The Solution Focus World Conference is approaching and I am so excited!
And after the “Solution Focus Day”, the Solution Focus big family is preparing for the great world event to be held in Budapest, from 22th to 26th of May, the world conference that this year is dedicated to “Signs of Progress”.
What the Conference means to me
The World Conference is an incredible moment in which all the practitioners from every part of the world share their experiences, their thoughts and their works, but it’s also a great place in which you can bring your difficulties and surely you will find nice people who will be glad to help you giving suggestions or, rather, making the “right” questions that will lead you to think about your situation in a very different way.
This is for me the 3rd conference I take part and I remember that when I participated to my first edition, I was very intimidated (I know, it’s a stupid thing to admit, but it’s true…) to talk with people like Mark McKergow, Paul Jackson, Katalin Hankovszky or some other “guru” of a theory I was just discovering and that was fascinating me… What I was very impressed was the availability and openness of all these people to share informations and knowledge and this definitely “tied” me to the Solution Focus world.
The program, the organization and the Italian Team
The conference is organized by the Hungarian Team of SolutionSurfers and the chosen location in Budapest will be the Telekom HQ. The conference is also sponsored by SFIO.
The program can be found on the website dedicated to the event and, as you can notice, the Italian Team has already a space during the third day, Saturday, with Marco Matera presenting “SF Chart – a simple SF tool to achieve goals“. But knowing Marco and Chris I suspect that this won’t be the only space we’ll take!! I will keep you informed in “real time” of everything will happen there!
The program creates also some open spaces for “free sessions”, some moments during which people can organize brief sessions of what they want to share or offer or ask to other people. During this moments, the so called “two feet law” is the Queen! (If you don’t know the “Two feet law”, you have never participated to an unconference, and I suggest you start as soon as possible!)
Why “Signs of Progress”?
The signs of progress are a very important element in the Solution Focus practice. They are all those little changes that the client is generating with his efforts; and of course he has to observe them and value them, because from them he can learn more on himself, on his strenghts and on his resources.
And this is why this year is dedicated to the “signs of progress”: the big community of the SF practitioners is taking some time to reflect on the sings of progress they are generating in every situation they are impacting, trying to better understand which could be the “little next step” they can do in the future.
And I’m happy and proud to be part of all this!