Training Courses

Intensive Solution Focused Brief Therapy Workshops

In a typical 2 or 3 day workshop, you will:

• Learn over 22 tools & techniques for working with service users
• Be introduced to solution focused brief therapy as a helpful way of working with service users
• Have grasped the basic concepts, assumptions and principles of solution focused working
• Be better at setting goal collaboratively with service users
• Appreciate how SFBT sits within cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches
• Appreciate the difference between solution building, rather than problem solving
• Be able to appreciate the value of the formula first session task and pre-session change
• Become skilled in finding clues and keys to solution building
• Understand how important it is for the work to ‘flow’ from session to session
• Come away with at least 10 skills to put into immediate effect

Programme Outline

Welcome

Feedback on pre-course reading

How SFBT fits within CBT and person-centred approaches

Basic assumptions and key principles

Solution building, not problem solving

Use of the formula first session task

First assessment checklist

Problem-free talk

Definition of the concern/difficulty or worry

Finding exceptions to the problem

Pre-session change

Attempted solutions and going with what works

Goals – ‘SMART +’

The miracle question or fast forwarding the video

Scaling progress, confidence and motivation

The value of small steps

Listing positive change and building on improvement

Strategies for dealing with setbacks

Pre-suppositional language

‘Wise old you’ and ‘deathbed scenario’

Ending a session well

Our most challenging cases and use of the solution focused reflecting team in peer supervision

Review and course round up

“SFBT is such a simple-to-understand and respectful approach to so many problems and concerns.  Thanks for a most enjoyable workshop” – Shelley Henry, Gloucester

“This 3-day SFBT Intensive has both affirmed my current counselling practice and given me a wide selection of new tools & techniques for my toolbag” – Mike O;Brien, Dunfermline

“John explains everything so clearly.  The combination of course handouts, charts, video, live demonstrations and paired exercises, was a good formula” – Mandy Kitchener, Darlington

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