The Action Factory Podcast

#117 The three circles of solution focused working.

The three overlapping circles that define a solution focused worker. In other sessions we have spoken about how much power and influence a solution focused worker might have over a therapist.
A solution focused worker is not a therapist, they are youth work professionals, residential workers or teachers. So what makes a solution focused worker.
We thing that it's the centre of three overlapping circles, the sweet spot between you personally, your client and of course the model. Between these three lies a professional who is able to use their role to allow their clients to have better outcomes. To go beyond and of course that's why we do the job in the first place. That and the huge wages, fame and kudos!
As always I'm never right but I love hearing your thoughts. As we say in our training, challenge everything.
Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.
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#116 That solution focused approach, I don’t get it mate!

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.
Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"
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Solution focused working, I just don't get it mate!
From experience this is a fairly common reaction form other services or those outside the 'cult'
They see the results and are often stunned by them but should we really care whether they get it or not? In this podcast I talk about my own experience and suggest we shouldn't really care. Having said that I have the solution focused approach in my veins so very often my response is the same as with any client.
I'm the curious inquisitor, I want you to tell me why and how you don't get how the solution focused approach works. I'd be curious as to what you think might work better?
Perhaps a problem expert, highly qualified in other peoples lives with a store of answers and numerous qualifications?
As always I'm never right but love to hear your thoughts.
Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.
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#115 S.I.M.PL.E Questions in SFBT

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.
Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"
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Now, lets begin...
The S.I.M.PL.E acronym is something we use in our training to give workers something to grasp onto when the conversations stall. It's never a first resort but can act as a good last resort and get you to the shore, get the wheels spinning again.
S - Scaling Questions
I - Interpretation
M - Miracle Question Again
PL - Place both emotionally and physically
E - Emotion
A simple memory aid for when it might slow down.
Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.
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#114 Your the reason you got stuck in solution focused work

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.
Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"
 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR
 
Now, lets begin...
It's your fault, not the clients!
This week I'm talking about those times when your work seems to be heading off course or stalling. Before you hit the rocks you need to head for some lifeboats and save yourself.
This time I want to point the finger at you or (me), after all, it has to be the first place we look. We already know the client has the answers. We know our job is to be curious in helping them find the answers. If thats true then the reason we are running aground is right there with us, we are steering the conversations after all.
So it's time to put your tin hat on and ask yourself some difficult and uncomfortable questions. 
Whenever I do this I learn two things. 
1. I usually don't like the answer or the questions.
2. It usually turns out to be me.
Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.
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#113 Questions, question, questions in sfbt

Welcome to another Action Factory Podcast with me, Michael Dawson.
Before we begin this episode, here's a quick reminder: Don't miss my 30-minute webinar 'The BIG 4 in Youth Work.' You'll also get two powerful tools and my popular 'Brief Therapy Toolkit' eBook—already a hit with nearly 40,000 youth workers. Click below to subscribe and watch!"
 WATCH THE FREE WEBINAR
 
Now, lets begin...
Questions, questions, questions in SFBT. I passionately believe that our role when using the solution focused approach is to be the curious inquisitor. To resist offering solutions at all costs and to use our curiosity to probe the problem from new angles. Out of that curiosity will come the clients own solution.
If this is true then everything we do is about questions or in the words of 
Thomas S. Kuhn
“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.”
In this episode I wanted to break down some of the top ten categories of questions. Not so we can learn them but to be aware of them and to ask ourselves as we speak with our clients.
The people we train work in social care professions and they are not therapists but they want to help their own clients live better lives by using the solution focused approach.
Have fun and please thank you for the questions and we will keep addressing them as we go.
Visit us at www.theactionfactory.com
Grab the free digital download here.
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