The Solution Focused approach to Change
The Solution-Focused approach is a short-term, future-focused approach that helps you change by constructing solutions rather than "solving" problems.
Elements of the desired solution often are already present in your life and become the basis for ongoing change. The ability to describe what these changes will be like is often more important than understanding what led to the problem.
Solution-focused Brief Therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and their colleagues at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee in the USA in the 1970s. Solution-Focused Coaching developed from SFBT as the same approach has been highly effective in creating change in client’s lives.
What are the benefits of
Solution-Focused Coaching?
SF Coaching helps you change your life for the better by focusing on what you want to be different, how the future will look after this change, and what resources and strengths you have to bring about this desired future.
“The solution is not necessarily directly related to the problem. ”
Envisioning a clear and detailed picture of how things will be when things are better creates hope and expectation and makes a solution possible.
Understanding the details and 'cause' of the problem is often not necessary to find a solution. Trying to identify the cause of a problem can waste a lot of time, energy and money. The important things are how you want things to be different and what elements of that are already happening that you can use to make progress.
SF Coaching focuses on the future and how it will be better when things change. Using this preferred future as a guide, we help you identify existing strengths and resources, and how to use these to bring about your desired future - and to explore when you have already done some of the things you aspire to.
Because SF Coaching focuses on the desired future and how to pragmatically achieve this, and not getting caught up with digging around in the past, the number of coaching sessions is usually much fewer than other approaches. On average, this is usually less than six sessions.
What can I expect from SF Coaching?
The skill of an SF Coach is in the questions they ask to help you think in new ways, see your situation from a different angle and identify what existing resources, strengths and skills you can use to take action in the direction of their goals.
Engaging in the coaching sessions with an open creative mind will help you get unstuck and develop new insights and actions to move forward.
As part of our coaching conversations, you will be asked questions that are sometimes challenging and require deep thought. This is necessary as you've probably already thought through all the conventional and habitual ways of achieving your outcome. After a coaching conversation, it's up to you to take the next steps with what you have learned.
We don't lock you into a fixed schedule with coaching sessions at specific intervals. Instead, we'll ask you when you would like your next session. Each person is different and they can book the next session as near or as far apart as they wish.