Masterclass Content

We are all solution-focused coaches, right? Everyone wants to focus on solutions. In this masterclass Solutions Focus (SF) author and pioneer Dr Mark McKergow will show you how there’s more to it than that. Mark will share the very latest developments in SF Coaching including some which are only just starting to appear in print. You will find out how to help people focus on what they want (without denying their problems), how to help them build descriptions of better futures, presents and pasts (rather than analyse what’s happened to them) and pin down very small steps which can be done immediately yet have the potential to ripple out into lasting and profound change. We will see how an SF coach works to ‘stretch the world’ of the client – and once that changes, everything changes.

Masterclass Aims & Objectives

• Describe the fundamentals of Solutions Focused coaching, and show how these are distinct from other approaches
• Show how to start a coaching session, moving away from a ‘contract’ and onto ‘best hopes’
• Balance acknowledgement and progress focused moves to help the client stay on the ‘developmental edge’
• Give the latest ideas on developing detailed descriptions from tiny beginnings with the client using ‘conversation expanders’
• Demonstrate how to build smaller and smaller actions until the client is ready and raring to go and get on with it!

Dr Mark McKergow

Dr Mark McKergow has been a pioneer in using Solutions Focused (SF) approaches with coaching and organisational work for nearly 30 years. He is the co-author of six books including the ground-breaking best-seller The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching & Change SIMPLE (with Paul Z Jackson) – the book is still selling well after nearly 20 years and is in 11 languages.

As well an experienced coach and workshop facilitator, Mark is a thought leader in the SF field; his next book will be The Next Generation of SF Therapy for Routledge. Mark co-founded the SOLWorld network and is a contributor to SFiO, the organisation for SF coaches, consultants and managers. His most recent book is Hosting Generative Change (Bushe-Marshak Institute, 2020).

Find out more about Mark at http://sfwork.com.

Re: Our masterclasses and Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice

Due to the current circumstances, we have moved all of our Masterclasses to date for 2021 online. If you have any questions regarding this, then please contact us.

See: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public

Best wishes

Coaching at Work Team