Well, though I cannot always follow all the fine-splits of the very similar approaches but all these in this attached article sounds to me very much like so called solution-focused approach (which has a root to the early '80s into Milwaukee in SFTC of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg)... and it wouldn't bother me if somebody says that OK, however these tiny-tiny details are different... SF has the same basic idea (like on the picture) that if we are speaking about the problems (on a "problem- language") we will know lots about the problem and if we are starting to speak about the solution instead (on a "solution-language") we will know lots about the solutions... there are such ideas still that "knowing the root/cause of the problem will not necessarily lead to the solutions" or if the solution - why not through story-telling approaches - is approached/achieved, the problem(s) might simply disappear (I would emphasise here that SF people are not problem-phobic at all, only they see more good to turn more - whenever it is possible - towards the goals and solutions than towards (backwards...) to the problems...
One more thing and Karen will like it (I suppose)... creating (I weight my word "creating", it was so used by Chris Iveson in a latest Budapest workshop, who is a very eminent player on the SF field, author, practitioner (therapy + coaching) for 25 years) the future might give us (if properly done and I'm telling you, it's not that simple, you can have an idea from their books about this what he has written with his two London based colleagues) an "experience" about the future. If somebody would ask: What?! Experience? About the future? We could only have experiences about the past, couldn't we?! I would ask (as Chris did it) whether your "sure" past experiences are something constant in the time? Did not happen to you sometimes that past experiences are changing even signs?! (from bad to good and vice versa...) If you already had this experience you could deduce from it that we also creating our past as well... we are story teller backwards as well... well, what do you think?
I like the question at the beginning... it is an excellent SF question, I like it very much and I would use it (with the hopeful permission of the author...): “What would ‘happily ever after' look like to you if we made this happen?”
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Well, though I cannot always follow all the fine-splits of the very similar approaches but all these in this attached article sounds to me very much like so called solution-focused approach (which has a root to the early '80s into Milwaukee in SFTC of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg)... and it wouldn't bother me if somebody says that OK, however these tiny-tiny details are different... SF has the same basic idea (like on the picture) that if we are speaking about the problems (on a "problem- language") we will know lots about the problem and if we are starting to speak about the solution instead (on a "solution-language") we will know lots about the solutions... there are such ideas still that "knowing the root/cause of the problem will not necessarily lead to the solutions" or if the solution - why not through story-telling approaches - is approached/achieved, the problem(s) might simply disappear (I would emphasise here that SF people are not problem-phobic at all, only they see more good to turn more - whenever it is possible - towards the goals and solutions than towards (backwards...) to the problems...
One more thing and Karen will like it (I suppose)... creating (I weight my word "creating", it was so used by Chris Iveson in a latest Budapest workshop, who is a very eminent player on the SF field, author, practitioner (therapy + coaching) for 25 years) the future might give us (if properly done and I'm telling you, it's not that simple, you can have an idea from their books about this what he has written with his two London based colleagues) an "experience" about the future. If somebody would ask: What?! Experience? About the future? We could only have experiences about the past, couldn't we?! I would ask (as Chris did it) whether your "sure" past experiences are something constant in the time? Did not happen to you sometimes that past experiences are changing even signs?! (from bad to good and vice versa...) If you already had this experience you could deduce from it that we also creating our past as well... we are story teller backwards as well... well, what do you think?
I like the question at the beginning... it is an excellent SF question, I like it very much and I would use it (with the hopeful permission of the author...): “What would ‘happily ever after' look like to you if we made this happen?”