Julia Kalenberg is a Swiss based coach and trainer who predominately works in organisations. Less known about Julia, however is that she also has a long track record as a coach of many succesful professional or semi professional sailors. And that is precisely the focus of this interview: How she uses Solution Focus in sports coaching.
Wendy Van den Bulck & Julia Kalenberg Jan Marklund and Sandra Rosa-Collins
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Introduced by John Brooker Welcome to this enlightening exploration of the Solution Focus Support Group, a remarkable collaboration among Wendy Van den Bulck, Jan Marklund, Sandra Rosa-Collin, and Julia Kallenberg, affectionately known as the “four-leaf clover.” They share their journey of mutual support, personal growth, and professional achievement, offering guidance on how you might establish your own SF Support Group. This support group emerged organically at a retreat in Switzerland, originally aimed at helping members enhance their online visibility. Over five years, their meetings evolved from a sole focus on professional projects to fostering deeper personal connections. The group adopted a structure inspired by the success teams of Business and Professional Women (BPW). Each session follows a clear and effective format, making it easy for others to replicate:
Christophe Bourgon, Jenny Clarke
Introduced by John Brooker Christophe is Head of Business Management Operations in Skyguide, an organisation that provides air navigation services (air traffic control) for Switzerland and adjacent parts of neighbouring countries. It has 1500 employees at 14 locations in Switzerland and guides some 1.2 million civil and military flights a year. It is part of a complex system of independent air traffic control organisations across Europe.
Am 4. November von 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr geht es im Workshop „Searching & Learning“ mit Bärbel Hess um Suchbewegungen in der Begleitung von Organisationsentwicklungsprojekten. Weitere Informationen und verbindliche Anmeldung:
Join us on January 17-18, 2020: [S**OLWORLDDACH 2020**](https://solworlddach.com/) in Frankfurt am Main . Wir freuen uns auf eine Open-Space-Konferenz! Euer Organisationsteam: Kirsten Dierolf, Frank Gollas, Stefan Kreil und Joachim Norf.
Anna-Julia Szabo lives in Basel, Switzerland. She was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where solution focused conversations were normal. She now works as a teacher in primary school, applying SF in school with the children, parents and colleagues.
She is amazed at the possibilities and the variety with which SF can be used. She also works as a coach and is starting to train teachers in using SF in school.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR “Working with people, whether in training, coaching, or moderating group processes, is one of my core competencies where I feel ’like a penguin in water.’ While I love working in ‘3D,’ I am equally comfortable training or moderating virtually. I always find new ways to build trust, engage participants, and create informal, trustworthy spaces in a virtual environment.
I primarily work according to the solution-focused approach (Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg), which I combine with Nonviolent Communication (Marshall B. Rosenberg) and Thinking Environments (Nancy Kline). I have found these approaches to be very effective because they focus on resources and a preferred future where needs are met—typically a very energetic, development- and future-oriented process that looks for signs of progress and solutions instead of problems and their diagnosis. I integrate these approaches as a fundamental attitude into my daily life in my various roles.”