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SF Practice by Government

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Landmark SFBT book - management cases/uses/examples wanted please

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Where are you based? (City & Country)
Cheltenham, UK
In which role(s) do you use SF ideas and tools? (You can pick more than one)
Leader, Coach, Consultant, Trainer
What is your website (if any)?
http://www.sfwork.com
About your connection to Solution Focused Work (based on Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at BFTC Milwaukee and others):
With Jenny Clarke, I run the Centre for Solutions Focus at Work based in the UK but working all over the world. We aim to lead the latest developments in SF thinking and practice with our seminars, trainings, in-house development programmes, books (we also run the SolutionsBooks imprint) and keynote presentations. More at www.sfwork.com.

I am author of The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson) - now in its second edition and eight languages, Positive Approaches to Change and Solutions Focus Working (both with Jenny Clarke).

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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!
November 5
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...
November 5
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...
November 3
Jonas Wells joined Mark McKergow's group
Karlstad Group
The Karlstad Group formed in May 2007 at a meeting in Karlstad, Sweden. The group exists to develop and extend descriptions of Solution-Focused (SF) practice by creating dialogues with other different - but not too different - schools of thought.
October 26

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    SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

    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 Prof Rom Harré (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Romano_Harr%C3%A9) who has added Chair of the LSE’s Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences to his large collection of… Continue

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

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

    As a practicing consultant, coach and facilitator I always try to keep developing myself by attending trainings and other events from time to time. Within the SF world this is not always easy – after 17 years I feel as if I’ve seen quite a lot. Some of you will know of my recent work on developing the idea of Leader as Host, and part of my research led me to the Art of Hosting group (www.artofhosting.org).

    Art of Hosting (AoH) is a movement that started… Continue

    Posted on October 5, 2009 at 5:00pm —

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    Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

    My paper with Kirsten Dierolf on the Grammar of Neuroscience (published in the SFCT journal InterAction and available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/lqb7p5) has come to the attention of Professor Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (http://herts.academia.edu/DanieleMoyalSharrock) at the University of Hertfordshire and founder of the British Wittgenstein Society. She is a Wittgenstein specialist, and… Continue

    Posted on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm —

    Mark McKergow

    At last... Inbetween is finally published - read it here

    You may remember that Harry Korman and I have been working on an epic paper about the radical simplicity of SF, and I put up a draft some time ago. Well, it's finally out in Journal of Systemic Therapies (following quite a lot of revision after the various peer reviewers comments), and you can read the final version at www.sfwork.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=6d8.

    The reference is McKergow MW and Korman H (2009), Journal of Systemic Therapies Vo… Continue

    Posted on July 6, 2009 at 9:30am — 6 Comments

    Mark McKergow

    Latest news on the strange story of Phage

    You may remember the section in The Solutions Focus book about the strange story of phage - the virus that eats bacteria. An evolving alternative to antibiotics, phage evolve along with bacteria and so offer a possible way to deal with bacteria which develop resistance to antibiotics. The parallel is with 'every case is different' (phage) vs 'every case is the same' (antibiotics).

    I thought you might be interested to know that the development of phage treatments is continuing, with the first se… Continue

    Posted on May 10, 2009 at 8:54am —

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    At 10:42am on October 5, 2009, Hans-Peter Korn said…
    Hi - this is just e test if "Add Comment" is working....
    It's working for some profiles only ....
    Cheers, Hans-Peter
    At 10:38am on October 5, 2009, Hans-Peter Korn said…
    Interesting.... "Add Comments" works for your profile .... but not for many others...
    At 10:33am on October 5, 2009, Hans-Peter Korn said…
    Hm... does this ning-function work??
    At 9:24pm on May 18, 2009, Gerda Hammink said…
    Dear Mark,
    how happy I am with this virtual network! The spirit of SOL 2009 stays with me because of the possibility to stay in contact with all the great people I have met on Texel. Thank you very, very, very much for making this possible. Gerda
    At 10:29am on May 18, 2009, Marianne Inghels said…
    Dear Mark, thanks for the sharing thoughts during breakfast. And thanks for all your power and energy you have been investing in the (virual) network to make even more synergy possible... Marianne
    At 4:12pm on May 11, 2009, John Bonnett said…
    Thanks for your early welcome to the group.
    My minimal acquainance with the SF subject has led me to think its use could make business consultants more effective. Is that a possibility? Are there any examples, cases, where a series of SF steps have proven successful. Is there a 'best' approach to optimize its use?
    At 10:33pm on April 28, 2009, Roger Acton said…
    Thanks Mark that clarifies things for me - I'll stick to using the full tool set.
    All the best, Roger
    At 8:35pm on April 27, 2009, Roger Acton said…
    Thanks for the welcome Mark much appreciated. Actually I do have one question/comment for you. I have really enjoyed applying the Solutions Focus Model in both 1:1 coaching and workshop situations - it feels really natural to me but ofd course needs losts of practice, as you say simple but subtle. My question relates to OSKAR, given your Solution Focus model has such flexibility why did you feel the need to add a specific coaching model. Thanks, Roger
    At 12:47pm on February 19, 2009, Julia Cook said…
    Hi Mark,

    Many thanks for the welcome, nice to hear from you. Kamila has also left a note for me, I feel like I belong already!

    Don't do Facebook or any of those kinds of sites so it might take me a while to feel my way around this site. Gonna go now and see if I can do the friend adding thing....wish me luck! Julia.
    At 7:07pm on February 18, 2009, Karin Holzinger said…
    Hello Mark, thanks for adding me to your circle of "friends" on SOLWorld, I'm honoured.

    ...currently trying very hard to remain solution-focused in the face of bad weather with snow and icy wind in Vienna ;o). Regards, Karin

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    SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

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

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

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    Solution-Focused Assumptions

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    Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

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

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    Internet Radio Host Michael Neil use of miracle question

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

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    Brain, science, and SF group revided

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

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

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