This book represents an addition to the literature on brief therapy. "Solution Talk" is a term Furman and Ahola use to refer to a constructive and agreeable manner of talking with people about problems. A conversation dominated by "solution talk" rather than "problem talk" is characterized by an atmosphere of mutual respect and is likely to focus on the future rather than the past, on resources rather than shortcomings, on success and progress rather than failure, and on solutions rather than problems.
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Keep looking - you MUST have a problem!As you can read in many books (including mine), people tend to get what they want. Unfortunately, most therapists want causes for problems, so ... the patient will get problems. Yet, using jobEQ.com's iWAM test, we consistently see that people prefer to achieve things, to be successful. As Ben Furman will ask you "can you imagine going home to your partner this evening and have a nice chap about your problems?" "Solution Talk" is written as provocatively and with more humor than the paragraph above. It presents an alternative way to talk about "problems" and draws on the traditions of family and brief therapy. The book is very compatible with NLP, given the authors refer to many specialists well known to the NLP world, such as Gregory Bateson, Milton Erickson, Frank Farrelly, Jay Haley, ... Everyone who is thinking about visiting a therapist or coach in order to "analyze" what goes wrong should be obliged to read it and so should every therapist. I met Ben Furman at a conference in May 2001 and was pleasantly surprised by his message. It motivated me to buy his book, and I'm glad to recommend it to you. Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc - co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
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When we started to teach methods of brief therapy to professionals in the mid-eighties we adopted the trainer-centered live supervision model commonly used in family and brief therapy training programs worldwide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When we started to teach methods of brief therapy to professionals in the mid-eighties we adopted the trainer-centered live supervision model commonly used in family and brief therapy training programs worldwide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fruitful explanations, sharing credit, latent joy, solution talk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sneaky Poo, The Role of the Past, The House, The Fall of the Wall, Watchful Wording, Future Visions, United States Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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