Solution-Focus: an important distinction
30 June 2010 in Musings. Write by Paolo Terni
Recently Katalin Hankovszky shared the following thought by Liselotte Baeijaert:
Solution Focus is not about finding THE solution for a problem, it’s about a useful interaction that leaves the client changed: with more hope, with more creative ideas, with a feeling of competence, with a clearer view on possibilities.
I think this is an important distinction that goes a long way in making clear what Solution-Focus is and what Solution-Focus is not.
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...
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