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

Bill O’Hanlon about possibilities. In today’s episode, we talk with Bill O'Hanlon, Author of 30+ published books, Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, Coach, Speaker, and Musician, about what fascinates him with Solution Focus, the moment when everything changed for him, the influence of Dr. Milton Erickson, and how he corresponded with Steve de Shazer and co-developed Solution-Oriented Therapy. Find out what changed for him after he encountered solution-oriented ideas, how he describes solution-orientation and how he called it possibilities therapy. Explore how he uses storytelling to e.g. help people focus on their preferred future and the importance of allowing yourself to feel two different things at the same time and not have it be a conflict. He tells us about the similarities between music and therapy and about not being hypnotized by the problem and believing in the possibility of possibilities and the normal range of human experience and its acceptance. He tells us the story of how he became the gardener