At the end of the training you will have:

• a thorough understanding of the assumptions and values that guide the principals of a solution focused approach,
• techniques and skills in formulating the characteristic questions of a solution focused approach,
• skills in building a picture of ‘the preferred future’,
• skills in helping clients to identify their navigation and negotiation styles of communication,
• techniques to gather a positive history at the start of the relationship,
• skills in shifting conversations from risk to strengths and solutions (with clients, as well as other related professionals),
• skills in drawing on the strengths of the systems,
• ways to build a picture of ‘the preferred future’ from ordinary everyday successes,
• skills to identify progress towards the agreed outcomes,
• skills to promote change between conversations and
• skills to work with more than one person in the room.

The course will be interactive and you will be able to trial the approach to your own life and/or to several case studies presented.