Simply Focus Podcast: The Good Life Approach - Your Weekly Podcast With The Little Extra Solution Focus For Your Daily Life!

Julia Kalenberg on daily SF habits. In today’s episode, we talk with Julia Kalenberg, a Solution-Focused Practitioner and expert in applying Solution Focus to yourself, about useful habits and tools to refocus in everyday life. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus and how she constantly strives to focus in her life. Learn more about her solution-focused tools that she applies for herself on a daily base, e.g. her little preferred future or the I-O principle, and the differences that makes for her and people around her. Find out how she applies tools for herself very consequently to create useful habits, her fascination of working with leaders of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and how she invites other people to use SF ideas for themselves, e.g. with the personal flourishing instruction, the smiley stones, resource gossip, the diary of solutions, the bean experiment and more. Listen to the ripple effects leaders create with the tools she lets them experience, her „fulfilled life“-proje

Ira Mollay about an encouraging space for change. In today’s episode, we talk with Ira Mollay, Chief Encouraging Officer and Founder of the Mutmacherei, about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, about the Mutmacherei and how it started with the good news initiative, and about focusing on progress towards a preferred future for the world. Ira shares some of the initiatives that go into that direction, her preferred future, and her contribution as chief encouraging officer directing the attention to what is already working. She talks about the „Mut in the City“-walks and how seeing positive initiatives encourages people to participate, her „soil“ metaphor, and how to contribute to a fertile common ground. Check out how Ira’s space fascination – iridium flares, iridium satellites, orbital mechanics, the overview effect and more – informs her practice, how you can apply space metaphors in coaching, and the differences her space knowledge makes for her and the Mutmacherei. Ira stresses that there is beauty to

Paul Z Jackson about improv and Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with Paul Z Jackson, Solution-Focused practitioner, author, improviser, co-founder of the Bristol group, SOLWorld and the Applied Improvisation Network (AIN), about the fit between improvisation and Solution Focus. Find out what fascinates him about Solution Focus (SF), how he got into Solution Focus, and how Solution Focus is very well aligned with improvisation. Learn more about what fascinates him with bringing together SF and improv, the improvisation space in Solution Focus, and how knowing improv in SF and knowing SF in improv could be beneficial. Check out how they train SF practitioners with improvisation and invite their participants to improvise and the „Yes, and…“-mentality in SF and improv. Paul talks about how we learn from what works and the misconception that we mostly learn from our mistakes, the differences between an interactional - co-created emergent - and an individualistic world, and how we support our SF convers

Sue Lickorish about spirituality in SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Sue Lickorish, a conversation changer and Solution-Focused practitioner, about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, her „wow“-moments in the beginning, and her solution-focused journey. Sue shares how she is mindful in her work to have a different kind of conversation, how her conversations changed with Solution Focus, and how she developed her own way of Solution Focus including what is important to her. She mentions he we leave imprints on each other and on our clients. And she tells the story of how her menopause experience influenced her solution-focused practice and helped her find a new kind of sovereignty. Learn more about how she is including spirituality and found her own way. Check out her reset for change spiral with the oneness in the center and the changing world at the outside of the spiral. We talk about the importance of showing up, finding your own voice in the solution-focused world, and radical acceptance with the

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Rayya Ghul about Solution Focus and Problem Solving. In today’s episode, we talk with Rayya Ghul, MA (Ed.) Dip.COT, Solution-Focused Therapist, Life Coach, Trainer, and Lecturer in University Learning and Teaching at the University of Edinburgh, about differences between Solution Focus and problem solving or how humans are not washing machines. We explore with her what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how to identify the best in a person and reactivate their capabilities, her book „The power of the next small step“, and how she brings Solution Focus to everyday people and everyday life. Learn more about the differences between better and different or the question „what differences would that make?", Solution Focus as a language for being useful for each other, the differences Solution Focus can make for self-help groups as well as evidence-based compliments and her „moan, moan, moan“-exercise about how to listen to people who complain. Find out more about her show „Are you a problem addict?“ at the Edinbur

John Wheeler about the practitioner’s perspective. In today’s episode, we talk with John Wheeler, M.A., Social Worker, UKCP Registered Systemic Psychotherapist, Solution Focused Trainer, Supervisor and Consultant as well as Board Member of the EBTA, about what fascinated him with Solution Focus at the beginning and how his conversations changed. Check out how he and Greg Vinnicombe collected Solution-focused assumptions, categorized them into four groups, have been teaching them, and how this focus on assumptions keeps him on track. He shares a great story of learning from our clients or an example of how adapting to the session rating scale (SRS) changed his conversation - from roughly connecting to truly connecting to our clients. Learn more about Solution Focused Supervision and how to be mindful of our own special perspective and the different contexts. Listen how they bridge quality assessments in a solution-focused way in their SF trainings. And check out the Challenge of the Week: „Look out for what yo

John Brooker about Team Facilitation with Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with John Brooker, Solution-Focused Meeting Facilitator and Innovator, Author, and Co-President of SFiO (Solution Focus in Organisations), about how to facilitate change with teams with Solution Focus. Check out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, what differences Solution Focus made for him in the beginning, and how his team facilitations changed. Learn more about his constructive rant or how to turn difficult topics into „what they want instead?“ in the beginning, solution-focused collaboration, and John’s DNA metaphor. Listen how he navigates and maintains space and pace in team workshops and how his team impetus, an agile metaphor for teams, works. Check out SFiO and and his vision as co-president of SFiO (Solution Focus in Organisations). Join in the Challenge of the week: „Think about what you could contribute to the development of SF. What is one tiny little thing you could do?” The post SFP 71 – Facilitating Ch

Andrew Gibson and the URP. In today’s episode, we talk with Andrew Gibson who is helping small businesses and charities to grow with Solution Focus, about what fascinates him about Solution Focus, a story of how he helped someone recently and the differences this question can make, his Solution Focused process of how he helps small businesses and charities to grow, and what he enjoys most about his work and how he has a seven day „weekend”. Learn more about the idea of the URP (Unique Referral Point) and his new book „What’s your URP? Don’t just make a living; make a life.”. Find out more about what is helpful for small businesses to grow and how Solution Focus can be helpful in this process, the shift from „doing“ to „noticing“ observable noticeable differences and the differences this shift made for him, as well as the challenges that people face who want to bring Solution Focus into the business world. Andrew tells us about his passion as member of the committee of the UKASFP (UK Association for Solution F

Jonas Wells about the history of SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Jonas Wells, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, Author and Manager about his story of exploring the history of Solution Focus. Find out more about what fascinates him with Solution Focus, the Solution-Focused playlist and music as a different language game, his interest in the history of Solution Focus and his learnings for today, as well as the importance of the early period and the vibrant learning atmosphere back then. Listen to the four versions of how the miracle question might have emerged, how this view on the history of SF could be useful for our own practice, and the political and ethical dimension of Solution Focus. Get in contact with the SF community, a rich and inclusive resource. And check out the Challenge of the week: Ask yourself the following five questions: „What am I doing? Why am I doing it? How am I doing at it? How am I doing in it? What am I bringing to it?". This episode is a tribute to Björn Johansson and all

Dr. Biba Rebolj about unteaching SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Biba Rebolj, international Trainer and Practitioner in Solution-Focused Practice, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and co-founder of "Solution Focused Possibilities", about what fascinates her with Solution Focus, what she did have to unlearn to do Solution Focus and what helped her to unlearn, how she got referred to BRIEF and how she started training with them - or how she moved from Slovenia to London. Check out how the BRIEF training fit to her endeavour to be minimalistic. Biba shares her thoughts on unlearning and unteaching Solution Focus and talks about the SF Possibilities-trio - Biba Rebolj, Greg Oberbeck, and Ben Scott - and how they celebrate their differences. Find out how she started training people in Slovenia and what helped her doing that as well as her way of cooperating with young people and the value of observing and showing your own work. And check out the Challenge of the week: „Look for ways where SF is not pr

Erin Cusanno is doing more of what works. In today’s episode, we talk with Erin Cusanno, Solution-Focused Practitioner, School Counselor (NCC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), about Solution-Focus in School Counseling. Erin shares with us what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how her conversations as school counselor have changed with Solution-Focus ,and what differences this has made for her and her students. Learn how she got in touch with Solution Focus, how she landed in a train-the-trainer course with Brenda Zalter-Minden and Heather Fiske at the SFBTA conference in Santa Fe and what fascinated her back then. Find out how she started using it in her own work as school counselor and how she started to train school administrators and others in her school district and in the community. We talk about how she builds on what works and does more of it, her experiences at the SFU conference and at BRIEF Summer School, and about the mastery and the art of Solution-Focused practice. Erin mentions th

Guy Shennan and the power of conversations. In today’s episode we talk with Guy Shennan, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Author, and former Chair of the British Association of Social Workers , about his fascination for the ordinary nature and the forward movement of solution-focused conversations. Guy tells us what changed in the 2nd edition of his book "Solution-Focused Practice: Effective Communication to Facilitate Change" and how hope is different from desire. We talk about the UKASFP conference and his best hope to have a collective and interactive ethos. Learn more about collectivising solution-focused practice, the Solution-Focused collective and their manifesto for a socially engaged solution-focused practice. Guy highlights the power of conversations and the importance of working with others. And check out the Challenge of the week: „Post poems about hope: Share your favorite or an own poem about hope in the comments section at www.sfontour.com/simplyfocuspodcast and then go to this episode.“ The post

Joel K. Simon about opportunities in dialogue. In today’s episode, we talk with Joel K. Simon, Solution Focused Clinical Social Worker and Therapist, LCSW, BCD, ASW, and program chair of the SFBTA conference 2019, about his Solution Focused journey. Joel shares with us what attracted him about Solution Focus and still fascinates him today, how and when he got in touch with Solution Focus, and how he introduced SF in the agenciy he worked for. Listen to his stories with the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer, Dan Gallagher and others. We talk about working with people instead of diagnosis or labels and “End of Life and Grief Counseling” with Solution Focus, his books in this field, and his article „Opportunities: Organizing the Solution-Focused Interview“ that he wrote together with Lance Taylor. As program chair of the SFBTA conference 2019 in Montreal he also shares what fascinates him about the program. And a classic as challenge of the week: „Find out what’s

Ute Habenicht & Norbert Wandl at the WANDeLHAUS. In today’s episode, we talk with Ute Habenicht and Norbert Wandl, hosts at WANDeLBERATUNG and the WANDeLHAUS in Klagenfurt, about their work combining Systemic Structural Constellations (SySt®) and Solution Focus. They share what fascinates them with Solution Focus, different ways to acknowledge the problem view of the clients, when and how to orient them towards a Solution Focus, and what fascinates them about being hosts and making people feel at home. Find out more about their journey into Systemic Structural Constellations (Syst®) and Solution Focus and they how they the two approaches. Learn more about the client and the representatives in Systemic Structural Constellations (Syst®), the differences their work makes for their clients, and how they decide what they do with their clients. They share lovely stories of how they apply Solution Focus in their private life as a couple or in their business and emphasize how making the context part of the change and

Sarah McVanel about greatness. In today’s episode, we talk with Sarah McVanel, Speaker, Author, HR & OD Professional about recognition and the flipside of failing. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus and what changed for her with SF. Learn more about the recognition of greatness when working with teams, FROG - Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness - and how to „frog“ people, and her new book the „Flip Side of Failing“. We talk about how people handle failing, Solution Focused questions to refocus and elevate, her vision for her life right now and the steps she took with her family to make this come true, how our conversation when visiting Sarah in her home inspired her for her new book, and how we can redefine the stories we tell each other and ourselves. Sarah also shares how being involved in the community helped her to start and grow her business. And she gave us this challenge of the week: Think of a label you give yourself, decide if it is working for you, and if no, allow yourself to envisio

Kati Hankovszky about community building. In today’s episode, we talk with Katalin Hankovszky, Solution Focused trainer and coach, chair of the Swiss Network for Solution Focused Work, organizer of many Solution Focused conferences, and member of the SolutionSurfers, about how she is connecting people. Find out more about what fascinates her about Solution Focus, her Solution Focused journey and how she began to do the work her way. Kati tells stories about their SF-way of organizing the SOLWorld-conference 2005 in Interlaken, how they dealt with „troubles“ while organizing this year’s SOLWorld-conference in Budapest, and her best hopes from bringing people together, building SF networks, translating SF books, and encouraging SF exchange. Hear what she would like to see more of in the SF communities she is in, her transforming work inside organizations, like e.g. her work as Chair the Swiss Network for Solution Focused Work, and what she learned from her work of connecting people for her work in and with orga