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What’s useful about the solutions-focused approach in the current crisis?

15/5/2020

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​You’ll have noticed that each of us is experiencing our own version of what's going on. When we’re shaken from the ruts of routines, it brings many distinctions into sharper relief. Your response turns out to be surprisingly distinct from other members of your family, your neighbours or your colleagues. It’s a principle of the Solutions Focus approach that ‘Every case is different’. And it’s absolutely fine to find your own path through this.
 
This principle of every case being different leads to a not-knowing stance on the part of the consultant, coach or therapist. Instead of having pre-defined solutions, we have to discover what’s going to work well here, based on the particular contexts and resources available in each situation.

The solutions-focused practitioner is trained to uncover these resources in a forensic search. When you are explicitly looking out for relevant experiences, skills and strengths, it’s amazing what you will unearth.
 
That then allows us to take an improvisational approach to redeploy these resources, staying comfortable with uncertainty and emergence.
 
And we’ll realise that a small, well-chosen action can have unlimited effects resonating within a system. Everything is connected and not entirely predictable.
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Bringing solution-focused qualities into everyday life

13/5/2020

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How might we usefully bring solution-focused qualities into everyday life? Here are a few ideas to get started with:

  • Notice details of your desired future – If you have a clear sense of something you are aiming to achieve, take a moment to notice how much has already been accomplished. You are on your way.

  • Daily scaling – Check how you are doing on a scale of 1-10 with a score for today. It might be in relation to health or a specific aspect of well-being, such as your day’s meditation or yoga score.

  • Notice what goes well in bed – or, to put it less ambiguously, when you are in bed and before you go to sleep, make a mental or written note of 5 – or 10 or 20 – things – however small – that went well for you today or that you were pleased to notice.
 
  • Give yourself a pat on the back each time you take a small steps towards something you desire. There’s value in having a go, and it means that you can see a setback as a prompt for a next small step in your ongoing experiment. It’s a handy habit that will result in you becoming less stuck in emotional downturn and more of a creative practitioner. It keeps you action-oriented.
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