John Brooker & Annie Bordeleau
Navigating Change through the Solution Focus lens The journey from challenge to resolution is both a science and an art. This 2024 edition of the InterAction Collection is taking you along on this journey, offering a panoramic view of innovative practices, insightful research, and compelling stories that inspire the solution-focused evolution.
As our world navigates through tumultuous times, the significance of focusing on solutions rather than dwelling on problems has never been more apparent.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Continue Learning with us It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Volume 15 of the InterAction Collection.
Together we grow and develop our Solution Focus practice working with organisations.
This Collection brings you the latest thinking on solution focus in organisations. It includes Case Studies, Applications (including tools), conversations with experienced practitioners and book reviews. Each feature might be an audio, a video or written material or a combination of these.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Learn with us We are delighted to welcome you to Volume 14 of the InterAction Collection. We intend the Collection to help you develop as a Solution Focus practitioner working inside or with organisations.
This Collection brings you the latest practice and thinking on solution focus in organisations and materials from the past that are still valid today. As well, you will occasionally find materials from other fields of SF, where these may help you develop as an organisational practitioner.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Welcome to the first edition of the new online journal InterAction, made possible by you, the financial contributors to SFiO, our journal writers, the reviewers and editors and the web development skills of David Griffiths of DJI Systems. A huge thanks to all who took the small step to help launch this edition.
The Roots of This Journal The Association for the Quality Development of Solution Focus Consulting and Training (SFCT) published a high quality, printed, academic journal called, “InterAction – the Journal of Solution Focus in Organisations”.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
Staying Connected As much as we all long for more human contact, life is letting us wait a little longer. It is a wonderful time to open our heart to all the possibilities ahead, to connect in the moment and see what emerges.
In this year’s 2021 edition, we will continue to enrich the InterAction Collection by publishing two to three innovative SF features in print, audio and video format, every month.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
The continuing development of InterAction SFiO and SFCT before us, have produced InterAction uninterrupted, from print to online, since 2008. Twelve years' worth of high-quality Solution Focus organisational content in one place is a valuable contribution to the Solution Focus community. It is a global collaborative effort and to be part of this is exciting for us.
Enabled by our new website design, we start the next transformation with this edition, towards The InterAction Collection of Solution Focus Practice in Organisations.
John Brooker, Carey Glass and Annie Bordeleau
A special edition featuring the SOLWorld 2019 Conference! This year, we met in Budapest from the 23-24 May to explore “Signs of Progress”. It was a beautiful setting for the international SF community to reconnect, share ideas, talk about developments and work on common projects.
SFiO collaborated closely with the SOLworld organisation team to record workshops and SOLTalks and to conduct interviews to share here in this edition of InterAction.
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 and met staff and students were very welcoming, full of energy and had a hunger for new possibilities for useful change.
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Celebration Introduced by Julia Kalenberg This story is of SF practitioner liselotte-baeijaert bringing SF to students of a school for hotel workers on the beautiful island of Sumba/Indonesia. A tale of how SF can work even when language first seems to be a barrier. It is a story of mutual learning, of working with what is there and of combining SF practice creatively with bodywork.
Tara Gretton and Katrin Berger
Introduced by Katalin Hankovszky On the SF World Day 2020, Tara Gretton (UK) and Katrin Berger (D) started a network, Solution Focus in Schools (Click link for Facebook page).
The invitation goes to all interested Solution Focus practitioners linked to schools:
Teachers Counsellors Headmasters Parents and pupils too! Online gatherings (every month on the 3rd of the month) keep to a pre-set focus (such as ‘WOWW' or ‘student-driven').