Evan AH George

As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.

'Brief Therapists are often told that they are simple-minded. This, I gather, is meant as a put-down, but, as a brief therapist, I consider it a profound compliment.'
Steve de Shazer
Minimal Elegance

'Each time a therapist asks a question a client has never been asked before, the answer is likely to be something the client has never heard before – this is the client’s knowledge.'
Chris Iveson

'Reality, or better, realities are invented rather than discovered; human beings build the worlds they live in.'
Steve de Shazer
Putting Difference to Work

J is for 'Just a bunch of talk' Steve de Shazer started visiting the BRIEF team in London in 1990 and did so regularly until shortly before his death in 2005. Over those years he delivered a number of large conference presentations ...

What is the Solution Focused approach? www.linkedin.com/pulse/j-just...

Dydd gwyl Dewi Sant hapus
Happy St David’s Day

'Any change stands a chance of starting a ripple effect which will lead to a more satisfactory future.'
Steve de Shazer
Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy

I is for Inviting (not intruding) BRIEF has long taken the view that the Solution Focused approach can usefully be thought of as a craft, and as with any craft it is practice that makes perfect, or if not perfect at least more fluent ...

I is for Inviting (and not intruding). Inviting is a key word for me in the way that I think about what I am dong in Solution Focused conversations - have a read and tell me what you think.
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go.bsky.app/NRqmCfk I’ve created a starter pack for Solution Focused folk on Bluesky. Let me know if you’d like to be added to it

H is for History Introduction. Some time ago Kirsty Capes wrote a piece entitled My Secret History, in which she described looking back and not knowing why she came into care at the age of 2 and knowing little of her ...

H is for History So many people think that the Solution Focused approach does not pay attention to the past. Well no and yes! It does not in the traditional way and yet it has its own way of making great use of the past.
Have a read and see what you think.
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G is for Goals or for 'not-goals' The Solution Focused approach is not infrequently referred to as a ‘goal-focused approach’. Indeed the first site to come up on my search in relation to the query ‘what is Solution Focused Brief Thera...

G is for 'not-goals'! Here we are thinking about the role of goals in the Solution Focused approach.
Do share your thoughts - how do you think about goals?
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F is for Fitting There is a lot of competition for the letter ‘F’. Future, focus, footprints (or the lack of them), even ‘focused vs forced’ (Nylund and Corsiglia, 1994) could all make a good case for themselves.

So we have reached F. Our exploration of the #SolutionFocused approach continues. F is for Fitting and the concept of Fit (and fitting) lie at the heart of our practice. Have a read and share your thoughts. #BRIEF

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E is for Exceptions It may be that de Shazer’s first published reference to ‘Exceptions’ was in his book ‘Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy’ (1985). There he refers to ‘exceptions to the rule (of the problem)’ and he goe...

E is for Exceptions Another post exploring the #SolutionFocused approach

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D is for Describing When writing Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques (Ratner et al., 2012) the BRIEF team noticed the frequency with which the words ‘describe’, ‘description’, and ‘describing’ p...

D is for Describing more thinking about the #SolutionFocused approach #BRIEF
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