David,
I once attended at a workshop directed by Steve de Shazer, who seems to be
one of the founders of SBFT. Like Artur says, he is working in the tradition
of the palo alto scool of communication sciences. This approach fits in many
ways to the social constructivistic consulting and to apprecia
I attended a trainers event here in Oshawa last week. The presenters
gave us a demo/intro to open space for non-open-spacers and that was a
part of my impetus for joining this list.
What struck me was the parallels with a counselling strategy called
solutions focussed brief therapy (sfbt). It is
--- david mckay wrote:
(...)
> What struck me was the parallels with a counselling
> strategy called
> solutions focussed brief therapy (sfbt). It is one
> of the
> "constructivist therapies" future directed instead
> of past directed. The
> notion is that you do not have to analyse a problem
>