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Encounters with Insoo and Steve – Yesterday’s SF (hi)story riddle solved!

Yesterday we asked three questions about Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer. And here are the cool answers:

1.) How did Steve de Shazer tempt Insoo Kim Berg to stop working and come down in the evenings? “Steve liked to play what he called a ” nice trick” on Insoo to get her to stop working at night and come downstairs. He would start cooking the sauce for this pasta and open the door near the stove (which was at the bottom of the stairs) so that the delicious smell of garlic and tomatoes etc would waft through the air up to her upstairs office and lure her downstairs.” (Dolan, Y. (2012) Recipies from Milwaukee. In: Vogt, M/Wolf, F./Sundman, P./Dreesen, H. N. (2012) Encounters with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. London: SolutionsBooks.) In this article you also find Steve’s delicious Spaghetti and Yvonne’s wonderful Brownies recipe which “feeds a group of about 20 SF therapists.”

2.) What did Steve de Shazer cook when he invited her to his place for the first time? Wolfgang Gaiswinkler told us this neat story. Insoo or Steve told that when Steve invited Insoo to his place for the first time, he cooked Korean for her. Being Korean she thought that this guy must either be crazy or a genius. Either way, it worked out 😉

3.) How did they like to explore a city. “As I receive the two of them in Vienna for the first time, I want to be their tour guide, to show them all the sights and attractions of our city. But the two have other plans, because in each new city they do exactly the same: toss a coin to determine which direction the city tour will take, heads for left, tails for right. At each corner they come to, let the coin decide in which direction they should go. (Ahlers, C. (2012) Memories of Steve and Insoo. In: Vogt, M/Wolf, F./Sundman, P./Dreesen, H. N. (2012) Encounters with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. London: SolutionsBooks.)

Find many more interesting and cool stories about Insoo and Steve in this wonderful book: “Encounters with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg – Inside Stories of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy”

Enjoy!

Elfie & Dominik