The Smallest Solution-Focused Particles
What is the essence of Solution-Focused practice? Is it the use of some key techniques, like asking the “Miracle Question”? Or is it something else? Veronica Bliss and Dominic Bray try to give an...
View ArticleSolution-Focused Practice & Wittgenstein
When philosophers use a word – “knowledge”, “being”, “object”, “I”, “proposition”, “name” – and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in...
View ArticleThe Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: people with low levels of ability in a certain field vastly over-rate their talents because they lack the skills to judge their own competence (definition from Mind Hacks...
View ArticleNot-Knowing and Flow in Coaching
I have always been a great fan of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi about the psychology of optimal performance. His idea of flow has resonated with me ever since. In my life I had the good luck of...
View ArticleYour Brain at Work
Your Brain at Work is a pop psych book. Unfortunately, the category “pop psych” book has been misused and abused in the past, so that classification does not do the book justice. Your Brain at Work is...
View ArticleHow Not to Change – 11 Strategies for Staying Stuck
Photo courtesy of @NiniBaseema http://theformofbeauty.tumblr.com/ More often than not, Solution-Focused Brief Coaching boils down to helping clients getting unstuck. Bill O’Hanlon’s latest book, Change...
View ArticleHow Solution-Focused Coaching can Help You to Become a Good Manager
Project Oxygen was the code-name given to a bold new plan by Google in early 2009. Was it a new search algorithm? Or a fancy speech-to-text app? Or some other tech wonder? None of the above. It was...
View ArticleSolutionsurfers Brief Coach Training starts on the 14th of June in Berkeley!
I am so excited to be leading Solutionsurfers Brief Coach Training in Berkeley, next week, at the beautiful UC Clark Kerr Campus! An Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) with the International...
View ArticleCoaching Story – and the client became one
I just got back from Basel, where I had the privilege to co-facilitate with Peter Szabó the “Live Coaching Days”. That would be module 4 of Solutionsurfers‘ PURE Brief-Coach Training Program. It is so...
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