With Elliott Connie & Adam Froerer   We will spend 5 days dissecting sessions by watching video examples of real therapy, observing real therapy (I will be seeing real clients in front of the participants) and practice using the language of Solution Focused Brief Therapy through well crafted exercises designed to build your ability to ask Solution Focused questions in session. By the end of this event, I assure you that you will be able to confidently use this approach…

An intensive, multi-faceted learning event for solution focused practitioners at all levels to develop their skills and have fun in nearly equal measure. Since BRIEF was established in 1989 every year has seen a change in how we do and how we teach solution focused brief therapy. More than twenty five years on our passion is undimmed and our pursuit of a dynamic minimalism is as committed as ever. Year by year we have questioned every aspect of our practice…

Outline Dr’s Adam Froerer, Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs and Elliott Connie are currently writing a book on Solution Focused Therapy and clients managing trauma. Adam and Elliott will be in South Africa in October and would like to share their new knowledge and insights. Traditional trauma debriefing emphasizes on what happened during the trauma and the debilitating feelings that occurred. Solution Focused trauma counselling acknowledges the traumatic event and the feelings accompanied with it however, it also looks at the strengths…

Dr’s Adam Froerer, Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs and Elliott Connie are currently writing a book on Solution Focused Therapy and clients managing trauma. Adam and Elliott will be in South Africa in October and would like to share their new knowledge and insights. Traditional trauma debriefing emphasizes on what happened during the trauma and the debilitating feelings that occurred. Solution Focused trauma counselling acknowledges the traumatic event and the feelings accompanied with it however, it also looks at the strengths the…

Workshop 1: Solution Building Couples Therapy: 5 Principles to using SFBT in Couples Therapy Workshop 2: The Five Components of a SFBT Session that are not Talked About

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, presents Solution Focused Brief Therapy and mastering the art of asking questions that produce useful responses.

  Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can…

Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can also…

Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can also…

Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can also…

Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can also…

Create Faster & Sustainable Changes in Your Clients There is simply no two ways about it: working with couples is challenging work. This is at least in part because partners come to therapy prepared to talk about their problems in great detail. They come into therapy thinking they have to understand the problem to ascertain who is at fault and subsequently who needs to change to resolve their conflict. However, these assumptions are not only inaccurate, but they can also…

The Question Method: Key Strategies to Asking Questions that Produce Rapid and Long Lasting Change TAMFT Conference | Making A Difference | Feb. 22-25, 2017 | Omni Austin Hotel Southpark | Austin, TX. Click here for more information  

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) breaks away from many historical traditions of psychotherapy. In the past, psychotherapy has focused on identifying the problem, an in depth exploration of the problem, and a search for the root of the problem. The focus has been on the problem. SFBT attends to identifying the desired outcome and the resources people have within them to create that desired outcome. The focus is on the client’s capacity to envision what they want and on co-discovering…

Following the great success of our 2016 conference in Swansea earlier this month we are pleased to announce plans for conference 2017. We will be hosting a two day event jointly with HESIAN Creating New Narratives: The science & art of Solution Focused practice Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May 2017, Beales Hotel, Hatfield AL10 9NG (just north of London) Please follow the link for more details. Call for papers and workshops coming soon. HESIAN UKASFP conference 2017

9 June 2017 BRIEF 7-8 Newbury Street London EC1A 7HU i am not sure what can be said about Solution Focused Approach, if you are reading this you likely know that this approach is simple, but not easy, you more than likely know that this approach was developed by Steve DeShazer and Insoo Kim Berg and that this couple trained the founders of BRIEF over the course of 25 years. You also must already know that when using this approach…

An intensive, multi-faceted learning event for solution focused practitioners at all levels to develop their skills and have fun in nearly equal measure. Since BRIEF was established in 1989 every year has seen a change in how we do and how we teach solution focused brief therapy. More than twenty five years on our passion is undimmed and our pursuit of a dynamic minimalism is as committed as ever. Year by year we have questioned every aspect of our practice…

Workshop: Even BRIEFer

This is not just your typical conference where you go from lecture to lecture collecting CEU units. This solution focused brief therapy conference will be different. This Solution Focused conference is devoted to ensuring all attendees get a behind the scenes look at how this approach works, from the leading minds in the field of SFBT. Each workshop and keynote speech will be of the highest quality, the type of lecture that will leave attendees more able to use the…

This conference will include a 90 minute masterclass with myself, Chris Iveson and Biba Rebolj