assumptions

Tara Gretton Introduced by Anna-Julia Szabo In this interview, we see how the Solution Focus approach has changed the culture of a school. There is a focus on enabling students and staff to have meaningful conversations, concentrating on possibilities and solutions and what is already working. Tara Gretton introduced the Solution Focus approach in this school. Staff and students were very welcoming, full of energy with a hunger for new possibilities for useful change.

Abstract In the SFCT review process, work is peer-reviewed to observe and build the use of the SF approach in organisa- tional settings. These “Clues” are offered as part of the SFCT reviewing process. We wish to suggest many of the different ways of noticing that someone is using the SF approach. We do not seek or claim a complete description of what SF is or is not. Instead, we seek a kind of ‘family resemblance’, with traits that might be visible signs of an SF approach.

Abstract In the SFCT review process, work is peer-reviewed to observe and build the use of the SF approach in organisa- tional settings. These “Clues” are offered as part of the SFCT reviewing process. We wish to suggest many of the different ways of noticing that someone is using the SF approach. We do not seek or claim a complete description of what SF is or is not. Instead, we seek a kind of ‘family resemblance’, with traits that might be visible signs of an SF approach.

Dr. Adam S. Froerer, Katalin Hankovszky and Annie Bordeleau Introduction Looking closely at the title of this piece, what assumptions are embedded in there? The author seems to assume that there are “pre-suppositions” in your questions and that you are not always aware of them, that they are not visible. What else? (A very SF question, assuming there is more). “Don’t make assumptions” is a well-known sentence these days and if you stop to look at it, it is full of assumptions!

Peter Szabó Abstract Brief coaching offers a distinctly different angle on the growing knowledge base about the field of coaching. Coach- ing can be highly effective even in one single session and produce sustainable and lasting results with no automatic need for an ongoing coaching process. In a market where 10 session packages or 6 month contracts are the rule, what Brief Coaching offers stands out. Brief Coaching implies a dramatically different understanding of how to be most useful as a coach.