Will Reed on Youth Leadership and Solution Focus. In today’s episode we talk with Will Reed, an 18-years old youth advisor at Boys in Mind - Girls Mind too, former member of the mental health team at Beechen Cliff School Bath, and solution-focused practitioner about the power of Youth Leadership and the difference Solution Focus has been making for him. Learn more about Will’s fascination for SF and what grabbed his interest to know more about it. Get insights into the mental health work at...

Marianne Roessler and Wolfgang Gaiswinkler about their solution-focused work in child protection services. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Marianne Roessler and Wolfgang Gaiswinkler, solution-focused practitioners, organizational consultants, social researchers, supervisors, trainers, and founders of Netzwerk O’ST about how social workers and child protection services can support change in a hoped-for direction. Learn what differences solution focus makes for their work and what is...

Camille Jeanmonod on how she got into Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with Camille Jeanmonod, Solution-Focused Coach and Psychologist in Private Practice, about challenging what we already know and getting into SF. Learn more about what fascinates Camille with Solution Focus, how she came across Solution Focus, and what grabbed her interest. Check out her first steps with Solution Focus in her private practice and how she kept going. She tells us how she got from Hypnotherapy to...

Katrin Berger about SF in Schools. In today’s episode, we talk with Katrin Berger, Solution-Focused School Counselor and Trainer, about applying SF Support Groups and WOWW in Schools. Find out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how Solution Focus reminded her on what she did as a child, and how she makes everyday life more joyful for herself applying SF. She tells us how she brings more joy to schools with Solution Focus and how she applies Sue Young’s support groups in elementary...

SF 24 with Steve Flatt and Paul Z Jackson. In today’s episode, we talk with Steve Flatt and Paul Z. Jackson, about the upcoming 24-hour online conference “SF 24 – Building Hope, Empowering Change”. We talk with Steve and Paul about what fascinates them about Solution Focus, the upcoming worldwide 24-hour online conference „SF 24 – Building Hope, Empowering Change, August 6 & 7, 2020“, their favourite stories of how the idea of this endeavour came up, who is involved and what we can look...

Michelle Orr on SF in Suicide Prevention. In today’s episode, we talk with Michele Orr, Mental Health Nurse, Team Leader and pioneer of the Brief Intervention Team in Adult Community Mental Health in Eastern Metropolitan Melbourne, Solution-Focused Practitioner, and Board Member of the ASFA (Australasian Solution Focused Association), about her use of Solution Focus in the Suicide Prevention Space. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, when she first got in touch with SF, and how...

Sara Jordan and David Hains about the JSFP. In today’s episode, we talk with Sara Jordan, Associate Professor of Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as Chief Editor of the Journal of Solution Focused Practices (JSFP) and David Hains, President of the Australasian Solution Focused Association (ASFA), about the Journal of Solution Focused Practices. Check out what fascinates David and Sara about Solution Focus, the start of the journal and the new...

Anna-Julia Szabo on teaching with SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Anna-Julia Szabó, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Teacher and Trainer about how she co-creates school with her students. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, the differences SF makes for her and her students in school, and how she applies SF as a teacher. She tells us how she uses scaling with her students and how she does WOWW-observations in her classroom with senior citizens and her own students. Find out...

Beverley Kort on telephone therapy with SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Beverly Kort, a Solution Focused Practitioner, registered Psychologist in private practice and Therapist about what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how she is constantly learning and staying curious about her practice, and how she is doing telephone therapy with Solution Focus. She tells us about her experiences with the condensed version of Solution Focused Possibilities and her adaptions in her work. Learn...

Elfie Czerny & Dominik Godat answer your questions. In today’s episode, we celebrate 100 episodes of the SIMPLY FOCUS podcast with your questions. We talk about what fascinates us about Solution Focus at the moment, what fascinates us even more now than when we set out on our journey, what has had the most profound impact on our practice, and the differences SF has made to our lives. We explore what tells us that episode #100 is really unique and significant, our favorite questions we...

Sharon Casey on SF in schools. In today’s episode, we talk with Sharon Casey, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Teacher, Consultant & Trainer, and Co-Organizer of the SFBTA conference in Montreal, about using Solution Focus in schools. She shares what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how it is to have access to another way of looking at the world, and what attracted her towards this approach. Find out how she started applying SF with teenagers with drug addictions and in the field of...

Rob Black on doing SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Rob Black, accredited solution-focused practitioner by the UKASFP, qualified social-worker, clinical team leader at Bath Spa University, about how Solution Focus can (also) look like in practice. Check out what fascinates him with Solution Focus, in what settings he is adapting Solution Focus, and the differences in language when working with different client groups. Rob talks about the value of problem-free talk and connecting with our...

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Joe Chan about working with young people. In today’s episode, we talk with Joe Chan, Solution-Focused Practitioner and Head of Youth Services at Reach Community Services in Singapore, about their work with young people. Check out what fascinates Joe with Solution Focus, where they are with their research project right now, how Solution Focus influenced the practice of the Youth Center staff members, and what he aims at with Solution Focus at the REACH Youth Center in Singapore. Learn more...

Brigitte Lavoie on becoming cancer free with SF. In today’s episode, we talk with Brigitte Lavoie, M.P.s, Solution Focused therapist, trainer, supervisor and receiver of the SFBTA Insoo Kim Berg Memorial Award, about what we can learn from going through cancer for this situation now. Listen to what fascinates her with Solution Focus right now after her cancer episode in the last 1 1/2 years, how she applied Solution Focus practices to her life with cancer, how she knows that she had more good...

John Henden on what it takes to thrive. In today’s episode, we talk with John Henden, Solution-Focused Trainer, Author, Therapist and Performance Coach about Solution Focused Suicide Prevention and severe trauma and stress recovery. Learn more about the Bristol Solutions Group that led to SOLWorld, what fascinates John with Solution Focus, and the triple twins of solution-focused success. John emphasizes the importance of being solution-focused and not solution-forced. He tells us about...

Petra Müller-Demary on abundance. In today’s episode, we talk with Petra Müller-Demary, Solution-Focused Executive Coach, Team Coach, Business Consultant, and Founder of SolutionSurfers Romania, about the importance of the Solution Focused (SF) community for her, bringing SF to Romania in a Solution Focused way, sharing and spreading this mindset of abundance, and looking for the jewels in the dust. Get to know their format ‘solution café’ that is spreading worldwide, the language of space or...

Kenneth Kwan with stories of hope. In today’s episode, we talk with Kenneth Kwan, Solution-Focused Conference Speaker, Author, and High Performance Strategist, about Covid-19 and the differences Solution Focus can make and has made in Singapore. Check out how Solution Focus was useful when people started being affected by Covid-19 at the “Grace Assembly of God” church in Singapore, how they dealt with the sorrows and fears of people, how they started a dialogue of hope and optimism with their...

Naomi Whitehead on Solution Focus as a celebration of who people are. In today’s episode, we talk with Naomi Whitehead, IASTI accredited Solution-Focused Practitioner, Coach, Therapist & Trainer as well as EBTA Board Member, about bringing Solution Focus to Communities. Learn what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how John Wheeler, Mathias Schwab, and Tara Gretton influenced her work, and how she sees Solution Focus as a celebration of who people are. Find out more about Curve Chats and...

Dr. Peter Röhrig on SF in Leadership and Conflict Management. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Peter Röhrig, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, and Author, about what fascinates him about Solution Focus, signs that showed him that Solution Focus could work in business settings, what he did differently in his trainings after being introduced to SF, and the differences this made for his participants. Check out what makes SF the perfect approach for leaders, how Peter trains leaders in...

Dr. Peter Szabó on re-tuning to a totally different mode. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Peter Szabó, co-founder of SolutionSurfers, Coach, Trainer, and Author, about walking alongside clients. Find out what fascinates Peter about Solution Focus, the quality of listening and the story of Momo by Michael Ende, the first experience of this completely different mode of interaction or walking alongside, and what becomes possible when not wanting to be helpful and useful. Check out how to...

Dr. Ursula Bühlmann on doing SF beyond language. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ursula Bühlmann, specialist in child and youth psychiatry and psychotherapy, supervisor, coach, trainer, and EBTA board member, with qualifications in solution-focused brief therapy, creative children’s therapy, hypnotherapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine, about using different forms of expression in Solution Focused therapy and coaching. Find out what fascinates her about Solution Focus, how she found out...

Kirsten Dierolf about the ICF Core Competencies and Solution Focus. In today’s episode, we talk with Kirsten Dierolf, M.A., MSFP, MCC, Solution-Focused Practitioner, Trainer, Coach, Author, and President Elect of ICF Germany about the ICF Core Competencies and Solution Focus. Find out what fascinates her with Solution Focus now, what attracted her in the beginning, and what kept fascinating her since. Hear how she got into working with organizations and leaders and what she likes about this...

Wei-Su Shu on SF in China and Taiwan. In today’s episode, we talk with Wei-Su Hsu, Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, about the cultural adaptions of Solution Focus (SF) in Taiwan and China. Check out what fascinates her with Solution Focus, how her SF journey started, how she worked with Insoo Kim Berg, and what she learned from her. Enjoy her craziness for Solution Focus and what she learned from translating...