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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>David,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>I once attended at a workshop
directed by Steve de Shazer, who seems to be one of the founders of SBFT.
Like Artur says, he is working in the tradition of the palo alto scool of
communication sciences. This approach fits in many ways to the social
constructivistic consulting and to appreciative inquiry. I don't think that
there are a lot of common foundations with Open Space, but someways it
breathes the same atmosphere</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Steve de Shazer wrote books, I got
two older ones "Clues, Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy"
</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>and "Putting Difference To
Work". And a friend of mine told me that there is a worldwide community of
SBFT-folks. Just turn googles on....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Erich</FONT></DIV>
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color=#800080 size=2></FONT><BR><BR>What struck me was the parallels with a
counselling strategy called<BR>solutions focussed brief therapy (sfbt). It is
one of the<BR>"constructivist therapies" future directed instead of past
directed. The<BR>notion is that you do not have to analyse a problem in detail
to solve<BR>it -- indeed doing so often reinforces the problem. Instead you
get on<BR>with envisioning possible futures where the problem doesn't
exist.<BR><BR>Is anyone familiar with the SFBT and whether there are tie
ins?<BR>Interconnections? Theoretical common ground. Common
practitioners?<BR><BR>--<BR>David William McKay<BR><BR>My mother told me, she
said, "Elwood, to make it in this world you either have to be oh, so clever or
oh, so pleasant." Well, for years I was clever; I recommend
pleasant.<BR><BR>-- Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in the film Harvey
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