The techniques of the Solution Focused Approach are likely not unfamiliar to you. However, I know you are not familiar with them quite like this. As I always say, knowing what something is, does not make me skilled in it, this series is about skill and mastery. The lectures will be delivered online and will feature...
Desired Outcome: Friday, February 14th at 12pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
There is no question that the hardest, yet most important, skill to master within the Solution Focused Approach is the desired outcome. Every aspect of Solution Focused practice is built from this first and is crucial, so the first lecture in this series is going to provide clarity and practical guidance to this critical step in Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
The next skill in Solution Focused practice is knowing how to do a description of the presence of the desired outcome, and this lecture will feature the 4 most common ways of doing this...
Preferred Future: Tuesday, February 18th at 3pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
Perhaps the most well known aspect of this approach is the "Miracle Question", what most don't fully understand is that this is just one way to facilitate a preferred future description. This lecture will outline what is so important about this sort of description and other ways to accomplish this.
History of the Outcome: Friday, February 21st at 12pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
One of the most common ideas from the origins of the Solution Focused Approach is exceptions, which are times in the client's life when the problem was either not present or present in a reduced form. The history of the outcome expands that idea at looking in the client's past for times when their current desired outcome was present and ultimately how to bring it back into their lives.
Scaling: Monday, February 24th at 5pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
Use of the scaling question has been around since the very beginning of Solution Focused work, however, there remain many misunderstandings about this question and how it's used in session. In this lecture I will be sharing exactly how to use it and how avoid the one big mistake that almost everyone makes.
Resource Talk: Wednesday, February 26th at 1pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
If you want to impact someone's life then you have to impact the way they see themselves. There may be no more significant weapon in the Solution Focused arsenal to accomplish that than resource talk questions. In this lecture I will be sharing exactly how this process works and how to use these questions effectively in your work.
Once we have accomplished a detailed description of the desired outcome being present in the client's life, the final task is to end the session...
Session Endings: Friday, February 28th at 12pm (Central US/Canada timezone):
Ending a session can be tricky and I have hundreds of emails from people asking me how to do it to prove it. You must do it in a way that inspires the client and does not take their authority away from them and this part of the lecture series will do just that.