Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) Training Workshop in Perth
🌟 Solution Focused Workshop – Perth, June 2026! 🌟
Save the Date: Monday 15 June 2026 – Wednesday 17 June 2026
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“Listening to trauma in a different way has made me see how incredible people are, how resilient people can be, and how brave people become.” – Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs (2018, p. 231)
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I am delighted to share some very exciting news - Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs will be visiting Perth to present a 3-day Solution Focused Workshop in June 2026!
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Across the first two days, Jacqui will share more on her thoughts and experience that she presented at our WASFIG October 2025 meeting and guide us through Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) with clients managing trauma. Jacqui will invite us to transform into ‘Resilientologists’, exploring hopeful and respectful ways to ‘rebrief resilience’ with our clients.
By shifting our focus to building a relationship with, and speaking to, the version of our client who survived their trauma, clients have an opportunity re-remember themselves and their capacity in a more empowering way.
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On Day 3, Jacqui will be joined by her colleague Merritt Watson, a School Psychologist and Principal who established a pioneering Solution Focused School in Johannesburg, South Africa, to co-facilitate a full-day workshop on Solution Focused Practice in Education and Schools.
Together, they will share practical tools and inspiring approaches for educators, school leaders, and practitioners who wish to bring Solution Focused principles into classrooms and whole-school cultures.
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💫 Special Thank You Offer
To celebrate five wonderful years of WASFIG, we’re offering a 10% discount on tickets for:
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WASFIG members who have attended a meeting or training with Steve and Kerry, and
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ASFA members
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🎉 But wait… there’s more!
As another taster for the June workshop, please join us for WASFIG April 2026 (at the very special time in March!) on
Saturday 21 March 2026 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm (WA time)
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Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs will be kindly joining us to present live to share more of her “gold nuggets” and this time focusing on applying Solution Focused Practice with students and teaching staff.
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✨ I invite you to join us and be part of this exciting new chapter for WASFIG and for SFBT and SFP in Perth in 2026!
Registrations will open soon - stay tuned for more details! 😊
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SFBT: The Three Essentials One Day Workshop
From September 2023
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Kerry Drummond along with her colleague Steve Runciman (Clinical Psychologist) are providing SFBT training workshops in Perth.
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The one day workshop presents the new SFBT 2.0 approach using the SFBT Diamond model created by Elliott Connie and Adam Froerer (2023). The three core essential concepts of SFBT 2.0 will be explored - the mindset, the road map and the importance of building fluency in SFBT language. SFBT skills practice in a supportive environment will be facilitated to build practitioner confidence and competence in SFBT to be able to use this approach immediately with clients. This workshop is presented in person in Balcatta, however will be available online via Zoom in future.
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To continue to build confidence and competence in SFBT, workshop attendees can follow up this training by joining a SFBT Skills Practice and Supervision Group. These are open groups held throughout the year for two hours. All practitioners, whether or not you have attended a workshop, who are interested to build on their SFBT practice, progress and learnings are welcome to attend. These specialised groups enable practitioners to continue sharpening their practice in a supportive SF environment starting in 2024. These groups are available in person and online via Zoom.
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If this is something you would like to join us for please contact Kerry to receive more information.
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We look forward to meeting practitioners who are interested in building their SFBT skills to empower our clients and develop Vicarious Resilience in ourselves as practitioners!
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To learn more about how working from the SFBT approach can build Vicarious Resilience in ourselves as practitioners, to reduce the impact of Vicarious Trauma, please have a look at the summary from our April 2024 WA SFBT Interest Group where we explored this topic:
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