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May 2020

Sat 9th🌐 A Solution-Focused Collective Open Space Conference “… disaster often liberates solidarity. A more beautiful world shimmers just beneath the surface…”
Charles Eisenstein paraphrasing Rebecca Solnit’s book – A Paradise Built in Hell

"The Solution-Focused Collective are a loose and fluid grouping of solution-focused practitioners from around the world, who share a belief in the potential of the solution-focused approach to help in the creation of social change, towards greater social justice.  Read our Manifesto"

Please find more details here.
Thu 14th🌐 Black Solution Focused Professionals Online Summit
"This is a free meeting of black professionals interested in the Solution Focused Approach where we will have a discussion about the diversity issues in the field and how to address black representation going forward. The goal of this summit is to have an open conversation about these issues and how to move forward with a unified voice."
Please find more details here.
Fri 15th to Sat 16thShow in Google map🇳🇱 CANCELLED: SOLUTION IV Applications of the Solution Focused ApproachKurhaus Scheveningen, Gevers Deynootplein 30, 2586 CK Den Haag, NiederlandePlease find all details here.

June 2020

Wed 10th🌐 Austausch! Vernetzungsanlass Lösungsfokus in der Schule"Diesmal laden wir Lehrpersonen ein: Der Schulstart liegt für die Schweizer*innen schon einige Tage zurück… Womit seid ihr am meisten zufrieden? Was hat euch gefreut und was überrascht?

Und den Austausch + Inspiration nutzend, was möchtet Ihr für eure Arbeit (weiter)entwickeln?

Unser Rahmen für diese Treffen lautet: Wie kann Lösungsfokus*

  • gewinnbringend fürs Lernen und die Bewältigung von (schulischen) Herausforderungen sein?
  • zur Bestärkung von Lernenden und in Schulgemeinschaften eingesetzt werden?

Was soll genau im Unterricht und Schulalltag wie gestaltet werden, damit alle sagen können: IN SO EINE SCHULE kommen wir gerne 'zurück'?"


Weitere Details siehe hier.
Thu 25th to Fri 26thShow in Google map🇬🇧 CANCELLED: UKASFP Conference 2020: Working with disenfranchised, disadvantaged and disconnected peopleStaffordshire University, College Rd, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE, Vereinigtes KönigreichThis conference has been cancelled.

Please find more details here.

July 2020

Sat 4th🌐 Solution-Focused Collective: Action Space
"The Action Space will be a solution-focused opportunity to share and develop actions for social change and social justice, wherever you are.  Based on open space principles, you will be able to create themed spaces for intensive dialogue on social issues you are passionate about.  Our best hope is that strong collective actions will emerge and make their way into the world."
Please find more details here.
Thu 9th to Sun 12thShow in Google map🇦🇺 POSTPONED: 2020 AASFBT Conference: Conversation that creates changeCockatoo Island, New South Wales, AustralienThis conference has been postponed to July 2021.

Please find more details here.

August 2020

Mon 3rd to Sat 8th🇬🇧➡️🌐 SOL Summer Retreat 2020: Nourishing your SF roots to enable your SF Flourishing"The physical Retreat that was planned in South-East England can’t take place due to the current uncertain times, but we couldn’t bear the idea of not gathering in some way. So… we came up with the corona-proof plan to offer a world wide ‘individualised group Retreat’! 

The aim of the Retreat is: Nourishing your SF roots to enable your SF Flourishing

Imagine a time and place for you…

  • Where you can care for and nurture YOU - in whatever ways you feel would be most helpful during the Retreat period... 
  • Where you can take time to reflect on your SF practices - personal and professional - by yourself, supported by others...
  • Where you can make, renew, and strengthen your connections in the SF community - locally and globally

 

The expectations on those joining the Retreat remain the same: 

  • The focus is on creating a joyful, easeful environment for all to think, learn, share, play, take care of self and others; based our shared curiosity and belief in SF as a practical and useful methodology in work and in life.   
  • You come prepared to be as fully ‘present' throughout the Retreat as possible - create a ‘retreat bubble’.  Give yourself the gift of four whole undistracted days to focus on what is most nourishing for you and you alone as a person and a SF practitioner, as you would if you were away from home with the Retreat group.   
  • You are open to considering SF being discussed and used in ways that are very different to your own.  That is where some of the richest learnings lie…"

Please find more details here.




Thu 6th🌐 SF24 - Building hope, empowering change"Four Regions; Four Time Zones; an oodleplex of skills, ability and talent on display from around the world.

 Workshops, presentations, open spaces, panels. All in the comfort of your own home.

 Come and contribute; come and listen; come and network; come and share the buzz that Solution Focus creates!"


Please find more details here.

September 2020

Fri 18th to Sun 20thShow in Google map🇩🇰 [postponed indefinitely] EBTA 2020 – Back to the FuturesKonventum, Gl Hellebækvej 70, 3000 Helsingør, Dänemark
"EBTA2020 is not yet another EBTA conference, but the first one to take place in Denmark. We’re thrilled to wellcome you to a piece of our beautiful country in the city of Helsingør, wellknown from Shakespeares Hamlet and Kronborg. We’re looking forward to host a conference - not about “to be or not to be” as Hamlet said, - but about how to create the future with what ever we bring from the past, especially our solution focused past - present and future. Our aim is by focusing on our present practice, while talking about our solution focused heritage, together to reflect on the future we are moving into - your direction, my direction, our direction."

Please find more details here.

October 2020

Fri 2nd to Sun 4th🇺🇸➡️🌐 2nd Solution Focused School ConferencePlease find all details here.

November 2020

Fri 13th to Sat 14thShow in Google map🇺🇸➡️🌐 SFBTA Online Conference 2020: "Putting Differences to Work"Palace Station Hotel & Casino, 2411 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102, USA"Our Mission for this online conference

  • We aim to have a welcoming, inclusive, diverse, light, energetic, playful, and non-hierarchical SFBTA online conference where people from all walks of life can and want to participate, are equally valued, and can connect to practitioners from all over the world.
  • We aim to show that the SFBTA lives up to its Diversity and Inclusivity Statement, honoring equity, diversity, and inclusion as much as possible."
Please find more details here.

January 2021

Thu 7th🌐 Watch party - SF and Risk Management"We’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded sessions - "SF in Risk Management", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Stefan Kreil and Cristina Muehl will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."

For details, go here.

February 2021

Thu 4th🌐 Watch party - Hoping for Change: Operationalising Hope in Single Session"We’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded sessions - "Hoping for Change: Operationalising Hope in Single Session Therapy", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Alesya Courtney will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."

Please find more details here.

March 2021

Thu 4th🌐 Watch party - (Restorative) JUSTICE With a Solution-Focused Approach"Facilitated by Owen Chanley, we’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded sessions - "(Restorative) JUSTICE With a Solution-Focused Approach", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Sofie Geisler will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."
 
Please find more details here.
Fri 19th to Sat 20th🌐 Solution Focused Trainers’ Conference"This is a very simple Open Space conference for people who train others in Solution Focused Practice or other postmodern / poststructuralist models of practice like narrative, collaborative, etc. We explicitly welcome trainers from our 'cousin' approaches.

We will run this conference with Zoom (and other platforms). You will need a Chrome Browser installed to work with yotribe*"

*Ed. note: yotribe is now wonder


Find more details here.

April 2021

Thu 1st🌐 Watch party - Cuales son tus mejores speranzas?"Facilitated by Marta Cornejo, we’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded session in Spanish - "Cuales son tus mejores speranzas?", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Marcos Perez Lamadrid will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."



To access the online event page, go here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/w.....64083

May 2021

Thu 6th🌐 Watch party - SF in sports"Facilitated by Julia Mines, we’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded session "SF in sports", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Morgan Lewis will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."




To access the online event page, go here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/w.....57787

June 2021

Thu 3rd🌐 Watch party - Helping Children Chase Away Worry"Facilitated by Beverley Kort, we’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded sessions - "Helping Children Chase Away Worry", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Semiramis du Sautoy will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."


To access the online event page, go here:
www.eventbrite.com/x/w.....91737
Fri 11thShow in Google map🇦🇹 SOLworld Conference 2021: WOWW – using SF in uncertain timesTagungs- und Veranstaltungszentrum Hotel Europahaus Wien, Linzer Str. 429, 1140 Wien, ÖsterreichPlease find mre details here.

July 2021

Thu 1st🌐 Watch party - Solution-Focused Therapeutic Conversation"Facilitated by Cristina Muehl, we’ll spend an hour together on Zoom, watching a selected extract from one of the recorded session "Solution-Focused Therapeutic Conversation", for 10 minutes or so, then enjoy a hosted discussion about the topic presented.

Jaseem Koorankot will join the call, answer questions, and develop their line of thinking."



To access the online event page, go here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/w.....25561

August 2021

Mon 2nd to Fri 6th🌐➕ SOL Summer Retreat 2021: 'Nourishing Your SF Roots To Enable Your SF Flourishing' "It will be a mix of the formats that have worked so well over the previous 11 years, with an online base and as much physical co-location of participants as possible by August.

This year, we have planned it so that the Retreat will include the SF24 Conference; which is taking place on the 5th-6th August. We hope that participants in the Retreat will see this as an opportunity to include and support that event as part of their own Retreat planning.

The Retreat is an opportunity to meet other SF practitioners in an informal environment so that we learn more about how we each think and apply SF in our work and lives. And to co-create a joyful, easeful environment for all to think, learn, share, play, take care of self and others."


 
Please find more details here.
Thu 5th🌐 SF24 / 21- Building hope, empowering change"The SF24 Solution Focused online conference is a global event running 5-6 August 2021. The conference is free and consists of four, six-hour regional events running consecutively around the world.

SF24 / 21 offers presentations, workshops, skills development, networking opportunities and more, with sector-relevant insights from the world’s leading Solution Focused practitioners. At SF24 / 21 you'll get latest updates and knowledge to help you realise your best hopes, in sectors including:

• Management and organisational change
• Coaching and training
• Activism, politics, community work
• Education
• Health, therapy and social care"

Please find all details here.

September 2021

Fri 17th to Sun 19thShow in Google map🇩🇰 EBTA2020 [sic!] - BACK TO THE FUTURESHelsingør, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark"The conference have three themes as described below.: [...] 
1: RESEARCH
EBTA along with SFBTA have for years supported researc in Solution Focused practice, both on a quite practical level and concrete research projects. Research related to the Solution Focused approach, not only document and validate the approach and practice, but also helps spread the word of SF. This conference theme puts highlight on new research results, provide a setting for upcoming researchers to meet and talk, and to create a platform for practitioners to talk about, how we in the future of Solution Focused practice can learn and benefit from the research of today - and best of all, how can we support the research of tomorrow.


2: PRACTICE AROUND EUROPE
“Back to the futures” is the name of this conference. When you look back, you find that you were once in “the land of choices”, and beeing there provided the opportunity to create many kinds of future. And you chose one. This conference theme can be seen in the same way: once the solution focused approach was developed by Steve and Insoo, and some similar ideas by Luc Isebaert and Korzybski Institute. BRIEF in London have simplified the approach the most, others have combined SF with EMDR, or Marte Meo and others have been influenced by hypnoses or ideas from Wittgenstein, Ericsson or…. This track is an opportunity for everyone to become familiar with “what’s going on at my neighbors house” or “I’ll show you, what I’ve developed”.

3: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE
The Solution Focused approach was developed in the ‘80, and ever since practitioners over the world have set their fingerprints on the approach by adding on new elements,  deleted others or integrated ideas from other approaches e.g. Today there’s a variation of fields of practice. Wonder how Solution Focused will look like in 10 or 20 years, and wonder what you will be seeing practitioners be doing in order to say; wauw, they’re working from a solution focused approach. This conference theme will focus on the basic assumptions of Solution Focused practice in order to define - if possible - the core of the approach, thus we in the future can identify solution focused practice. What do you need to see me be doing for you to say, I’m working in a Solution Focused way?"

Please find more details here.

October 2021

Fri 1st to Sun 3rdShow in Google map🇦🇹 ASC-JahrestagungHotel Sperlhof, Edlbach 34, 4580 Edlbach, AustriaNoch keine weiteren Details bekannt, s. austriansolutioncircle.at
Fri 29th to Sun 31st🌐 Solution Focused Leadership Summit"Create useful change, forward momentum and deliver results.
It's time to get focused on the areas you need help with

As a leader, you have probably realised that change is happening all the time. How do you help your team and organisation navigate through useful change, identify opportunities and move quickly to take advantage of them?

19 Speakers, Consultants, Coaches, and Innovative Thinkers will share their insights, strategies, tools and knowledge to improve performance, deliver results and increase productivity in organisations."

Please find more details here.
Fri 29th to Sun 31st🌐 3rd Annual Solution Focused School Conference"
After attending this virtual conference you will...
  • Empower students with confidence by guiding them to build their own solutions, academically, socially or emotionally
  • Reduce discipline referrals and school refusal by showing teachers how to have Solution Focused conversations with students
  • Add Solution Focused ideas to your current school structure and use it everywhere: individual students, groups, team meetings, and parent conferences
  • Help teachers learn how to see the expert in a student and find exceptions that can lead to motivated students and a better classroom climate
  • Help parents when students must do school work online, to discover their own skills so the current challenge works for everyone"

Please find all details here.

November 2021

Fri 12th🇺🇸➡🌐 Research Day: SFBTA Conference 2021: “Let’s Co-Construct!” "The SFBTA Annual Conference 2021
will be a one day ONLINE conference!

Saturday, November 13, 2021

We co-create together!
Join us!

Stay tuned for more information!
Registration opens on September 15, 2021!


LAS VEGAS will be postponed to 2022!"
 
Please find more details here.
Sat 13th🇺🇸➡🌐 SFBTA Conference 2021: “Let’s Co-Construct!” "The SFBTA Annual Conference 2021
will be a one day ONLINE conference!

Saturday, November 13, 2021

We co-create together!
Join us!

Stay tuned for more information!
Registration opens on September 15, 2021!


LAS VEGAS will be postponed to 2022!"
 
Please find more details here.
Sat 20th to Sun 21stShow in Google map🇸🇪 Lösningsfokus i TidenErsta konferens & hotell, Erstagatan 1K, 116 28 Stockholm, Sweden"Svenska föreningen för lösningsfokuserad korttidsterapi (SFLK) arrangerar en nationell konferens i Stockholm 20-21/11, 2021. Konferensen genomförs i samarbete med Verti AB och Lösningsfokuserad pedagogik SFE AB."
 
Info.

December 2021

January 2022

March 2022

Tue 15th🌐 Research.meeting: Ergebnisse für die Praxis aus JSFP

"Beim dritten gemeinsamen Austrian SolutionCircle und nla-Schweiz Research.meeting nehmen wir die vergangenen Nummern des Journal of Solution Focused Practices hervor und

_stöbern durch die Artikel

_lassen verschiedene Befunde auf Deutsch für uns zusammenfassen

_besprechen Inspirationen daraus für unsere Praxis."

 

Anmeldung hier.

Thu 17th🌐 Vernetzungsanlass "Intervision"

"Manchmal kommen wir mit unserem Wissen und Tun an die Grenzen oder sind unsicher, wenn etwas anders funktioniert als geplant. Daher ist es wichtig, dass wir uns in Bezug auf unsere Professionalität und Qualität unserer Arbeit immer wieder spiegeln und hinterfragen.

Wir wollen dies nun auch im nla den Mitgliedern und anderen interessierten Praktiker:innen ermöglichen"

 

Anmeldung hier.

Wed 30th🌐 Austauschen und vernetzen: Lösungsfokus in der Schule

"Wie kann Lösungsfokus*

  • gewinnbringend fürs Lernen und die Bewältigung von (schulischen) Herausforderungen sein?
  • zur Bestärkung von Lernenden und in Schulgemeinschaften eingesetzt werden?

Was soll genau im Unterricht und Schulalltag wie gestaltet werden, damit alle sagen können: IN SO EINE SCHULE kommen wir gerne?"

 Anmeldung hier.

May 2022

Mon 2nd to Wed 4th🌐➕ WORLD SF DAYActivities all over the world to showcase the possibilities of Solution Focus. Find the Facebook group for inspiration and add your own event for May 3rd 2019!

Where to look:

How come May 3rd is three days, here?

  • Across all time zones, World SF Day starts first on the island of Kiritimati (🇰🇮 Kiribati), and finally ends on Howland Island (🇺🇸 USA)

 

Tue 3rd🌐 Using Solution Focused ideas in life"The Journal of Solution Focused Practices (JSFP) is a free online resource, available to all. While it is a peer-reviewed journal aimed at an academic audience, it is also a source of all kinds of information, inspiration and ideas which can be used in many settings.

In this free one-hour session on SF World Day (3rd May) Rayya Ghul (University of Edinburgh, UK), Mark McKergow (SFWork, UK) and Anton Stellamans (Ilfaro, Belgium) will each be picking a paper from the journal and, with the aid of some very special guests, be showing how they use Solution Focused (SF) ideas in ‘everyday life’. That means not therapy, coaching or professional helping – it’s about how we go about tackling the challenges, the ups-and-downs that life presents us."
 
Please find more details here.
Thu 12th to Sat 14thShow in Google map🇩🇪 SOLWorldDACH2022 - Freiburger Impulstage - FIT im LösungsfokusKonzerthaus Freiburg, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland"Wir träumen davon, einen Kongress zu gestalten, in dem die Teilnehmenden aus Bildung, Wirtschaft und Soziales ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Lösungsfokus (mit)teilen, voneinander und miteinander lernen und so darüber ins Gespräch kommen.

Sei dabei. Gestalte mit uns zusammen die Freiburger Impulstage. Niemand sonst hat deine Erfahrungen, deine Ideen, deine Visionen und deine Fragen, die uns alle so sehr bereichern können. Lass uns gemeinsam einen wichtigen Schritt in Richtung eines erfolgreichen Kongresses machen.

Wähle aus, was du beitragen möchtest. Moderiere einen 75-minütigen interaktiven Workshop, gestalte eine Posterpräsentation auf einem A3-Plakat oder einem Flipchart oder trage was ganz anderes bei. Die Poster hängen über die gesamten Impulstage an einem prominenten Ort und werden von den Poster-Autor*innen bei der Postervernissage vorgestellt."
 
Mehr Details hier.

June 2022

Thu 16th to Fri 17thShow in Google map🇬🇧 UKASFP 2022 Conference: Be the Change You Want to SeeHoliday Inn Birmingham Airport - Nec, an IHG Hotel, Coventry Rd, Birmingham B26 3QW, UK

"Meet up with SF friends old and new - in person!

As well as many high-quality plenaries, presentations, and workshops, we will have an enhanced social calendar so that we can meet old friends, make new ones, and physically renew the close connections among all those who have kept the shining light of Solution Focused Practice alive in the darkest hours of the last year and a half.

Members will be notified by email when tickets for the Conference in 2022 are available."

Please find all details here.

August 2022

Thu 4th to Fri 5th🌐 SF24/22 – Building Hope, Empowering Change"24 Hours of Solution Focus for FREE!
Join us for one of the most exciting FREE global conferences in the Solution Focused calendar on 4th & 5th August 2022. A full 24 hoursof Solution Focused presentations, workshops, networking, panels and knowledge stretching around the world from 2 pm European time on 4th August 2022 until 2 pm 5th August 2022.
Four Regions; Four Time Zones; a celebration of Solution Focused skills, ability, experience and talent on display from around the world….all from the comfort of your own home.
So whether you are an existing practitioner or are simply curious about the Solution Focused approach, come and contribute….come and listen….come and network….come and share in the buzz that Solution Focus creates!"

Please find all details here.
Mon 8th to Fri 12thShow in Google map🇧🇪➕ SOL Summer Retreat 2022: Nourishing your SF rootsBalen, Belgium"The basic concept stays untouched: the Retreat is an opportunity to meet other SF practitioners in an informal environment so that we learn more about how we each think and apply SF in our work and lives. And to co-create a joyful, easeful environment for all to think, learn, share, play, take care of self and others."
 

Please find more details here.
Mon 29thShow in Google mapNLA offenes Vorstandstreffen Olten

September 2022

Tue 13th🌐 Research.meeting: Ergebnisse für die Praxis"Beim vierten gemeinsamen Austrian SolutionCircle und nla-Schweiz Research.meeting befassen wir uns mit diesem Artikel:

  • Marie-Carmen Neipp & Mark Beyebach (2022): The Global Outcomes of Solution Focused Brief Therapy: A Revision, The American Journal of Family Therapy, DOI: 10.1080/01926187.2022.2069175"

 
Details und Anmeldung hier.
Fri 23rd to Sun 25thShow in Google map🇩🇪 EBTA Tiny-Conference ''There is always hope''Außer d. Schleifmühle 40, 28203 Bremen, GermanyPlease find more details here.

October 2022

Fri 7th to Sun 9thShow in Google map🇦🇹 ASC-JahrestagungPanoramaweg 1, 4553 Schlierbach, AustriaWeitere Details s. austriansolutioncircle.at

November 2022

Thu 3rd to Sun 6thShow in Google map🇺🇲 SFBTA Annual Conference 2022: Coping with Hope: Solution Focused Practice for Hope in Personal and Societal CrisisPalace Station Hotel and Casino, 2411 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102, USANovember 3, 2022
Research Day
Research Day Events & Networking

November 4-5, 2022
The Conference
Online and Around The World!
 
Please find more details here.