SFP 104 – Episode 104: A Regular Dose of Solution Focus: SF in the Suicide Prevention Space with Michele Orr
Simply Focus Podcast – Episode #104Hosted by: Elfie Czerny & Dominik Godat | Intro: Bibiana Czerny & Ken Brooks | Music: www.bensound.com
SFP 104 - Episode 104: A Regular Dose of Solution Focus: SF in the Suicide Prevention Space with Michele Orr
“Despite what went wrong, what did the team members manage to do well, and how did they do that, and how can they do more of that?”
“Despite whatever the critical incident, tragedy, horrible thing that happened (…) there are still opportunities for someone to achieve their best hopes, for something different to happen, for something to be better, for a preferred outcome to occur.”
“For someone even just to walk in the door of a mental health service, they want something to be different. To walk in the door, you don’t come to be told how many more problems you have. (…) the person comes for something do be different.”
Show Notes
In today’s episode, we talk with Michele Orr, Mental Health Nurse, Team Leader and pioneer of the Brief Intervention Team in Adult Community Mental Health in Eastern Metropolitan Melbourne, Solution-Focused Practitioner, and Board Member of the ASFA (Australasian Solution Focused Association), about
- what fascinates her with Solution Focus,
- when she first got in touch with SF and how she started working with it,
- what helps her to bring in SF in a problem saturated world,
- how she applies SF in her team meetings and in the organisation,
- how people with suicidal thoughts react to her solution-focused way of talking,
- how she shifts conversations about critical incidents and difficult situations,
- her new research project to show the effectiveness of SF in suicide prevention,
- how to elicit reasons for living and the „insteadiness“,
- what is sometimes difficult and how she manages to deal with that,
- how to maintain your SF fitness,
- connecting to the SF community worldwide.
- The Challenge of The Week: Come up with the first 10 things that come to your mind that you do well in your SF work.
Resources
- Check out Michele Orr here on the ASFA website.
- Learn more about the AASFBT (Australasian Association Solution Focused Brief Therapy) which is currently about to rename to ASFA (Australasian Solution Focused Association).
- Check out episode #37 Training Solution Focus to listen to Michele when she talks about the Solution Focused Train the Trainer workshop with Heather Fiske and Brenda Zalter-Minden.
- Find out more about Pam King her work in episode #8 Let’s play…: Interview with Pamela K. King.
- Learn more about SFBTA and join this years SFBTA conference! It will for the first time take place online – so you can join from all over the world without travel costs!
- Check out Our Free Online Program Hope and Reasons for Living and learn more about Solution-Focused Suicide Prevention.
- Listen to Brigitte Lavoie in episodes #25 Seeing Opportunities and #95 Writing the Headlines of Your Life Today.
- Learn more about Even George and Chris Iveson from BRIEF in London here.
- Maybe you are also interested in episode #77 with Chris Iveson It’s Not Your Life! Being Neutral in Solution Focused Conversations.
- In episode #27 we talk with Heather Fiske about Hope in Action: A conversation about Solution Focused Suicide Prevention.
- Want to learn more about Microanalysis of Face to Face Dialogue?
- Check out our various podcasts around microanalysis here. Right before you come to the podcast episodes there is a bar with different tabs such as Microanalysis, Practice-based evidence, SF in Schools. Click on the tab Microanalysis and find all related episodes.
- Join our Online Course Translating Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue into Solution-Focused Practice.
- There are many great ONLINE events coming up to get your dose of SF:
- July 28, 2020: Online Launch-Party of the Journal of Solution Focused Practices (JSFP)
- August 3-7, 2020: SOL Summer Retreat 2020
- August 6-7, 2020: SF 24 – Building hope, empowering change
- October 2-4, 2020: The Solution Focused School Conference
- November 12-14, 2020: Fist Online SFBTA Conference including the SF Research Day and great pre-conference workshops. Stay tuned!
- For further upcoming events please check the SF Community Calendar. And please also add your Solution Focused events to this calendar to show what’s going on in this awesome worldwide community. Thank you dear Rolf F. Katzenberger for putting this calendar together and a “Thank You” to everyone who helps making this calendar a vivid overview of SF events by adding upcoming Solution Focused events to this source!
Join the conversation
Friendpower is stronger than willpower. So, let’s inspire each other! Share your ideas and thoughts on what inspired you about our conversation with Michele 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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This is the first time I have listened to the podcast in the week of it’s release so I feel like doing the c.o.t.w.
10 Solution Focused things I do well… 😉
1) Listening
2) Feeding on Solution Focused podcasts
3) Practice with a partner – regularly
4) Use it confidently
5) I want to use the Solution Focused approach all the time
6) Keep learning
7) Teach it and share it with others
8) Persuade others to have a go
9) Share practice tasks
10) Using Solution Focused with small groups
Thank you, dear Matt. What a wonderful list.
“For someone even just to walk in the door of a mental health service, they want something to be different. To walk in the door, you don’t come to be told how many more problems you have. (…) the person comes for something to be different.”
Thank you Michele for that quote! I love that! I find it difficult sometimes to answer when participants say : But people want to talk about their problems…Do they? or they hope for something to be different. I will use this quote next week!
I loved the podcast, the enthusiasm got to Canada. I always realized that people who work in Suicide prevention and are SF are also full of life. No research to back that up but it is based on some empirical evidence!
Thank you Elfie and Dominik for sharing those conversations.
Wow, thank you, dear Brigitte, that you make this quote visible!
The enthusiasm just got from Australia to Canada to Switzerland 🙂