Advanced: Staying Brief: Solution Focused Practice

BRIEF was founded in 1989 and the following year held its inaugural conference at which Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, the co-founders of solution focused brief therapy, presented their ideas for the first time in Britain. The demand for training and therapy has kept BRIEF busy and expanding ever since.BRIEF is where Solution Focused Brief Therapy started in Britain. Evan George, Chris Iveson and Harvey Ratner were working in an NHS clinic when they heard about the Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee group were just beginning to publish their ideas and BRIEF arose from the successful attempt to develop these ideas within the British context. BRIEF is now Europe's largest provider of Solution Focused training with over 4000 professionals from the NHS, local authorities, education and private sector undertaking courses each year.Since the early days of Solution Focused practice BRIEF has become aware of the wider potential of the approach, developing applications in the fields of coaching, leadership, conflict resolution and team building. These developments have taken BRIEF out of the fields of health, education and social care into the corporate sector where managers and leaders are becoming increasingly clear about its transformative potential.

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<H2>ADVANCED: Staying BRIEF<BR></H2>
<H3>Aims of programme</H3>
<P>This 2-day programme is designed to help build the confidence those practitioners who have already completed a Foundation Course in Solution Focused Practice. It is intended that by the end of the course participants will have had the opportunity to:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Review the main elements of Solution Focus Practice</LI>
<LI>Address issues that have arisen in their Solution Focused work</LI>
<LI>Observe recordings of therapy undertaken by BRIEF with clients</LI>
<LI>Practice the techniques in order to further develop <BR></LI>
<LI>And become freshly energized and raring to go with their next client back at work!</LI>
</UL>
<H3>For whom</H3>
<P>This programme is intended for those who do direct work with clients <BR></P>
<H3>Solution Focused approach</H3>
<P>The Solution Focused approach is based on a simple set of practical ideas, which nonetheless make a difference. The key elements are as follows:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Agreeing an outcome from the work</LI>
<LI>Describing a preferred future</LI>
<LI>Exploring ‘instances’ and ‘exceptions’: times the future is already present</LI>
<LI>Using scales, link past and present with the client’s hoped-for future</LI>
<LI>Follow-up sessions: tracing progress</LI>
<LI>Keeping client-centred</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Course methods</H3>
<P>The course will contain a lively mixture of presentation discussion, videotape demonstration and practice- based exercise. The exercise in pairs, threes and small groups are intended to exemplify the approach while being of direct use to course members.</P>
<H3>Course content</H3>
<P>Each course is a unique event and the programme will be adapted to fit each group of participants</P>
<UL>
<LI>A review of the Solution Focused approach</LI>
<LI>Building on what works: looking at sparkling moments in participants’ Solution Focused Practice</LI>
<LI>Revisiting “best hopes” questions</LI>
<LI>Putting numbers to work: more on scale questions</LI>
<LI>Dealing with setbacks and stuck cases</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Pre-course preparation</H3>
<P>As you will already be familiar with Solution Focused practice, we would ask you to notice anything you do that is Solution Focused in your work, and in particular, anything that you do that you think might be associated with progress on the part of your clients. <BR></P>

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