SIMPLY FOCUS Podcast: The Good Life Approach - Your podcast with the little extra Solution Focus for your daily life!

Benjamin Finlayson about SF in rural Texas. In today’s episode, we talk with Benjamin Finlayson, Ph.D.(c), Solution Focused practitioner, researcher, teacher and Solution Focused champion at Texas Tech University, about wellbeing, integrating SF in health care in rural Texas, and the hope for sexual and gender minorities. Ben tells us what fascinates him about Solution Focus, how Sara Smock Jordan influenced him as a teacher, and how he has used Solution Focus in his own transition. Check out what he says about the keynote he gave on wellbeing with a charity organisation, how they integrate Solution Focus in health care in rural Texas, and his experiences being out there as a therapist. Ben shares his success recipes as a new SF therapist working in a medical setting with doctors, nurses and patients, how Solution Focus offered a different way of working and shaped the perspectives as well as the hope of the people involved, and how Solution Focus makes therapy more approachable and less threatening. Find out what fascinates Ben with Solution Focus and research and his best hopes for his research. He furthermore talks about locus of control or how SF can change the perception of how people view themselves and the ability to doing something different.The Challenge of the week: “Find that one conversations, that one situation that you are most hesitant to have and open yourself up into ways that that conversation could be different.”

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Stacy Nelson about valuing and experiencing humanity in everybody. In today’s episode, we talk with Stacy Nelson, rebel girl and peaceful warrior for humanity, who voluntary lived on the streets for about 7 years about her journey and her takeaways from living on the road. Stacy shares with us how resourceful it is to have Solution Focused parents, how it comes that she has a cooler full with supplies for people living on the street, how she dumpster dived for food and shared it with other homeless people, and how everybody can recognize people living on the streets and engage with them. Learn what she offers people living on the street as harm reduction and her reasons for not giving money, how she is clear on what she wants to give and where her boundaries are, and how she lets people choose what to take out of her supply box. Check out what differences having lived on the streets makes for her now, how she found and built community on the road, and how she still seeks out people living on the streets as her community. And do her challenge of the week: „Keep protein bars in your glove box (of your car). When you see somebody on the street corner, flying a sign asking for help, give them a protein bar, smile, look them in the eyes and acknowledge them as another human being”.

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Worldwide ripple effects. In today’s episode we are at the SFU Conference in Taos and talk with 15 Solution Focused practitioners from around the world about their fascinations for SF, their takeaways from the SFU Conference that they take home to their practice, and the takeaways they hope that the participants will take with them from the workshops and plenary sessions. What a great compilation of SF applications, learnings and inspirations worldwide! And we talk with the hosts Adam Froerer and Elliott Connie about love, hope, their relationship and collaboration, the hope that people live their lives from a point of inspiration,and that we are better when we support each other. Thank you Lori Scott (Georgia, USA), Erin Cusanno (New York, USA), Jennifer Watson (Texas, USA), Beverley Kort (British Columbia, Canada), Paut Kromkamp (the Netherlands), Ann Davis (New Zealand), Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs (New Zealand), Amelia Barrera (Chile), Caroline Minelli (Switzerland), Alyssa Courtnage (Ontario, Canada), Denise Yusuf (UK), Keiko Yoneyama (Colorado, USA), Pamela King (Utah, USA), Rachelle Bloksberg (California, USA), Evan George (UK), Adam Froerer (Georgia, USA), Elliott Connie (Texas, USA).

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Yvonne Dolan about SF trauma work and a meaningful life. In today’s episode, we talk with Yvonne Dolan, M.A., founding member of the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, internationally acclaimed author, lecturer, trainer, and therapist about Solution Focused recipes, her friendship with Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer, and what we can learn from the Solution Focused approach to trauma for our everyday life. Learn more about the role of food in the early development of Solution Focus, what fascinates her and has fascinated her with SF, how she got in touch with Insoo and Steve, ended up on the team at the BFTC, and started her own SF team in Denver. Yvonne emphasizes the importance of compassion, counterbalance, and coping, and tells a wonderful story of the miracle question or how a patient spent her last days. Learn about asking Solution Focused questions in a heartfelt and soulful way, explicit and implicit hope in Solution Focused questions, and the importance of ending Solution Focused sessions with evidence-based compliments. And check out her challenge of the week: „Give evidence-based compliments to the people in your life.”

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Mark Mitchell about the body and tribe. In today’s episode, we talk with Mark Mitchell, Solution Focused Marriage and Family therapist, coach, and seminar leader about including body experiences, movement, and singing in Solution Focus and how to support the transition period from an active military to a veteran with the focus on tribe and community. Listen to Mark’s fascination and passion of bringing SF into many different fields since the 80’s, how he asks the miracle question using singing, how he includes the body, movement and songs in Solution Focus as well as the questions he asks and language he uses. Check out his stories about his work with veterans and active military like the Navy Seals and how he uses scale walks and the embodied experiences of the participants. Learn more about the transition period from an active military to a veteran or coming from a „we“ to a „me“ and the importance of tribe and community in this process. And check out the challenge of the week: „Find something to enjoy and what works, especially what makes you feel good."

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Ellen Quick about decision making. In today’s episode, we talk with Ellen Quick, PhD, BCC, Clinical psychologist, Solution Focused therapist, life coach, and author about her fascination with Solution Focus and how Solution Focus can support good decision making. Ellen points out to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and how to make these useful details that work visible. Check out how she came up to write a book about Solution Focus and decision making, how people suddenly know when they know, how decisions can ripen, and how she invites people to embrace this ripening process with a ripening scale. Hear how she uses obstacles in a Solution Focused way and focuses on people’s agency, how she acknowledges problems and combines strategic work with Solution Focus. And check out the challenge of the week: "When you hit a rough patch or face a lot of stress, just keep going, do those simple things that you already know how to do. Those things that on one level are ordinary and on another level are extraordinary. And you might reflect, imagine it’s tonight, you are looking back on how you handled it, and you are really feeling proud of the good decisions you made: What will you be remembering what you did?"

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Sara Smock Jordan about observing moment by moment. In today’s episode, we talk with Sara Smock Jordan, Ph.D., LMFT, Associate Professor, Program Director of Marriage and Family Therapy, and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, about her fascinations with Solution Focus, with microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue, and how she started working with Janet Bavelas to capture Solution Focus in an observable way. Get to know her her research project about positive and negative content choices, their analysis of the miracle question, and her hopes for that research. Find out more about teaching Solution Focus and how she lets her students analyze their own work moment by moment with microanalysis of their recorded conversations, what differences she noticed with her students since she uses microanalysis in her teaching as well as the importance of giving feedback of observable behavior. Check out her learnings when teaching Solution Focus with microanalysis and how educators could benefit from microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue. And experience the Challenge of the week: Record a conversation about your preferred future and look at it in the future (See the full details at 32:04).

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Reflecting reflections - Beyond goals, beyond habits. In today’s episode, we talk about Solution Focused reflections, the differences to normal reflections, and how we reflect, e.g. the New Year. Learn more about our fascinations for reflection, how they can be joyful und supportive, how they can fit to our ever changing world and how they can make an impact in your life. Get to know the crazy three – a fun and easy way to make progress and your first little steps towards your preferred future - and learn more about the importance of interactional aspects in reflections and valuing the past and what worked so far. Our gift for you: The 5 questions for your reflections that we used to reflect our 2018 and 2019. And check out the challenge of the week to learn even more about your own way: „Think of your latest reflection(s) - What worked well there? What differences did this reflection make for you and for others? And what of that might be useful in your future?

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Kat and Gary Barclay about diabetes prevention online. In today’s episode, we talk with Kat Barclay, PhD in Psychology, and Gary Barclay, MA in Health Psychology, about how they got in touch with SF, what fascinates them about Solution Focus, Gary’s and Kat’s story, and how that influenced their diabetes prevention program. Learn how they use Solution Focus in their online program from the first moment on, how they examine the future perfect of their clients, focus on what works, encourage small steps, and how they invite their clients into SF conversations. Hear examples of small little things in eating and activities that made differences for their clients and how they help them focus on what works in their life. Check out the advantages of online work and how online work and Solution Focus come together. And enjoy the Challenge of the week: „STOP – Stop – Take a breath, Observe and Proceed – Every time you walk to the Refrigerator do the Stop and think.”

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Johnny Kim about Solution Focus as an Evidence-Based Intervention. In today’s episode, we talk with Johnny S. Kim, Ph.D., LICWS, Associate Professor at the University of Denver, and Chair of the SFBTA Research Committee about his fascination with Solution Focus, how SF became an Evidence-based intervention, and why it is important for SF to be in the national registries of Evidence-based practices. Learn more about Solution Focus as an Evidence-based intervention and the differences it makes for practitioners that SF is seen as an Evidence-based intervention. Find out more about Johnny’s learnings from working with these national registries about doing «good» research, the importance of training for good research and research for good training, and learn more about implementation science and the first outcomes for Solution Focused trainings. We also explore Solution Focus as a multicultural approach and the different use of the “miracle” question in Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, China or South Africa compared to Korea. Hear what differences Solution Focus makes for him and his wife in their parenting and family life, how SF can instill hope better than any other model out there, and the fit of SF and Schneider’s hope theory. Last, but not least - Check out the Challenge of the week: Surprise someone with a kind word, kind action or deed or a kind note to spread positivity.

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