Solution focus!

Solution focus!

Coaching based on a solid focus on possibilities and solutions

Nicoline Wackerberg & Eva-Marie Sundqvist 2010


There are many different paths up the mountain

Many different ways of getting to the top

P.Bate, P Mendel, G.Robert. Organizing for Quality (2008)


Act our way in to a new way of thinking!

What should happen today during this session, to make it useful and

worthwhile for you?

Coaching is framework

“Creating a frame (of thought) for the client inwhich his or her goals, solutions and first stepscan shine.”

Peter Szabó & Daniel Meier

Warm up

Dr Alasdair J Macdonald UK

http://www.solutionsdoc.co.uk/

”three some”

1. Of all the things you do in your work, what would you say you are most satisfied with?

2. What else?

A

BC

3. So, in view of all that, and all the other things you do in your work, what is the most interesting thing to develop in the near future?

4. Imagine that when you wake up tomorrow it will occur just the way you would like it to happen.

How will you notice? How will other notice?

What else will you notice?

A

BC

5. Imagine a scale from 0 to 10 - where 10 stands for tomorrow when

it happens and 0 stands for the opposite.

What number would you say you are at now?

How is that different from 0?A

BC

6. Suppose you move up one step: How will you notice?

What will you do then that you are not doing right now?

How will other notice that you have moved one step?

What will they see you do that you are not doing right now?

What would be the first small signs that tell you that you are making progress?

When will be a good time for you to take the first step?

What or who could be a support?

A

BC

7. In what way has this conversation been useful for you?

Is there anything we forgot to talk about?

A

BC

8. Give positive feed-back to your client!

– Thinking about the things you said, I am really impressed by……..

B and C give compliments to A A and C give compliments to BB and A give compliments to C

A

BC

B

AC

C

AB

Solution-focus Focus on the future Resources What is working? Presence Possibilities Progress Changes Action Hope

• The SF modell

• Coaching agreement ( for this session)• Resource , buildning a platform of trust and confidence.• The perfect future• Scaling , what brought us to that?• Clues, treasures forerunners already there? WhichSituations in the past contained at least a small pieceof your preferred future?• The action plan.• Summary så vad vill be your next test……….

To me it is important not only to accept one method. I would like to have the ability to use a tool or not and most important I can be myself.

Lösungsorientierung in der Führung:Zwischen Anspruch und Alltag.

Dr Carin Mussman ( 2006, s 44)

Eksjö

• Chief: PDSA and solutionfocus works very well. It is easy to combine it gives more energy and inspiration.

• Coach: Measurements can be so tough to create… by asking these questions you can open the mind and it helps…….

• Occupational therapist: It easy to use, directly the day after you learned……..it feels good and by asking yourself these questions you can keep the good feeling……

Organizing for Quality

Quality improvement is dynamic, processual and emergent and therefore requires a more opportunistic mindset.

P.Bate, P Mendel, G.Robert. Organizing for Quality (2008)chapter 1, 11..

Wrap - up

• Suppoose you work like this, how would it benifit your work?

• How would it be useful to you and your work?

• How could you apply this?

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References:

• Björn Johansson www.clues.se• www.solworld.org • Reference list: http://www.solutionsdoc.co.uk/sft.html• Berg IK, Szabó P. (2005). ”Brief coaching for lasting

solutions” , New York: WW Norton• Szabó P, Meier D (2008)”Coaching plain and simple

solution-focused brief coaching essentials”, New York: WW Norton

• McKergow M, Korman H (2009) “Inbetween – neither inside nor outside: The radical simplicity of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy”, Journal of Systemic Therapies Vol 28 No 2 pp 34-39

• Gale Miller, Steve de Shazer (1991) The foundation of brief therapy. University of Milwaukee

http://www.clues.se/

http://www.solworld.org/

Using Clinical Microsystems and Mesosystems as Enablers forService Improvement in Mental Health ServicesWritten by M J GrayBased on the service improvement work undertaken byMike Gill and Mike GrayService Improvement LeadsModernisation TeamHumber Mental Health Teaching NHS TrustJune 2006


You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them to discover

it in themselves.

- Galileo Galilei -

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