The Action Factory Podcast

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Questions, questions, questions in SFBT. I passionately believe that our role when using the solution focused approach is to be the curious inquisitor. To resist offering solutions at all costs and to use our curiosity to probe the problem from new angles. Out of that curiosity will come the clients own solution.

If this is true then everything we do is about questions or in the words of 

Thomas S. Kuhn

“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.”

In this episode I wanted to break down some of the top ten categories of questions. Not so we can learn them but to be aware of them and to ask ourselves as we speak with our clients.

The people we train work in social care professions and they are not therapists but they want to help their own clients live better lives by using the solution focused approach.

Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.

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Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Moving on from the last episode I wanted to expand a little bit more on what we do after delivering our own 'working' version of the miracle questions and where those answers might take us. Solution focused therapy will not copy and paste into a work environment and therefore everything we do in our training is about adapting the tools for you.

In this episode we take our first peek into some of the tools we can use once we have some natural responses to work with. The solution focused model is an amazing vehicle for having positive impact on your clients lives, it doesn't need problems.

Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

The Miracle Question and you.

The whole reason for us developing the solution focused toolkit training was because we know the solution focused model will not copy and paste into your work environment. That's why when you join us for training we will say that we don't want to make you a therapist, we want to not, not make you a therapist. In short to make you a solution focused worker.

So what about the miracle question?

How are you able to bring this ridiculous sousing question into your day to day working life? In this episode we discuss the miracle question and then dismantle it and help you put it back together for yourself. To develop your own will enable you to have it available in your holster, ready to draw upon at anytime.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Since we launched the podcast there have been a few comments and questions from various channels. In this episode I thought I'd pause to answer a few of them. Please keep your comments and questions coming in although in future I'll probably answer one a week.

Thanks so much for being there and you are greatly appreciated. Remember if your within our target audience then you probably have the greatest job in the world.

Working in the care industry such as social work, residential and care and helping improve peoples lives.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Do you trust the cops?

Whether you do or don't, you might be making assumptions about them that can cloud your judgement and the way you engage with them. So what about your client's, when dealing with your clients what kind of assumptions do you make about them? It works in the same way.

As a solution focused professional working in numerous roles, and training the same, I have gathered a list of assumptions I always use with my clients. These may or may not be true but I don't care because I'll always work as if they are true.

I've used them so long I may have got them from solution focused, stolen from other models or maybe made them up?

They have served me well and one or two of them might serve you too.

I'd love to hear your comments.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

There are four big reasons why therapy works and most of them don't involve the therapist. It's an uncomfortable truth that the main components in a positive outcome are held by the client themselves. In this episode I talk about what this means for the solution focused approach and how it empowers the professional to work with client problems.

Once we know the client holds the solution then it sets us free to work in a solution focused way. 

Social workers, youth workers and residential workers are now empowered to support their client group in a new way, by giving them their own room instead of a therapy room.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

It's so easy to get lost in the depths of academia when dealing with people and problems. However I challenge the idea that the certificates and diplomas are actually necessary? After all, the people who really came up with the solution focused approach had no idea they were doing it, they just were.

These people have not gone away, they are possibly you, possibly your colleagues or family members. Seeing them and noticing them is a huge help to any ongoing personal development in the approach.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

In this very quick episode I wanted to talk about the solution focused attitude within your service. Not the wonderful talk strategies we employ but the fabric of the service itself. The feel of the whole, the physical signals that are endemic within the service. Things so easy to forget when we are caught up in fighting fires and tight budgets. I've always said that people are mentally similar to groups, countries, companies and football teams. All these things have a kind of mental health of their own. So how's your service feeling today?

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Like many of the tools we introduce 'stories' are not strictly endorsed within the solution focused arena. However our work isn't for the therapy room, it's for the workplace. I know from experience in business and in all my roles in social care, mental health and education that stories hold immense power. In this episode I tell my own story and layout the reasons why you need them in your work.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.

Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"

 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR

Now, lets begin...

Solution focused therapy has it's drawbacks or so they say. In this episode I work through some common but puzzling objections to the solution focused model. I argue that many of these objections are only valid when operating outside the framework of solution focused work. My opinion is by no means the end of the argument because there's no right or wrong answer, I simply hope that this episode opens some discussion about it.

Follow our podcast www.thesolutionfocusedtoolkit.com

Team training website : www.theactionfactory.com

Individual training course : https://tinyurl.com/solution-focused