SFBT Skills Practice and Supervision Group
“When we struggle in session we may feel we have done a bad job, but when we are struggling is when we are most creative but we tend to focus on the struggle instead of the creativity. It is easier to see the brilliance in our colleagues that we struggle to see within ourselves.” – Chris Iveson, June 2024
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To get good at any craft we must practice. To build our confidence, competence and flexibility with Solution Focused language it can be useful to reflect on our experiences with like minded colleagues. Learning from other Solution Focused practitioners in the field and sharing stories of success can inspire us to have faith, "Keep Calm and Ask the Next Question", when practicing from a simple but not easy approach that can create desired change for our clients as long as we believe in them and ourselves as we move towards the practitioners we aspire to be.
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SF group supervision is an opportunity to share in the same inspiring and hopeful conversations that we have with our clients with each other as practitioners. These online groups of 3 or 4 SF practitioners are focusing on what we did well with our client and what is working to build on to move more intentionally down this more useful path to bring desired change into their lives. Group supervisees also benefit from drawing on the knowledge and experience of like-minded SF practitioners who can share ideas and possibilities for moving forward with your client in line with the SF perspective. These are open groups held bi-monthly from March, so you decide when you would like to join a group during the year at a time that would be more useful for yourself.
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Elliott Connie of the Solution Focused Universe (SFU) has shared that there are two kinds of ‘practice’. There is the practice we have when we work with our clients, and there is the practice we have when we role play sessions with colleagues. We build our SFBT skills and fluency in SF language by role playing with our colleagues, and then we execute the skills we have built with our clients. Reflecting on both of these practice experiences in supervision with like-minded SF practitioners is how we consolidate our learning to build our confidence and competence as SF practitioners.
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If this sounds like the next step you would like to take to build your SF practice please consider joining one or more of our SFBT Skills Practice and Supervision Groups! Experience the Solution Focused ‘difference that makes a difference’ and leave group supervision feeling energised, focused and with a sense of renewed confidence in your SF practice.
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Please contact Kerry for more information on joining one of our SFBT Skills Practice and Supervision groups or to register your interest for an in person group.
