Sep 25.

Hans-Peter Korn

Social Networks become more and more blocked in organisations & companies

Just now I read, that the access to social networks like facebook and Xing is blocked now for employees of the government of the City of Zürich. And such blockings are already active for a lot of o...

Started by Hans-Peter Korn in Using this network Aug 26.

Bärbel Fink

EBTA 2009 - who else needs to find out about it?

Hi everyone, I would appreciate your input about networks and multipliers that might help us get the word out about EBTA 2009 - the annual conference of the European Brief Therapy Association (Sep...

Tagged: EBTA2009

Started by Bärbel Fink in Conferences and events Jun 3.

Latest Activity

Susanne Schweigel, Nedine Lennox and Ann Solfrid Thavanesan joined SOLWorld
56 minutes ago
Bart van Loon commented on Hans-Peter Korn's blog post 'Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?'
interesting, I would say that SF (and agile) are as cost-efficient and flexible as Lean but offer a greater emphasis on innovation and readiness for change. This shouldn't sound so strange in the ears of managers
4 hours ago
Hans-Peter Korn added a blog post
In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" (which is discussed in SOLWorld since a longer time, see http://www.so...
on Saturday
Jiahong Juda is now a member of SOLWorld
Welcome Them!
on Friday
Elta Boshard commented on Coert Visser's blog post 'Presupposing Agency and Responsilbility'
Hi Coert, Thanks for the reminder - and I immediately went to my bookshelf to get my copy the book - need to reread a number of books, but I'll be going to the explanations first.
on Friday
Mark McKergow commented on Mark McKergow's blog post 'SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society'
Hi Netti, yes, it would be nice to do some Wittgenstein connecting at a SOLWorld conference. I just also heard that Rom Harré has agreed to join the editorial advisory board of the SFCT journal InterAction, which is excellent news!
on Thursday
netti kutsche-roch commented on Mark McKergow's blog post 'SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society'
Congrats, Mark and Kirsten!! this sounds really very encouraging. I feel it is an very important connection on the way to maintain and develop quallity in sf coaching and therapy. There might be some interesting interdisciplinary projects ahead! M...
on Thursday
Coert Visser added a blog post
on Wednesday
Hallvard Føllesdal is now a member of SOLWorld
Welcome Them!
on Wednesday
Mark McKergow added a blog post
Yesterday was marked by the Autumn lecture of the British Wittgenstein Society, and Kirsten Dierolf and I were very pleased not only to be invited to the lecture, but also to be included in a special dinner following the event. The lecturer was Pr...
on Tuesday
Birgitta Friberg It´s so fantastic, everytime I log in to this social network I always get new ideas and my creativity get challenged!
November 2
Coert Visser added a blog post
In their wonderful book Becoming Solution-Focused in Brief Therapy, John Walter and Jane Peller describe the usefulness of using question to our clients which contain presuppositions which form invitations to clients to enter a different way of th...
November 1

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Blog Posts

Hans-Peter Korn

Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

Posted by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Coert Visser

20 Solution Focused techniques

Posted by Coert Visser on November 4, 2009 at 7:30pm

Mark McKergow

SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

Posted by Mark McKergow on November 3, 2009 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

Coert Visser

Presupposing Agency and Responsilbility

Posted by Coert Visser on November 1, 2009 at 10:23am — 1 Comment

Mark McKergow

Art of Hosting - interesting meta-method of emergent change approaches

Posted by Mark McKergow on October 5, 2009 at 5:00pm

Coert Visser

Solution-Focused Assumptions

Posted by Coert Visser on October 5, 2009 at 10:30am — 9 Comments

Mark McKergow

Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

Posted by Mark McKergow on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm

Barbara Green-Studer

Internet Radio Host Michael Neil use of miracle question

Posted by Barbara Green-Studer on September 21, 2009 at 6:16am — 1 Comment

Michael Hjerth

Brain, science, and SF group revided

Posted by Michael Hjerth on August 28, 2009 at 2:37pm

Hans-Peter Korn

"decentering" from problem by using different forms of expressive art

Posted by Hans-Peter Korn on August 27, 2009 at 1:13pm

Notes

SOLWorld Resources

Welcome to the SOLWorld Resources section.  This part of the site features information about the SOLWorld network, our past events and materials from our previous website.  It will take some time to update all the information, so thanks for your patience. 

Information in this part of the site is 'read-only'.  If you want to start discussions, please go to the Forum or Groups. 

How SOLWorld works
The SOLWorld Charter
The SOLWorld Steering Group
Past SOLWorld events
Resources from past SOLWorld events
The SOLUTIONS-L email listserv

 

Cheers

Mark

 

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