SOLworld Conference

We are customed to believe that change happens when we effectively do something about the situation we are confronted with. That’s why we tend to look for next steps and solutions that will fix the old problems we are facing. Solution Focus however takes a different route to change. Instead of following the classic cause-effect logic, we rely on the power of imagination to make change flow more naturally.

Often however, SF is still used as a problem solving tool: helping clients to focus on what’s wanted and figure out what steps they need to take in order to climb that stairway to heaven.

To fully embrace the power of SF, we need to step out of our dominant cause-effect logic and step into the wonderful world of imagination, where miracles do happen.

In this session we want to link SF to some powerful philosophical concepts from Aristotle’s Poetics. In this work he analyses how art works through imitation and differentiation (mimesis) and how a certain quality of representation (enargeia) can transform the spectator (katharsis).

In a SF conversation we invite our clients to transpose themselves in different, more resilient versions of themselves (mimesis) as we ask them to create vivid (enargetic) memories of their future perfect and their past successes. Thus creating a state of transformation (katharsis) just by means of our conversations.

Zooming out from our SF conversations - yet staying in the theatrical context - we will going look at the staging of our practice. In theatre, the dramaturg is that person who makes sure that what is being said on stage is enhanced by the elements around it. The setting, the tone of voice, the attitude and body language and all other scenic elements like props, light and music, all contribute to the quality of the (verbal)action on the scene. So, suppose we are looking like dramaturgists at our work, what could we do on that level to enhance the quality of our work even more?

Format: Presentation
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 45

Vonneke Beeker

Anton Stellamans

We are all here because we like working in a Solution Focused (SF) way. But what is at stake here? Is SF just a way of being nice? Is it about the comfort of not-knowing? Or does it tell us something about how working with people can be both humane AND effective? Join Mark McKergow In the workshop to briefly look back at how SF came into being, how it is now and what its evolution might tell us about the way that people and the world work.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 25

Dr. Mark McKergow

“An unrecognized difference (since it goes by unnoticed) will not receive the amplification needed and will remain a difference that does not make a difference. A simple difference, often just some doubt, can be enough to begin changing a lifelong pattern or way of thinking.” (de Shazer, 1986).

A key skill for a host leader is noticing: noticing within ourself, noticing of others, noticing of relationships ... and the noticing itself can be enough to change several maps.

“The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named.” (Gregory Bateson, based on Alfred Korzybski)

In my view the most important asset of being a host leader is noticing bits and pieces of the great stuff that people do and being genuinely curious about it. In this session you will learn to train your ‘noticing muscle’ to become even more skillful and resourceful in it. We’ll have dialogues, share stories, and explore a world of possibilities ... just by noticing.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Wim Sucaet

There is a relatively long- and well-established tradition of teaching and training psychotherapy. This tradition adheres to the medical model in which the instructor controls the process being both a knowledgeable and a powerful figure. Students/trainees are expected to meet the requirements and standards set by the instructor’s professional authority, to acquire a specifically designed body of knowledge, and to submit themselves to a process in which they are expected to become aware to their own psychological characteristics/difficulties.

My experience as an instructor and a supervisor has led me to recognize that this traditional training process frequently evokes among students/trainees the wish to please and satisfy what they believe to be my expectations as an authoritative figure, instead of investing in the development and expansion of their own existing capacities and strengths.

The SF approach offers me the means for encouraging students/trainees to rely and develop their self-inherent resources. However, the implementation of the SF approach is not fully compatible with the traditional way of instructing psychotherapy.

In the workshop I will share some of the challenges I face in my attempt to work along the SF approach. I would very much like to hear thoughts, ideas, free associations, whatever the participants will be willing to share with us with the purpose of thinking about these issues creatively.

The workshop may be interesting for whoever is involved in instructing and supervising. It may also offer some benefit for professional who practice the SF approach in a variety of additional systems which are not operating in accordance with the principles of the SF approach.

Format: Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 25

Yaron Yagil, MSW; PhD

When sharing feedback, we want to provide opportunities for learning and growth. Done well it can strengthen our relationships and raise performance. Done poorly it can be uncomfortable and even devastating for the recipient.

Working with clients on global leadership programmes, we created this workshop to take the fear out of feedback. We will give you the tools to start delivering meaningful messages in ways that are heard and acted on. You'll experience our new 6-step SF SPIRAL feedback model which offers step-by-step guidance on how to approach these conversations with confidence.

From attending this session, you will:

• Experience a solution-focused feedback model
• Learn to frame comments in a productive and positive way
• Demonstrate your ability to give and receive clear and impactful feedback.
• Take away our new 6-step SF SPIRAL feedback model

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Paul Z Jackson (MA Oxon)

Janine Waldman, MSc FCIPD

Join our session and try out the exercise we have developed to introduce agility to any organization without training people or a need for any big transformations. The tool we are using is building on the solution-focused principles.

Agile transformations might look scary and too big a bite to take on, but they can be done with ease and lightness if you find the right way to bring in the most important elements of it, and it works in any type of organization in any industry.

You do not need any agile training or any OD experience to join our session, your curiosity and readiness to get involved will be enough. We hope to have fun together and you can take the exercise instructions with you at the end and use it with your next client.

You will learn a tool you can start using with your clients to introduce agility without touching the formal structure of any organization. This means they can avoid lengthy and cumbersome transformations. Every organization needs to adapt fast to a fast-changing world, and continuously fine-tuning their operation will help in answering the ever-changing customer needs.

We hope to reinforce you that you have all the skills and capabilities to support changes on an individual and systemic level. Our best hope is that many more organizations realize they can easily introduce agility into their life and we count on you to spread the good practice.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 30

Elvira Kalmar, CODP

Inge-Katz-Schule is a vocational college in Bremen, Germany. Within the last 6 schoolyears at about the half of its stuff attended a solution focused qualification which allows them to shape their work with learners future oriented, resource based and consequently building on classroom interactions among the learners. In this workshop you will meet the school principal who shapes her work with her staff solution focused.

Meet Judith and learn more about her approach to leading in this environment. While she is clearly committed to the practice of an appreciation-based school life, she is the one who addresses the challenging situations with her staff in her occasion-based evaluations: Conversations in which she holds to her perspective of the whole and speaks her appreciative language, calling for the behaviors of each staff member that serve the goals and spirit of the organization - in her individual way.

Judith is also using her solution focused methods to strengthen the self-efficacy of her staff and you will experience some of her ways to encourage teachers to address relevant hard topics in staff meetings.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Katalin Hankovszky

Judith Mahlmann

Successful organisations plan their leadership development with great care, because it pays off in the long run. Leaders have a significant impact on employee motivation and performance, and that's what makes a company sustainably prosperous.

In a wide range of leadership trainings, with a variety of focuses and a diversity of tools SF leadership trainings stand out. We’ve explored it in the past years – apart as well as together – and we want to take you along our experiences and experiments.

Adopting an SF mindset as a leader is investing in creating fertile ground, in which plants and seeds have a good chance to sprout and grow. This process is different from buying seeds and plants first, and then try to find out what they need, hoping that as many as possible will survive.

In our workshop, we will take you along our way of setting up an SF Leadership Training – with an sf spirit.

Just like our training, or workshop will be mostly learning by doing. We use theory input sparingly and spend more time in training solution focused tools in small groups. The workshop consists of three parts:

• In Part 1, we focus on the leader in his/her role: as a leader in this organisation, how to adopt an SF mindset? What difference do you want to make?
• Part 2 is about the leader in interaction: how to listen ‘with strong ears’; How to empower team members (and yourself).
• Part 3 zooms out to the leader and his/her team/organisation: how to continuously cultivate the fertile ground to make collaboration thrive.

This workshop is for everyone who has an interest in SF Leadership Trainings.

Our intention for the workshop is to create a space to interact, exchange and experience.

Our best hope for you coming to our workshop is that you bring a sound dose of curiosity and joy.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 30

Wendy Van den Bulck

Dr. Peter Röhrig

Brief summary: We will explore how we can live and co-create a “flourishing life” for ourselves and for all. The workshop integrates solution-focused coaching with experiential learning, using the method of psychodrama.

Context: Our world is ridden by many crisis phenomena, including ecological destruction and a dooming climate catastrophe reminding us of the finite resources of our Earth. Yet, we long for joy, for meaning, for a sense of being at home in this world. Can we be happy without cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world, becoming an ostrich? Can we contribute to a better world in a meaningful way without being overburdened, carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders like the Greek God Atlas? Does it make sense to speak of happiness and good life today?

The science of positive psychology is booming, as well as the popular culture and business “selling” happiness. In parallel, the so-called “well-being economy” is gaining momentum, especially in the UK, arguing that economics should ultimately measure its success in terms of well-being of people, not GDP or profits.

These efforts signal that we need new, positive collective narratives that are authentic, meaningful and can inspire us. And we need to find our personal pathways, not only intellectually, but also emotionally and embedded in our lives, in our everyday actions. Others can inspire and encourage us in our journey: it is so important to know that we are not alone in this!

Process and method: The workshop will start with a short introduction on what “flourishing life” is and why it could inspire us in our quest for a happy life that also cares about others and the Earth. It will be followed by an action-oriented, embodied exploration of the theme in the “Laboratory of Flourishing Life”. The Laboratory of Flourishing Life integrates elements of the psychodramatic method with a solution-focused approach.

The psychodrama method is a recognized approach to psychotherapy and counselling; but also effectively used in education and training, and academic mentoring at universities; and it is a robust form of leadership training. In my view, psychodrama is a brilliant method bound by its unfortunate name. Although the founder Jacob Levy Moreno derived the name from the Greek words soul (psyche) and action (drama), referring to the action of the soul and the theatrical genre, both the words of psycho and drama have connotations that can be alarming today.

In the Laboratory of Flourishing Life, all forces come to life that are necessary for a flourishing life and connect us to our joyful, creative state of being. The world we long for can take shape. We will be able to relate to our deepest aspirations, clarify what is really important to us. We do not simply speak or think about these things, but rather explore them with our bodies, emotions, intuitions. There is a safe place to playfully explore ourselves and to interact with others.

During the workshop, participants can explore their own inner attitudes, values and motivation with respect to their own flourishing selves as well as a flourishing life for all.

You are invited for a creative exploration to

• create your “best hopes”, your vision of a flourishing life;
• feel vitalized by your strengths and competences for creating such a life.

No prior knowledge or special skills are needed. Paradoxically, the method works best when someone does not want to perform, meeting some perceived expectation, but is willing to show themselves, authentically, as they are.

Underlying Theory: The theoretical underpinning of the work is outlined in my book “Sustainable Hedonism. A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth” published by Bristol University Press in May 2021. The book explores the notion of a “good life” based on ancient Greek philosophy, modern psychology, social psychology and psychodrama. The book brings together three strands (environmental, social, individual), but it does not stop at just outlining the theory, but also encourages a process of self-reflection and experiential learning.

Flourishing life, based on Aristotle and modern psychological theories, provides a useful conceptual basis for a “good life for all”, as it encompasses pleasure as well as virtue. In other words, we can “live well” and “do well”. We can cultivate our abilities to enjoy life, and can also take action for our “flourishing life”. Happiness is thus not selfish, not only an emotional state, and does not depend purely on luck and external circumstances, but rather, it is “the activityofthesoul”. Thebookshowsthatpsychodramacanbecomethe laboratory of the „flourishing life” and thus powerfully support personal and collective transformation in our crisis-ridden world.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 20

Orsolya Lelkes, MSc PhD

What do SF practitioners involved in large-scale change projects do that works?

The Macroanalysis Study Group has been studying this question for the last two years. We have looked at case stories together and managed to identify some distinctive features of SF organisational development processes.

In the first part of our workshop we would like to share these insights with you and get your ideas and feedback on them.

During the second part of our workshop we will hear a short presentation of an OD case. We will form reflecting teams to collect “wow-moments”, ideas and insights – both for ourselves as well as for our case-owner.

We will conclude with a harvest of new insights and possibly further questions leading to more learning in the future.

If you

• are already working in OD and make it even more SF or
• want to expand your skills from individuals and teams to working with whole-scale organisational or inter-organisational change this workshop should provide you with ideas, skills and inspirations.

Come prepared to share your experiences and gain new insights!

Format: Workshop/Practitioner
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Marika Tammeaid

Jonas Wells

Anton Stellamans

Jesper H Christiansen

Dr. Susanne Burgstaller

Dr. Mark McKergow

The Structured Solution Analysis is a useful sf instrument for coaching conversations based on a model developed by Julio Olalla. He has created a simple formula for success in coaching that shows what it takes for change to happen. Inspired by these ideas we created a simple tool out of it – of course with quite a few scales in it.

In this highly interactive workshop we will provide the idea of this “formula for change” and you will get a lot of time to practice, experiment with it, and hopefully get inspired by it.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Fabienne Stalder

Daniel Meier

Change is always happening. Therefore, as SF practitioners we continuously develop unique and personalized insights and comprehensions that go beyond the original or formal formulations that were proposed by the founders and instructors of the SF approach. The aim of the workshop is to explore through a co-constructive process our evolving ideas about the SF approach, in a manner that may offer each of us a mutual benefit. It will be conducted in a format similar to that of the ‘Balint groups’ methodology.

Format: Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 25

Dr. Yoram Galli, PhD, MEI

Yaron Yagil, MSW; PhD

In organisations, “solutions” equal activities that create value for customers, income for the enterprise and satisfaction for the people doing the work, simultaneously. A sustainable flow of valuable solutions (aka “value stream) from the organisation to the customer is a core goal of any organization.

To contribute to this, Solution Focus (SF) over the years has opened itself up for contact with, and at times integration of, neighboring approaches, from Appreciative Inquiry to Agile Teams.

Here, I would like to share my very positive experiences with a combination of SF and “Constraints Focus (CF)”.

My conviction is: SF and CF are like two sides of the same coin, or two eyes in the same head, providing “depth of vision” by the different, but complementary views. And their combination is even more valuable to customers (and more fun for coaches and consultants ...) than each of the approaches alone.

While SF will probably be familiar for most people attending this conference, CF may be new to many, so let me explain briefly, some core concepts:

1. Every organisation performing to serve a purpose or mission (e.g. to create value for customers) does provide its services at a certain maximum rate: Just so many cars sold or students educated or patients cured or managers coached per year.
2. Of all the elements in the network of interactions needed to provide that service, there is usually ONE at each point in time that limits performance the most. This is called the “Constraint” of the organisation.
3. A whole, well-established framework, the “Theory of Constraints (ToC)” emerged around this idea, at around the same time as SFBT emerged.
4. Albeit CF is not a new idea at all – it has been described in the 19th century for agriculture already – it is not well known outside the ToC community – even as people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk publicly declare to have founded their companies on ToC’s principles, with impressive results.
5. One consequence of a Constraint is: If you try to improve the organisation’s performance, all attempts that keep the throughput rate at the Constraint unchanged, are wasted: they require and create effort, while the performance stays the same – still limited by the same throughput rate as before the extra effort was applied.
6. This is true for all kinds of production, development, change and transformation project environments.
7. So to improve performance, understanding the concept of a Constraint, knowing how to find it and what to do about it, is wise and useful – even for experienced SF practitioners.

Here, I would like to share what I learned about taming change and bottlenecks, and improving the performance of organisations, through a combination of SF and CF (Solutions and Constraints Focus), having known and applied both for decades.

I will provide some input of “maps” for the “territories” of SF and CF. You will have ample opportunity to explore, reflect, and apply this, in small groups, to your personal experience, in your respective coaching and consulting environments

Warning: This combined approach may help change and improve your own performance in significant ways.

If you dare, don’t mind, or even welcome that risk, then come in and enjoy!

Format: Presentation & Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Dr. Klaus Schenck

This session is in German and English

"Solution Trails" are walks that open up a new perspective on your surroundings and on your life by using solution-focused questions to work on current issues or to strengthen resources independent of an issue. Especially for the big challenge to keep our world as a place worth living for us humans, we would like to use "Solution Trails" and develop them further with you. In this workshop

• we will introduce the concept and the history of "Solution Trails" so far (if you are already curious, please visit the website www.solutiontrail.ch)
• we will create together at least one prototype of a Solution Trail on the topic of sustainability, which in our best hope can be used and further spread by you and thus create positive change towards a livable and more just world for all. To do this, we will walk around inside and outside and be inspired by the surroundings.
• you get the opportunity to help shape the idea and product and be inspired for your practice.

«Solution Trails» sind Spaziergänge, die dir einen neuen Blick auf die Umgebung, auf dich und auf dein Zusammenleben eröffnen, indem mit lösungsfokussierten Fragen aktuelle Themen bearbeitet und/oder unabhängig von einem Thema Ressourcen gestärkt werden können.

In diesem Workshop

• werden wir das Konzept und die bisherige Geschichte der «Solution Trails» vorstellen.( Wenn du schon vorher neugierig bist, besuche doch die Webseite www.solutiontrail.ch
• erstellen wir gemeinsam mindestens einen Prototypen eines Solution Trails zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit, welcher in der kühnsten Hoffnung durch dich genutzt und weiter verbreitet wird und so zu positiven Veränderungen in Bezug auf eine lebenswerte und gerechtere Welt für alle führen kann. Dazu bewegen wir uns drinnen und draussen und lassen uns von der Umgebung inspirieren.
• bekommst du die Möglichkeit, die Idee und das Produkt mitzugestalten und dich für deine Praxis inspirieren zu lassen.

Willkommen sind alle interessierten Teilnehmer:innen, es braucht keine Vorkenntnisse und es ist unabhängig der Erfahrung.

Format: Presentation
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum

Astrid Blunschi
Andy Balmer

This workshop is designed to provide you with practical tools and strategies from communication science that can be immediately applied to enhance your practice and pedagogy. Informed by Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue (MFD) and Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ), you will learn how to analyze conversations in useful and usable chunks for your learning and teaching.

We will explore various ideas and heuristics from communication science, including curative listening, reflective practice, and direct observation of interactions. Through a combination of video recordings, live demonstrations, and participant-chosen activities, you will gain a deeper understanding of these concepts and how to apply them in your daily practice. Also, we will use a range of short video recordings to illustrate patterns and functions of interactions. These videos will be analyzed together in the session based on your curiosities and methods of choice, encouraging everyone to share their insights and observations. Live demonstrations may also be used to show how to apply a few simple tools in practice - whether in a coaching session with clients or a supervision session with learners. You will have the opportunity to practice “observing” interactions in real-time conversations.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to choose from a selection of activities that align with your interests and research/learning focus. These activities could include using the tools introduced in the session to craft new tools for your use. By tailoring the activities to meet individual needs and interests, you can make the most of their learning experience. Throughout the workshop, your creativity and curiosity are the biggest contributors! You will be encouraged to share your experiences and insights to learn together. By the end of the workshop, you will have gained or enhanced highly applicable skills and insights into how to refine your craft of conversing. You will have a deeper understanding of the communication patterns in your coaching interactions and be equipped with practical tools and strategies to improve your practice and pedagogy. Of course, there are no guarantees that any of this will come to fruition, but this is my best hope and I hope you bring yours too.

Format: Workshop
Level: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees:

Haesun Moon, Ph.D.

Being a leader in these times isn’t easy – it is complex, ambiguous, demanding. Leaders need advanced leadership skills, they need support on how to deal with their daily leadership challenges, but they also need to develop higher levels of leadership awareness and consciousness along the way. These levels of leadership skills, awareness and consciousness are often not developed alone or in isolation. And, this is a much longer term professional and personal learning journey that can extend over many years.

I believe that we as (SF) coaches can play a crucial role in supporting those leaders who are willing to step up on their developmental journey.

In this workshop, I would like to engage with you on how to combine being a truly dedicated Solution focused coach with being a highly committed leadership development expert. Are these two different worlds or can they merge in a meaningful way.

I have made my own experiences and worked with different leadership awareness models over the last years, and would like to share one of my favorite leadership development models with you and then jointly explore with you

• How can these models even be helpful to us as we grow as coaches
• How can the understanding of different levels of leadership awareness, leadership consciousness and stages of leadership development be useful in the coaching process and facilitate our clients growth without being dogmatic
• What is the benefit of our SF pureness and simplicity in this process?

This workshop is supposed to be both an exchange on how we all to support leaders in this area but also offers opportunities for exploration and personal insight on how these models can create more awareness for ourselves on our own growth and development as coaches.

Format: Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Stephanie Salecker

Steve de Shazer was delighted to discover many parallels between his thinking about therapy and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He repeatedly used striking statements by Wittgenstein to illustrate Solution Focused principles, especially on the topic of language, on which Wittgenstein made many significant contributions.

The parallels between Wittgenstein's reflections and SF practice are so striking that Dan Hutto, a notable Wittgenstein scholar, is reported to have exclaimed upon hearing a transcript of an SF conversation read out by Chris Iveson: “This is philosophy translated into action!”

But not just in therapy, also in organisational work the parallels between Wittgenstein´s thinking and SF practice provide illuminating insights. However, most of us are not trained as philosophers. So how to draw benefit from a philosopher who turned philosophy on its head much in the same way that Steve de Shazer turned psychotherapy on its head? This workshop is here to help.

We will focus on three relevant areas of Ludwig Wittgenstein´s thinking: His thoughts on

• Everyday language and meaning as social practice, including his critique of everyday language
• Description instead of explanation
• What is “on the surface”

We will discuss the following questions:

• Which of Ludwig Wittgenstein´s statements might be considered particularly significant for Solution Focused practice in organisations? (with a handout of interesting quotes)
• Are these statements (still) relevant for us today? Which of them resonate with us?
• What do they imply for our practice in organisations??

Format: Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Klaus Puhl

Re-thinking the ways of working of an organization or function without initiating a big transformation project is what every OD professional is aiming for. Transformations are often cumbersome, require lot of effort and resources, and at the end of the day many of them will not deliver the expected return on investment.

Can we do this differently?
With a solution-focused approach we definitely can!

A global commercial organizational unit at a big Pharma company needed to deliver successful product launches while dealing with the in-market portfolio challenges and planning to support early pipeline assets.

How to manage this complex challenge with limited resources? How to change the internal ways of working to meet customer needs?

During the session I will present a case where small steps entirely transformed the ways of working of an organizational unit. I talk about my learning as well - what went well and what I would do differently next time. This session intends to de-mystify organizational transformation from SF perspective.

You will enjoy it if you have a basic understanding of organizational transformation, leadership coaching and solution-focused mindset. You can take away some inspiration and learning on a bite-sized transformation that increased the customer-centricity and performance of an organizational unit following SF principles.

Join us to enrich the conversation with your curiosity and perspective! After the sharing part we will discuss my case with the audience and think it further together to realize even greater benefits in the future.

Format: Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum number of attendees: 15

Titusz Kovacs

This session is in German

Aus dem Problemraum rein in den Lösungsraum... Das dies mit dem Lösungsfokus wirkungsvoll, nachhaltig und mit höherer Geschwindigkeit passieren kann, ist schon ein kleines Wunder. Mit Hilfe des 4-beinigen Co-Trainers oder Co-Coaches wird dieser Weg und der Prozess positiv unterstützt. Wie? Das werden Bobbie (Hund) und ich euch erzählen.

Format: Practitioner Report
Level: Introductory and Intermediate/Advanced
No maximum number of attendees

Maxi Göbel

The SOLWorld steering group meets at every SOLWorld international conference. The meeting is open to all, and participants may join the steering group (but are not obliged to join). The meeting will hear from organisers of events since the last international conference in 2019, and be open for proposals for future events. Would you like to help organise a SOLWorld event? Come along!

Join the premiere of the first live SFiO Fika! During the COVID crisis, SFiO ran a weekly online Fika to unite isolated Solution Focused practitioners worldwide. We designed the Fika to be a relaxed gathering where people could meet, chat, have fun and learn from each other over a drink. After the lockdown ended in most countries, we maintained the Fika as a monthly event on the third Sunday of the month at 1000 UK time. It continues still. To celebrate the first live SOLWorld post-COVID we are holding the first ever live SFiO Fika. We warmly invite you to join us and experience the Fika live. It will be interactive, enjoyable and we all might learn something!

Annie Bordeleau

John Brooker