3rd of May: the Solution Focus Day. A worldwide event!
Today the big family of the Solution Focus in the World is moving! It’s a “good” movement because every year the 3rd of May is the “Solution Focus Day” and it’s celebrated everywhere in the world!
In every part of the world, all the communities of practitioners have organized meetings, real and virtual, during which they are talking about their activities, their successes, their researches and their presence.
This year the online presence of the communities of practitioners is very wide and many meetings are programmed for today.
Here’s a list of some of them; if you are interested, please follow the links and take part to them. But be careful: some meetings are dedicated only to SF practitioners, some others can be viewed from everyone.
- From Sweden
- From SFIO Online Chapter
- From Singapore
- From New Zealand
- From Germany (the event has a cost)
- From Holland
- From the group “SF World Day“
Others initiatives?
To celebrate this day, some from the elite of the SFIO contributors have published a book aimed at business leaders: “Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A fresh, fast approach”. You will find it on Amazon (this is the link) just at 2,99€. It is a short, practical and useful book that helps leaders to be more effective during the change they have to promote and sustain in their organizations, using the Solution Focus tools. In that book you’ll find suggestions on how SF helped organizations to implement change programmes, to meet agile changes or to improve interactions between members.
Why the 3rd of May?
The reason why this day is dedicated to SF is well explained on the facebook webpage of the SF World Day.
“Steve de Shazer and the team at Brief Family Therapy Centre (BFTC) did away with homeostasis and killed resistance (they built a shrine and buried it in one of the observation rooms at BFTC in 1978) and instead invented collaboration as a metaphor for the interaction between the family/client and therapist/team. This is much more than a simple change of words. Once you stop seeing “resistance” and instead sees “collaboration” it systematically changes your behavior as a therapist and it changes the interactional patterns in the system of “family-therapy-as-a-system”. Thus new patterns of interactions developed that could no longer be adequately described within the old theories. New concepts had to be developed so that the new interactional patterns could be included in the theory.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy could not have happened if this shift had not been in place. The paper “The death of Resistance” was published in 1984. The first attempt at publishing it was in 1979 and it was rejected 17 times.
The acceptance date for publication in Family Process was May 3’d 1983.“
And Italy?
Italy will be present in 2 different ways: the first is hosting an EBTA conference on “Dialoghi: la relazione nei gruppi” held by “Fondazione Franceschi”, and the SFIO Italian Chapter will be present with Marco Matera, a very important italian voice in the Solution Focus environment. The second presence of Italy in the celebration of the Solution Focus Day will be participating to the online events of the international communities.
Please, contact me if you want to learn more on Solution Focus here in Italy and in the World.
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