Solution-Focus, simplicity is thy name!
28 June 2009 in Musings Write by Paolo Terni
What is so special about Solution-Focused approaches to therapy, coaching and consulting?
As Mark McKergow pointed out in a recent posting in the SOL listserv:
SF is a lot SIMPLER than other practices
Interesting questions then follow; according to Mark:
* How is it that this works as well as all the other things?
* Why, then, are people still learning the other (more complicated) things?
* What is going on here that we can extend and experiment with?
And here is Mark’s punchline:
1) The special things in SF are basically present in other things too.
2) The other things have lots of extra things that make no difference, or even make things worse.
I totally agree with Mark.
The beauty of Solution-Focused practice is its simplicity and elegance.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery said:
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
2 Comments to: Solution-Focus, simplicity is thy name!
What do you think?
ABOUT
Dr. Paolo Terni is a Professionally Certified Coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation) and the author of the book “Coaching Leader: how to transform individual talent into business results” (Guerini Editore, 2007, Milano, Italy). He has also written many papers on the impact of current psychological research on consulting and coaching practices – his writings have been published in the book Doing Something Different: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practices (Edited by Thorana Nelson, 2010, Routledge, NY), in Inter-Action: the Journal of Solution-Focus in Organizations, and other Journals. Dr. Terni has trained extensively in the US (Coach U, NLP Master Practitioner @ University of California at Santa Cruz with Robert Dilts) and is bi-lingual (English and Italian).
Dr. Terni is an expert in Solution-Focused Coaching (certified by Solutionsurfers, Basel, Switzerland), in
Read more
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
A friend of mine asked me why I chose the name briefcoachingsolutions for my website.
Easy: it is the shortest description for what I do.
Solutions: that is what my clients arrive at: solutions. For their goals, their needs, their problems. They arrive at better solutions. Faster. With less effort. Solutions sustainable in the long run because they are based on what is already working in the clients' situations
it is also the description of my approach: solution-focused.
Coaching: that is the tool I use to help clients...
Read more
[...] more exciting news: Dan & Chip Heath discovered Solution-Focus!! They wrote a new book about Solution-Focused practices and Positive Deviance – the book is called Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard and [...]
[...] to begin with, checklists are a simple and elegant solution to a complext problem – and we already talked in this blog about how Solution-Focused is elegantly simple yet very effective. [...]