If you work with young people in a professional capacity then you've probably heard about the Solutions Toolkit. It's a universal framework for working with young people in a professional capacity. Youth work, residential care, education and social work. The Solutions toolkit is based on three essential foundations. You, your…

The Solutions Toolkit is a framework for working with young people in a care environment. If you are a residential care worker, teacher or youth worker of any kind then you'll find this course useful in your work. - It's effective regardless of your workplace or regime. - Effective with…

I went through the care system in the Uk both as a child and as a care worker. Even after decades there are some things that just never seemed to change. The solutions toolkit is a framework for working with young people in a care environment. www.theactionfactory.com

"If you agree to become guest on my podcast then I can't promise you'll sell a million books." The fact that I wrote these words in my email to Pam and she still agreed to talk to me only increased my admiration for her work. In fact if you are…

"A framework for working with young people in a professional environment" It's much more than that though. It's about the legacy that we leave behind for the young people we work with. It's about a conversation we have ten years from now. It's about a working model that leaves your…

Speaking to a group of homeless people about life on the streets, how they got there and their hopes for the future.

If you work with young people in a professional capacity there are three essential foundations to your work. In this video and micro training course I talk about the BIG four research which proves that you are best placed to support your clients with or without a crisis. We discuss…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

Sometimes our sessions or work with individuals hits a brick wall, we feel like the wheels are spinning. Nothing works better than a break or simply starting again at the beginning, however? In this series of #short video's I breakdown my Acronym S.I.M.P.L.E. questions. When all seems lost its a…

That solution focused brief therapy approach, I don't get it mate! From experience this is a fairly common reaction form other services or those outside the 'cult' They see the results and are often stunned by them but should we really care whether they get it or not? In this…

Michael Dawson from the Action Factory explains how they have overcome the three M's. These are the three biggest obstacles that stand in the way of adopting the approach with small to medium teams.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-axuiw-fd851d The S.I.M.PL.E acronym is something we use in our training to give workers something to grasp onto when the conversations stall. It's never a first resort but can act as a good last resort and get you to the shore, get the wheels spinning again. S - Scaling…

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-gu82a-fcc917 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…

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-9c976-fa81b7 Welcome to the solution focused toolkit podcast. 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…

Source: 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…

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'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,…

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…

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…

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