SF Practice: Foundation Level 2

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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This two day course centres on practice with a series of developing exercises familiarising participants with the flow of SF conversations.

Aims of programmeThis 2-day programme is designed to help build the confidence of those practitioners who have already completed the Level 1 Foundation Course in Solution Focused Practice. It is intended that by the end of the course participants will have had the opportunity to:Review the main elements of Solution Focus PracticeAddress issues that have arisen in their Solution Focused workObserve recordings or demonstrations of therapy undertaken by BRIEF with clientsPractice the techniques in order to further developAnd become freshly energized and raring to go with their next client back at work!Solution Focused approachThe Solution Focused approach is based on a simple set of practical questions, the answers to which make a difference to most clients’ lives. The key elements are as follows:Agreeing an outcome from the workDescribing a preferred futureExploring ‘instances’ and ‘exceptions’: times the future is already presentUsing scales, link past and present with the client’s hoped-for futureFollow-up sessions: tracing progressKeeping client-centredCourse methodsThe 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.Course contentEach course is a unique event and the programme will be adapted to fit each group of participantsRevisiting “best hopes” questionsInteractional descriptionsBuilding on what worksPutting numbers to work: more on scale questionsDealing with setbacks and stuck casesPutting it all together - how the elements of practice can fit together in opening and follow-up sessions.Pre-course preparationAs you will already be using some Solution Focused skills please pay attention to whatever you do that seems to work. We will want to hear about it. Please re-read the manual BRIEFER before attending the course.TrainersAll courses will be run by one of BRIEF’s founders, Evan George or Chris Iveson, who have world-wide recognition as important leaders in this field.

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