The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice

The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by 'stretching the world' of their clients.

Dr Mark McKergow is Director at the Centre for Solutions Focus at Work in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of six books including The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson) and Hosting Generative Change (BMI, 2020). Mark sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Solution Focused Practice and the Journal of Systemic Therapies, and is a leading light in the SOLWorld community of organisational SF practitioners. He also plays jazz, clarinet and saxophone.

1: Introduction; Section A: Development of Solution Focused Brief Therapy; 2: Roots of Solution Focused Brief Therapy: The Interactional View; 3: Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and Solution Focused Brief Therapy ; 4: The evolution of SFBT: Spreading the word and defining the practice; Section B: Building descriptions, stretching worlds; 5: Evolving the next generation of SFBT; 6: Stretching the world' of the client; 7: The role of the practitioner; Section C: Next generation Solution Focused practice; 8: Introducing the Solution Focused art gallery; 9: The Ticket Office: Permission to start/enter; 10: The Future Gallery: Miracles, parallel worlds and more; 11: The Past Gallery: Instances connected to the better future; 12: The Gift Shop: What to take away?; 13: Revisiting the Gallery: Follow-on sessions; Section D: A Solution Focused Aesthetic; 14: A Solution Focused Aesthetic: What is beautiful and why