The Logic Behind Brief Interventions in a Nutshell
17 August 2009 in Musings Write by Paolo Terni” A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” – Herbert Simon
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Dr. Paolo Terni is a Professionally Certified Coach, ICF member and author of the book "Coaching Leader: how to transform individual talent into business results". He has also written many papers on the impact of current psychological research on consulting and coaching practices. Dr. Terni has trained extensively in the US (Coach U, NLP Master Practicioner @ 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 Evidence-Based practices related to coaching & well-being, and in Stress Management techniques.
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WHAT'S IN THE 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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True, oh so true.
Choice paralysis.
Maybe this is why some of the simple people in this world are so happy… they know little BUT they act.
Some of the more learned folks, know a lot and fail to act.
My grand-grand mother was illiterate but she knew that the secret of life is love and the secret of love is giving. She gave from the little she had starting with the simplest gift of all, a smile. She was the happiest person I ever met, the most peaceful and serene.
Ah yes, attention. Lot’s of SF interventions (and questions) are, i think, attention-modulators.
Peter, Michael, thanks for your comments!
@Peter: Kudos to your grand-grandmother, she was very wise.
It never fails to impress me the inverse correlation that seems to exist (with few exceptions) between the degree of education of an individual and qualities like compassion and gratitude or humility and understanding.
@Michael: I agree. In the new book by Johab Lehrer, how we decide, there is a description of ACC and the reward neurons that I am sure you will love, it reminds me of your paper about bee-brains!