Show Notes

In today’s episode, we talk with Victor Nelson, a Solution Focused Pastoral Counselor and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, about

• our great time on Vancouver Island and the Orcas we saw
• what fascinates him about Solution Focus
• how a Solution Focused stance is unique for so many professionals
• what he does when he combines spirituality with Solution Focus or how he introduced a Solution Focused way of working with church congregations
• how spirituality (spiritual journeys) and Solution Focus connect for Vic and Elfie
• how he was introduced to Solution Focus (by his wife Thorana Nelson)
• how he got interested in a very effective Solution Focused program for violent offenders and applied that in his own counseling center
• how they brought SF to the community,
• the Solution Focused community worldwide (SFBTA, EBTA, collegues in Europe and China, etc.)
• how he empowered his employees to use their best abilities
• how he applies SF in class and how he supports his graduate students to become professionals
• his work, funny stories and his application of SF in his fly fishing shop
• his advice to be willing to join the Solution Focused community and ways to do that
• The challenge of the week: Become aware of the kind of questions you use in your conversations with the Good Questions Diary

Resources

• Sign up for the SFT List – the Solution Focused Mailing List and Network and/or the SOLUTIONS-L e-mail list
• This years EBTA Conference, the conference of the European Brief Therapy Association (EBTA), will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria from 21-23 September 2018. Check out this very special event – it’s EBTAs 25th Anniversary! – and connect with many brilliant SF practitioners!
• 2018 SFBTA Conference takes place in Boulder, Colorado.
• Connect with like-minded people! There are a lot of events and gatherings allowing to connect to Solution Focused practitioners, i.e. people who apply Solution Focused ideas in their work as therapists, coaches, trainers, teachers, leaders, social workers,… but also in life in general. Here are some SF gatherings (and there are many, many more!!!) worth taking a look at – and not only if you’re an SF practitioner but also if you’re just interested in finding out more about SF and in meeting great people!
  • Online: Check out the Solution Focused Online Book Club on Facebook,
  • 2018 SOL-World Summer Retreat takes place in Hungary, info regarding the SF Summer Retreat in Bali can be found here on Facebook, check out the Brieffest: Summer Intensive Coaching Training from 21-29 June 2018 and Brieffest: Train-the-Trainer from Track from 26-31 July 2018 in Toronto,
  • and find many more events, e.g. in the SF Community Calendar, which also very much invites to add your Solution Focused events to the calendar to show what’s going on in this awesome worldwide community. Thank you, dear Rolf F. Katzenberger, for putting this calendar together and Thank You to everyone who helps making this calendar a vivid overview of SF events by adding upcoming Solution Focused events to this source!
• Here you can download your Good Questions Diary, developed by Palmen Panayotov & Boyan Strahilov, Solutions Centre Rousse, Bulgaria, for this weeks challenge.

Join the conversation

Let’s make a difference for others, share your insights, and ask great questions! And be in contact with Victor. Ask him questions, and let him know what inspired you. Friendpower is stronger than willpower. So, let’s inspire each other! Share your ideas and thoughts on what inspired you and what differences this makes for you in your everyday life. Share as much detail as possible. Your story might be the one making a vital difference for someone else. Your thoughts and ideas matter and might encourage others to keep on going their SF journey. Share this podcast episode with your friends, clients or colleagues who you think might be inspired by this conversation. It could give them some practical ideas on how to apply Solution Focus in their daily life.

Thank you!

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