Re: OS and SFBT

2004-11-22 Thread Erich Kolenaty
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

OS and SFBT

2004-11-21 Thread david mckay
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

Re: OS and SFBT

2004-11-21 Thread Artur Silva
--- 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 >