SFP 91 – Episode 91: Fundamentally Trusting Your Clients: Bringing Solution Focus to Communities with Naomi Whitehead
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SFP 91 - Episode 91: Fundamentally Trusting Your Clients: Bringing Solution Focus to Communities with Naomi Whitehead
“Solution Focused Practice is such a celebration of who people already are.”
“What frequently emerges (…) is that people simultaneously notice what has been incredibly challenging and what’s wanted in the same moment.”
“I try to fundamentally trust that what will happen will be the right thing to happen.”
Show Notes
In today’s episode, we talk with Naomi Whitehead, IASTI accredited Solution-Focused Practitioner as well as EBTA Board Member, about
- what fascinates her with Solution Focus,
- how John Wheeler, Matthias Schwab, and Tara Gretton influenced her work,
- Solution Focus as a celebration of who people are,
- Curve Chats and how she brings Solution Focus to the community, e.g. to a barber shop in Sheffield,
- how she supports equality in her work and fundamentally trusts her clients,
- her events that she is organizing in Sheffield and her workshop that she will do with Tara in Switzerland (stay tuned!),
- how the lived experience of people can inform the service design, e.g. in her work with Ben’s Centre and their vulnerable people project as well as her work with Soul Food,
- what kept her passionate about Solution Focus in the last 17 years or her lived experience in Bolivia,
- using Solution Focus in her volunteer work in a prison in Bolivia.
- The Challenge of the Week: “When at some point over the next week a person annoys you, acknowledge that and think about all the qualities that the other person has shown when doing this act and what else you appreciate about that person.”
Resources
- Find out more about Naomi and her work on her website.
- Moreover Naomi is co-founder of focusflow, associate practitioner at Solution Focused Trainers Ltd. and associate practitioner at Solution Focus Sheffield.
- Check out the solution-focused opportunities in Sheffield, UK to train with Naomi and her (inter)national guests here >>>. We are excited to be there in December 2020. If you get a chance: Come and join us!
- Here you can find out more about the CURVE CHATS initiative.
- Meet and learn from Naomi in Switzerland! Join the workshop “Giving (young) people a voice” she’s delivering together with Tara Gretton. Interested? Please send us a short message to news@sfontour.com.
- 6 June 2020 | 9:15 am – 4:45 pm | Lucerne | 249 Euro
- 8 June 2020 | 6:30 pm – 8 pm | Oberdorf, NW | 50 Euro
- Connect with Naomi on Facebook, and LinkedIn and follow her on her Facebook business page @solutionsnaomi.
- Curious about the strengths cards Naomi talked about? Find them here: Strengths Cards – At my best®. You might also enjoy listening to episode 83 with Tara Gretton.
- Interested in the work of Ben’s Centre? Go and check here >>>.
- Learn more about Steve Flatt and the Traumaticus – a national trauma network Naomi is involved with.
- Find out more about the UKASFP and the UKASFP conference 2020 at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, from June 25-26, 2020.
- Learn more about EBTA and the EBTA International Cooperation Task Group.
- EBTA summer camp 2020 will take place in Latvia in July, email Sasha.osina@gmail.com for more information.
- The 2020 EBTA conference takes place in Elsinore, Denmark from September 18-20, 2020.
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I just listened to this podcast with Naomi Whitehead. Very enjoyable and fascinating how she started with it, what she did in her journey to South America. Especially in La Paz as she mentioned, which is a place of interest to me as well. In this moment in time where we are more restricted in our movements and need to be careful to interact and if we do how can we do this in a safe way.
Very interested in the Curve chats and the Strenght cards. I am normally not really focussing on tools, but in my work, I have used a card set called ‘Helpful Thoughts’ (which is a card set in Dutch, so I translated it here) and it is really helpful if you can have a conversation with a client using them and ask questions in an SF manner asking the clients what they do, what they are good at, what hobbies they have and how that helps them in their lives. I helps them coming up with great answers for themselves. So, maybe those Strenght cards are similar to the cards I have used. I will look at the resource that is mentioned here.
Thank you and bye for now,
Mark.
Hi Mark, what lovely comments and feedback. It’s absolutely excellent to hear what people are inspired by and the fact you give such detail and examples of what you have particularly enjoyed is great. I will also be fascinated to see a photo of the resources you use which sound very effective. Thanks again and I look forward to connecting. Best wishes, Naomi