An African perspective on Solution Focused Coaching

Carey Glass, Anton Stellamans

Abstract

I came across SF in 2010. A few Ugandans realised there was a vacuum in professional coaching. My country is the kind which would like to base itself on some kind of professional- ism, some kind of paper to show evidence of one’s skills. Coaches were not really recognised; the first question was “where did you train?” A few individuals who had been facing such a challenge looked at courses abroad, as we don’t have any training institutes here, and it was costly. Although we had a few coaches here who had done some type of training with the British Council, or very short courses elsewhere, only one of our colleagues, Norah, had formal certification. The option was to bring in a trainer. I believe they did an internet search. The first and/or second person contacted did not respond to the emails. They then happened to land on Peter Szabó’s name so they sent him an email and he responded and was willing to come to over to Africa for the very first time and we were privileged he would be coming to Uganda as his first African continent country.

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