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

Peter de Jong about co-creating conversations. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Peter de Jong, Professor of Social Work Emeritus, LMSW, author and former adjunct at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where solution focused practices first were developed, about his book "Interviewing for Solutions" that he wrote with Insoo Kim Berg, what fascinates him about Solution Focus, what changed for Peter since he was introduced to microanalysis, and the learnings and applications of microanalysis. Find out what he is listening for in a conversation and learn about the three-step dance of calibration or how conversations are being built between the participants. Check out his take on the relevance of microanalysis for practitioners, topic selection and how what we choose of the clients' words directs the conversation. Learn more about intentional listening and how the way we listen influences the conversation and how clients tend to follow where the practitioner goes and hence the importance o